Classic funerals passing away...
A McDONALD’S burger bar is the strangest place a top funeral firm has ever staged a send-off.
Co-op Funeralcare said just one in 10 people now wants a traditional service when they pass away.
As well as the Maccy D’s restaurant, other weird locations include the side of a bypass – which was the deceased’s favourite road – and the 18th tee of a golf course.
A spokesman for the firm, which has conducted more than 500,000 funerals in the past five years, said non-traditional requests have rocketed in the past five years.
An accompanying poll of 4,000 adults showed just 10% now want their funeral to be a “suited and booted” religious ceremony.
One third opted for “no fuss at all” and 36% just wanted friends and family to have a big party.
Co-op Funeralcare said the use of pallbearers had dropped by 78% in the past five years and the use of limousines had fallen by 16% in the same period.
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