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  • How the modern world is changing grave stone design forever

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    Death is the only thing surer than taxes. But how we’re remembered is a strange and sometimes controversial business. Ralph Jones meets the people rewriting the rules, one grave stone at a time Stonemason Neil Luxton once agreed to use comic sans on a grave. Once was enough – he has refused ever since. Luxton, [...]

    Clockwise from top left: Patrick Caulfield’s DEAD memorial, shot by Daryl Gerard Morrissey for theunfinishedcity.co.uk; Douglas Adams’ simple grave in Highgate Cemetery; The final resting place of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir; A classic grave in Highgate taken by Annie Spratt; Jonathan Miller’s inverted face memorial shot by Simon Edwards Esq
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    Something to spook you this Halloween? London is running out of grave space. Anna Moloney looks at how the sector is planning to cope.

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