The wording suggested is "the normal course of business as a funeral director".
When it learned about the parents' distress it adopted—or it encouraged a funeral director to adopt—a pragmatic interpretation of the law in this regard.
But the good funeral director does need support.
Clearly the department cannot be in the position of underwriting whatever a funeral director sees fit to charge.
No problems are attached and there is more direct control even than that of a funeral director in a private company.
In the interim period the mortuary continues to provide a storage facility for bodies not requiring postmortem but awaiting collection by the family's funeral director.
Instead, they want the funeral director to take the arrangements off their hands.
For the same reason, the funeral director is able, if he wishes, to influence the relative degree of elaboration of the funeral.
