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Around 90 percent of people with no next of kin will not leave a will, Jo and Pam say. So anything valuable they find will be added to the safe at the council offices. Depending on how much money a person has left behind, the cost of the funeral alone can wipe out most of it. The average cost of a basic funeral is currently at around £3,900 nationwide, the fastest rising fixed cost in the UK of the last decade, outstripping the inflation of rent, food and utilities.You've got to keep your distance from cases to do them efficiently, but you do take a few cases home with you, that are really harrowing.
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