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Celebrity Send-Off: the show hoping to get us talking about funerals by getting celebrities to watch their own

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par Michael Brennan, Professor of Sociology, Liverpool Hope University

In the show Celebrity Send-Off famous people ask a loved one to arrange a funeral for them. It might seem like an odd premise for a show but this three-part mini-series produced by Channel 4 but it wants to inspire some important conversations.

In the first episode, Bez, from the 1990s band Happy Mondays, asks us: “Have you ever thought about planning your own funeral?” As an expert in the social aspects of dying, death and bereavement,…

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