I suppose it depends where they surveyed.  Like weddings, I think funerals are just an excuse to bump up prices because they know people will pay.

 

I've told mr C that if I go first he must get 3 prices before he decides which one to go with.  Although I'd be quite happy for him to wrap me in a hessian sack and throw me over the back fence on to the embankment.

Crikey that's a lot! I want to be cremated so I told mr summer to just chuck me on a bonfire I might actually make everyone have a themed service

We have a green wheelie bin, for discarded organic produce.

 

Not sure if I'll fit. 

My mum wants her ashes scattered via firework/rocket

http://www.hta.gov.uk/bodyorga...todonateyourbody.cfm

I'd like my ashes to be under a cherry blossom tree, but I'm not too bothered.  As long as no-one does a 'Keith Richards' with them 

My family can do what ever they want with me, lets face it.... it's for them more than me, they're the ones who it's gonna be a hard day for so any way they can feel better about it I'll be happy with.

I'd like to see more burial options around

We need more environmentally aware burial places

 

 

Having lost both of MrB's parents in the last 6 months I can say that we didn't even pay that for the two in total....both cremations. We used a family run undertakers and they were wonderful.

 

My parents have planned both of theirs down to the last detail with a fund for them....I thought it was quite morbid at first but after the stress and strain of organising two, I am very thankful that they have done it. We shall be doing ours as well, don't want the boys to have to worry about it all either.

Mrs B, it is so stressful isnt it? cant imagine having to do a second so close after the first

It is Jen...but not as stressful as dealing with the chuffing solicitors. At least with the funerals it was personal and we had a say in it all....the solicitors don't seem to have an ounce of human kindness grrrrrrrrrrr

I already have my plot (I'm being buried with my mammy) and we already have a headstone that can just be added to.

 

What I don't like about our Council is they charge you for digging the plot, then they charge you for allowing the hearse in for the burial.  Then they charge you for putting the headstone up or for additional inscription to the existing one.  Money, money, money grrrrrr.

 

Just stick me in a box and put me in the ground already 

I went past a funeral parlour the other week where there was a display of  coffins in the window.  The wicker one looked rather attractive.

I really like them - very pretty   which sounds really silly but hey some people like to go in Dr Who caskets, I quite fancy a wicker one 

I'm gonna leave strict instructions that I'm to be cremated and if I'm not I'll come back 

I also think humanist funerals are a good idea 

Has to be said that it is a shame that £6,800 is spent on you when you are dead, but if you asked for a present or party for £6, 800 when alive most people would laugh at you 

Mrs B we've lost both in laws in the last year and we didn't pay that either for both. In fact we paid over a grand less for the one this year than what we paid last year.

Where we have my parents there are more and more empty headstones and plots ready for there new tenants. When mum died she was on the second row of a new graveyard, it's pretty full now. I keep asking his nibbs where we should be buried as we're from two different counties and not yet offically Mr&Mrs.

He keeps saying that there's room with his grandmother and to throw him in there. Actually, why isn't she buried with her husband?