Dying for good deal

■ The cost of funerals is outrageous (Mirror, Nov 30). My husband and I have decided on direct cremation at about £1,000 – still a lot, but not compared to a traditional funeral. We have no religious beliefs and see no point in leaving our children in debt.

Everything is done for you – paperwork, medical signatures, choice of coffin, which relieves next of kin of added stress they don’t need.

Our friends had never heard of this option. Now five of them are doing the same.

Sheila Fox, Crawley West Sussex

■ Activist and author Harry Leslie Smith did so much good in his life.

His memoirs show what life would be like without the NHS and the welfare state, now being dismantled. We need more people like Harry.

The austerity cuts are destroying Britain and harming people who are low paid, disabled and unemployed.

Let’s pay tribute to Harry by fighting the austerity cuts.

C Wright, Halifax

Theresa May has achieved what no other British leader since Churchill has managed to do – united the opposing sides of a fiercely divided nation... in their agreed condemnation of her dreadful Brexit deal. A Brexit that works for everyone? No, Prime Minister, clearly one that works for no one. Stefan Badham Portsmouth