Posted on 08/29/2019 8:53:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
An all-black dress code, pallbearers marching in unison, and a steady stream of tears are not often associated with golf courses, zoos and Chinese takeaways.
Yet according to the most extensive ever report on UK funeral trends which, the religious funeral is dying a death.
Instead of services in crematoriums, churches and cemeteries, Britons are instead opting for increasingly quirky ways to mourn their loved ones.
The Co-op, the UK’s largest national funeral provider which conducts more than 100,000 every year, has today published a report revealing that since 2011 there has been a 80 per cent decline in religious funerals.
Eight-years-ago 67 per cent of people requested traditional religious services and just 12 per cent were non-religious. However by 2018, just 13 per cent wanted a religious funeral.
Undertakers have reported a “staggering shift” towards unique, secular ceremonies. Among the more niche requests, there have been milk floats, canal boats, converted steam trains and quad bikes being turned into hearses.
The location of funerals has also provided opportunities for the more imaginative mourners. Zoos, buses, a cattle auction house, next to the 18th hole on a golf course - and even a McDonald’s Drive Thru - have hosted processions for the deceased. A total of 77 per cent of Co-op’s employees have had requests for funerals to be held outside of traditional religious settings.
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I want to buried under a casino as casinos have put me under so often.
My wish:
Cremated. Floated out on a raft into the Gulf of Mexico with lots of explosives. My son and his buds his the trigger.
BOOM.
SEE YA!
HIS=HIT
How do they bury someone at a zoo or golf course?
No connection with God who created them?
Even cremated ashes must be buried. It is the respect and dignity during to the body that God created.
Europe is pretty much secular now. It’s changed so much in 20 years.
That is a hilarious line!
I have no way to prove it, but I’ll just bet you some wealthy people have already been buried at either Disneyland or Disneyworld. Of course that’s ‘highly irregular!”, but when you can flash enough of those dollar bills, that changes almost everything.
In the sand traps?
Yeah but it is fun to think about.
Ashes to ashes, dust to salt water.
My epitaph:
Never Joined a Union. Never Will.
We need to send missionaries over there to save the good ones. What if we were in their spot?
You Texans are kind of crazy :)
If only it wasn’t true :)
I don’t know why but gamblers have the best senses of humor
Mother Mary warned the children of Fatima of the “Souls falling in to Hell like snowflakes.”
I fear that it has become a blizzard.
That’s because we’ve been as low as one can get so many times that we have to keep a sense of humor to keep from blowing our brains out :)
The deceased and all of us will in that day have a whole lot of (totally unjustified) explaining to do.
Or pray a lot to keep our brains encased.
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