Funeral credit cards, rented caskets, Amazon urns: Here’s how Americans are coping with the rising cost of dying.
    • cheese_greater
      2·
      5 days ago

      Why did it have to cost you, is there some fucked up law that yokes you with that liabillity?

      • Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip
        23·
        5 days ago

        That’s what I gathered. I needed his death certificate to get into his bank account and he had just gotten some backpay from applying for disability. I don’t remember what was said exactly, but they asked at the funeral home if I was going to accept responsibility or whatever for the costs. I implied I wanted to back out after I heard the amount and had gotten the certificate, and they implied that I was going to be held accountable if I did.

        Technically I came out on top, but just barely. I mostly did it for my sibling as they had a few good memories before he went to shit, and they wanted the ashes.