Turning a pub into a Fueneral directors

[smilingcrow]

Do you think turning a closed down pub into a funeral directors would have a negative effect on a community and make it unpopular?

[DTCwordfan]

I think that this would be a very grave undertaking.

Says he running for cover, coffin'

[ummmm]

The pub my family drank in back in Ireland was a pub and a funeral directors.

[DTCwordfan]

Many are there over there - there is one in Mitchell, main bar and on either side of this a window, one carrying a coffin and the other the stone masonry.

This must be an example of vertical business integration, we get you plastered, you die of drink. We can arrange your coffin and burial and even the final top-off with your gravestone....

[ummmm]

There's loads of pubs attached to other businesses in Ireland.

[lady-janine]

gives a new meaning to last orders.

our local in wales also sold food and acted as a barbers on the weekend.

[smilingcrow]

Although these jokes are making me laugh a lot I hope to get a few serious replies too.

[boxtops]

why should it? we'll all need a funeral director at some point... If the pub is closed, it's bringing business (and perhaps jobs) into a community.

[ummmm]

When I've been to a funeral directors it never occurred to me to even think what the building was used for previously.

[emmie]

i wouldn't do it, not sure if it would have a negative effect, perhaps it would depend if the residents were all getting on in years.

[Wharton]

Don't you mean the other way round?

[starone]

There are lots of ex-churches around here now being used for other businesses so why not the other way around. I doubt whether local people even know that they were churches, except for oldies like me.

[boxtops]

The spire's a dead giveaway, starby :-)

[smilingcrow]

So far some encouraging replies. I have my eye on a pub which would make a really good funeral parlour. The advantage is they always come with a cellar which is ideal for storing the deceased. I am still open to more suggestions though.

[ummmm]

Are you actually a funeral director now?

[starone]

Some of them haven't got spires boxy, especially the ones which were chapels rather than churches. I have seen a church made into a home for someone. They left the various church things as novelties. Personally I thought it was a monstrosity and would never have thought of living there. Actually, I had forgotten about the spires - can't say I have noticed them so perhaps they removed them.

[B00]

Hang on a cotton pickin' minute....

this funeral director business you're hoping to go into... it's not for the brother of yours who's not even an undertaker yet and who you were asking what qualifications they needed to become one for is it?

[DTCwordfan]

me thinks smilingcrow may well be boxed in now.....

ashes to ashes and all that.

[EcclesCake]

You beat me to it Boo!

You do seem to be getting ahead of yourself smilingcrow.

[B00]

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[rowanwitch]

Its a long road to become one.. I considered it many years ago... apart from the qualifications you need to work for an established firm for a while but a pub with a cellar would be good but the cost of installing a suitable lift might be prohibitive