What happens to people that die that don't buy cemetery plots?

[DutchessCottonPuff]

Originally Posted by wehotex

I don't think that taxpayers should be footing the bill at all. I know that they used to use wooden crosses back in the old days when ppl died with no money. The survivors would chip in to buy a respectable stone marker for the deceased. My grandfather bought his grandfather a very simple stone that we can still visit to this day. But leave it to this society to coddle the poor and pay for their every whim just like during their lifetimes.
Perhaps their churches could help them pay for the headstones?

" There but for the grace of God go I "
You have NO idea what may happen to you before now and when it is your time .....it is called being civilized , I didnt know death was considered a "whim" geez, and not everyone goes to church either. If there were ever a time when people need to help each other it is then. I think the pauper program is very good. I dont know if we have one in Corpus Christi but if not we surely need one. If you needed help at that time , I as a taxpayer wouldnt mind at all ,it's the right thing to do.

I have a friend in Waco who's familys funeral home is over 100 years old and they take take care of the "pauper burials" as a way to give back to the community.

[elnina]

Here is the cemetery for San Antonians:
County of Bexar:
Pauper Burial Program
233 N Pecos St # 590
San Antonio, TX 78207-3180
(210) 335-3666

In Corpus Christi Flour Bluff's Duncan Cemetery is selling plots to the county.
Burying the residents costs the county a fixed $1,395 per adult resident. Cremation costs $650 per adult.
Burial crisis for poor is resolved » Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Here is an interesting article about a situation in San Antonio, a paupers burial ground just south of Stinson Field.
The Paupers Burial Ground South of Stinson Field in San Antonio

[mamatotex97]

the poor...well in this economy and many that are jobless w/o insurance, it may come to putting food on the table or paying for an extra life insurance policy. It is not just the poor who die without insurance.

[doss1]

[loves2read]

being cremated still has costs attached--and if you don't make arrangements before hand, from stories I have hears--some funeral companies will make every effort to "pad the bill" and have the people taking care of your arrangements buy/pay for items that are not necessary--

personally I think if people can't afford to pay for their own funeral arrangements and their bodies become a "ward of the state" so to speak, they should be donated to medical schools and used by students...
I am considering doing that with mine and we can afford to buy grave plots and pay for a funeral

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by wehotex

I don't think that taxpayers should be footing the bill at all. I know that they used to use wooden crosses back in the old days when ppl died with no money.

If nobody pays,
the options are a big hole in the ground or throwing them in a river.

If we can build a stadium with tax money, I don't see why we can't pay for that.

[elnina]

I agree... our tax money pays many mindless and not necessary spendings, or support bad causes. This at least is a good cause.
Others are not
50 Examples of Gov’t Waste: Brian Riedl | The Scott Daily Post (http://www.scottdailypost.com/2010/12/8027/ - broken link)