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In reply to the discussion: It says so much when a working family can't even afford to bury the dead [View all]Little Star
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It says so much when a working family can't even afford to bury the dead [View all]
xmas74
Mar 2013
OP
Both my husband and I are going to be cremated. We went to our local funeral home
southernyankeebelle
Mar 2013
#93
And in place of an actual funeral "service", could they throw a wake (unless there is some
DeschutesRiver
Mar 2013
#68
Many cremation locations also offer a service after the death. You have to some individuals
lunasun
Mar 2013
#134
With so much online these days, an actual marker may soon be a thing of the past too
SoCalDem
Mar 2013
#105
You can't cut back on air, she literally has no income coming in right now except food stamps.
Lars39
Mar 2013
#114
What gets me is they throw guilt at you for not forking over the cash....
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#30
What gets me is when you go to a cemetary and there is this big monument there...
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#126
I lived next to a cemetary with dates going back to the early 1800s....
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#137
That happens all too often. I have made sure that both my disabled daughter and myself have prepaid
jwirr
Mar 2013
#23
$700 on February 1st in Spokane. $22 for a death certificate from the county.Per copy. n/t
jtuck004
Mar 2013
#40
It's terribly hard, I know. And as they are going through their grief process, they
jtuck004
Mar 2013
#115
Our cremation for my husband was over 2,000 dollars. I had a memorial service for him
juajen
Mar 2013
#73
The funeral industry preys on the grief-stricken when they can least handle things
LiberalEsto
Mar 2013
#31
My mom had made no arrangements for herself, so when she died, my brother and I had to
Nay
Mar 2013
#37
Believe it or not, $1,000 is an impossible amount of money for a poor family.
bluestate10
Mar 2013
#107
If it had not been for Vet's benefits I would not have been able to have my father cremated
1-Old-Man
Mar 2013
#52
My wife and I have the same plan for each other- cremation, no service, no visitation, no urn.
X_Digger
Mar 2013
#60
So do we. Prepaid plan, with the ashes of the first to go saved until the other one does. Then,
bike man
Mar 2013
#69
It's ugly in the pediatric hospice business. You can't get grants to help pay for funeral costs.
mucifer
Mar 2013
#77
Carwashes/bake sales/marches for cancer treatment..begging for funeral expenses
SoCalDem
Mar 2013
#99
That is horrible; I'm so sorry. Our experience with my mother was much, much kinder
Hekate
Mar 2013
#148
I recently read The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
prole_for_peace
Mar 2013
#109