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Bauhaus urns and Scrabble-themed coffins: UK embraces new funeral trends
Shift reflects change in how people are talking and thinking about death amid climate crisis and increasing secularism
Choices range from coffins made of weatherbeaten willow, banana leaf and wool to bespoke Scrabble- or piano-themed ones, or a Bauhaus-inflected urn in lapis lazuli-blue. Exit Here, which has opened a second branch in north London, is run by the restaurateur Oliver Peyton and is often mistaken for an art gallery by passersby, while Poetic Endings is “very botanical and very peaceful”, says its founder, Louise Winter. And in the past few years a range of podcasts, from Griefcast to the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s All There Is, have provided space for people to listen and think more about death and grief.
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