How much are you?
A very big up to Saint and Forster Funeral Services, who have just gone public and transparent with their prices. From us, a big ask to all funeral directors to follow suit. Saint and Forster prices here. Saint and Forster here.
Transparent funeral pricing (Disinfectant part 2)
How can you give people clear simple information about the likely cost of the funeral they are organising? It sounds easy but in practice it can be the hardest thing in the world. How do you listen, share, sympathise and support people in all sorts of distress? How do you help them start to […]
The best disinfectant part 1
There’s no beating around the bush here: funeral pricing must be more transparent. Most funeral directors are careful, honest and, often, painfully aware of the costs that people face when someone dies. They run businesses, but know that they are also offering a service that affects people’s well being at the deepest levels. For the […]
US Funerals Online Seeing a Huge Increase in the Number of People Looking to Compare Funeral Prices
Posted by Charles Are there, we wonder, any lessons British undertakers can learn from this article on PRWeb: Many funeral homes today have their own websites, but most of these seem to have forgotten to include information about the one thing that is on most people’s mind. How much does a funeral cost? There is […]
Funeral spend has plunged in Ireland
From the Irish Independent an alarming trend (if you’re an undertaker) and a familiar issue: Undertakers say the average cost of a funeral has dropped by almost 40pc in the past five years. They say cash-strapped families have had little choice but to compromise on funeral ceremonies by foregoing extras that they once took for […]
Final solution
It is only eight o’clock pm here at GFG HQ, yet it’s already some 15 minutes since we sounded the hooter and nudged our horny-handed workforce into the weary, black, wet November night. We like to feel that we are kindly, enlightened employers, for whom wellbeing issues come first. At the desk of one of […]
Fair comment?
Posted by Vale Here’s a story from last Friday’s This Is Local London website. Teddington campaign group launches petition against spiralling funeral costs Campaigners have encouraged people in the borough to sign a petition against rocketing funeral prices. The campaign group Fair Funerals aims to raise awareness about the sharp increase in prices in the […]
Who are the real rotters here?
Is this a Welsh thing, or is it beginning to happen all over the UK? In Wales, according to a BBC news article, the number of public health funerals is alleged to have doubled in a decade. This is contradicted by the view of the Local Government Association. In a survey dated 2010 it reports: […]
Are you in or out?
It’s not often that you see a funeral entrepreneur on Dragon’s Den, but last night’s show shone a brief spotlight on an enterprise which, in an industry unaccustomed to innovation, is likely to elicit responses ranging from ‘It’ll never work’ to ‘Tcha.’ Theo Paphitis ruled himself straight out, no messing. But it turns out that […]
Cash for corpses 2
You heard it on the news? You read it in your newspaper? The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published a report calling on the government to find out of people like the idea of getting a free funeral in exchange for donating their organs. Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, says: […]
