Paul Wilson: When are you planning on dying?

I'm jetlagged, watching daytime TV for the first time in years and despite two weeks in the sun relaxing my blood pressure is sky-high. Why? Because all I've seen is a relentless churn of appalling ads selling over-50s life insurance. They claim to cover funeral costs and alternate from passive-aggressive conversations in hushed tones about why a friend didn't get the send-off they deserved to fake ‘Don't worry kids I've got it sorted' approaches. I simply don't understand why as a nation we don't take funeral planning seriously. Decent send-off It should not be left to over-...