Part of this is the closed-shop attitude by most funeral directors
(many of which are now a very small number of chains...
Nestle.
Really?
Tell us more.

For some reason i`m having problems finding cites to back this up at the
moment, but if you ask any "independant" funeral director you`ll find out
why they make such a big thing of calling themselves independant.

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