An all-black dress code, pallbearers marching in unison, and a steady stream of tears are not often associated with golf courses, zoos and Chinese takeaways.<\/p>\n
Yet according to the most extensive ever report on UK funeral trends which, the religious funeral is dying a death.<\/p>\n
Instead of services in crematoriums, churches and cemeteries, Britons are instead opting for increasingly quirky ways to mourn their loved ones.<\/p>\n
The Co-op, the UK\u2019s largest national funeral provider which conducts more than 100,000 every year, has today published a report revealing that since 2011 there has been a 80 per cent decline in religious funerals.<\/p>\n
Eight-years-ago 67 per cent of people requested traditional religious services and just 12 per cent were non-religious. However by 2018, just 13 per cent wanted a religious funeral.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n What is happening to death?<\/p>\n 80 per cent decline in religious funerals as mourners opt for golf courses and zoos over churches https:\/\/t.co\/0pwP4Jk9iF<\/a> via @telegraphnews<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Fr Timothy Ezat \u2720 (@Fr_Ezat) September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n