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Ways With Weirds

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Ru Callender. Undertaker, ritualist, raver and author of "What Remains? Life death and the human art of undertaking." Described as "Best undertakers of all time, by a country mile." by Charles Cowling of Good Funeral Guide.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 6h

Me and my gal.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes, the simplest offering to the Ancestors is a clean, clear glass of water.

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 13h

Yes! They do that spontaneously if no others around. The head bit grows a tail and the tail grows a head, both parts genetically identical.

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 13h

Not efficient enough. It needs to be a coffin although I do use a lot of cardboard coffins but they are designed to go in swiftly. Trust me, you don’t want it to jam halfway in and ignite. The furnaces are 1,400 plus Fahrenheit.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 23h

Because you can’t get a body into a furnace quickly and safely without one.

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 1d

I have gained some new followers, so I suppose you are wondering why I have gathered you all here today. It’s to show you my natural aquarium! with my fave inhabitants, the immortal hermaphrodite planarians. At the forefront of memory and ageing research. Ah, my boy/girls.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 1d

A cremation this morning, after a ceremony on Friday. So many people going for cheaper unattended ‘direct’ cremations, this is the opposite. In the UK, you have the right to go ‘backstage’ and witness the coffin going into the cremator. Few do. A powerful moment.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 1d

The importance of ongoing ritual in my professional and personal life.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 1d

Burial at dawn.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 1d

I live close to it.

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 2d

Well thank you KimBoo!

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 2d

A crop circle I made at Prawle Point in Devon. I was fascinated with crop circles in the 90’s, but didn’t start making them until 2013. I started to incorporate them into rituals to shed the accumulation of grief I felt as an undertaker. The first chapter of “What Remains..” recounts this practice.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 2d

It was quite big..

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 3d

I miss my old fireplace.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 3d

I absolutely agree. Nostalgia for sure, but also a real sense of missed communality.

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 3d

Smudging the Satyr before the ceremony in KOKO London. Funeral for a much loved sound engineer.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 6d

Lunch under the ancient Yew tree at Dartington Hall. I used branches from this to lay on the pyre of a baby.

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 13d

A presentation I gave to Breaking Convention Psychedelic Convention 2024 about raving, trauma and psychedelia as a spiritual tool for dealing with our mortality, managing our grief and healing at the end of life. Forgive my weakness for always starting with a gag.

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Rupert Callender - Raving in the Grave

YouTube video by Breaking Convention

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 14d

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 16d

So overrated.

Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 16d

To my American friends, here is the beautiful cover of my US hardback. Please buy it, even though you will probably end up on a list..

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 17d

The marvellous maverick Geordie undertaker and colleague in funeral mischief Carl Marlow’s company. Carl did a pioneering outdoor pyre, and hilariously sells coffins modelled on the Angel of the North, but without wings.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 17d

When I see Mummy I Feel Like a Mummy

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 17d

Hell yeah that's how I wanna go

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 18d

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 20d

“We were always terrorists, we were always illegal.

Every Anarchist knows this…Should they wish, at any point, unless you’ve gone to remarkable lengths, you are subject to being disappeared.

State repression is the reality of resistance.”

Terrorist Youth | Editorial - Organise Magazine

We were always terrorists, we were always illegal. Whether it’s on the streets, during some occupation, or just sat at home, the weight of the state is always upon us. Every Anarchist knows this; whet...

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Ways With Weirds @wayswithweirds.bsky.social · 21d

It wasn’t my loss, I was her undertaker .