A matter of laugh & death

Odd dying wishes revealed in study

- BY STIAN ALEXANDER

WHEN it comes to dying requests many of us are thinking outside the box and putting the fun into funerals.

From the whacky and touchingly funny, to the downright strange, funeral directors in the past year have seen it all.

One man wanted to make a dramatic entry to the crematorium with his body parachuted in. Another had asked to be as naked as the day he was born.

A third just hoped to be left in a bin bag and taken away with the rubbish.