[reaganaut1]

This is pathetic. America is not so rich anymore. We should stop wasting money by (for example) destroying usable cars (cash for clunkers) and try to expand the economy.

Lots of families that cannot afford to bury their dead cannot afford health insurance either. The Democrats would fine them.

[Navy Patriot]

No problem, Soylent Green!

[ohiogrammy]

In Ohio a death certificate is $16.00. I have not heard much about the above here but sure it is happening.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I think though this also has to do with the break up of the family, general change in values and the “ME” generation, loss of religious affiliations.

Sure, there are people who are in such bad situations, but this is not the Great depression and a 50% rate in Oregon? there is more to this than “hard times.”

[AndrewB]

Do I even need to say it?

[Gator113]

Less dead voters available for the dems.

[Beowulf9]

I wonder what percentage of them are illegal aliens?

[denydenydeny]

Summary: Dead women and minorities hardest hit.

[dalebert]

Increase their taxes....we dont tax the dead enough

[wbarmy]

I don’t agree, this is a rich country. What we have is the government siphoning off so much from businesses that they cannot hire anyone to make a profit. If you can’t make a profit, why run a business and get all the grief. Without private businesses, there is less money being moved around.

Less government, more freedom, more hiring, more pay, more ability to pay for the funeral. If the government wants to take all their money, then it should pay to bury them.

[conservative cat]

I know Washington state has a law that requires you to buy a coffin even if you are getting cremated. Well, guess how much the cheapest coffin is at the funeral home? My then husband’s step-grandmother had problems affording his grandfather’s cremation and my then mother-in-law paid for her ex-father-in-law’s cremation as a favor to the family. I think the cheapest you can get a cremation due to that law is around $3,000.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Lots of families that cannot afford to bury their dead cannot afford health insurance either. The Democrats would fine them. ***

Lets all get together and demand the GOVERNMENT control the burial of our dead! Why should we be held hostage by the funeral parlors that rob people blind!

the Gov’t could provide a simple coffin, plot, urn, or Soylent Green processing freeing us from the drudgery of burying our dead! LET THE GOVERNMENT DO IT!

SARC/OFF

[packrat35]

This represents more the obscene rates charged to bury your loved ones. The state can cremate for $750, while the same procedure costs over $5,000 to the rest of us.

I told my wife years ago to let the state get rid of my body. I won’t be needing it after I am dead and she can save money, but it pissed her off. I was serious but she thought I was joking.