Should we mourn the slow death of the traditional funeral?
The soaring cost of ceremonies and an increasingly secular society mean that fewer than half of Britons now want a funeral, according to a new study. This raises the question, what do they want instead? The answer – which anyone who watches daytime television will surely know – is a direct cremation.
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