The rising cost of dying: Average funeral now costs ?7,600

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The average cost of dying - including funeral, burial or cremation and state administration - stands at ?7,622, having risen by 7.1 per cent in the past year, a study claims.

The authors of the study at the University of Bath?s Institute for Policy Research have called on the Government to review the current system of state support for funeral costs.

They estimate that over 100,000 people will struggle to pay for a funeral this year alone.

In spite of the lowest-ever recorded mortality rates for England and Wales, the cost of dying has steadily increased over recent years.

The average cost of a funeral in fact rose by 80 per cent between 2004 and 2013 and the costs of dying are expected to continue to increase over the next five years.
On average, the price of a typical funeral, including non-discretionary fees and a burial or cremation, is ?3,456.

The average amount spent on extras such as a memorial, flowers and catering is ?2,006 and discretionary estate administration costs have increased significantly to ?2,160.

For families on low incomes, the Social Fund Funeral Payment, first introduced in 1988, is intended to support those who struggle to find the money to pay for a funeral.

However, the report challenges the effectiveness and availability of this provision. By highlighting an average shortfall of ?1,277 that many face, the report suggests that ?funeral poverty? today is some 50 per cent higher than three years ago.

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[Meat-Head]

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[super jumbe]

For 1 hour job and it cost ?7K, lifting a wooden box, cost of travel to cemetery, someone is making lots of money…..when thousands are struggling to afford.

[GastonJ]

I'll stick with my plan of living forever and if I succeed then I'll not have to pay out the ?7.5k

[Elric]

im allready dead,been dead forever.....

[jcgrumbles]

No problem for me and mrs grumbles,we are both booked into the local training hospital when we croak,one of us dies,the other rings them up,out they come and stuff the corpse into a ziplok bag,over the shoulder and away.....

[super jumbe]

I will have to save my money going abroad to die, rumours in some African and asian countries you could be buried for as little as tanner......

[GastonJ]

Go to B&Q and be whisked away by a tornado, even cheaper

[jcgrumbles]

The way I look at it,im saving my bairns about ?4ooo in funeral costs,they can still have a wake but without the body......

[Meat-Head]

For those unaware mr & mrs grumbles are to be donated for parts at the hospital, complete with painfull balls

[GastonJ]

Dying costs nothing. Just make sure you leave yourself to the local MP or council, then it's their problem.