News.Scotland.Org

July, 17

You all might have heard about the most expensive place to live, but have you ever heard about the most expensive place to die. If not then it’s the buzzing capital of Scotland, ‘Edinburgh’ the historical city was yesterday named as the most expensive place to die in Britain.

Study has showed that the cost of funeral has jumped twice the rates in comparison with the rates of other cities. Looking at the study done by DWP we can find that the cost of a standard funeral, which includes director fees, a coffin, transfer of the deceased and cost of burial has jumped two times in recent time.

Earlier the average cost of funeral in Edinburgh was around £1,600 which has now jumped to £3,200. This unusual rise has taken everyone for surprise. With the inflation over burdening people with more expenses, this increasing funeral cost has made the situation more adverse for them.

The aid which UK government is providing to people to help in their funeral cost has also been not revised since 2003. All this has somehow made people feel more worried to overcome this increasing cost trend which is haunting them after their death too.    

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