'We buried our mum ourselves, and it was perfect'

Rowena Evans talks about the benefits of DIY funerals after her family decided to bury their mum themselves.

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00:00 By doing a DRA funeral, it was initially for us, for fast, for quickness, so my sister could be

00:07 involved. As it then happened, it was absolutely perfect. We couldn't have wanted a better

00:19 funeral. It wasn't then a funeral, so strictly we didn't have a funeral, we had a burial.

00:27 So, as it then worked out, how perfect was it that my brother drove my mother's body for her final

00:36 journey? You just think, actually, that's really appropriate. It was somebody who really wanted to

00:42 be involved with my mother. He transports the body for her final journey. It wasn't some sort of

00:50 stiff bloke in black suit. It was my brother in a camper van, which my mum was quite fond of,

01:00 because that had history for her. So, it seemed so much more appropriate, actually, that we should

01:08 be doing this for my mum. It just took the stiffness out of everything that you can imagine

01:16 a funeral to be. Obviously, well, not obviously, but we've never carried a coffin before, and we

01:23 certainly haven't got it out of my brother's camper van. So, it's fun. It's rather than

01:31 sort of thinking, oh, it's my mum's dead body in there. It was quite funny. It was, "Oh, crikey,

01:43 this is quite heavy. Who's going to take that way? Is it which way is ahead?" So, it was a positive.