Unfortunately, like everything else here, the system is abused by many who could afford it but don't want to spend their money that is allocated to Beer 'n ciggies 'n sky.
I don't know where you got that from; my own mother died last June. We had a simple funeral (no cars, one floral arrangement, no church, no clergy) and it cost about £3,000 all told. I can quite see how that would be beyond the means of many people; in fact had it not been paid for from my mother's estate, we would have struggled ourselves to meet the cost.
... councils carried out 2,580 public health funerals in 12 months spanning 2013-14, which represents a small fraction of the 500,000 or so people who die in the UK each year.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34943805TLR's mother's funeral looked about as basic as it could have been.
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throwntosafety
9 years ago
I'm guessing that she was the victim of a heinous crime there might have been enough people willing to take pity and donate, even considering what a monster her son was. Plus often some of the services are donated from the business, such as the cremation.
Additionally she may have had some other family, such as a sibling or an aunt/uncle, who wanted nothing to do with her in life because of how she lived, but would have been willing to put something toward a funeral. There were actually quite a few people there, maybe 20 or so.
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