In early March 2024, Humberside Police received reports of concerns over “care for the deceased” at a funeral directors in Hull. Two people have reportedly been bailed after the bodies and ashes of at least 35 people were removed from the premises. An inquiry is now under way.
As shocking as this news story has been, such concerns are not unexpected. Across England and Wales, funeral directors are an unregulated workforce. There is little external scrutiny and minimal educational requirements to be able to practice.
Funerals have long been firmly located within the commercial world. As far back as the 17th century, funerary arrangements were the purview of family firms and an alternative income source for carpenters and upholsters.
Today, there are only a handful of ways in which funerals become a public issue. Some deaths will be referred to coroners and local authorities will be involved in organising and funding a public health funeral, when someone dies without the money or family to organise a service. Even then, though, most councils outsource this work to private, for-profit funeral directors.
More broadly, politicians and policymakers are largely reticent to talk about death and who supports the dead. It is rarely a vote winner. It doesn’t fit neatly within the boundaries of individual government departments (involving health and social care, pensions, benefits, housing, cemeteries and crematoriums), all of which have competing interests and priorities.
Further, the dead are unable, and the bereaved often too tired, to lobby for attention. It is only when families fight the system via public inquests and inquiries, or when events such as those in Humberside receive media attention, that the way death is handled really gains political attention.
Mourners value the confidence that their deceased are being cared for as promised.Anze Furlan|Shutterstock
Lack of regulation
In countries such as the US, it is common practice for funeral directors to be required to hold a mortuary science qualification to practice. In England and Wales, however, there is no requisite training or accreditation needed. More or less anyone can open a funeral home.
There are two main trade bodies: the National Association of Funeral Directors and the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors. These offer optional educational opportunities and advocate for the sector’s reputation, acting as adjudicators of poor practice. While they can and do inspect premises, because they rely on and represent their membership, the extent to which they will intervene or publicly flag poor practice is open to debate.
Research has shown that, from a consumer perspective, there is significant variation in the services funeral directors provide. It can be difficult to adequately compare service provision between companies.
Concerns have duly been raised about the potential vulnerability of families needing to make financial commitments after a person has died. These concerns are compounded by the lack of routine checks and balances across the funeral sector.
A minimal educational requirement and inspection regime would, at the very least, reassure the public that funeral directors are operating within a set of defined parameters. There would be safeguards in place to guarantee that the information they provide is up to date, that staff are trained and equipped in dealing with recently bereaved people, and independent arbitrators to whom one could raise concerns. Crucially, such oversight would ensure that the deceased people entrusted into their care are safe.
Implementing even a light touch regulatory regime will be a challenge. Until 2016, my colleagues and I at the University of Bath ran an independent foundation degree in funeral services. We faced some suspicion within the sector.
Our research found people were resistant to education and to sharing best (and problematic) practice. This was driven by a competitive marketplace and not wanting to give rivals an advantage.
There is also significant cost involved in making education and regulatory compliance a requirement. This would likely drive up costs for the consumer, in what is already a pressured sector.
Even before COVID, low-cost funerals and rituals conducted behind closed doors were gaining in popularity. Recent estimates suggest that 20% of all deaths now result in a direct cremation, that is, without an accompanying funeral service – these typically cost around half the price of a standard funeral. Paying for a funeral reportedly leaves one in five families in the UK in financial difficulty.
Profit margins for providers are thus increasingly getting squeezed and there are concerns over consumer exploitation. But the risks of overcharging or receiving services that are poor value for money are just one aspect of potential funerary malpractice.
The set of Simpsons Funeral Directors in Pontyberry, as featured in Welsh TV sitcom Stella.John Selway|Shutterstock
Others include the potential for fraud and the consequences of a funeral home abruptly ceasing trading. In October 2023, in Penrose, Colorado, police removed 189 bodies from a dilapidated green funeral home. It was reported that the company had missed tax payments, faced eviction from one premises and been sued by a crematory for unpaid bills.
The impact of this kind of news on bereaved people cannot be overstated. Reports on how families in Humberside have reacted to concerns that their deceased might not have been treated as they expected would be have rightly underlined their anguish.
