Family funerals， constant trouble with fees， advertised as a “fixed price”．．．but even when the bill is several times higher， we receive 900 inquiries a year about funerals．
1@Old Man Friends Club ★.Nov. 16, 2024 (Sat) 12:57:18.52ID:qfUEKSD49
The fee was supposed to be a fixed amount of 300,000 yen, but I was charged over 1.2 million yen. There is no end to these kinds of financial troubles surrounding funerals. While the coronavirus pandemic has led to the spread of simple “family funerals,” competition among funeral homes has also intensified. The Internet is flooded with advertisements that tout low prices, and there have been a number of cases in which companies making unfair representations have been fined. (Yamagishi Yosuke) ■The COVID-19 pandemic has added momentum to the times “The cheapest one starts at 76,000 yen” and “Everything you need is included for 400,000 yen.” Many funeral homes are promoting family funeral plans online. There is no definition of a family funeral in terms of size or number of people, but they have a strong image of being “compact and cheap” compared to traditional funerals which attract a wide range of attendees, and they have expanded rapidly in recent years. According to a survey by Kamakura Shinsho, a company that provides end-of-life related services, the proportion of funerals held as family funerals was 31% in 2015, but by 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still ongoing, this figure had exceeded half for the first time, reaching 56%. The final straw was the growing trend to reduce the number of attendees in order to reduce the risk of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic, when demand for large funerals had already declined due to the trend toward nuclear families and the concentration of the population in urban areas. Even in 2012, when we emerged from the coronavirus pandemic, the figure was still at 50%. ■Options are added and the average price exceeds 1 million yen As a result, funeral companies’ income per funeral is stagnating. Kumi Akashi (55), a certified administrative scrivener and inheritance and end-of-life consultant, said, “Price competition is fierce in the industry, so we need to handle a large number of cases. “They are being forced to emphasize low prices in order to attract customers.” Since they cannot make a living at the low prices advertised, they often add on various options and services not included in the flat-rate plan, inflating the total price. Journalist and Buddhist monk Hidenori Ukai (50), author of books such as “The Funeralless Society” and “The Extinction of ‘Graves'”, also commented, “The advertising price is the minimum plan. “It’s common for the bill to be five to ten times higher if you add on things you don’t need, so you need to be careful when signing the contract.” According to a 2012 survey by Kamakura Shinsho, the average cost of a family funeral is 1,057,000 yen. Not all of the contracts were problematic, but there was a big gap between the price range one would imagine from the advertisements. According to the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan, there were 886 inquiries about funeral services in fiscal 2011, down 65 from the previous year but remaining high. Continue reading in Kobe Shimbun 2024/11/16 9:00.
Well, if you add options, it’s going to cost money, and the ones that cost tens of thousands of yen are the ones who do all the paperwork themselves and even transport the body themselves.
They’re just people who make a living off other people’s misfortunes. They take advantage of the fact that when a death occurs and there’s chaos, it’s even harder to make a decision. Priests and funeral businesses are generally trash. They should collect proper corporate tax, especially from religious corporations. It’s crazy that stinky monks are driving around in expensive foreign cars.
>>12 My mother died after midnight, but I called them at 2am and they rushed over at 6am the next morning, and by the morning they had finished making all the arrangements for cremation without me having to do much. It’s not like we’re using it, but professional work is like that for all jobs, regardless of funerals.
A long time ago, I happened to use this place for my uncle’s funeral because it was nearby, and it was really cheap. This time, my nephew and niece and I used it again for my childless aunt’s funeral, and it was really cheap.
Even if it’s not a hearse or in a coffin, if you make a private reservation and bring it to me, I’ll cremate it. There are many places where this isn’t the case. There’s no need to let vendors make money.
A hospital with a crematorium and funeral home attached might be popular. But I’d hate to be hospitalized in a place where there’s always smoke billowing and people saying, “What the heck? What the heck?”
I’ve had two family funerals and had no problems. I wonder if the people who are screaming about it being a scam got their hands on something really weird.
If you have a family funeral, you can’t expect any condolence money, so it ends up being more expensive. It’s fine if you want to cut ties with your family and society.
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