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As a funeral director, there's a lot I could say on the topic, but I'll keep it simple. I think David Tennant is right. As humans, we do often have a laugh about difficult things, but when someone is price shopping for a loved one isn't the time. That said, many people do pre plan and pre fund funerals, and I encourage everyone to. It removes the decision making and financial burdens on your loved ones.
Having just lost my Father, and having seen my Mum spend over £4K on a cremation and service, I’ve been looking at Funeral plans.
I refuse to accept the fact that I'm one day going to die. I plan to live forever, fueled by sheer stubbornness and a fear of death powerful enough to allow me to outlive the very universe itself
those ads are not supposed to be inside the funeral home. i want a funeral home that does this kind of ads and promotes different funerals (with clowns and disco party, for example) if i ever need to bury someone i love
Funerals are overly expensive
@@CJT80 Yh profiting off someone’s death has ALWAYS been immoral and completely fucked
"are you threatening me" > that tickled me!
Also Alex "I've not given this a lot of thought..." then immediately a super detailed plan.
Actually, there are many cases where you aren't scrabbling around the day after a death, looking for a "good funeral". My husband had a few years of terminal diagnosis before he passed away, and it was helpful to be able to have a service in place before the event. The cost (around $3000 aussie dollars) covered not only the cremation itself, but lodging the details for the death certificate, arranging for his body to be moved from the hospital to the funeral home, and all other paperwork. This took all the complexity out of a difficult time for me, and I felt it was money well spent.
Is it wrong that I was waiting for them to say it was going to cost an arm and a leg?? 😉
Of course not. 😊
@@kerrynicholls6683 😃
I have a funeral plan so mine is paid for. The kids have $10k to spend on it and I have stipulated in the will that $4k is for the casket and the funeral itself (it will be simple). $6k is on the bar. I want the people that come there to have a good time, drink hard and remember me.
The price quoted is for a direct cremation with no attendance. A large amount of this cost is associated with disbursements for crematorium expenses. Crematoria are very strictly regulated and have tight controls over practices and omissions.
For a traditional funeral in the UK, the cost would be nearer £3k in most areas. The funeral trade is not regulated. Anyone can set up a business with little or no experience or appropriate facilities. The majority of companies are very dedicated and offer a fantastic service to families going through a very difficult time. There are horror stories of some rogue companies taking advantage of vulnerable people and providing a poor service. Families should have the funeral they want for their loved one; not what the funeral director wants to sell to them. Until the sector is properly regulated, there will sadly be those who seek to exploit and maximise profits.
not everyone feels the need to be present at a cremation, there isnt really anything to see.
@@rebeccagibbs4128 I have never had a burning ambition to be present
Regulation doesnt stop exhorbant prices over regulation actualy leads to heavy price increses up till it gets too much to even run un the first place then the market just colapses
Funerals are extremely expensive, I think planning ahead is a good idea and will save your family added worry when you pass.
I don't think Wayne Lineker is gonna be alive by the time mate :P
I think David's right, people have always found it easier to laugh than cry and things like the danse macabre or the day of the dead exist, which celebrate death, so whether in certain cultures or time periods we will always have ways of removing the pain at least for a short time but... if you're not doing it for yourself then you don't really want to be hearing about the funny side. This is a time when you are vulnerable and prone to rash decisions which could be bad not only for you but the family you still have. It feels like there should almost be an education, like how sex education was brought into schools the only real lessons you have of death at a younger age are pets or elder family members. Understandably some are entirely broken by it and it's as much our responsibility to teach how to deal with introducing life as it is to losing it.
Sounded to me like he'd given it a lot of though!
A grand, fuck that, put me for the binmen on Tuesday... 🤣
If you compare it pound for pound with pets --- that's super cheap.
@@SenselessUsername and if you compare gold with bull semen it is cheap. I still wouldn't want to eat it 🤷
That's pure gold.
I work for a 2nd hand store chain, and we once had to pick up an (unused) coffin. Put it in our store and the news got out. It got sold that very same day it landed in the store. Local news was very interested and did an article, both who donated it and who bought it were interviewed.
The buyer, a pensioner, wanted to actually use it when eventually he'd die, because it would save a lot of money on a new coffin. He bought it for about €200, when otherwise it would cost 10 times that.
Personally, I'm all for cutting every unneeded expense because, when I'm dead, I don't need any more luxuries. Cheapest and cleanest way, wether that's burrying in cheap linnen, cremation, it doesn't matter. Just empty me up as much as possible for saving lives and do whatever with the rest. I checked, and while donating your body to science in certain countries does eliminate funeral costs, in my country you're not certain it'll be accepted (they might not need your body right that moment), and if they don't accept it your family is still stuck paying for it.
