Could we have just one day free of adverts about funerals?

infoman

Just shows how much money the firms are making as they seem to be on every other advert,jammed in between life assurance cover.

These kind of adverts are cheap to make and cheap to place on free-to-air digital channels that mostly show looped repeats of old programmes.

I doubt younger people are going to be watching the endless repeats of Heartbeat, Foyle’s War, Vera, Marple and Poirot etc on ITV3.

Older people are the demographic most likely not to have a TV set up which allows them to skip the ads. Therefore advertisers have a captive audience.

And why not funerals? You might as well ask can we have a day without adverts for holidays, cars, gambling, dishwashers and fancy floor mops. The only thing we are are all guaranteed to need is a funeral.

Every week in the UK, over 10,000 people die, many of whom won’t have made any plans for a funeral or put aside money to pay for it, so it makes sense to advertise if only to prompt awareness and responsibility. I wonder how many people see that ad of the man in the bath and then arrange a pre-paid plan with another company entirely?

I like Countdown and watch it in real time as I am able.

Pressed too soon. Back to Countdown. It appears to be sponsored by Specsavers and every time there is a break we get treated to very annoying advertising. I agree with all the above comments about the adverts that are so obviously aimed at an older demographic. Funeral adverts in January are a self-fulfilling prophecy as they could make even the most sanguine of personalities lose the will to live altogether. Then there are all the adverts for Stannah stairlifts, walk-in baths, McCarthy and Stone, denture products and incontinence pads and pants. I particularly dislike hearing aid adverts because they play along to the lie that it is only older people who need them whereas, even though age related deafness is common, there are many of us who have had hearing loss from a much younger age. The very worst one is the Andrex advert where a schoolboy, toilet roll in hand, walks from the back of the classroom, loudly trumping with each step. Actually, the US president is perfectly named. Trump definition: a loud, rude noise expelling wind.

Apparently funerals is the only thing us over 50s are interested in 🫤

I just turn off the sound or make a cup of tea whilst the tv ads are on

butterandjam

Allira

eazybee

I have received several packages from a firm promoting their funeral plans. They included sheets of stickers of Robins, which made pretty tags for Christmas presents.

Do we come back as robins, do you think?

I quite fancy that.

Robins eat worms and insects.

I'd rather come back as a gannet, coastal living with a diet of fresh fish and seafood; an active afterlife with lots of soaring, diving, and other watersports.

Or a gull, diving and stealing chips 😁

Mackir

Funerals are for people who believe life goes on or that death is important to left behind loved ones. I dont fall into either of these categories so the adverts are aimed at naive people who believe giving a funeral home money honors their lost loved one. It doesnt. Its a sham

Funerals are for people who believe life goes on or that death is important to left behind loved ones.

How do you know this? What is the evidence. There are many reasons why some people may want funeral. You have named two that you recognise that is all.

I don’t mind any funeral ads and if it makes anyone plan and pre pay for their own so much the better.The one ad I hate is I think for StaySure? Travel insurance anyway, a man and his wife/ partner sitting at the kitchen table discussing holidays, he looks incredibly smug and she’s regarding him as if he’s the best thing since sliced bread, then she quickly leans over and kisses his cheek.It’s straight out of the 1950’s, adoring wifey wondering how on earth her man can arrange travel insurance 🤬

Oh yes please - give us a break!

M0nica
Mackir

"Funerals are for people who believe life goes on or that death is important to left behind loved ones. I dont fall into either of these categories so the adverts are aimed at naive people who believe giving a funeral home money honors their lost loved one. It doesnt. Its a sham"

"Funerals are for people who believe life goes on or that death is important to left behind loved ones."

"How do you know this? What is the evidence. There are many reasons why some people may want funeral. You have named two that you recognise that is all."

I'd be interested to know what Makir intends to do about his/her own mortal remains if they don't believe organising a funeral is necessary. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, you surely need to sort something out before you shuffle off.
I think it's unfair to call people naive for planning ahead and perhaps sparing their loved ones the stress

Oreo

I don’t mind any funeral ads and if it makes anyone plan and pre pay for their own so much the better.The one ad I hate is I think for StaySure? Travel insurance anyway, a man and his wife/ partner sitting at the kitchen table discussing holidays, he looks incredibly smug and she’s regarding him as if he’s the best thing since sliced bread, then she quickly leans over and kisses his cheek.It’s straight out of the 1950’s, adoring wifey wondering how on earth her man can arrange travel insurance 🤬

That is not us!
DH has been battling with that particular company trying to sort out travel insurance, gave in and asked me to do it 😁

M0nica

Mackir

Funerals are for people who believe life goes on or that death is important to left behind loved ones. I dont fall into either of these categories so the adverts are aimed at naive people who believe giving a funeral home money honors their lost loved one. It doesnt. Its a sham

Funerals are for people who believe life goes on or that death is important to left behind loved ones.

