(Daily Mail) UK holds first ever Ideal Death Show including prizes

The Ideal Home Show has been running since 1908 and the International Motor Show began in 1903 so it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a similar show and earlier this month the Beeches in Bournville, Birmingham played host to the first Ideal Death Show.

The event billed itself as a ‘weekend gathering of entrepreneurs, pioneers and progressives from the funeral industry’.

Open to members of the public, the show allowed discussions about death, planning a funeral and some of the more eccentric ways people select to mark their own passing….

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