Clergy once were staples at funerals but now, reports USA Today, they are sometimes replaced with secular “celebrants.”

“What we’ve found in the past decade is that when you ask people whether they want a minister, people say, ‘Not interested,'” said William McQueen, president of Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers in the St. Petersburg, Fla., area.

“Today, of all the ceremonies we deal with, I’d say 50 percent are religious or clergy-led, 20 percent celebrant-led and 30 percent are having no ceremony or one led by family.”

(Photo credit: http://www.usatoday.com; McQueen and celebrant Eldon “Bud” Strawn)