How your funeral director is ripping you off

They say that death and taxes are the only two certainties in life. But there seems to be a third, linked to death and as painful as taxes. It’s the astronomical cost of organising a funeral.

My partner’s father died recently, and for the honour of a bog-standard cremation in a far from fashionable part of East Anglia she was charged just over £4,000.

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How your funeral director is ripping you off

There’s no legal obligation to use a funeral director. And it may be that you can make a better job of it

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