I'm at the back of a little industrial estate and that that seems to be a dead body

being real past me right now so I think I'm at the right place. I'm Kim Sakhese and you're listening

to the BBC World Service. We're in the northeast of England and I'm about to meet a man who wants to change the way we think

about funerals. You've got excuse those coffins in the window. I put them

their punitive simply because of these traffic lights and everybody stops and go exit them.

I'm not surprised that people stop and stay.

Each coffin on display is individually decorated with designs ranging from the black and white of Newcastle United football kit to caskets printed with brightly coloured Christmas trees and there's more inside.

There's coffins, there's lots of coffins in here.

Okay.

Don't get wrong, they're all full.

The coffins are full?

Yes.

Right, okay.

You can't see anything. You might be surprised of how many there are.

Oh my goodness, there must be about 10 coffins in here. I'm not very comfortable around death, but in the past year I've lost people who are closed to me. I didn't find their funerals easy and this has made me think more deeply about how

we mark the end of someone's life. In this programme I'm going to meet a group of people who are finding new, creative and

sometimes a narcic ways to say goodbye to their loved ones.

They call themselves funeral punks and they're all about questioning the traditional British funeral.

This country were rubbish at funerals.

Here we spend far too much money, it's not personalized.

Carl Marlow is the self-styled bad boy of the UK's funeral industry.

He encourages his clients to question the traditional funeral package and the idea

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