Margaret Thatcher’s four hours of sleep a night would amount to a lie-in for Gary Channon. “I go to bed at 4am,” he says. “And I get up at 7am. So I have more ‘day’ than most people.” Based on a ...

Outdated methods, a lack of meaningful regulation, and a system that too often does not reflect what people actually want at the end of their lives have created a troubling reality.

Funeral business Dignity has swung back to a profit after Covid lockdown restrictions meant more attended funerals could take place. A new pricing strategy meant revenues fell in 2021 from £314.1 ...

Dignity, a funeral services provider at the centre of a proposed takeover by a consortium led by the founder of Direct Line, has appointed a new interim chief financial officer and executive director.

When my elderly Aunt Fay, my mother's sister, was in her final illness, she had one abiding concern. The savings she had put aside after many years of working modestly as a sales assistant in the ...

An experienced funeral director who was sacked for removing a necklace off a dead woman's body so it would not be cremated with her has won more than £43,000 in compensation. Colin Lockitt, based at ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...