{"id":2714,"date":"2016-04-28T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2016-04-30T17:45:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:45:40","slug":"the-absurd-cost-of-death-and-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"The Absurd Cost of Death and Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D2714&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>We lost our beloved &#8220;mother,&#8221; Lela Nelson Rhodes, following a long illness, several weeks ago.\u00a0 She was a very wise, loving and wonderful woman.\u00a0 She was also very frugal.\u00a0When she died, peacefully at home, we called our local undertakers at, Frank E. Campbell, not far away in Manhattan.\u00a0 They quickly picked up Lela&#8217;s body, took it to the funeral home and arranged for cremation,\u00a0for which they used their own facility and did not have to pay an outside vendor.\u00a0 There were no viewing hours, no expensive casket, only the minimum pine box that is required for cremation.\u00a0 There were no extra services of any kind.\u00a0 We were shocked and horrified at the cost:\u00a0 $11,086.75.<\/p>\n<p>This, in our opinion, is an utter rip-off.\u00a0 Mother would have surely\u00a0come back to life from the grave to stop this insanity had she been able to.\u00a0 She was the type of woman who was hesitant to have quadruple by-pass surgery at the age of 83 as she worried that the expense of that operation could have gone towards helping others.\u00a0 We assured her that others would benefit as the doctors would gain much needed knowledge by operating on a woman of her age.\u00a0 She reluctantly agreed, and the operation was a success. 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Campbell radically over-charges and those\u00a0contemplating using their services should be forewarned!\u00a0\u00a0I subsequently have discovered that\u00a0in similar circumstances one can arrange for &#8220;direct cremation&#8221; with a crematory of one&#8217;s choosing.\u00a0 Surely the savings of several thousands of dollars in doing so could have benefitted many of the important causes that &#8220;mother&#8221; believed in and contributed to generously during her life time!\u00a0 And others, by being forewarned, can act in a way that is more in accord with the values of their &#8220;dearly departed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D2714&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost our beloved &#8220;mother,&#8221; Lela Nelson Rhodes, following a long illness, several weeks ago.\u00a0 She was a very wise, loving and wonderful woman.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92,176],"tags":[11,63,93,402,441],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funerals","category-spirituality","tag-christianity","tag-funeral","tag-funeral-planner","tag-religion","tag-spirituality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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