Considering the costs involved can take several month's wages for those less fortunate...
I'm planning on getting a Buy Now, Burn Later plan.
I say go for it! The death industry is an extremely predatory business that preys on the emotions of grieving families. The more info you can get out early about how you can greatly reduce the costs and still give friends and families the opportunity to properly grieve, the better!
Nothing wrong with Planning Ahead, you get the send-off you would prefer!
pretty sure the tube once had posters opposite the platform across the tracks advertising a funeral director, and all the ad said was "Come Closer", this shit is nothing compared to that marketing genius
That one isn't so bad, there was one in New York I think that was advertising funeral services that was on the opposite wall from where yo load that said "Just step forward." or something to that effect. That one was going too far.
paid for my funeral..so kids dont have to worry about it..
Pay now, bury later
David’s probably speaking from experience. His Dad died just a few years ago, and they’d known it was coming for a bit.
My grandfather requested to not have a funeral. He didn't feel the need for our inheritance to be spent feeding a bunch randoms.
When I die I want to be buried in a grave mound like a viking, or Sutton Hoo, with my worldly possessions arranged all around me
But I *also* want to be buried with items from history, and for my descendants to continue to fill the tomb with modern items
Basically, I want to dick over future archaeologists
“We think the body is late-21st century. However given the presence of a Stone Age comb, Roman coins, Anglo-Saxon jewellery, Medieval clothing, Stuart perfumes, Georgian wigs, Victorian post cards, World War Two records, and a whole load of modern tech, we actually can’t be sure”
That's hilarious i love that idea (and i think a lot of archéologists would find it pretty funny too)
Pretty sure my uncle still has grandpa's prosthesis in a closet somewhere...
Makes a handy doorstop...
I wanted to turn it into a lamp...
Like the one in A Christmas Story? 😁
Is David Tennant shooting a Charlie Sheen biopic at the moment? (I'd watch that.)
I’ve told my family that I want them to spend as little as it’s physically possible, getting rid of my carcass when I’m dead. Give it to an artist to pickle for some sort of art installation, or give it to a medical school. I don’t care, just don’t waste your money.
the us/uk/nz/aus is so backwards in our approach to death. honestly, the best thing you can do is sort your funeral details and prepay for a package so that your vulnerable friends and ffamily dont get suckered into buying a bunch of shit they dont need to. keeping a shroud (pun intended) over death, dying and the funeral industry in general means people dont discuss these things and keeps greedy and exploitative people in the industry from convincing your friends and loved ones you need all their services and 'add ons' (embalming, caskets, flowers, lead linings etc)
everyone is born and everyone dies. dont let capitalism destroy your relationship and experiences around the latter. death is natural, death is sad, but death is our individual journey and we all have choices we can make around it long before we pass.
We need to remove the stigma from death, we should be aware that this is a cost that will happen in our lives and that we don't have to be taken advantage of, we have options.
Everyone needs to start watching Ask A Mortician videos
is that the tenth doctor
nah, just some scottish bloke who looks a bit like him
@@RJ-wx3fh Yeah! It's Davina from Rab C. Nesbitt!
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British ppl find it offensive or was someone online from a certain country that started the problem? i can't imagine a lot of British ppl not laughing at those jokes lol... in my country we have some funeral houses that do uncommon burials and i think it's awesome
I decided if I must have a funeral some day, some ground rules. 1. Only inappropriate songs. Ding Ding The Witch is Dead is compulsory 2. Casket painted purple. 3. No flowers, hated gardening. Party streamers. 4. No prayers, if I see anyone being religious, Ill knock the casket over. 5. Wake? Start before the service.
I think there's a big difference between having a very dark morbid sense of humour and laughing about death and the macabre, but dressing it up in such a capitalist visage is just dystopian as hell. "EVEN IN DEATH YOU MUST PAY FOR THINGS" sort of vibe.
Why is the quality on this video crap? Isn't this the official channel?
Their aim is to make money, they couldn't care less about the taboo around death
Zzzzzz
When Dad died we used the funeral Directors that we have used for decades and they were brilliant and not overly expensive. They organised everything, from our choice of venue to our choice of officiant. The vicar who had performed the service for my late uncle was brilliant so we asked if she could do for dad too. She came to the house and we drank tea and ate biscuits and talked about dad. We laughed, we cried, she took notes and then on the day made dad come alive again for just that moment in her service. There are so many people involved in making a funeral go smoothly and if done right the bereaved have very little to actually do at a difficult time. That's where the money goes, the actual cost of the disposal is only a small part of it.
