Consumer NZ is slamming funeral insurance as predatory and overpriced after an 85-year-old woman paid nearly $19,000 dollars for a policy worth $10,000. Customers are losing money on the products and a change to the law is overdue, it says. Read more
Residents are threatening to move out if a multi-million dollar funeral home touted as a “spiritual facility” is built in Christchurch’s southwest. Long-standing Christchurch company Lamb and Hayward wants to build a new 1222-square metre “spiritual facility”, or funeral home, on 2 hectares of residential land on the corner of Halswell Junction and Wigram roads. Read more
Welcome to the new competitive funeral market. Fresh Funerals home page offers “self-select funerals delivered wherever you need them.” “We walk you through the whole funeral process, so you can decide what you’ll do to save costs and what you’d like your funeral director to do for you,” says Jude Mannion. There’s also a checklist, Read more
The Priests’ Council in Wellington has asked funeral directors to ensure that their clients are not given the impression that payments relating to a church-based funeral are non-negotiable, or that Catholic clergy expect to be reimbursed for their service. “Please understand that we do not charge for our services. It would therefore be appreciated that Read more