Those people who pay all that money could be giving it to lead the lost to Jesus instead of spending thousands on rocks, caskets, etc.
Wrap them in a sheet, dig a hole, and there you are. The $50 dollar funeral.
That land may have sold for $25, and how do we know they did not donate money to worthy causes, but, back then, neighbor helped neighbor. I do not question the motives from the mid 1800’s. Times were sure different back then. In the county I grew up in, communities may have had 50 people, their own little school for all grades and small churches. It was not until the car came into use that people went to larger churches. Larger churches may have had 50 people attending but they still did not have much money. My parents, born in 1901/904 attended schools with 8 grades. If they attended high school they had to board with someone in town. Money was scarce back then. I have driven by one of those small churches my family went to. I could not get over how very tiny it really was. I remembered it very differently. Just like the house my late sister lived in. As a kid, I thought it was huge but I went by there a few years ago and it was really small. My perspective was what changed not the buildings..
That's how you treat your family members?
Or are you going to set the example and have it done to yourself that way?
BTW, there are laws about disposing of dead bodies, presumably to prevent the spread of disease as the decaying body seeps into the water table.
Great way to help the poor. Then people can spend all their money paying for their health care which will cost more in the long run than a decent, sanitary burial.
Way to go......
What a great money management.