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Top ten death rituals

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Given that most of us will never be given a state funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey alongside Dickens, Chaucer and most of the Plantagenet kings, it’s probably worthwhile thinking about how you could go to the happy hunting grounds in style. After all, if you don’t, your ashes will probably end up being scattered on your local high street while your only surviving mate wonders how he’s going to get back to his nursing home. So here’s some funeral-style stuff you can force your stricken mourners to get involved with. Read more »

Religious Rumble: There can be only one winner. Or disappointingly, none.

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In our hippy-dippy flippity-floppity liberal society, we’re taught to believe that all religions are somehow equal. You know, like how everyone’s just as spiritual as everyone else. Whether it’s Buddha, my man Muhammad or Jesus too, there’s no top dog, it’s all one big party in the sky, yeah? This is obviously lies. It stands to reason that if I set an essay competition between all the major faiths, the winner must be the one that produces the best nugget of profundity, ergo the one that has the greatest connection to the Godhead. This is the scientific approach.

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