Cost of living? What about the cost of being dead? | by Zoe Williams The Guardian

Cost of living? What about the cost of being dead? | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian: ""F uneral poverty" – that's the phrase they use at the National Association of Funeral Directors. Like "fuel poverty", "heat poverty" and "child poverty", this is just a long way of saying "poverty": another way to express the situation in which an event or thing that everybody will sometime need is nevertheless hopelessly out of reach of a fair proportion of them. One in five people can't afford funerals – given that the "cost of dying" now averages £7,622, the number of people who are knocked sideways by it financially, for years afterwards, probably considerably exceeds 20%."



'via Blog this'