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People are extremely vulnerable when they are arranging funerals for relatives or partners. Independent regulation is vital. Yet the funeral industry is NOT regulated.  As a result:

Prices have sky-rocketed by 22% in 2009 alone and by 42% in the last 5 years!              

You can help stop this robbery of the vulnerable by signing our online Petition to Parliament. Click on the link below:
                                      
                              
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/FairerFunerals/

Click Here! Stop This Unfairness Now!

Professor Woodroffe of Brunel University has agreed that self-regulation is not a good idea : ".....How on earth can anyone expect regulation processes set up by trade bodies to be impartial and fair? People are extremely vulnerable when they are arranging funerals for relatives or partners. Independent regulation is vital."


More Disturbing Facts About the Funeral Industry


If you ever consider suing a funeral directors because of the poor level of product or service they provided... BEWARE! You are going to spend a long time pursuing a case which you will probably lose. And in the process you are going to lose significant amounts of money ...

Why?

This is because there are NO legally binding standards against which to hold funeral directors. 
Courts in the UK have precious little to rely upon to assess the quality of services or products funeral firms provide you.

In sharp contrast, your average hotelier, travel-agent, doctor, supermarket or local butcher does not share this privilege with funeral firms.
 

....Yet More Disturbing Facts 
  1. Anyone can become a funeral director! No qualifications or training needed here
  2. Funeral firms are free to charge what they like for products and services
  3. Studies show the costs of dying are rising faster than inflation- Its recession proof!
  4. There are little or no controls on the level and quality of service they provide- This attracts 'cowboys' intent on ripping off people at their most vulnerable
  5.  Funeral firms have unbridled freedom in terms of how they run their industry- they are 'self-regulating'
  6. Consumers have no effective recourse to the law in support of complaints
    • You have NO established rights in law in terms of quality of service or product.
    • You have NO established rights how the remains of your loved ones are treated.
In the UK there are many funeral firms that attempt to provide honest and valuable services to consumers but there are also many that do not.

The offending funeral firms know they are pretty much untouchable.

This attracts a lot of unscrupulous individuals who are only after a guaranteed quick buck in a recession proof industry.


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