December 11, 2012
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Upside down world
Inspired by Bro Doc’s post about the upside down world.
I wanted to share with others this story dealing with the upside down way the world does things.
My sister has a female friend named Deb whose husband has been suffering for a few years with lung cancer. He had received lung transplants some time back also. They lived on his disability as she took care of him. He passed away a few months ago. Deb’s husband Steve had no life insurance and they didn’t have much money so they were going to have to go real cheap on the funeral, they were going to have him cremated. Someone stepped up and paid for a real nice funeral, nice coffin and nice grave.
Since the funeral Deb has not found a job and now she might loose her home. Each month she is getting further in the hole financially.
The upside down way of thinking is this, more care was taken for the dead than for the living. Instead of a wasted expense on a nice funeral for the dead, the money could have been used to pay the bills to continue the life of the living.
Comments (8)
You’re right. But the intentions were still good……..praying things work out for her, I can’t imagine what she must be going through.
@alterb4ego - She is going through a LOT of emotional issues right now, she just lost her husband and the one who was paying the bills.
You wonder why Bro. Lewis, we do think more of the dead then we do the living and what they go through. Bro. Doc
ya its very sad,i myself have gone thru the same thing,i guess one needs to remember the Lord
sees everything,and never let his faithful children go without.
@BroDoc - Perhaps Bro Doc many in their time of grief are simply manipulated by salesmen? I can remember when my dad passed they were trying to talk my mom into a real nice pillow for in the coffin, my mom was going to buy it until I got involved. 150.00 for a pillow for a deceased person. LOL
@juliegirouard - Agreed Julie, the living have to continue and need the money more than the deceased. Thank you.
I have talked with my husband about this… we’ll both be cremated. Our thinking is that it is the cheapest option, which will not take away from the kids, and since they embalm a corpse (to preserve evidence, even when not needed) we don’t want to pollute the ground. When a person dies, it can ruin the land for many years to come. However, our biggest concern was to take as little from survivors as possible.
@Growedup - My wife and I also have that arrangement, we go the least expensive. It is those that remain alive that the concern should be over.