How do you know this? What is the evidence. There are many reasons why some people may want funeral. You have named two that you recognise that is all.

What is the evidence.

I don't recognise either of those categories.
Funerals are to remember loved ones, friends and to say farewell.

Funerals have been held by many different peoples of different religions and cultures from time immemorial even if the methods have been different.

The latest trend not to gave one at all feels as if something is unfinished, that the end of someone's life has not actually happened.

ssaenach512 There is a difference between a funeral and disposing of the body and if you want you can arrange to have the body removed from the home or hospital and go straight to a crematorium for cremation. ashes can then be scattered without family involvement, if not wanted.

Personally, I think funeral plans are purely for the potential corpse, while it is living. Only those nearest to the deceased can know, at the time, what way of disposing of the body, with ot without ceremony, will bring them most consolation. I mean, some might want a wonderful party to celebrate the fact that the old b**ch has gone at last.

My family know my preferences, which console me in life, but also know that as far as i am concerned, once I am gone, I am gone and will know nothing about what they actually do, and that is fine by me.

And, as it's illegal in Britain to put a dead body in the domestic waste bin, we might be wise to give some thought as to what to be done with our remains, whether that's an off- stage cremation, attended by no one, or a hearse drawn by plumed horses, followed by a full funeral mass.

Chocolatelovinggran 😂
That made me choke on my ☕

Time to write down my plans in case!

But we are their target audience! Isn’t it nice to be considered worth paying for advertising to?
Aren’t you sick of ads for walk-in showers showing a 35 year old and endless articles written about the menopause? Incessant moans about potholes in roads while our pavements are impassable for old people? A woke ban on the words Old, Dead, Coffin? The entire world ordered for the under-60s despite our numbers ballooning whilst theirs plummet?
But someone still loves us, it’s the funeral companies and life insurance companies!

Am pondering plumed horses and a black carriage now followed by professional mourners weeping and wailing, shops closing early and neighbours lining the streets with caps in hand.

watermeadow

But we are their target audience! Isn’t it nice to be considered worth paying for advertising to?
Aren’t you sick of ads for walk-in showers showing a 35 year old and endless articles written about the menopause? Incessant moans about potholes in roads while our pavements are impassable for old people? A woke ban on the words Old, Dead, Coffin? The entire world ordered for the under-60s despite our numbers ballooning whilst theirs plummet?
But someone still loves us, it’s the funeral companies and life insurance companies!

I'm sick of adverts about pee pants and incontinent, middle-aged women who are obviously fit, muscular and good at exercising .
Do they not know about pelvic floor exercises?

I’m only seeing car adverts. It’s Nissan hybrids today.

Me too Allira and if it has come to peeing in the pad all day, a trip to the doctor has to be a must

Allira

Chocolatelovinggran 😂
That made me choke on my ☕

Time to write down my plans in case!

... in case?
Allira

Love it, Oreo: don't forget the flags at half mast !

I worry about how upsetting - triggering in the modern parlance - such adverts could be for those who have received a terminal diagnosis, or their loved one has, or a loved one has recently died.

Yes, agree! Sick of them and the trying to make all cheerie, bright and breezey! Simplicity Creations and their awful songs, Pure and the guy in the bath! I mutr them when they come on! 🤣

😂😂😂
I agree. We laugh now because you have too.
But dreadful to chase the dead!

Funereal adverts are more objectionable than other types because they are exploiting our feelings about death. The one that has its own folk song is sick, as is the one about the motorbike rider (is he really dead?) showing lots of insincere mourners. I complained to Talking Pictures TV about the amount of funeral adverts and they said their channel cannot survive without them. As for anyone who doesn't like the idea of making funeral arrangenents, you can always donate your body to science. To be fair, the guy in the bath looks like he's eaten too many sausage rolls and might need a funeral plan soon. Perhaps he'll drown in the bath and they'll say "should have gone to Coop Cremation". I would go for the plan that throws in a lovely carriage clock.