Why tech businesses are tackling society’s most taboo subject

It’s an overwhelmingly traditional sector, but death businesses need to be brought into the 21st century, say these entrepreneursDeath will happen to us all, but it’s not something we like to talk about or prepare for. The UK population is now older than it has ever been – by 2039, more than one in 12 of the population is projected to be aged 80 or over – and the death rate has risen. There were 602,786 deaths in the UK during 2015, according to the cumulative England and