Independent funerals

Although a funeral director will be invited to organise the majority of funerals, some people prefer to organise funerals themselves. They may feel that personally organising a funeral is their final tribute to the deceased person or they may simply wish to save money.

An independent funeral can mean taking responsibility for collecting and moving the body, arranging embalming and viewing of the deceased, providing a coffin, hearse and arranging the service or it can just mean arranging the burial and service.