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[quote=Anonymous]We had seven elderly family members pass this year and attended four of their funerals. All were in a major metropolitan area where hotels are four hundred dollars a night. We wanted our adult children (early twenties) to attend grandparents funerals so we paid for airline tickets, Ubers, hotels etc. All of our vacation budget went for funeral travel this year and it was over what we had budgeted in that category. We are lucky that we had the money to pay for all this but anyone who makes a lot of stipulations about their funeral should be cognizant of how much it might cost for people to attend, the stages of life that people are at, etc. We also paid for funeral meal for funeral attendees after two of the funerals and fronted a lot of money for a variety of things, some of which was reimbursed months later after probate etc. from the estate. Again, we were lucky that we had the liquidity to cover a costly funeral meal etc. but I imagine that for many families that might be a hardship and might even negatively impact people financially. The old biddie on here will likely tell me that I am “awful for even talking about money at a time like this” but this reality. Many very wealthy elderly people may be unaware that their grandchildren are struggling and don’t have two thousand dollars to attend a funeral etc. [/quote]

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