chickenfeet

It seems that more and more people are opting out of the conventional funeral thing, i'e' the traditional mournful, black unsmilling stuff. Instead they are having upbeat memorials, "celebrations of life", wakes or whatever. The snag is, even if one organises the whole thing oneself one still has to deal with the conventional Funeral Director services for transport of the body (even if, like mine, the body is heading off to hospital or medical school), burial or cremation etc. For more elaborate funerals there are no other organising options. This seems to me to leave an unfilled niche (probably with an urn in it).

I'm wondering about the prospects for a new business venture, provisionally called Happy Endings™, which would act as a final logistics and party planning service. The premises could be used for wakes, the crematorium would be decorated in appropriately upbeat style, we would offer a range of not too expensive but fun coffins, a hearse painted like the magic bus etc. What do you think? Would you invest in such a venture?