Funerals with No Loved Ones There Sadly On the Rise ; Being Buried by the Council with Few or No Loved Ones Present Will Not Be Many People's Idea of the Ideal Funeral - but It Is an Increasingly Familiar Scenario.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › November 09, 2008

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Being buried by the council with few or no loved ones present will not be many people's idea of the ideal funeral - but it is an increasingly familiar scenario.

Almost pounds30,000 was spent by Exeter City Council in the last financial year to give those with no next of kin a dignified send- off, including a coffin, flowers and a funeral notice in the Echo.

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Funerals with No Loved Ones There Sadly On the Rise ; Being Buried by the Council with Few or No Loved Ones Present Will Not Be Many People's Idea of the Ideal Funeral - but It Is an Increasingly Familiar Scenario.

Data given via the Freedom of Information Act shows the council had to organise so- called Eleanor R...

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