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Sandy Sullivan
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Sandy Sullivan, an affable 65-year-old father of six from Glasgow, wants to revolutionise the global funeral business. And, in death, the late archbishop Desmond Tutu may just have given him a huge helping hand.
It was on 2nd January, the day after Tutu’s funeral, that Sullivan noticed his website, which normally registers 1,000 hits a month, was in something like meltdown. He traced the surge in interest to a piece in the Washington Post which namechecked the company while reporting on Tutu’s wish for his body to be dissolved by water rather than cremated by flames.