As for adverts, why not? We notice the funny ones and the odd ones. We don't notice the boring ones. Death is awful but it's also funny. I loved both my parents with my entire being and was devastated when they died, but my sister and I still laughed our socks off in the middle of our grief remembering something silly. We went through photo albums and had a wonderful evening laughing and crying. Our loved ones were real people, with foibles and faults and strengths. Not laughing at times past is something I couldn't imagine doing, especially if it's something you know they would find highly amusing themselves.
I don't think you could have phrased that any better - totally agree
Sorry to hear about the passing of your parents
My entire family burst out laughing when my great uncle's coffin came into the chapel - a 9ft 'wreath' made entirely from his favourite sweets (liquorice allsorts) was too much for us to handle, especially when his son started eating one while serving as a pall-bearer... Must have cost someone a bloody fortune too, but it's what Ray would have wanted. Daft old sod that everyone loved to pieces.
I think we need to demystify death. funerals hospice and the process of dying. My father past in few years ago very suddenly. The cost shocked us. On top of the grief we had financial concerns. He had funeral cover for years but not enough. He was sold a dud in that way thinking he protected us from funeral costs. Open conversation about death and dying yes including humour is needed. This topic should be normalised. So should humour around death for some it's a way to grieve and cope.
I'm signed up as a medical school body donor, it's not guaranteed they'll take you when the time comes but if they do then it's free.
I'd sign up for that, but knowing my luck they'd just preserve my brain in a jar to use as a doorstop in the canteen.
@@eddyblackmore2834
Lol 😂
Considering funeral costs here in the US where I live I would love to see an advertisement like that . Can I just be buried in Britain 🤣
It's even worse considering most funeral homes are owned by very few major corporations who enjoy charging ridiculous amounts of money for useless after-death products.
Sure, come over here….AND DIE !
I’m just joking Lol. 😂
The UK tourist board will love you. 🤣🤣
Well you’re not getting buried for that money😂
The thing Adam fails to grasp is that funerals aren't expensive because the service is difficult, requires specialist labour or uses a lot of expensive equipment. They are expensive because THEY ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF YOUR FAMILY DURING THEIR GRIEF! It's not a helpful or valid service to point that out and try and convince you to spend that obscene amount of money while you're still alive. What is reasonable is for us to refuse to use them until they charge a sensible price for the service.
Hire a woodchipper and spray me over a field for all I care, but spending over a grand to set fire to me when you could just light a match in the garden is ridiculous!
They require the hire of numerous people to carry the coffin, the hire of a large costly car, the cost for two doctors to verify that the body is dead (yeah, really), hire of the funeral hall, the cost of gas, and so on. If someone could greatly undercut The Coop et al, they would.
It's not legal in most countries to cremate a body on a bonfire in your backyard.
@@StillAliveAndKicking_ Given that, in a very small proportion of cases around the world, a body that has been declared dead wakes up in the coffin, I'd hope they'd have doctors make a final check before setting the coffin on fire.
For clarity, I'm not talking about zombies or some mystic revival. It is a known phenomenon that a body showing many of the signs of being dead may just be in a deeply comatose state. It is why in hospitals the staff check on a body a period of time after the formal declaration of death to recheck for any vital signs.
@@zarabada6125 I know, it can happen.
Having watched a lot of true crime, that whole garden burning thing could take days and the neighbours get quite suspicious about it. Which I suppose is ok if you don't mind having extra guests in the form of police at your wake/bbq party? Could blow your drinks budget a bit.
Side note: I actually had a bit of a dark giggle at the wood chipper because apparently that happened to an arbourist recently and I thought "I wonder what the review was like for that wood chipper?" And now I feel like a bad person. 😳
The funniest people i meet are funeral directors when they're off duty
My dad was a funeral director for 46 years. People would tell me they thought funeral directors were all somber, and then they met my dad 😆. I've walked into the funeral home to get a lift home and they've all been having a laugh etc. But as soon as the door bell went it stopped.
Yes, we need to break down the taboo on talking about death. I regularly attend a 'Death Cafe' which is simply chat and a cut of tea, these happen all over the world. It's a good thing and I am in favour of the price comparisons too!! Funerals can be appallingly expensive. Please note that green burials are much cheaper.
I agree and to me, this was no worse than any other service or product that is advertised on trains or wherever. If this ad is innappropriate then so are all the others.
Well, the issue is that such conversations would usually be had within your local neighbourhood, and recreational clubs/centres (eg golf). But local society has broken down in favor of a global society, and nobody wants to talk to their neighbors.
