A funeral is a ceremony when the family and friends come together to say their final goodbye to the deceased.
It is connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation.
When we hear the word ‘Funeral’ only grieving families come in our mind but now people are freeing themselves from this and doing what they want to do.
Last year, a teenager who used to love McDonald’s had his funeral procession pass through his local drive-thru. Joshua Connolly-Teale’s procession allowed family and friends to release balloons in the sky and after the ceremony, all came back to the restaurant.
Now, quirky and personalized funerals like this one are becoming popular day by the in UK. According to a new report by Co-op Funeral Care, some people even held funerals at zoos, golf courses, cafes and even one at a cattle auction house.
The reports also found out that people are even trying new ways of what they do with a loved one’s ashes. Some even chose to have ashes put in jewelry and it has increased by more than a fifth.
The study discovered that only one in 10 adults would choose a traditional religious service nowadays, while 36 per cent want their family and friends to get together for a celebration of their life.
According to Ladbible, people even doing the following things with the ashes of their loved ones.
”Inside the furnace of a steam train, putting them inside a firework, creating a tattoo, scattering during a skydive, sent up over the sea inside a balloon, putting them in a model aeroplane, taking them around the world, putting them inside a car so they can always travel with them, keeping them inside a rucksack so they could be carried everywhere and scattering at a USA baseball ground.”
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