In recent years there have been some moves towards better scrutiny. In 2019, the governmental Competition and Markets Authority undertook a full-scale investigation of the funeral sector in England and Wales, laying out the reasons for pricing transparency, in particular. It did not go so far as to determine what constituted quality provision. And while it asked the question about regulation, it did not wholesale recommend it.
In 2022, meanwhile, the Financial Conduct Authority began regulating pre-pay funeral plans, provided by 26 companies.
Scotland is showing how this could be done better. In February 2024, the Scottish government introduced a funeral director code of practice. This is the latest development within the regulatory framework for the end of life that was launched by Holyrood in 2017.
Such government action in Scotland positions death as a key feature of the welfare state. How a government recognises, supports and resources death and bereavement speaks to its ideological conceptualisations of citizenship, rights and responsibilities, and social justice.
What happens back stage at a funeral directors is by its very nature hidden from public view. The public in England and Wales need to know that those who become the custodians of their dead are operating appropriately and ethically.
Kate Woodthorpe has previously received contract funding from Axa Sunlife and Dignity Funerals, to conduct independent research studies.
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>The <a href="https://www.mint.ca/en/discover/canadian-commemorative-circulation-program/alexander-graham-bell" target="_blank">$1 Alexander Graham Bell coin</a> was released on the 175th anniversary of his birthday to celebrate his achievements.</p><p>It features a portrait of Bell and two of his inventions, the HD-4 Hydrofoil and the Silver Dart, in front of streaks of blue that look like the sky.</p><p>This loonie was limited to a mintage of three million coins, two million of which feature the blue colour enhancement.</p><h3>Queen Elizabeth toonie (2022)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl3T_9NMWuu/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>The <a href="https://www.narcity.com/canada-new-coin-honour-queen-elizabeth-ii-almost-all-black" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth II black toonie</a> is the first circulation coin in Canada to feature a black-nickel-coloured design.</p><p>This $2 coin has the classic elements of a toonie — the gold inner core that features a polar bear on one side and the Queen's effigy on the other — but the outer ring is black instead of silver.</p><p>It's meant to be reminiscent of a mourning armband.</p><p>Almost five million of these coins were minted in 2022.</p><h3>Inuit Nunangat toonie (2024)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/DCEi-5NIFTl/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.mint.ca/en/discover/canadian-commemorative-circulation-program/2024/celebrating-inuit-nunangat" target="_blank">$2 circulation coin celebrating Inuit Nunangat</a> features artwork from four artists, a first for Canadian coinage.</p><p>The light blue inner core of the toonie features an image of Nuliajuk — the spirit of the sea — wearing an atigi (parka) along with a walrus, two beluga whales, a seal, and an arctic char.</p><p>There are four artistic interpretations of uluit (knives) on the right side of the outer ring and "Inuit Nunangat" on the left.</p><p>In 2024, three million Inuit Nunangat coins were minted, including two million with a light blue inner core.</p><h3>Equality loonie (2019)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpgYR2ls7T/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpgYR2ls7T/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top">See on Instagram</a>
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/the-royal-canadian-mint-marks-50-years-of-progress-in-the-journey-to-equal-rights-for-lgbtq2-canadians-with-1-equality-circulation-coin-847445689.html" target="_blank">$1 equality coin</a> commemorates 50 years of progress in recognizing the rights of LGBTQ+ people in Canada.</p><p>The loonie features "EQUALITY-ÉGALITÉ" and the signature work of Vancouver artist Joe Average: an image of two intertwined faces reflects gender fluidity and the spectrum of genders.</p><p>It had a limited mintage of three million coins.</p><h3>Discovery of insulin toonie (2021)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRlqRjpL3mS/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.mint.ca/en/company/media-room/2021-07-13-100th-anniversary-of-discovery-of-the-insulin" target="_blank">$2 circulation coin</a> celebrates the 100th anniversary of a Canadian medical breakthrough: the discovery of insulin.</p><p>It features the classic silver and gold toonie design but with a splash of light blue to highlight the monomer, a building block of the insulin molecule.</p><p>Two million coloured versions and one million uncoloured versions of the coin were minted in 2021.</p><h3>Klondike Gold Rush loonie (2021)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUxFDv3MkId/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.mint.ca/en/company/media-room/2021-09-22-new-royal-canadian-mint-one-dollar-circulation-coin-tells-the-shared-history-of-the-klondike-gold-rush" target="_blank">$1 circulation coin</a> marks the 125th anniversary of the discovery of gold in the Klondike.