c/usa · by return2ozma@lemmy.world · 11dEven death is unaffordable in America now https://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/even-death-unaffordable-america-now-rcna59116429 points · 10 comments · view on lemmy.world
10 Comments
wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 11d
Frank Reynolds has the right idea, just throw me in the trash.
AviAdi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 11d
That's illegal 😂
You need to pay to bury your family or you'll be jailed.
What a shithole country
ellen.kimble@piefed.social · 0 pts · 11d
No you don’t, you can get cremated and not be buried.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 11d
You still pay a bunch.
And no, you can't make your own cremation pyre at home pretty much anywhere.
ellen.kimble@piefed.social · 2 pts · 10d
Depends on the county, when I had a family member die, the cremation was free
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 11d
I'm going to be paying off my mom's funeral for the next two years.
pineapple@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 11d
So unaffordable you have to pay to read about it...
onlooker@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 11d
Too poor to die, too poor to read.
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 11d
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.
yxc999@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 10d
Ah yes, the next thing out of Cyberpunk that's becoming a reality