{"id":55755,"date":"2024-01-15T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=55755"},"modified":"2024-01-15T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:19:50","slug":"uk-faces-a-cost-of-dying-crisis-as-funeral-costs-reach-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/uk-faces-a-cost-of-dying-crisis-as-funeral-costs-reach-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"UK faces a cost of dying crisis as funeral costs reach record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40518\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/funeral-parlour-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/funeral-parlour-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/funeral-parlour.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">G<\/span>rowing numbers of grieving families are having to sell belongings, raid their savings or borrow from friends to cover the cost of a loved one\u2019s funeral,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/uk-faces-a-cost-of-dying-crisis-as-funeral-costs-reach-record-high\/ar-AA1mY1j4?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=20b950fd45524520bda7c03362556461&amp;ei=118\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Growing numbers of grieving families are having to sell belongings, raid their savings or borrow from friends to cover the cost of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/funeral-parlour.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55756,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55755\/revisions\/55756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}