Death guru spills wildest ashes requests from fireworks to space in funeral revolution

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families celebrate their loved ones in a serious break from tradition. Matt told the Daily Star how there is no reason why all funerals should be the same stern and sorry affairs which he proved to 1,000 families during the pandemic.Remove the formalities of a funeral and suddenly can ashes can be launched in fireworks or even to space for £1,000, Farewill's Head of Funerals Matt says."We've had people saying 'bury me in a coffin shaped like a gin bottle', we've flown ashes all over the world, we work with a company who send ashes up to space and scatter them in space." Matt from Bristol continued: "We deal with the nuts and bolts of it then go back to the family and we have celebrants and partners who we introduce people to, who can do awesome things with the ashes."Whether that's planting a tree with them or sending them up as fireworks or taking them to space."I think it's around £1,000 and it gets sent up in a helium balloon and you get live stream footage of the ashes being released."Coronavirus restrictions had a massive impact on funerals in the UK as large gatherings were banned and ceremonies were either live streamed or skipped.

Matt explained the tough measures meant more people were looking to him to sort something out of the box. He said: "Over the last 12 months one in five people have had a cremation without a crematorium, (direct cremation). "That's not just because they don't want the service, it's because they don't want the weird Victorian bit. "They want to get the ashes back and scatter them on a beach or take the person out to sea, they want to have a fireworks display with their friends and family or maybe they don't want to do anything at all."With Farewill, which he helped build from scratch in.