Unable to pay for husband’s funeral, Apple Valley woman allegedy buries him in backyard
If it can be shown that he died of natural causes, my hope is that the authorities will give him a proper burial and leave the woman alone.
She did what she could for him.
Very sad, really. My sister was widowed last month. She had to dip into her retirement funds to give my brother-in-law a proper burial even after the rest of the family chipped in to help her as we could.
She got a cut-rate funeral service (Their slogan: "Haven't You Lost Enough Already?") and owned plots. The tab still came to $3500 or roughly half the cost of an average funeral without owned plots.
We lived in Japan for 14 years and I personally have no qualms about cremation. The Japanese actually have a commendable reverence for their dead-- showing up to clean and spruce up the family plot including rewriting the name stakes which have faded. They do this every year in a plot slightly larger than a telephone both and a marker about the size of typical suburban bird bath. Some of them even split the ashes between two plots-- one in their ancestral hometown and another near where they work and live.
Meanwhile, I've visited my Dad's grave about once in the last five years because the location is so remote even if the setting is beautiful and spacious. We send money to a family friend to decorate and take pictures.
The problem is that my wife, mother and many other Americans have a cultural taboo about cremation and, of course, the funeral industry promotes this as a way to jack up their profits. I can see common sense regulations such as prohibiting burials on a hillside subject to erosion and landslides or places likely to pollute the water supply. But the results for minimum gave sites sizes, vaults, etc. go way beyond the pale.
cremation isn’t just throwing a body in a shalow hole. she would have had wildlife digging that body up and leaving parts all over.
Cremated you lack the nasty pathogens that a dead human body gives off.
One of our friends said years ago, heck just dump me down the septic tank.....but the family buried him when he died...
I hear wood-chipper rentals are cheap....
Basic cremation is still going to cost @ $1K which she might not have if he’d been sick for a long time, unable to work and living on welfare.