What is direct cremation?
A direct cremation is the simplest and cheapest way to be laid to rest in the UK. From as little as £1,000 you can have a straight-forward cremation that requires very little planning. This is because ...
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A thoughtful exposé on the trend to personalise funerals
Joyce Glasser reviews Dead Good (May 10, 2019), Cert. PG, 78 min. Documentaries about death are customarily relegated to television, but Dead Good’s lack of sensationalism could preclude it from somet ...
The cost of dying
At the end of November 2018, The Consumer and Markets Authority (CMA) issued an interim report on the funeral market. This report follows concerns identified in their Market Study into the sector, lau ...
Funerals – the cost of dying
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” So said Benjamin Franklin, shortly before his own demise in 1790. The only certainty about death nowadays is that it gets mor ...