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    <title>Golden Charter All Updates</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:25:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>If you had bought a funeral plan way back when&#8230;</title>
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        <![CDATA[Let’s take a trip down memory lane and transport ourselves back twenty five years, the year before Golden Charter was founded.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What is a ceremonial funeral?</title>
      <link>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/236_what_is_a_ceremonial_funeral</link>
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        <![CDATA[There was much debate as to whether the late Baroness Thatcher should have had a state or ceremonial funeral but what exactly is the difference?]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Discussing our mortality</title>
      <link>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/233_discussing_our_mortality</link>
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        <![CDATA[Discussing our own mortality can be a difficult thing to do. Our fear of death was probably instilled in us during our childhood as we had to deal with the death of a grandparent or other family member or perhaps even a pet]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Funeral Art, Then and Now</title>
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        <![CDATA[Over the course of time, mankind has changed its means of artistic representation when it comes to funerary depictions.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Five alternative ways of the disposing of your ashes</title>
      <link>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/208_five_alternative_ways_of_the_disposing_of_your_ashes</link>
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        <![CDATA[With the spreading of Christianity, cremation was rejected as a pagan ritual and for many centuries, burial was the only option available for funerals in the western world. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Immortality through your twitter feed - Your social afterlife</title>
      <link>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/206_immortality_through_your_twitter_feed_-_your_social_afterlife</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[Since the dawn of civilisation man has sought ways of defying death and at the very least leaving behind some legacy to be remembered by]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/206_immortality_through_your_twitter_feed_-_your_social_afterlife</guid>
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      <title>Funeral plans are for the living</title>
      <link>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/204_funeral_plans_are_for_the_living</link>
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        <![CDATA[It was Benjamin Franklin that wrote those famous and admittedly over quoted words in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1789, ‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.’]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Saying it with words</title>
      <link>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/201_saying_it_with_words</link>
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        <![CDATA[When was the last time you read poetry? Let’s be honest, apart from the poems we scribbled on Valentines cards or the endless verse we studied in school, poetry doesn’t play a big role in most of our daily lives.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/201_saying_it_with_words</guid>
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      <title>Funeral Experiences - My First Funeral</title>
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        <![CDATA[The first funeral I ever attended was my Gran’s. Despite being just 5’ 1” she was a feisty woman who liked to get her own way and attended church each Sunday.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Paying for your funeral</title>
      <link>http://www.goldencharter.co.uk/blog/197_paying_for_your_funeral</link>
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        <![CDATA[When there is no funeral plan in place, the cost of the funeral is usually paid out of the estate of the deceased, which would include any insurance policies, but if the funds are insufficient then the executor (usually the next of kin) who is arranging t]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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