"Family of 'Eleanor Rigby' will go to burial."

A headline today, from Scotland.

[Olive Archer's] lonely death, of a stroke five days before Christmas, drew comparisons with Eleanor Rigby, the subject of a Beatles song about a woman who was "buried along with her name. Nobody came"....

The Rev Akasha Lonsdale, was so dismayed at the prospect of being the sole witness at the funeral on January 14 in Swindon, Wiltshire, she launched an appeal in her local newspaper on New Year's Eve.....

"The response to the campaign has been touching. I hope it can raise awareness of the plight of elderly people. There is a bigger question to be considered here in terms of social services provisions for the old."

Lonsdale's campaign gathered momentum when she found an old photograph of Archer at the home, when she had what she described as "film-star" looks.

This should inspire new hope for all the lonely people... if they are beautiful.