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MSE News: Families hit by soaring funeral costs

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Funeral costs have risen by an average of 5% but a postcode lottery for charges means bills for burial or cremation in some parts of the country have jumped by nearly a third...
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They need cadavers for medical students to practise on.
Organ donations. If you die from a stroke, your kidney etc. could still be good. If the NHS gets your organs, for free, they can pay for your cremation.
Probably not a good idea to feed pigs with the leftovers, BSE type diseases can build up in the food chain, but turning it into fertiliser must make the Green Party happy.
They really should do a re-make of the movie Soylent Green.
It's not like a wedding, where you can buy a bit of paper and turn up in your jeans and be "sign here/job done" for thruppence.
I think just the act of burning/cremation is £800.... and you still need to get the body there and have it in a box etc.
But nothing will change while Councils need cash cows - and they have a desperate and trapped captive audience.