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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Poor innocent fish.
That’s just it. Birds poop on the car and leaves have to be swept off the driveway so your tree would get chopped down. Also, kids aren’t allowed to play outside and these precious little bubbles might fall and get hurt on a swing.
lol
Yes!!!
I went from multiple times a year going to atlantic city to once every Several years.
I dunno. Getting older maybe makes you think straight.
I was getting closer to needing that money one day!!
Hope you are well :)
Another reality is that funerals have really expensive $$$$ over the years as well. Not surprised by all these changes.
Sometimes it’s the only humor there is :)
Correction: Have really become expensive $$$$.
Please see posts 46 and 47 . Thank-you.
Correction Again: Please see post 46 and 48 please.
It makes no difference whatsoever. Salvation comes ONLY through Faith in Christ as the Savior. There is no connection whatsoever to ANY works of man, including burial.
You need to check out an Irish Wake.
Amen and second it.
Why?
Amen. Once a person has ended this earthly life, their eternal destination is determined.
Could it be that not only is cost a factor($$$$),but with less faith,is it any wonder that there are different types of funerals?
I understand the cost factor, but wants to have their body sprinkled on the ground so people can walk on it?
Or who wants their body put in water in which people swim.
It’s about the dignity of God’s created bodies.
Most cemeteries now permit the burial of ashes on top of the casket of another grave. For example, my children’s cremation could be buried on top of my husband’s casket.
Yeah, I know that, but it fun to tweak my family.
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