Crowdfunding for Funeral using Funeral Fund
The number of people turning to crowdfunding for funeral expenses in order to defray funeral and other related costs is growing. The average funeral cost is around $7,000. The expense gets even greater, if the deceased person leaves behind a huge debt or if the individual was the family bread winner. Besides funeral and memorial contributions, funeral funds can also be used to cover other death related expenses such as transportation, college fund for children, medical bills and money for the bereaved family. Crowdfunding for funeral expenses sites such as funeralfund.com provide an easy to use platform, where anyone can make a contribution towards a funeral fund campaign.
Funeralfund.com main mission is to inspire people to come together to assist aggrieved individuals. To set up a Funeral fund campaign is easy; you just need to write a brief description about the deceased person. The organizer then links the account to a verified Paypal or WePay account, which is then linked to a bank account so as to channel funds. Once this is done, you need to upload a photo of the deceased and then send out a link to family, friends
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If there is a need to extend the campaign period to another 14 days, the campaigner needs to contact the funeralfund.com office with the request. For the purposes of building trust and confidence, the organizer of the fundraising campaign cannot remain anonymous. Contributors to the campaign, on the other hand, can choose to reveal their identity or remain anonymous. To prevent fraud, it is very important to make contributions to people you know personally and trust. Contributors to the funeral campaigns must be 18 years or older. Every account that is opened is reviewed by the administrators before it is submitted. The time it takes to approve an account can be as little as few minutes to
In the short story “Max” by Ron Carlson introduces the main character of the story Max, which is the pet of the Narrator and Cody, who are the owners of the dog. The intelligent , and strong nosed dog doesn’t seem like an well trained dog, but he knows his owner well enough to know how he feels about other people and their presence. Max is know as a crotch dog, a dog that sniffs and poke people’s crotch very swiftly and shapely. It may seem if though the dog isn 't well trained and doesn 't have proper manners, because of the fact that Max will sniff any stranger 's crotch rudely and aggressively. “He can ruin a cocktail party faster than running out of ice”, this isn 't a good and acceptable behavior that a well trained dog would do in this
In the past four decades the cost of a funeral service has risen 1,328% (Boring) and that’s not just because Morticians wanted to out of pure greed. One must take into account that modern mortuaries are much more of a business than before. Prior to 1970, the majority of funeral homes were were independent, family run. Today about 14% of funeral homes are run by a publicly traded corporation (Boring) meaning there’s a plethora of capital involved in these businesses now. The homes are built better and by professionals rather than by individuals with some tools, the home’s are extremely more sanitary since there’s more than likely no one living in these funeral homes unlike before, and the quality of the products these services are providing is greater than before.
Hospice focuses on end of life care. When patients are facing terminal illness and have an expected life sentence of days to six months or less of life. Care can take place in different milieu including at home, hospice care center, hospital, and skilled nursing facility. Hospice provides patients and family the tool and resources of how to come to the acceptance of death. The goal of care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort, and dignity. A team of health care providers and volunteers are responsible for providing care. A primary care doctor and a hospice doctor or medical director will patients care. The patient is allowed to decide who their primary doctor will be while receiving hospice care. It may be a primary care physician or a hospice physician. Nurses provide care at home by vising patient at home or in a hospital setting facility. Nurses are responsible for coordination of the hospice care team. Home health aides provide support for daily and routine care ( dressing, bathing, eating and etc). Spiritual counselors, Chaplains, priests, lay ministers or other spiritual counselors can provide spiritual care and guidance for the entire family. Social workers provide counseling and support. They can also provide referrals to other support systems. Pharmacists provide medication oversight and suggestions regarding the most effective
Morbid Funeral Home, Inc. is an accrual basis taxpayer who sells preneed funeral contracts. Customers pay Morbid in advance for goods and services to be provided at the contract beneficiary’s death. Under state law the payments are refundable if the contract purchaser requests them any time until the goods and services are furnished. Morbid, for both financial and tax accounting purposes, includes the payments in income for the year the funeral service is provided. Morbid insists that the amounts it receives under the contracts are customer deposits. The IRS agent insists that the payments are prepaid income that is subject to tax in the year of receipt.
