What a surprising paper the Guardian sometimes is. Reading Friday’s edition over Sunday lunch just now (it’s been a busy week),I find myself, an ardent Corbyn supporter, and agreeing with Tories Michael Gove (Gove is a real reformer. We should be cheering him on) and Andrew Mitchell (We’ve outsourced foreign policy to Saudi),as well of course as the timely article on Black History Month by David Olusoga, and so much else. Katharine Viner and team, or sometimes I love you.[br]Katherine El-Salahi[br]Oxford• One option that wasn’t covered in an otherwise excellent article on cutting funeral costs (Money,10 October) is direct cremation, something I absorb opted for, and used for my husband last year. There are no rites involved,no scattered congregation struggling to remember the words to Jerusalem, and it comes in under £2000. The deceased is taken from the place of death to the crematorium direct. I was lucky enough to say goodbye to Mick, and holding his hand as he died; I had no intention of swapping that memory for a cold,gross ceremony.
Geraldine Blake
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