Pay-per-view funerals go live online in Britain on Tuesday, allowing mourners who cannot attend services in person to pay their last respects via the Internet.
Despite criticism of the scheme as macabre, the company who launched the service, Wesley Music, is planning to offer it to crematoria across the country who will charge a one-off payment of around $150 for access to a funeral webcast.
Mourners use the password to access a live online broadcast of the funeral service captured by a small camera mounted in the chapel.
I’m too cheap for PPV movies; but, I might pay to see a couple of my ex-wives buried.
Eideard, with comments like these, no wonder you are multi-divored… I’m sure vice versa for your ex-wives.
Sounds good to me. Not everyone can drop everything and fly half way around to world to attend a funeral.
When my brother got married (by Elvis) in Las Vegas, I was in Australia. I got to watch it live over the Internet. I am grateful that I at least got that.
#1 – actually, my first [insert number] wives were reasonably mellow. We just moved in different directions – in one case, to a different galaxy, 🙂
I just finally found the right woman and – maybe – could have skipped the first batch.
$150? Daemn talk about ripping off the elderly
Does anyone else notice the blatantly phallic flower arrangement in the top-left corner?
#5 – That “blatantly phallic flower arrangement” looks like a cross if you look carefully. Though, what the beholder sees is what the beholder chooses to see.
I prefer the drive throughs myself. Pull up. View the departed. Sign the book. Hit the fast food joint next door.
#5&6 – looks like that flower arrangement came out of an old star trek episode. it’s about to eat that lady and her fake iguana armband
Praised be reality TV.
This is a great idea. Imagine all the on-line grief and tears.
I have a better one though.
A web cam in the coffin. You could always visit your relatives. Also: Real decay and gore.
I am going to patent that one!
At my funeral, please don’t waste money on flowers. I am not a flower lover.
Don’t waste money on an expensive coffin. Let the tree live.
Don’t waste tears on me. I ain’t comin back.
Don’t waste a plot of earth. Bury me in a forest or plant a tree over my shallow grave.
And fuck all the expensive “embalming” bullshit. The trees don’t like it.
Web cams? I didn’t want an audience for my hernia operation either.