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Welcome to Stuart Mitchell's Cost to Dime, and yes, the title says it all.

This is a show about how when someone dies, you get hit with a load of surprise, hidden, extra costs.

It's a bit like flying Ryanair to heaven. Only on this

journey, you're not checking in, you're checking out. I'll chip in from time to time during

the show with some additional information, because that's what every comedy show needs. Live

fact-checking. This series was born as I think about and talk about deaf a lot, having arranged six

friend-rows for my family members.

Not so much, I've been there, got the t-shirt, more I've been there, I've donated all the

T-shirts to the British Heart Foundation.

Across this series, I'm hoping to give you a unique insight

into the costs involved when we take that final breath.

And I feel I'm best placed to offer this advice

as I previously worked for an end-of-life charity

for nearly two decades.

Ironically, before then, I was a banker

where most people wished I was dead.

I'm going to be drawn on my own experience in regards to the direct costs

my family picked up after my dad passed away.

Sorry, I meant to change that.

I'm going to be drawn in my experience in regards to the direct cost I picked up.

You see, it wasn't just his body. regards to the direct cost, I picked up.

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