That's a whole other can of worms imo.
I see your point because I deal with it every day. The most egregious is the husband and wife with 3+ kids who are always late on their bill asking for extensions and what not. They come in with their brand new iPhone and will have 2-3 vehicles with loans (maybe even toys like jet skis and what not) but the second life insurance is brought up I'm the filthy salesperson trying to take their money. There have been over 900,000 GoFundMe for funeral alone and this would never be needed if people did the right thing and bought into themselves instead of leaving the burden of having family members beg to put them in the ground.
hey is this where we get help buying a home
yes sir i can get you into a mortgage today please pay for my fancy shoes
sometimes i see shit like this and i think "man, that could be me making a buck off stupid people" and then i remember i have a soul
It was $11k+ for my mom's funeral. But she had an insurance policy that paid for ~95% of it. I think I only paid about $800 from my pocket and another $800 from the estate for the police procession + Saturday service.
Mom did go out in a baller casket though. Dad's stuff is paid for, too.
One of clients said she recently cremated her mom and the cheapest route was almost $8K. Seemed really high. Most of what we here in our town is a standard casket funeral is $12K-$15K. It's on my to do list to go to a few funeral homes and get up to date pricing.
Taking off my insurance hat, I can't stand gofundme for anything. I look at it as a form of begging and I do not agree with it, but it's the norm nowadays. Hell, my boss said his kid's classmate did a gofundme to fund a "European Excursion to learn about culture". Motherfucker, that's called a vacation.
When I die, cremate me, throw me in a body of water, and live your life. We are far too afraid of death in this country. Mostly due to Christianity.
when i'm dead just throw me in the trash
i have made my desire to have my body donated to science clear to most people who know me. still haven't done the paperwork on it, but yeah.
stick me in a classroom and let students cut on me. idgaf. maybe ill have a weekend at bernie's. that would be cool.
I don't want anything fancy, just to be frozen in a glass enclosure inside the new carving of my face on Mount Rushmore where I can be viewed 24 hours a day until they find a way to revive me, possibly as a consciousness inside an immortal robot body.
Or you could be Mr. House.
cemeteries are a waste of surface area
may I kindly be dissolved in a pool in Yellowstone
Spoiler: show
Shoot my ass into space. Hopefully aliens will find me and turn me into a bad ass super hero or some shit lol.