Funeral plan advertising, by some investment companies, offends me. To insinuate my next-of-kin would put me ‘out in a rubbish bag', or don't want me to ‘live', is insulting.
It offends me they suggest I save my pension for ‘a party' after I depart.
I am not stupid. Sixty five cents a day willnot cover a ‘proper' funeral, with expensive casket, flowers, advertising, celebrants' fees etc. If I contact these companies I'll be encouraged to pay more of my pension to them, so they can pay for staff and pathetic advertising blurbs. Shock tactics with hate advertising, involving dying,
is sad. To anyone planning their funeral please put funds in your own interest bearing account to make your money work for you.
Talking to other retirees, they feel equally affronted. As a ‘Seniors' area, Tauranga encourages celebration of life, not put downs or comic portrayal of elderly. B
ut wait, they may be trying for the ‘worst TV advert', in which case, they could win.

J Ormsby, Bellevue.