I'm talking about GoFundMe. I'm sick of reading how everyone that has a death in the family seems to want someone else to pay for the funeral.
I thought families took care of their own. I thought that was an American norm. I thought families actually took pride in taking care of their own.
If I couldn't bury my own family members, I've failed as a father, husband, brother, etc.
I was reading an article lately where someone drowned in the Caribbean, they set up a GoFundMe to pay for family to go to the Caribbean to help search for the body. They reached their original goal, but after the body was found they kept the GofundMe open to get more money to fly the body back home, and to help pay for the funeral.
Personally, if you don't have enough money to go to the Caribbean AND also bury your ass. You DON'T have enough money to go on that vacation.
I've only been asked once to contribute to a GoFundMe; for a person I didn't know, and when I didn't contribute, the person asking tried to lay a guilt-trip on me.
To me there is almost no difference between the guy with a cardboard sign begging for money at a freeway off-ramp and people asking for GoFundMe. The only difference is the guy at the off ramp has to put in a little effort and be inconvenienced when he begs.
Sorry! Don't ask!
Posts: 14023 | Location: Texas | Registered: 10 May 2002
As a member of the Osage Nation, we have a fund that helps to pay for funerals, cremations, and ceremonial blankets etc. I think that is a worthy use of the funds we generate as a tribe.
When I first saw this I was thinking who builds a casket, digs the hole, and buries someone legally anymore.
I get that prices are up there for a usual funeral and burial now.
And while if a church or tribe wants to do something, it really should be the family that deals with it. If you are truly indigent, most counties have some sort of process for dealing with burial at public expense.
Most of these requests are just plain entitled behavior.
I agree with you- if you don’t have the savings to bury yourself, you shouldn’t be taking multi thousand dollar vacations.
Posts: 11927 | Location: Minnesota USA | Registered: 15 June 2007
agree with OP totally. now we have a gofund me for a confessed killer teenage knife wielding hoodrat piece of shit so he and his family can live high on the welfare hog and drive sports cars. they need to go back to selling drugs and on welfare. and of course their equally piece of shit hoodrat lawyer is blaming the whole thing on the school cause they shoulda cancelled the event due to a "chance of rain". far as im concerned we can't reach the breaking point soon enough.
Posts: 1566 | Location: south of austin texas | Registered: 25 November 2011
Here's a new one. A Texas teacher got scammed out of his life savings and started a Go-Fund-Me so other people could help him replenish his bank account. That in itself sounds like a scam. https://www.dallasnews.com/new...or-financial-crimes/ There is no end to this Go-Fund-Me shit.
Posts: 14023 | Location: Texas | Registered: 10 May 2002
How about instead of go-fund-me, try to get a job.
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Originally posted by Kensco: Here's a new one. A Texas teacher got scammed out of his life savings and started a Go-Fund-Me so other people could help him replenish his bank account. That in itself sounds like a scam. https://www.dallasnews.com/new...or-financial-crimes/ There is no end to this Go-Fund-Me shit.
Posts: 4511 | Location: Austin,Texas | Registered: 08 April 2006
While just cruising over older posts, I saw this one + it triggered a memory, so here's my 2 cents. When I went into business for myself 40+ years ago, my wife was pregnant, so I didn't have the insurance from the company that I had worked for anymore + of course couldn't get any as the insurance companies view pregnancy as a pre-existing condition. Long story short, my son died at three days old + the hospital bills alone were devastating along with the loss. Being in the trades, I knew quite a few craftsmen of the various trades + a fine woodworker/cabinetmaker made the coffin, another friend was a sculptor + carved a headstone + my mother-in-law's plot at the cemetery was able to accommodate the addition of one small casket. So, yes, in a way, we did do the burial ourselves, although all things considered, I wouldn't want to ever go through all that ever again.
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Originally posted by crbutler: When I first saw this I was thinking who builds a casket, digs the hole, and buries someone legally anymore.
I get that prices are up there for a usual funeral and burial now.
And while if a church or tribe wants to do something, it really should be the family that deals with it. If you are truly indigent, most counties have some sort of process for dealing with burial at public expense.
Most of these requests are just plain entitled behavior.
I agree with you- if you don’t have the savings to bury yourself, you shouldn’t be taking multi thousand dollar vacations.
Posts: 4511 | Location: Austin,Texas | Registered: 08 April 2006
Thanks, Ann. Although it has been a long time ago, + I haven't really thought about it for a while. I will say that one of the positives out of it was the awareness of how much others really cared at the time; + that was kind of a theme, if you will, of his burial ceremony. We used the symbol of a faceted star on both the casket top + the headstone. I know I have pictures of them somewhere, I'll have to see if I can find them.
Posts: 4511 | Location: Austin,Texas | Registered: 08 April 2006
