Turning Death Into Dollars: Secrets of the Family Funeral Business (Full Documentary) | Real Stories

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1. Pretty high status to have an Anglican bishop presiding ( 47:50 ).

2. Do you realize there's life after death
   And the same as you have rules and regulations
   GOD dose too
   Try getting to know the one who died on the cross for all
   But fo you believe?

3. Excellent video!!

4. Thank u for bringing her beautiful dog, to say goodbye❤. RIP Odette. U were a very courageous, and true person. God be with u darling.🕊✨️⭐️🪽

5. I'm 47 and recently planned my own funeral. Everyone should do it to avoid putting their families through the pain and inconvenience of doing it while they are grieving.
   The only thing about death that scares me is dying alone 😢

6. I experienced the death of a very close family friend. He pre-paid for his arrangements. When his daughter went with the paperwork, the f-director tryed to screw her for more expence, for a different ern. The young man that worked there, looked her fathers paperwork, and hand delivered the one her father paid for. His ashes were presented in a cheep cardboard box!! How humiliating!!!

7. Neither of these women inspire any confidence. Unprofessional and doesn’t project competence.

8. I can relate to her and her family and friends. Been there

9. I’ve always wondered why the other side of the world uses coffins and western uses caskets. Coffins definitely seem creepier to me.

10. God as soon as i saw a child i would break. There aint no way i could do this. A single teenager, child, baby, or person in their 20s and i would be broken right there.

11. My own personal views on funerals is that if someone dies and leaves enough money behind to fund their own funeral. Or if the family are in a financial position to pay for everything where it's not going to effect them going forward then by all means do what you want.

    And I only say all of that because my own family have never been well off or had great sums of money and so when my own time on this earth is up I'm leaving whatever savings I do have to my mother.
    With specific instructions to NOT fork out for a funeral because I think it's more important to make sensible decisions with money and I would rather she use it to get by.

    Before this whole Cost of Living stuff got completely out of control and everything spiked up in price i think I'm right in saying the average cost of a funeral in the UK (where I'm based and live) was £7,000. So i kind of dread to think how much that figure could be now in 2024.

12. So kindly done. Wishing everyone well. Thank, Rachel, for narrating! You’ll always be our Brenda! ❤️

13. "Odette" lived and died on her own terms, a life to be celebrated and learned from.

14. Someone told me I can't do I 😊did

15. Dedicated To All Those Who Passed Away In This Show ,
    Especially to Odette ❤🕊️🫶 Fly High Sweet Angel 👼🏻 You Rock Darling 👸🏼

    🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

    Near a shady wall a rose once grew,
Budded and blossomed in G-d’s free light,
Watered and fed by the morning dew,
Shedding it’s sweetness day and night.
    As it grew and blossomed fair and tall,
Slowly rising to loftier height,
It came to a crevice in the wall
Through which there shone a beam of light.
    Onward it crept with added strength
With never a thought of fear or pride,
It followed the light through the crevice’s length
And unfolded itself on the other side.
    The light, the dew, the broadening view
Were found the same as they were before,
And it lost itself in beauties new,
Breathing it’s fragrance more and more.
    Shall claim of death cause us to grieve
And make our courage faint and fall?
Nay! Let us faith and hope receive–
The rose still grows beyond the wall,
    Scattering fragrance far and wide
Just as it did in days of yore,
Just as it did on the other side,
Just as it will forever-more.

    🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻🌹
    SINCERE CONDOLENCES, FROM COMMANDER IN THE ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCES MEDICAL CORPS
    DOCTOR. KÄSTIEN. MD

16. I’m Jewish , and we have the The Chevra Kadisha, which literally means Holy Society. They’re a group of Jewish people ( all volunteers) , who care for the deceased to prepare them for burial. This is seen as one of the most important Mitzvot (good deeds) you can do, as the deceased person cannot thank or repay you for the help you gave them. The process involves physically cleaning the deceased and then completing a ritual called Tahara, where the deceased is purified and dressed before burial. During this process the greatest respect is shown towards the deceased, which is called Kavod Ha’Met. At the heart of the society's function is the ritual of tahara, or purification. The body is first thoroughly cleansed of dirt, bodily fluids and solids, and anything else that may be on the skin, and then is ritually purified by immersion in, or a continuous flow of, water from the head over the entire body. Tahara may refer to either the entire process, or to the ritual purification. Once the body is purified, the body is dressed in tachrichim, or shrouds, of white pure muslin or linen garments made up of ten pieces for a male and twelve for a female, which are identical for each Jew and which symbolically recalls the garments worn by the High Priest of Israel. Once the body is shrouded, the casket is closed. For burial in Israel, however, a casket is not used in most cemeteries.