</p><p>It features the people credited with the discovery of gold on Rabbit Creek that started the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896: Keish (Skookum Jim Mason), K̲áa Goox̱ (Dawson Charlie), Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmack) and her husband George Carmack.</p><p>There's a red icon representing the Moosehide Gathering place, where the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation relocated after being displaced by gold rushers.</p><p>Two million coloured versions and one million uncoloured versions of the coin were minted.</p><h3>World War II victory toonie (2020)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSzqDWAS6p/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/royal-canadian-mint-2-circulation-coin-celebrates-75th-anniversary-of-the-allied-victory-that-ended-the-second-world-war-825088751.html" target="_blank">$2 circulation coin celebrates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II</a> and the Canadians who served on the battlefield and at home.</p><p>The "V" for Victory on the inner core is purple and overlaid with a flaming red and orange torch. </p><p>Also, the toonie features a message engraved on the silver outer ring in Morse code: "We win when we work willingly."</p><p>It had a limited mintage of three million coins, two million of which feature colour.</p><h3>Bluenose dime (2021)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CWYZbelvUuS/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BUrJfnPlTz3/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top">See on Instagram</a>
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This $2 <a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/hold-the-moment-canada-150-coins-now-in-circulation-625690544.html" target="_blank">coin for Canada 150</a>, which was released in 2017, is called Dance of the Spirits.</p><p>It features a dark blue sky with green northern lights above a tree-lined lake where people are canoeing.</p><p>The two-dollar coin is the world's first coloured bimetallic coin and the first circulation coin to feature glow-in-the-dark technology.</p><h3>Summit Series toonie (2022)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDZAT2rUpe/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.narcity.com/canada-new-coin-colourful-toonie-celebrates-hockey-victory" target="_blank">$2 coin of the 1972 Summit Series</a> celebrates the 50th anniversary of a historic hockey win for Team Canada over Team USSR.</p><p>The toonie's inner core features two Team Canada hockey players skating with the team's maple leaf jersey emblem behind them.</p><p>Also, the coaches' initials and the jersey numbers of each player from the team are on the outer ring.</p><p>Three million coins were minted, including two million that feature a fully coloured inner core.</p><h3>Elsie MacGill loonie (2022)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzYs5HoSjSx/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzYs5HoSjSx/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top">See on Instagram</a>
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.narcity.com/canada-new-coin-colour-loonie-honours-queen-of-the-hurricanes" target="_blank">$1 coin honours Elsie MacGill</a>, an engineer and advocate for women's rights known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes."</p><p>She played a key role in the production of Hawker Hurricanes fighter planes used by the Allied forces during World War II.</p><p>The loonie is mostly gold-coloured with a hint of green and brown hues to represent military camo.</p><p>Two million coloured coins and one million classic-hued loonies were minted.</p><h3>United Nations loonie (2020)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpY51QJyXy/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This <a href="https://www.narcity.com/canadas-new-loonie-is-here-this-is-the-first-time-the-coin-is-colourful" target="_blank">$1 coin commemorates the 75th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations</a> and is Canada's first-ever colourful loonie.</p><p>It features the UN's olive branch wreath in blue and a red maple leaf surrounding a map of the world.</p><p>Two million blue and red coloured coins and one million uncoloured versions were minted in 2020.</p><h3>Royal Canadian Air Force toonie (2024)</h3><br/><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/DAdcWmEp8NL/" data-instgrm-version="4" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);">
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</blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><p>This $2 coin marks the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).</p><p>With the <a href="https://www.mint.ca/en/discover/canadian-commemorative-circulation-program/2024/100th-anniversary-of-the-royal-canadian-air-force" target="_blank">RCAF toonie</a>, there's a dark blue inner core that features the RCAF roundel (in blue, red and white) above a Model H of the CC-130 Hercules. The anniversary years — 1924 and 2024 — appear beneath the military aircraft.</p><p>Also, eight current and historical RCAF aircraft appear on the silver outer ring of the coin.</p></br><p class=""><em>This article was originally <a href="https://www.narcity.com/rare-canadian-coins-toonies-loonies-dimes" target="_blank">published on Narcity</a>.</em></p>
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