Friday Follies: Pay-Per-View Funerals

This just in from across the pond...

No time to go pay your last respects? A little pinched for cash to make the trek home? Not to worry, now you can opt for the "pay-per-view funeral." Yup, you can just grab the clicker, sit back in the Barcalounger and pay your respects from there. No muss, no fuss. No germs from hugging all the relatives, no awkward moments with estranged family members. What's not to love?

Leave it to the Brits to come up with a grim innovation like this. Must be the weather's getting to them at last.

Somewhere, Harold & Maude are cheering.