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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just had a death in our family. The deceased died indigent.  All of us have scraped together funds for cremation and a very modest service. A relative is a minister at a small church very near where the deceased lived.[b] He did not offer his services.[/b] As a result, we are incurring a cost of a service at funeral home or transporting the deceased an hour away to where a different relative is pastor at a church. I’m just struggling to understand.[/quote]

So, he didn’t offer and nobody asked either, or he was asked and declined?

“Transporting the deceased an hour away.”

You mean driving an hour with a cardboard box or an urn on the floor in the back.

Does not seem all that burdensome.

I commend your and your family members’ genuine charity. There are people who won’t do what you did for your decedent. But if nobody asked the nearby relative, maybe they should. And if he won’t do it, then the optional place seems easier than fathoming the motives of a clergyman who doesn’t want to do a particular funeral. [/quote]

His own child asked him when he didn’t offer and he declined.

The deceased always wished to be cremated after the service. This is not unusual. We would have to transport a body an hour away and then back. It’s not cheap as a hearse is needed.

We will probably rent a chapel at the funeral home although his church is 13 minutes away.
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