Preference for a traditional (such as a church service) or more personal and celebratory funeral (2971)

Type of Data: Preference for a traditional (such as a church service) or more personal and celebratory funeral (2971)

Faith Community: General

Date: 2010, 22-24 September

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 2002

Population: Adults aged 18 and over

Keywords: Church service, death, funerals, personal celebration, rites of passage, traditional funeral

Collection Method: Online interview

Collection Agency: ICM Research

Sponsor: Judge and Howard and Co-operative Funeralcare

Published Source:

The Ways We Say Goodbye: A Study of 21st Century Funeral Customs in the UK, [Manchester]: Co-operative Funeralcare, [2011]

http://www.co-operative.coop

http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=840

BRIN ID: 2971

Remarks:

In a separate study, involving 559 Co-operative Funeralcare funeral homes in the UK, the funerals they arranged were categorized as traditional, contemporary or humanist, and the music played at these funerals as religious or secular

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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