Funerals are expensive. And family firms are under threat from new tech

Dying is a profitable business - yet funerals today are pretty much handled the same as they've been for decades

See that place?" my father always used to say when we drove by the local cemetery. People are just dying to get in there. Ha ha!"

It was funny - at least for the first 50 times I heard it. Hey, dads are allowed to tell dad jokes. But when someone does die it's no joke to their families. Besides the grief, there's the cost. And people have been grumbling about the costs of funerals since there have been ... well ... funerals.