The Ji Sect and Funeral Customs

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

Homocysteine: call off the funeral.

See related article, pages 456 – 460. T he authors of the much publicized though not yet published Norwegian Vitamin Study (NORVIT) 1 of vitamin therapy in coronary artery disease, are widely quoted as saying that vitamin therapy for lowering plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) was harmful, and that " homocys-teine is dead. " However, the slides of their presentation 1 do not show the B 12 status ...

Funeral insurance

Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance with a restriction on how the payout is spent. The model predicts that there is an intermediate range of...

Sociological Ambivalence and Funeral Consumption

This article builds on Hillcoat-Nallétamby and Phillips' (2011) conceptualization of sociological ambivalence within the relational framework to examine a particular consumption practice, the funeral. We develop understanding of social, cultural and relational issues that arise from the experience associated with funeral-arranging. This is not a voluntary behaviour but one engaged with through ...

Funeral for a friend.