Nottingham Post published Joanne Hutsby: Funerals are now about celebrating lives

As a survey this week revealed our taste for unusual funerals Joanne Hutsby, funeral director at the Eastwood Funeral Partnership, looks at how things have changed.It is not often that funerals hit the headlines, but this week the news confirmed what has been common knowledge in our industry for some time – that people's tastes in arrangements for their own or their loved ones' send-offs are changing rapidly.According to two surveys carried out by the Co-operative Funeralcare, nearly half.