Death is part of the circle of life and it's the end of your time on earth; the end of your time with your family and loved ones. Nobody wants to die, leaving their family and missing the good times your loved ones will have once you pass on. In the Mercury Reader, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross “On the Fear of Death” and Joan Didion “Afterlife” from The Year of Magical Thinking” both share common theses on death and grieving. Didion and Kübler-Ross both explain grieving and dealing with death. Steve Jobs commencement speech for Stanford’s graduation ceremony and through personal experience jumps further into death and how I feel about it. Your time is on earth is limited one day you will die and there are many ways of grieving at the death of a loved one. I believe that the fear of death and the death of a loved one will hold you back from living your own life and the fear of your own death is selfish.
The cost of hospice or palliative care only unnecessarily prolong life and even with insurance can become outrageous to the family of a loved one after they pass away. Hospice and palliative care are the caring of an individual at home or in a facility respectively, who are suffering from a terminal illness. Hospice care alone costs up to 95 dollars per day (“Find a Hospice”). Insurances like Medicare, M...
The care of patients at the end of their live should be as humane and respectful to help them cope with the accompanying prognosis of the end of their lives. The reality of this situation is that all too often, the care a patient receives at the end of their life is quite different and generally not performed well. The healthcare system of the United States does not perform well within the scope of providing the patient with by all means a distress and pain free palliative or hospice care plan. To often patients do not have a specific plan implemented on how they wish to have their end of life care carried out for them. End of life decisions are frequently left to the decision of family member's or physicians who may not know what the patient needs are beforehand or is not acting in the patient's best wishes. This places the unenviable task of choosing care for the patient instead of the patient having a carefully written out plan on how to carry out their final days. A strategy that can improve the rate of care that patients receive and improve the healthcare system in general would be to have the patient create a end of life care plan with their primary care physician one to two years prior to when the physician feels that the patient is near the end of their life. This would put the decision making power on the patient and it would improve the quality of care the patient receives when they are at the end of their life. By developing a specific care plan, the patient would be in control of their wishes on how they would like their care to be handled when the time of death nears. We can identify strengths and weakness with this strategy and implement changes to the strategy to improve the overall system of care with...
I am trying to raise funds for Robert Johnson's funeral costs. I have had the privilege of working with Rob for the past several years at the American Steakhouse in Dexter, Mo. And I consider myself lucky to have been able to call Robert my friend, one of the best friends I will ever have. Although at first, I thought he was so different and odd, I soon found him to be so kind and one of the most caring people I have ever met. He would literally do anything for you if he considered you his friend. His smile and laugh was contagious and he lightened the mood in any room he entered.
In the legal profession there are lawyers who, out of kindness, use their legal skills to help those who really need it; this is known as “pro bono” work. Pro bono comes from “pro bono publico”, a Latin phrase meaning “for the public good” [1], and concerns the provision of legal services for free to those requiring legal advice and/or representation who cannot afford to pay for it and where alternative means of legal aid are unavailable [2]. But what is in there for law students? This essay will explain what benefits they could gain from pro bono work, and the range of opportunities available to them.
A funeral is an important event that should be planned with careful consideration, as each person only gets one to celebrate his or her life. People often die expectantly and suddenly leaving any funeral and burial arrangements in the hands of friends or relatives. These friends or family of the deceased may or may not have a good understanding of what the deceased would have preferred in his or her post death arrangements. A person planning his or her own funeral can prevent this guessing game and insure the arrangements are to their specifications.
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‘The Beneficiaries is ultimately about the possibility of healing.’ I agree fully with the above statement of The Beneficiaries, and this will be argued with reference to the novel and other sources as a whole. The process of healing in the novel is evident and in more than one manner. First, is the healing and reparation of a nation after being through the distressing time of apartheid. A manner of assisting in the reparation of rifts between people of different race was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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