@@aetherblackbolt1301 I don't find that true. Find your local Death Cafe and give it a try. I take it you have not yet tried it. that is, if you are interested.
Im happy with the taboo why should we break it
@@joshme3659 Saying this politely but it's not all about you. With the taboo broken, if you don't want to talk about then you simply don't talk about it. However, it makes it easier and more comfortable for others to talk about it. Breaking the taboo changes nothing for you but it does for others. 🙂
I don’t think Sara realises how much a funeral costs - £1100 is a BARGAIN
Yeah, but given that she only makes a fraction of what the guys here do, it probably feels like more.
Sandi Toksvig gets 40% of what Stephen Fry received for presenting QI, which is an absolute disgrace - she does the exact same job and (in my opinion at least) does it so much better.
@@eddyblackmore2834 Sure, but statistically, she will live longer than the guys, so she'll have more time to save up.
@@eddyblackmore2834 Probably because he is Stephen Fry. He simply has more competition for his time so will need a greater pay packet to be convinced
@eddyblackmore2834 you're forgetting that Stephen fry is a much more popular figure in the industry
That's like saying why does Tom cruise make so much more than Daniel craig "they do the same job!"
@@eddyblackmore2834 I don’t think you understand how chat shows like this work 😂
Alex has a great plan.
Is there no funeral planning in the UK?
Only if you do it yourself. Plenty of places offer it but it can get very expensive, as they point out.
From Series 14: Episode 7 (TX: Fri 3rd Aug 2018)
IKEA should start selling coffins! 😁
There was a small company down the road from me on The Gold Coast in Australia where they painted the coffins to your design. The coffins were made of MDF -type material, so not expensive. You could have a beach scene, photos of the family, whatever you liked. None of the heavy mahogany stuff with brass handles ...
Have you looked at their corner book shelves?
You can actually build your own coffin in the UK, it just needs to meet certain standards, so technically speaking, IKEA could sell coffins
@@abithefallenhuman921 I worked there for 12 years. They would never do that. But treating their empoyees as shit is fine! I've decided that a cardboard box is ok for me.😉
maybe the government should pay for all basic no thrills cremations..afterall they wont have to pay that persons pension!
Exactly or you know they could always tax the uber wealthy like 1% more and cover everything
I love it, they're putting the FUN into funerals
Ah a shoutout to Allison Bechdel
Funeral is an a anagram of "Real Fun".
Sara's comment that £1195 is really expensive reveals that she has never organised a funeral. £1195 is cheap as chips!
Use your advance directive to plan your treatment and put plans in place for your funeral rather than worrying others in organising it. Do a Swedish death clean of your home at the age of 45 so that you're not leaving a messy pile of sorting out for someone else. I'm doing mine clean on June. It s being sensible not morbid.
When I die i'll make sure I end up in a fire somehow so it's free.
when I die just throw me in the trash
Can I offer you a nice egg at this trying time?
I'm hoping to be composted 🤞
Same! I live in Seattle near the (I think) only human composting facility. Are you, by chance, a deathling/Caitlin Doughty fan?
@@EricaGamet
I think it's legal is 6 US states now. I recall reading a few days ago that it had just become legal in New York too.
@@EricaGamet Yes I am. I have been wanting natural burial or something where I actually return my building blocks to the soil since my father died in 2008. I used to joke that I wanted to be composted and I'm hoping it will be a possibility by the time I die. I'm in NZ.
@@OriginalPiMan that is really exciting. I'm in New Zealand.
I don't plan on having a funeral, burial or cremation.
Just give my body to medical science or trainee doctors.
You don't need to spend a fortune, invite a few friends and family round and have a quiet gathering or party.
I do not see the point in spending thousands on a funeral, casket, urn or formal service.
Tennant seems clueless about the entire topic, lol!
Funeral directors. The lowest of the low.
The worst thing they've done is ban ads of 'gym' bodies - for being unrealistic - but allowed ads of people who are unhealthy, over-weight. We should be pushing people towards the former and discouraging the latter.
I joke about my own death, like I actually have given instructions for me to be late to my own funeral (cause of the saying that I've heard many times through my life) and I want my coffin taken to the funeral on a bus (cause that's the transport that's use) but yeah maybe the adverts should be a bit more respectful (also that is a lot of money to have your body barbecued), you don't know who will he reading it. It's one of those things where you can make the joke but it's different if someone else does it. I'm really chill about joking about death, it's a good coping mechanism but the advert isn't the best.
Also yes compare the casket is such an obvious name, if you're going to do it, do it properly.
Is it ok to show Tennant on the thumbnail when he hardly talks in the clip!?! No!!