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AIBU?

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… to object to the funeral parlour unloading body bags at the end of my street?

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CoralQuoter · 25/06/2024 20:42

There’s a row of shops at right angles to our street, where the back entrances face onto a small cut through road and the back alley between rows of houses. One of these shops is a funeral parlour, which has recently expanded. They now park two massive hearses in the shared alley, and frequently ask us to move our car so they can fit the hearse through the narrow road if we park there (it’s a public street and the only way we can access the back of our house) They also load and unload body bags (with bodies in!) from the back of the private ambulance in the public street, and my DD4 asks what’s in the bags, which is… not a fun chat? My DS11 hates it and won’t walk round the back as its “too creepy”. Not only this, but they leave bags of rubbish out on the street which the seagulls get into and encourage rats. I’ve tried complaining to the council, but they say the only thing they can do is “register my complaint” with the bin collection service. AIBU to think a small terrace shop isn’t the place to run a funeral parlour from, especially if there’s no room to privately unload body bags?

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WorstPaceScenario · 12/03/2026 11:40

CharlotteBog · 29/06/2024 12:46

How patronising.
It is the norm that body bags are generally not carried around in full view of the public. Yes, we all know what's in them and yes we should be teaching our children about death and what happens afterwards.
OP's "delicate sensibilities" are obviously different to yours.

Where is your own bar? Would you be happy to see dead bodies in say clear body bags, or lined up on the road waiting for the funeral? If not, why not? They're just dead people.

Maybe that would unsettle you, or maybe you would think it was not showing respect to the dead and the grieving.

OP and many others would rather not be faced with body bags while they go about their day to day life. Others are not bothered by it. Many have said they live near funeral parlours and have never seen body bags. Others have explained how the dead are managed in hospitals. If it's the case that you're not bothered by it, at least have the decency to acknowledge that others are.

The OP's question was "AIBU to object to it", not AIBU to have my own feelings about it.

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