I’m tired of feel-good stories about the community pitching in to help someone overcome the bleakness of capitalism during a time of need. This shouldn’t be necessary.
This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom's tombstone
Submitted 7 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a tool of the rich who control the media.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Is their goal to make me hate them even more? Cuz they’re doing a fine a job.
DevopsPalmer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Glad you already posted my thoughts exactly. What a terrible timeline we live in.
antrosapien@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Individually, in a way that in no way stops other tragedies. Yeah.
Posadism’s looking real good about now.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On my best day this story will make me feel very sad. On a bad day I just really wish billionaires and those who aspire to be ones die (or get eaten)
mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My father passed in '21 we just got his headstone put in. $3700 and that was because we buried him in a private cemetery that belongs to my church and they don’t have any INSANE requirements. We had to wait 8 months for the granite stone to come in from MFing Italy.
My boss’s father passed and they buried him in a more… Conglomerate let’s call it, cemetery and they had to buy the headstone specifically from their own people. Cost them 10k about!
It’s such a freaking racquet!
Sacha@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My grandmother recently died and she prearranged everything, from where the service would be, to the coffin, to the plot and headstone.
I dread at what the cost would be if we had ti pay out of pocket for all of this. She had an open casket, will be buried with her husband, and so on.
It is a racket, with my dad we had him cremated and aservice and I think it was about 3k if memory serves.
taanegl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m wondering when we’re going to ask the big question, of whether or not burying people in a plot of land and putting up headstones is such a good thing.
Not only does it lay claim to massive amounts of land, but plenty of burial grounds have already been defiled - mostly because they were native American burial grounds…
But you know, Christian burials and the industry that exploits it.
Burry me at sea please. Let my body nourish the fishes.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
group suicide in 3, oil up
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Orphan crushing machine material