Friday, 06 Dec 2019 07:00 PM MYTLONDON, Dec 6 — With average funeral costs edging toward £4,000 , dying in Britain has become an expensive proposition — at least for those left behind to pay the bills.
“We didn’t have any savings,” Cunningham told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. “We just work month to month to pay our bills and live basically. We didn’t have any money at all.”But a non-profit funeral director helped Cunningham through with a simple, cut-price cremation for her brother. Caledonia Cremation has carried out about 250 direct cremations, which are carried out without a funeral service and with no mourners in attendance.
It has accused some funeral directors of not being transparent about pricing and of taking advantage of people at their most vulnerable, with grieving customers less likely to shop around. “And they come together really poisonously, when you put when you put death and money together,” she added.