THE FUNERAL CLUBS.

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

Clubs within clubs:

This paper deals with two examples of macro-regions in the EU: the Benelux and the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). Building on the distinction between “old” and “new” regionalism, it discusses some characteristics of regions in general, and of sub-integration schemes within the EU in particular. These characteristics are applied to the two regions at hand. From this application it foll...

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...

Funeral for a friend.