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Charles
How about Nouveau or Renaissance Celebrants or Funeral Managers?
I think even the use of the word Undertaker is morbid and should be avoided.
Hopefully soon all funerals will be seen as a celebration of life.
Andy Clarke at Wealden Coffins
I agree there has to be an alternative to ‘alternative’, though it seems to me you can’t have just one alternative because the thing it’s an alternative to is its own alternative. ‘Alternative’ was some time ago purloined to mean ‘hippy’ – a long way from the desired effect – but it is here supposed to refer to something other than the norm, so perhaps ‘abnormal’ undertakers would be no worse – oh dear!
I’m not a vegetarian just because you eat meat; if I have a fag that doesn’t make you a non-smoker; if I conduct a funeral in English it doesn’t make it non-Portugese. Perhaps there is no ‘alternative’ undertaker in the sense meant; if you want an undertaker to do things the way you want her to, that’s what she must do, and if not, you take your custom elsewhere just as you do with any other purchase – why should we need an alternative?
Quite right. And to follow your logic, the only people to whom ‘alternative’ undertakers are alternative are those whom ‘proper’ undertakers reckon to be ‘not one of us’ or ‘simply won’t do’.
Sorry, that doesn’t quite make sense — but you get what I mean.