Thread: Poor Americans having to dig graves for their dead children

Originally Posted by tuktukdriver

My family used to own a funeral home and memorial park. The press used to love writing stories about poor people having to deal with the costs and the (evil!) funeral home. It taught me what a load of garbage the media is. They like to play with the public's emotions to sell their product. My father was shown on the front page of the paper once because he dug up some dead person who's family did not pay the bill. It's actually, and sadly, very common. They made him look truly evil. The family claimed they were broke. What the newspaper did not tell is that the family had plenty of money, the will even stated that a certain portion was to be set aside for burial, and they didn't do it.

Cremation is always an option. Not sure of the figure today but it's probably $600 and the government will help out in some situations. They would have to because they don't want people doing it in their backyards of the local forest.

At least if they cremated him you old man couldn't have dug up the corpse to get the money out of them. What did he do with the rotting body, -- leave it stinking up the driveway while waiting for the family to hand over the cash?

^ He dug up the body and cremated it.