Category Archives for "Planning"

Financial help when living with a terminal illness

Money when living with a terminal illness Living with a terminal illness can be financially quite hard: you might start to earn less if you need to stop working or reduce your hours. You may spend more on everyday costs like heating and travelling to hospital. We’ve got disability benefits, universal credit, funeral finance payments […]

Should we re-use graves?

Re-using graves It’s thought that almost of half of England’s cemeteries will run out of space within 20 years. Everything points towards the government beginning to find ways to stop cemeteries becoming overcrowded. But the most obvious and effective way of doing so – re-using graves – doesn’t sit well with many people’s ideas of […]

Would you want to live longer?

Would you want to live longer? Apparently, the first person to live to 150 has already been born. If you’re over 10, though, this probably won’t be you. In any case, we can all look forward to the security of the great advances research has already made. But would you want to live beyond the […]

Not-for-profit funerals

Not-for-profit funerals This year (February 2018), the UK’s first not-for-profit funeral home opened in Glasgow. While it’s not everyone’s idea of a radical utopia, we’ve already got housing, childcare and sustainable business cooperatives – what’s to stop us from rallying like-minded people to take care of our funerals? Not to be confused with the well-known […]