to think this is not right

[charleneanna]

ok my friend is a 20 year old single parent with a baby she is or was quiet happy in her flat until the other day, we were at hers and we heard some noise so we looked out of her window and the shop underneath her that had been empty for some time was open and a couple of freezers were being taken in so i said well maybe its gonna be a frozen food shop that would be brilliant but then yesterday the sign went up above the shop omg atwells after life its a bloody funeral directors now dont get me wrong they are needed but surely not a shop below a flat in a residential area my friend is now that terrified at going to bed above dead bodies that she has begged me to let her and baby spend the night at my house but my house is already overflowing sorry but this is notnright

No, but one of the staff did hide under a sheet and frighten them all stupid.
Classy

I'd rather look out on a row of laundered shrouds than my NDN's underwear anyday.

Hiding under a sheet and frightening them all stupid.

HOW THE HELL did that not get into the Daily Mail accompanied by a group of outraged looking mothers pointing sadly at a undertakers?

I worked in a funeral directors they were so cheap they refused to turn the fridge on and the smell was quite horrible. However saying that dead bodies just look like people sleeping.

I live in the house where my dad hanged himself actually Harriet, so y'know?

Sarah I'm nit going over to check, but that did make me laugh!!

Because they were all teenagers and not one of them would admit to being scared afterwards. :o

how would you feel if you found out that your house was built on top of a cemetery

Depends on whether they are talking to my daughter through the tv or not.

excuse me buggerllugs previous it was solicitors office and i go down there every morning and night and there have been nothing on lamposts and no noitications to residents through the post i know this is true because my sons g/f lives above the shops opposite and she knew nothing about it even the shop next door to them arent happy as it is a cafe whos business has already suffered in the past week

Business of a cafe has suffered? Wtf?

She should think herself lucky it isn't going to be a 24-hour kebab and fried chicken shop or mini-cab firm.

The cafe's business has suffered?

WHY? Are they sharing fridge space until the refurb is finished?

There are loads of undertakers in East London and most of them are within two shops of a takeaway/cafe.

Where on earth do you live where people are so utterly terrified at the thought of dead people.

Well, at least it isn't an abortion clinic....

TBH, any house that is more than 80 years old (say) is likely to have had someone die there. It's sort of absurd to think that a living human being who loved and was loved, and laughed in there and saw their friends and family between those walls, could somehow have left negativity behind

They were much-loved people who died. That's all. Wouldn't bother me at all.

Obviously 10 Rillington Place is a different matter...

because we thought it was gonna be one of those american ones with the silver upright freezers with 3 different compartments

(Should've said - a good friend of mine lives almost on top of a large and crowded cemetary so DH and I have had conversations about this stuff quite recently. Her bathroom window overlooks the cemetary - it's massive but has no blinds or curtains. As she cheerfully says- no point!)

Is that because the ghosts have curdled the milk? Or does that only happen when the milk is still in the cows?

On the plus side, at least she lives above the dead bodies, and not underneath in a basement flat. At least she'll only have the good souls passing through her flat, and not the damned ones.

Could be worse :)

kladdkaka you've made me snort coffee through my nose hahahahahaha

I used to live a few doors down from Crippen's place.

There is nothing to fear about the dead, they've gone.
And I saw my Dsis laid out 2 years ago,in a funeral parlour, it was a peaceful place.
I think love and sadness surround them, not fear.
And judging by your posts OP, you and your friend are far too shallow to appreciate that.

I remember when I went to Scotland yards 'black museum'.... I was leaning on the side of an average looking bathtub, listening to the curator when he turned to me and said ' that was the bath Neilson dismembered his victims In'!! I was and his cooker and pot he used for his 'cooking' was next to it! I kinda moved away from it...swiftly...

QuacksforDoughnuts I went with my mum to see a cousin who had died earlier that week, so we went through to the room my cousin was in, my mum had a cry and I got bored so I went back to the reception area (I wasn't really upset because I don't think I understood it all iykwim).

After what felt like ages, my mum still hadn't come back so I went to find her. I found the room and walked in, the doors were very heavy and by the time I realised I was in the wrong room the door had shut behind me.

There was an open casket with a body in it on the far side of the room and being a child, the door handle was too high and the door too heavy for me to pull it open easily. All this time I was convinced the body was going to stand up and get me. I eventually got out and ended up sobbing in the corridor until my mum came out (turns out she was in the room next door). She thought I was upset about my cousin and I didn't tell her otherwise for years because I thought I'd get into trouble.

Everyone had a great big laugh about it when I finally came clean. It was very traumatising at the time, but I'm over it now [twitches]

My post was following on from the 'crippen' one there..

i have been to a chapel of rest to kiss my grandad, my grandmother, my mother and my daughter goodbye but i would still be frightened to live above an undertakers if i amhonest and yes maybe i have watched one to many zombie films

I can't see a problem-probably better than a lot of options. There will be nothing to see, it isn't as if she has to walk past bodies.