And finally…Aberdeen among UK’s ten most expensive places to die

According to funeral comparison website Beyond, the next priciest Scottish cities are Perth (£4,586, 25th), Inverness (£4,495, 32nd) and Motherwell (£4,245, 53rd).

In the UK as a whole, Watford is the most expensive place to have a funeral, at an average cost of £5,814, with funeral directors seeking to make a killing by charging 37 per cent more than the UK average.

The Hertfordshire town nudged London into second place at £5,749, with Redhill in third at £5,352.

The average UK funeral - calculated as the average cost of a funeral director’s services plus the average price of cremations and burials - is now £4,241.

This represents a rise of 33 per cent in only two years - in 2016, the average was £3,190.

This spike is being fuelled by price hikes among the big chains, who have raised their already-high fees by more than £500 in two years.

For their services alone, you will pay an average of £3,573, and this is before you add in the cost of the cremation or burial.

Meanwhile, independent funeral directors, who represent roughly a third of the market, have actually been found to have dropped their fees over the past 12 months.

Funerals in Guildford, Liverpool and Brighton are all more than £5,000 on average, as they are in Newport, which is comfortably the most expensive place in Wales at £5,149 and the sixth priciest in the UK overall. By contrast, Cardiff ranks 75th at an average cost of £3,812.