Question about funeral timings

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If someone died on Monday, is there any chance their funeral could be taking place this Friday? This seems extraordinarily quick? I’m not sure if I’m missing some information so would appreciate any insight from the MN hive mind……

In Northern Ireland, I was always made to believe that funerals were typically held on day 3 after the person’s death and that day 1 isn’t until the day after the death if the death occurred after 1pm.

so say someone died on a Monday at 2pm, their funeral would probably be Thursday, but sometimes it can be a day or so longer before the funeral.

I was always so confused as to why English funerals were held so much longer after the person’s death as I’m so used to it being done so quickly over here in NI

Sorry that was meant to be 12pm, not 1pm.

The dead folk I know are taking 2-3 weeks ATM in England

My mum died on a Thursday her funeral was the following Thursday, they had a cancellation, next slot after that was a further 7 days so would have been 14 days in total which is normal I think.

Also waiting for the backstory.

My mum passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was buried on Friday morning. Just over 24hours later.
It is really common in our culture to bury quick.
All you need is the death certificate.
We are in the uk.

My mum died last month, funeral was exactly 2 weeks after. That was with a funeral plan in place, cremation and only one lot of flowers so fairly simple

I verge lots of funerals and it seems they take 2 - 4 weeks after the death.

I think a lot depends on crematorium timings. If it's a burial, there shouldn't be as much pressure.

Presumably the death was expected, so no post mortem or inquest which could create a delay?
5 days does seem exceptionally quick - it's possible that there was a cancellation / moving of another service (many reasons that could happen) and they happened to phone the crematorium at the right moment to book in? If the deceased's family aren't interested in a big event / giving people notice to attend, they may have booked it for their own convenience?

DH died on a Sunday, I wasn't able to register the death until the Friday. Registering deaths seems to take a while at the moment as everything is done online and by phone. I can't remember clearly (despite it only being a few months ago) but I thought his death had to be registered before we could have the funeral.

5-10 days is the norm where I live...... anything more than 10 is unusual!

Thank you all for your responses. I’m sorry I haven’t shared any more details as it’s a very upsetting situation I can’t go in to at the moment.

I'm central belt Scotland. Pre-covid I'd have expected the funeral to be maybe Friday more likely Saturday or Monday.

At the moment they seem to be nearer 10 days so I'd be expecting it to be middle to end of next week.

Only on that there's usually no availability. My mother died on Monday we had the funeral on Friday. Partially because I live abroad so needed it to be done, but why would one drag it out? We had to wait ten days when my father died.

A lot of the delay is for the family to make arrangements. If things are done simply, with just one person making decisions so no collaborating time, it can be done quicker.

Absolutely understandable and I'm sorry you're going through this.

If it is the date of death you think may be inaccurate then this will be on the death certificate, so I imagine you may be able to access this information at the register office as you can with wedding certificates. Alternatively if probate is granted it should appear on the government website. This can take many months though.

If it is the funeral date then I am unsure how you can find out apologies.

I'm going to a funeral tomorrow for someone who died last Thursday. So 8 days ago. England, crematorium, non religious.

I'm sorry there is something making this already difficult time more upsetting for you.

I'd say possible. My experience, unexpected death, coroner involvement (inquest was 6 months later), church service followed by attended crematorium service, 9 days after death.

I'm in the funeral industry and it is possible, the usual things that hold funerals up are space at the crematorium, funeral director availability and minister/celebrant availability.

I very much doubt anything nefarious is going on and the funeral director are rushing the funeral to hide something so that means you probably think you weren't told when the person passed away. Which you might be able to find out from the registrar.

JASTM Sorry for your loss. I hope people are supporting you.

Is the swift burial achieved by using a specialist undertaker and cemetery who cater exclusively to your mother's culture?

(I would prefer to arrange things this quickly but I would feel hesitant to approach an undertaker specialising in clients of a particular religion when my own departed relative was not of that religion.
Perhaps there's a gap in the market someone could fill - immediate funerals for the unwashed heathens - a blissful elimination of quibbling and faffing.)