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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: “Funeral expenses haunted and followed my family . . . for years”

By Funeral Director Daily / February 17, 2021 /

A couple of weeks ago we brought our readers this article where Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were hopeful that the COVID-19 relief bill passed in December would bring funeral re-imbursements to many who lost loved ones to the pandemic. At that time they were hopeful that some of…

Crowdfunding continues to grow for funeral expenses

By Funeral Director Daily / September 10, 2019 /

I came across this article the other day about the rise of crowdfunding to pay for funerals. Now, this is not the first time we have written about this subject, but this article is interesting because it points out some statistics and trends behind this phenomena. The article is a public relations article about the…

Crowdfunding. . . and funerals. . . growing?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2019 /

Over the past couple of years Funeral Director Daily has written some articles on the idea of going to a mass funding site to pay for funeral expenses. We don’t know much about this, but we do know that it is a growing phenomena – not only with funerals – but with other large expenses…

What would you pay for a cemetery lot in Boston?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 16, 2019 /

The other day an article was published in Boston Magazine with the title, “Boston’s other Housing Crisis: The Cemeteries”. It is a full length feature article that gets into the costs associated with being buried at cemeteries inside the city of Boston as well as the options for burial in suburban and farther rural areas…

Will that be Cash, Credit, or Crowdfunding?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 18, 2018 /

About a year ago Funeral Director Daily ran an article when we learned that some people were using crowdfunding sites to help raise the money needed to pay for the memorial expenses that they chose for their loved ones. We recently read an article in the United Kingdom’s Independent entitled, “We had to beg…