Day of the dead: A cheerful afternoon at the Good Funeral Awards
In the macabrely titled "Highlights" sections of its latest death report, the Office for National Statistics states that there were 529,655 deaths registered in England and Wales in 2015. It's a number most of us try not think about, ill-equipped as we all are to mentally reconcile the hovering spectre of our own mortality, that is unless you're in the corpse disposal business.