'Funeral company went bust - and now I can't afford to die'
Grieving families are having to struggling with debt or having cremations without any attendees, as the "cost of dying” has hit a record high.
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Grieving families are having to struggling with debt or having cremations without any attendees, as the "cost of dying” has hit a record high.
Support is growing for the Daily Mail’s campaign to lift Covid restrictions on funerals more quickly. An influential committee of MPs will meet next week to pile further pressure on ministers to raise the cap of 30 mourners and allow singing again. It came as Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey became the latest senior figure to demand Government action so that no one has to go through a funeral ‘isolated and alone’ – as the Queen did last Saturday. And Grief UK, an organisation which comforts the bereaved, spoke out to claim that the ‘shadow pandemic of unresolved grief’ is bein...