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Originally Posted by svandamme
I don't even understand why anybody poor would spend money in life, for the grave.
It's not like you'll be dead more comfortably in a fancy grave then in a paupers grave.
hell, put me in a cardboard box and straight into an incinerator , I really don't care.
I have better uses for my money : To Live.
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You are applying logic to a situation that defies logic. Many people honestly want a lot of money spent on a fancy funeral, expensive casket, and large headstone. I too don't understand, but that is my point of view and others see it as a final extravagance.
In most states the funeral directors have lobbied the state legislatures to make funerals more expensive than needed. Laws that demand a concrete vault, then the casket and buried 6 feet under and only after an expensive embalming are common.
Only a few states let people be buried in a gunny sack, and have a tree planted on top. Even a cremation is thousands of dollars and has all sorts of restrictions.