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This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom's tombstone (www.al.com)

submitted 5 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The way we treat our dead, and the people coping with the grief of losing their loved ones is like number 2 on the sentience scale.

So practices like this, predation on recently bereaved family members is pretty much pulling the entire human civilisation backwards. It's barbaric, entirely unnecessary and completely incompatible with social living.

In a civilised society, such things would be abhorrent and the people involved would be ostracised, exiled from culture; engaging with them would have been taboo.

Good on you for leaving such a system behind. When we all subscribe to such value systems we will be far better off.

Why have you not yet named these corporations? Why have you not named your boss? You continue to serve these same interests with your silence. Shame on you for it.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

I don't need to name the corporations because it's the entire industry that sucks. All funeral homes are private for profit corporations. None are better than another. To name one would be to excuse the rest. The funeral home you need to be wary of is the one you're using.