

Ken remembers, "I came round to Den’s house one day with a tape measure. The two of them ordered the wood from a local timber yard. He wants his send off to be cheap and cheerful so he asked his friend Ken to make him a DIY coffin.

Why not?"ĭen Giddens, doesn’t visualise his final send off as a gothic funeral. I want a Victorian glass hearse, horse drawn carriage with my coffin inside, make-up, hair, hat, nails - everything.

A few years ago, I started thinking about my own, organising it, and deciding what I would wear, the music I would find appropriate. Cathy confesses "I enjoy funerals, I enjoy Irish funerals and wakes, they’re very passionate cheery affairs. Not everyone finds the contemplation of their own funeral an unhappy thought. They talked to Home Truths about how they plan to make their own funerals a day to remember. This page has been archived and is no longer updated.ĭen, Cathy and Eileen are cheerful about death.
