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     Rajusk Side Hero Username: Rajusk Post Number: 3765 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.93.90.250 Rating: N/A |
Currently in the U.K., families of deceased welfare recipients receive a government grant to help cover the cost of cremation or burial. The process of securing such aid usually takes two weeks, although it can last up to two months if there are problems with the application. The country's undertakers have in the past been willing to proceed with burials and cremations on the assumption that they will be paid later — receiving up to $1,200 for funerals that usually cost around $1,700. But according to the NAFD, a convergence of financial pressures has forced a growing number of undertakers to delay proceedings until the payment clears, leaving the corpses of some of Britain's most destitute citizens in earthly limbo for weeks at a time. Britain's undertakers have offered a corporeal reminder of how financial crises can infringe in intimate ways. "We are the forth richest country in the world," MP Kawczynski says. "The idea that you would have to wait two months to bury someone close to you is despicable." |
