My Dad died suddenly recently and now the funeral is over we've been working on the sadmin. But. It has occurred to me that my brother and I do need to think about what will happen when my mum dies. I'm desperately hoping we have decades but even so I have wondered about a few things. One thing that is bothering me is paying for the funeral. My mum had access to plenty of money when my Dad died so it was relatively stress free as there was no issue over cost. But my brother and I don't have access to £10,000 ourselves and would need to pay from the estate (and there will be money there). Is it worth asking my mum to give my sibling and I £5k each to hold for the funeral? (My sibling is totally trustworthy and we would both keep it safe). Given how useless the banks have been I can't see us easily being able to access the money from the estate and I want things to be as worry free as possible.