Facing a final curtain
Lately, actor Alison Quigan has had a question about death on her mind: what happens to us afterwards? It’s quite straightforward, according to a TV ad she fronts. You die, then there’s a funeral. And hideously expensive it is, too.
The commercial, promoting a funeral insurance business, offers a basic premise. If your final farewell is covered, family and friends won’t be sobbing over anything but their grief.
The ad avoids the “D” word, using phrases like “pop your clogs” and “head off upstairs”, but death creeps like a cloud through Roger starring Quigan and fellow theatre stalwart Mark Hadlow.
