Death is an unavoidable aspect of life and yet, in Britain, it’s rarely something we plan for.
In Sweden, however, this final taboo is being brought into the open – citizens are encouraged to prepare financially and practically for what happens when they are gone.
ITV On Assignment's Penny Marshall visits Gothenberg to see first-hand how a mandatory funeral tax means families don’t have to worry about the financial burden of burying their loved ones – the state covers all the basics.
And at a ‘death café’ in Stockholm, where participants chat about grief and dying over coffee, Penny learns about the uniquely Swedish phenomenon of ‘death cleaning’ -- the process of de-cluttering before you die, rather than leaving it up to your loved ones to do after you’re gone.
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