“She just blurted out: ‘I want to be buried in a coffin that looks like a giant box of tea bags.’ "Mum cracked up at that and we just fell about laughing. She said she was deadly serious ...

Marketed as the "coffin in a box", it can be ordered online and delivered to your front door by any postal company. In the UK, funerals cost on average £3,675, according to the Money Advice ...