Insight for Sunday 25 October 2015
Coffins at Waitakere Funerals Service Auckland Photo: (RNZ /Shannon Haunui-Thompson )
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Dealing with the Dead
8:12 AM.As the population ages, Teresa Cowie investigates the funeral industry as it prepares for a boom. Read more Video, Audio
The funeral industry is about to boom.
About 30,000 New Zealanders die every year, and over the next 4 decades as the population ages and Auckland's grows at a rapid rate, that number will double.
Radio New Zealand reporter Teresa Cowie goes behind the scenes of the industry to find out how it's preparing for a huge number of customers, with hugely different needs.