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return2ozma@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 6 days ago

Even death is unaffordable in America now

www.nbcnews.com

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Even death is unaffordable in America now

www.nbcnews.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 6 days ago
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Funeral credit cards, rented caskets, Amazon urns: Here’s how Americans are coping with the rising cost of dying.
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    Frank Reynolds has the right idea, just throw me in the trash.

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      That’s illegal 😂

      You need to pay to bury your family or you’ll be jailed.

      What a shithole country

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        No you don’t, you can get cremated and not be buried.

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          You still pay a bunch.

          And no, you can’t make your own cremation pyre at home pretty much anywhere.

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            Depends on the county, when I had a family member die, the cremation was free

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    So unaffordable you have to pay to read about it…

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      Too poor to die, too poor to read.

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    I’m going to be paying off my mom’s funeral for the next two years.

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    I’m sure some entrepreneur will soon notice that both the death affordability crisis and food affordability crisis can be solved with just one idea.

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    Ah yes, the next thing out of Cyberpunk that’s becoming a reality

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