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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go online, get ordained, hold the service at your house or the mountains, or a field.[/quote]

Not a bad idea.

OP - sounds like you're angry with the family member clergy person for not volunteering to do the funeral.  Other pp's are right in asking if he knows about the death and your quandary. If he doesn't, tell him and ask him to do the burial service.  If he refuses, or has already knowingly not stepped up,  then he's a bad guy, despite being clergy. 
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+1 don't expect him to read your mind. Ask and if he says no accept that (feel free to silently judge him if you want to) and move on. But you are judging him now without even having the discussion.[/quote]

He knows the financial stress. His young adult child is directly impacted by both the death and the cost of the cremation, etc. They have had three separate conversations about the need for a church and clergy person. I don’t know the exactly wording that was used in the moment, but he was not welcoming or interested in further discussion.

I don’t need him to change his mind, I’m just hoping to understand it. It’s like saying you are supposed to feed the hungry —except that one guy there. ‘Eff him. [/quote]

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