Please.......no more!

katek I absolutely agree with you. It drives me mad too.

What gets me is that in nearly every advert for anything "over 50", is the way they show the man or woman having grey or white hair ! Jeez, do they really think that everyone's hair turns this colour overnight as soon as they reach 50 ??

They annoy me too, especially as I’m 50 and nowhere near the stage of thinking about my funeral - I’ve got two children to get through university and one to get through his entire high school years plus many more years of working. My funeral is another 30-odd years away, all going well!

Recently a local undertaker had a stand in the local shopping mall. He was selecting and stopping anyone who looked elderly , with the prospect of buying a plan. He was hard to avoid in a narrow aisle.

I thought it was very bad taste. When an elderly lady got upset, she explained that her husband had just died, I was really put out. I tackled him about it but he was very defensive, not to say rude. ( talk about the Grim Reaper.)

If I want to buy a funeral plan I shall. Just stop reminding me on TV or when shopping

I think our June fancies the old boy in the greenhouse, she is always calling round, she must be after her inheritance!! even his daughter looks a bit dubious about her!!!!

We all know we are going to pop off eventually, we don't need to be reminded. Don't care what they do with me, I will be dead. But before that I am off on my holibobs to visit my DS and his lovely family.

(And I don't want an alarm clock or pen. offer me a cruise round the world and I may change my mind)

I really hate the underlying theme to these ads.....all about the guilt of not 'providing' so you do not burden your children.
In my not particularly wide experience of funerals the more lavish ones are organised by the family and there seems to be an element of guilt laid on ...something along the lines of 'doing them proud'. Guilt from both ends!
Have a little BS account if in doubt.....tell them they can keep it as simple as they want....can remember the darn COOP lady showing a whole load of expensive coffins for a cremation!.....duh its going up in smoke! Have fun whilst you are alive...spend as much time with your darlings....when you are gone...you are gone. Its the loving memories of times together that see us through the ghastly mourning and grieving stage....not, to my mind, how much was spent on the day. I do fully understand that many families take huge comfort in an event of some sort....but I doubt the family member wants anyone to spend more than they can afford.

Parsnip man, chatting to the woman who has just been to a funeral, tells her he has a couple of those plans. I wonder how many we need!

Damn right. I got a phone call this morning,
"Is that beige?"
"I'm calling you about the funeral plan you asked about."
"No thank you, I didn't ask about one."
I put the phone down and blocked. How did they get my number?

Katek if you want background, try radio instead. I switch between Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

No ads, sometimes a good drama or comedy.

Ah, but there may be some free binoculars or a pen! ?

Hi Aggie, My mum was extremely thin and small. She didn'tlike reclining chairs because she didn't have the strength to push them back down (don't suppose she was ever shown an electric one).

The place where she worked got some of those ones which can recline or give you a bit of a help when you get up and somebody persuaded DM just to try it.

She opted for the tip up thing, activated if you sat forward about to get up. Unfortunately, she was so slight the chair shot her up and out like a cannonball and I have to say it was the first and only time I ever heard language like that from her (she repeated the story of course).

Fortunately, only her pride was hurt, but none of us ever trusted "assistance" chairs ever again.

Ps She did see the funny side, eventually, which was just as well as the more she told it, the funnier it got (cruel children that we were).

Yup, Alan Titchmarsh seems to have taken up where Parky left off.
I've got my funeral sorted, DH works for the Co-op so we are with them.

Thank you for that link b9exchange.

I will have a look at that, I'm in north Notts though. I hope it's not a service I will need anytime soon!

Precisely vena11! I have enough reminders of my advancing years as I creak out of bed every morning!

Fourth........

or reclining in one of those chairs , I tried one , hated it

Oh my goodness ,please stop. The point I think Katek was making is we don't want to think about dying

I curse it and recycle it ;)

3dognight, if you are anywhere near oxfordshire, www.woodlandburialwestmill.co.uk/About-Us will give you a wonderful green funeral. Liz Rothschild, the funeral director, puts on a show 'Outside the Box' in which she discusses all the taboo questions you always wanted to ask, it was very funny and instructive!

For example, beware of being offered 'hygiene services', this is not washing the body but embalming, which is totally unnecessary in these days of freezers, and just another expense!

I get all this stuff through the post too.
It can be depressing if you let it but I just curse it, bin it and feel better for doing it.

That’s the third one on now from tine I first posted - dodgy guy is in the garden centre. Beware!

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And what on earth has it to do with a Gardener , or is A T looking for comostable clients ?