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You might want to sit down: funeral debts hit astonishing highs
The total amount we have borrowed to pay for funerals has hit £147 million, as almost 95,000 people have been slapped with a huge and unexpected funeral bill, and had no choice but to borrow in order to afford it. It's a sign of how
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Warning: funeral costs time bomb is looming
Funeral costs are continuing to run out of control - leaving many families unable to pay for a send-off for their loved ones. The cost of cremation-based funerals has soared an alarming 10% in a year, and the cost of funerals involving a burial
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The final indignity: postcode lottery of burial costs
Paupers' funerals are making a comeback, and it's hardly surprising given the cost of laying someone to rest. A new study has revealed that the price of a burial plot in the UK now averages £1,841. However, if you want to buy a plot in
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Cemetery cashes in on demand for graves near Miles Davis
Woodlawn Cemetery in New York is creating 2,275 new graves, including 70 special plots near the area known as 'Jazz Corner', where Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and Lionel Hampton are buried. It said it had been
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A property with a grave downside
On first inspection it's a four bedroom terrace house in sought-after Teddington, with plenty of potential for a buyer who fancies a project. At just £650,000 it's one of the cheapest properties of this size in the area, and with some
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Would you turn your garden into a graveyard?
This week, two bereaved people took the unusual step of burying their loved ones in their own garden. Patricia Waters, an 81-year-old from Kidderminster, buried her husband Eddie in the back garden. Meanwhile 56-year-old Philip Topham from
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In pictures: Tibetan sky burial where the dead are fed to vultures
These fascinating photos offer a glimpse into the Tibetan burial tradition of chopping up the bodies of the deceased and feeding them to vultures. A sky burial is a funerary practice in the Chinese provinces of Tibet, Qinghai and Inner
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