    The society may also provide shomrim, or watchers, to guard the body from theft, vermin, or desecration until burial. In some communities this is done by people close to the departed or by paid shomrim hired by the funeral home. At one time, the danger of theft of the body was very real; in modern times the watch has become a way of honoring the deceased.

    A specific task of the burial society is tending to the dead who have no next-of-kin. These are termed a meit mitzvah (מת מצוה, a mitzvah corpse), as tending to a meit mitzvah overrides virtually any other positive commandment (mitzvat aseh) of Torah law, an indication of the high premium the Torah places on the honor of the dead. Many burial societies hold one or two annual fast days and organise regular study sessions to remain up-to-date with the relevant articles of Jewish law. In addition, most burial societies also support families during the shiva (traditional week of mourning) by arranging prayer services, meals and other facilities.

    While burial societies were, in Europe, generally a community function, in the United States it has become far more common for societies to be organized by neighborhood synagogues. In the late 19th and early 20th century, chevra kadisha societies were formed as landsmanshaft fraternal societies in the United States. Some landsmanshaftn were burial societies while others were "independent" groups split off from the chevras. There were 20,000 such landsmanshaftn in the U.S. at one time. I’m a medical doctor in a large hospital,I’m also a Commander in the Israel Defence Force’s Medical Corps . My country is sadly, at War due to the invasion & massacre on October 7, 2023 . It’s been a horrific experience to go through something that we thought would never happen again to the Jewish people. We had the Shoah / Holocaust, and now we’re fighting against unimaginable Terror yet again . Very sadly , I was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer last week. So, please , everyone who read’s this , please consider praying for me , or sending me good wishes to me and my family . Shalom / Peace from Doctor.Kästien, Jerusalem, Israel 🇮🇱

17. That's why my husband had a direct cremation, with a celebration of life yet to come. I will be having the same. My money going to my family.

18. Nobody’s going to notice “Brenda” from hbos six feet under is the narrator

19. They do necessary to society. The front line folks are not getting rich. They are authentic because they know their number may be called at any time.

20. A follow up is needed.

21. Wish there was a follow up to this show. Would love to see how everyone is doing now.

22. The 2 women at the beggininng, are who I would want to take care of me in the end. I like their candor, ability to take care of those we can't ourselves and being able to keep pressing on.

23. Is that Brenda from six feet under talking

24. I dont know who they are as morticians but they are hot and good looking with a sense of humor. Kate still got them though. Kari is not bad. Women morticians are a different breed and I dont mean non-binary.

25. Odette and I share a middle name! I’ve literally never heard anyone else with it! My love goes out to all her loved ones😢

26. I found that the mortician was very disrespectful and unprofessional. I certainly wouldn't want her being in charge of one of my loved ones. 17:43

27. It's the doctors that are making the big money off of death. Especially in America! Doctors DON'T care about people, they care about peoples money. The funeral homes deserve much respect. They do the real work.

28. With a foul mouth like that, I would not want them to handle the funeral arrangements of my relatives. How ones speak is a pathway to one's mind, way about living, and heart. They couldn't be more precisely correct when they said they don't care about the living, only the dead. I assume from that this would leave these families that care much more about their dearly deceased and who will be cutting them their check, " PHUCKED"!!

29. Is this please closing? Is that why you have to go to the other place?😊

30. Is this please closing? Is that why you have to go to the other place?

31. Do you think it’s weird that I’ve had my funeral planned for years in a book everything down to the music I want? I guess I’ve always had a fascination with it. I grew up all Italian, and with that when somebody died, we had to go up and kiss him on the lips from a young age my dad was the 13th child of a big Italian family from Italy and so I was at a lot of funerals and then later on friends, etc.

32. respect

33. I can not believe she was wearing high heels while being 1 of only 2 people carrying a coffin down a staircase, the coffin was empty, but still, and she is tiny too. Hard worker, but please be careful.

34. Those ties did not disappoint and I don’t know if it’s because she planned her funeral herself but her funeral was wonderful it was beautiful and did you see all the love everyone had for her. She was a classy woman and those ties were super sharp.
    
    Those ties looked great.

35. My father passed and I was young planning a funeral the first words from the director was how much was his life insurance policy and she made sure the amount was just that! 10thousdand dollars and he had the most basic funereal possible because he was loner and didn’t like being around crowds!!! Absolutely disgusting!!!!!!
    I say if you can plan your own so then your family is not being conned ❤

36. rthe blonde in the glasses has a nasty attitude

37. "I DONT CARE ABOUT THE FAAMILIES" then you need to go work elsewhere and you need to start caring

38. Ooh I'm crying at Odettes funeral, I didn't know her, it's the way she planned it all and it was so sad but beautiful at the same time.

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