In Swartzentruber Amish communities when you purchase a casket you get a matching rocker. So you buy it for life and for deathmx5fan t1_iwsit3x wrote
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Kinda the same reason why diamonds are ridiculously priced even though they're actually very common in nature.
The funeral business is one that I believe is particularly predatory -- they prey on the emotional response of people at their most vulnerable state to upsell shit they can't afford, all under the guise that it's "showing your respect to the dead." Whether you feed your dearly departed dad to a pack of pigs or take out a loan to bury him in a fancy cemetery with a $30k mahogany casket, he is none the wiser.
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