Having a loved one laid to rest to the blaring strains of Simply The Best might seem a fitting tribute to assembled mourners.But whenever the Tina Turner hit - or any other pop song now popular at funerals - booms out, it leaves one vicar feeling 'like a lemon'.
Father Ed Tomlinson, 35, said he wonders what a clergyman's role is at such services as he feels 'spiritually unwanted'.
Writing on his internet blog, the vicar from Kent lamented the decline of Christian farewells centred on a 'beautiful requiem mass'.
He said: 'The best our secularist friends can hope for is a poem from Nan combined with a saccharine message from a pop star before being popped in the oven with no hope of resurrection.
In the last few years, it has become painfully obvious that many families I have conducted funerals for have no desire for any Christian content.' QUITE!
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