Claer Barrett’s piece (Opinion, December 2) on the rise of cheap “takeaway” funerals was dismaying. That “a good funeral is better than a bad wedding” remains axiomatic in Ireland — where death, once seen as a passport to heaven (or hell), is increasingly understood to be a secular extinction in need of cheering up. A neighbour of mine recently achieved this by paying for Dublin’s finest ice-cream van to intercept her mourners as they left the church.
Killian O’Donnell
Cashel, Co Galway, Ireland
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