The Daily Telegraph’s financial pages tell us something that we all know to be true: that the cost of funerals is going up. You can read the whole article here. But what is really intriguing is the way experts suggest you can save a great deal of money by doing things a little differently. One way, for example, is not to employ a funeral director, but to take on the role yourself. This would be quite easy to do, provided you had the right guidance – most of us have to organise funerals very rarely.