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

Some Like It Hot 😁

KKOB

I told my missus that I'd prefer cremation to burial.

She's booked me in for 8.45 next Tuesday.

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Nik1ta

Absolutely right Mae13; anyone taking these plans out needs their head examined!

Not at all if they’re sensible and use the Co-op for exmple.

Virginal?

The musical instrument or bridal white? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Not ‘Virginal’ Kitty. That would be for another set of adverts. 🤔

I was watching something the other day with my husband when an ad came on for “Virginal dryness”. It wasn't the subject that made us both cringe but the way the women sitting there were talking about it-seen adverts for the creams etc before. Maybe just the way that advert was? Not prudes quite happy with most things-one or two sanitary ads graphics make me go ugh! Husband and son in law fine with conversations concerning granddaughters period pains etc. Guess it’s just the way the adverts are-some good some bad. And the funeral ads definitely don’t bother me as I have already arranged and paid for mine-before major surgery last year!

Just press the mute button, close your eyes and think your own thoughts until the program starts again. Easy easy!

I automatically mute all adverts.

They all get on my wick,

The only one I like the music to is the Co-op one. Sweet story to it as well.

@infoman I couldn't agree more. I'm so sick of these darn funeral adverts between any programs that they think anyone over age 50 might be watching. I always turn the channel over because I'm thoroughly bored and sick of them. They do not make me want to rush out and buy a Pure Cremation or any of the others and the same applies for over 50s life insurance too.

I told my missus that I'd prefer cremation to burial.

She's booked me in for 8.45 next Tuesday.

I'm fed up with having vaginal dryness shoved in my face when I'm having my tea.

Flippin2

The guy in the bath one makes me laugh,why is his wife hiding behind the door,she's surely seen him naked at some point in life

Perhaps she preferred the sausage roll to his offering haha!!

eazybee
I received same yesterday.
My situation is that I have been diagnosed with 2 terminal cancers and know that a funeral/type of service is inevitable in the near future. I am trying to live each day with positive thoughts, but find it quite distressing to keep being ‘attacked’ by such advertising, on tv (unless recorded and wizzing through advert breaks) and post.

One of the funeral ads offers £100 off. I hate offers like that, and ones giving gift vouchers or cuddly toys. I wouldn’t use them on principle.

Well I don't watch daytime tv but last evening, when watching old comedy shows on That's TV , cremation adverts were on nearly every ad break, occasionally being the only advert & taking up 3 minutes!! I don't want to see then thank you!

specki4eyes

That smug, slimy couple congratulating each other about their travel insurance make me want to sling a brick at the TV. I think of all those poor lonely old people who can barely afford to have their heating on. I reach for the mute button and look away therefore I don't know who the advertiser is, so their marketing is wasted on me.

I totally agree. They are so smug. It makes me sick. We haven't been able to afford a holiday for years as the heating bills are so high.

Since 2022, monies paid into pre-paid funeral plans, operated by approved funeral providers are ring fenced by the FSA. Should a company go bankrupt, the money is safe and a similar funeral would be arranged with another company.

I don't have that facility or maybe I am too old or stupid to know how to do it.

They are on TV constantly!

Doodledog

I found myself humming the cremation folk song one the other day. Dreadful.

Me too. It is quite catchy actually.

Absolutely right Mae13; anyone taking these plans out needs their head examined!

M0nica

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.

The dreaded cloud hanging over the pre-paid funeral plan industry - what if they go bust, as two such firms did last year, apparently magicking all the pre-payments far, far away..........

That smug, slimy couple congratulating each other about their travel insurance make me want to sling a brick at the TV. I think of all those poor lonely old people who can barely afford to have their heating on. I reach for the mute button and look away therefore I don't know who the advertiser is, so their marketing is wasted on me.

Pay, pay and pay again!