It’s allways been my impression that the dead have other priorities...like what now???
Did I get the right one?.(..religion that is.)
Dark in here.
No. Religious preference be buggered. Get in line line everyone else.
I had my fathers funeral last week.
He had been ill for a while so he pre-paid for a Co-op basic funeral with no frills (He didn't want any fuss)
Despite not paying for any extra's the funeral directors did their level best to meet our requirements and did everything asked of them
Because family was flying in from abroad and elderly siblings travelling from all across the country the job was done within the date and time range we asked for.
But you wait your turn. Every family organising a funeral wants it done in a particular way and at a particular time.
I gave the Co-op a list of preferable dates asked for a late afternoon slot at the crematorium. Thats exactly what they gave us. No requirement to pay a premium price, no prefferential treatment.
Every single family who has a funeral to arrange is a priority to themselves.
Pay your money, make your requests and stand in line. All coffins being equal and all that.
I think it’s more to do with infrastructure.Perhaps the bottleneck could be addressed by longer opening hours at crematoria with shift working. Would allow better productivity and early evening funerals might be easier to get to for working age mourners. No doubt local authority unions would shy away from any such idea
I think it’s more to do with infrastructure.
3 weeks in England to get a slot at a crem.
3 days in Scotland to get a slot at a crem.
England has seen a massive growth in population over the last few decades whilst Scotland hasn’t.
I like the idea of evening funerals, but I’d struggle to see how they’d help. You’d need more staff to run them in the evening, and mor importantly, who wants and evening service?
Well, as a retired lawyer
A Co-Op funeral.....?
Is that where you turn up for the funeral, there's 5 freshly dug holes in front of you, a couple of dozen people milling around waiting for something to happen and no-one available to do the planting or is that just how they run their crappy stores?
The theory of queuing is a magical thing. It’s like the NHS. If there’s a three month wait, why don’t they do overtime for a few weeks to clear it and then keep on top of it.I don't understand. The maths don't work out, if there were more stiffs than burners then surely the backlog would be getting bigger and bigger. If it's a steady 3 weeks (And I appreciate there are busier times like winter), then a few shifts of overtime would sort the backlog.
Otherwise we need to build more crems, and as it's a lucrative business then surely that's not a problem. Simple Supply and Demand.
I suspect there's more than meets the eye to the delays, litigious families, unreasonable requests etc, such as wanting to push in front due to their flavour of imaginary friend.
So no. Wait in line and rigidly enforce it. Having to wait 3 weeks to bury my brother was really hard on my mum and dad.
I like the idea of evening funerals, but I’d struggle to see how they’d help. You’d need more staff to run them in the evening, and more importantly, who wants an evening service?
Each culture and sub culture do their own things.In the US the African-American community often have evening funerals. I understand that this is due to family members being in jobs that discourage taking time off without loss of pay.
Most funerals in the US tend to be within 3 or 4 days of the death. I have noticed that some African-American funerals are 2 or 3 weeks after death. I once was on a bank's board and another member of the board was an African-American lady who was a funeral director. She told me the reason for the time lag before funeral and burial is because funeral homes serving the black community hold off on the funeral until they are paid for all of the services provided. You can't repossess a coffin after it has been buried with it's occupant.
I think it’s more to do with Scottish people being more flammable than English people.I think it’s more to do with infrastructure.
3 weeks in England to get a slot at a crem.
3 days in Scotland to get a slot at a crem.