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Originally Posted by PraiseHymn
As a person who has studied mortuary science (and not finished) there is NO reason for any family to stand on the corner to ask for money to bury their loved one. There are funeral homes who specifically cater to the "less fortunate" and collect their monies from government funds out there. Anyone can be buried decently. You might be put in potters field (a paupers grave) and you might have a cloth casket (instead of a shiny metal one) but you will still be given a funeral never the less. Also in every major city, their are mortuary schools that cant wait to take the poors dead love ones and fix the body up (just like when a person is in nursing school). I knew without a shadow of a doubt last night was a SHAM!!!!!!!!! A mega church had no need to take up an offering in front of the family, an open casket and people who did not even bring their wallets into the church (more or less). Then to say to go to the ATM machine or use your credit card in the church bookstore made no sense to me at all. Folks took one look at each other, grabbed their keys and headed for the door TO LEAVE (including me).
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I worked many years in the State of Tennessee as a Licensed Funeral Director. To my knowledge, there are no Federal funds available for burial except for $255 Social Security Death Benefit paid ONLY to a surviving spouse. There are no state funds in Tennessee nor are there any local funds available. Many funerals/cremations are done at no charge to the families.
I once asked an African - American colleague why there was such a long time period between death and burial of black people. Laughingly, he said, and I quote.."Son...you have to get the money when the tears are flowing...when the tears dry up...they forget about you!" I once heard a white funeral director say..."Your gona have to cough up the money before we bury your daddy." This could have been one of those situations....who knows.....
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