Homeless sister died and now the family makes contact asking for money for an expensive funeral!
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First, I am so sorry for your loss. It will hit you when you least expect it, but it hurts, forever. But to your question, I don't know why a funeral should cost that much. I buried my brother-in-law, sister, and mother and all were less than $6K for cremation, burial of the cremains, and a nice (i.e. small, like 50-60 guests) memorial service, and flowers. It sounds like they are figuring that if you pay "your share" of $16k, then they won't have to pay any because it just doesn't cost that much. I'm sorry you have to deal with money grubbers at a time like this.
I agreed to help out but they insist on the expensive funeral costing all that money. They said they had already agreed with the funeral home that this is what they would spend. They would be completely humiliated by a cheap funeral and would not be able to face the relatives.
Wait a minute. You got the call yesterday informing you that your sister had died suddenly, and the funeral is already planned and budgeted?
"Sorry I can't afford it, didn't you guys disown me anyways? Now I have to BUY your love back?"
$2,000 is plenty. When my friend's mother died unexpectedly they were able to have her cremated and put in an urn and set in some Mausoleum (where the husband could join her later) for less than $1,000.
OP, I am questioning the veracity of your posts. So many issues, in such a short time.
If you were going to help out your sister, the time to do it was when she was still alive. Now she's dead, so you can either thank your lucky stars there will be no more requests on her behalf, or consider yourself done with family matters.
My sister is dead and my disowned family is forcing me to pay for an overpriced funeral and some of you are linking me with the trials and tribulations of previous posters? How sad you really are! OMG!
You've said nothing but bad things about your sister, and no one's forcing you to do anything.
Why would you even think of allowing them to do this to you?
I was just about to type the same sentence! EXACTLY!!!
I don't know what you should do. I think offering to match their same amount ($2000) is plenty!!!!
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