{"id":10197,"date":"2013-12-03T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10197"},"modified":"2013-12-03T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T12:36:35","slug":"the-economics-of-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-funerals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120313_1235_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Max Strasser took a look at the business of funerals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average funeral costs a heart-stopping $7,045<\/li>\n<li>Some are fighting against this. The &#8220;Funeral Consumers Alliance&#8221; \u2013 which has a surprisingly more spry membership base than one would expect \u2013 is advocating against rising prices<\/li>\n<li>Other protesters sit outside the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s offices with banners such as &#8220;I can&#8217;t afford to die&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>One of the largest funeral companies, SCI, is listed on the NYSE and is able to save on costs through economies of scale thus paying low prices for things such as embalming fluid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about the company, how it operates, and regulations around funerals over <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2013\/11\/26\/amid-complaints-protestsnationslargestfuneralcompanykeepsgrowing.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2013\/11\/26\/amid-complaints-protestsnationslargestfuneralcompanykeepsgrowing.html\">Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Strasser took a look at the business of funerals: The average funeral costs a heart-stopping $7,045 Some are fighting against this. The &#8220;Funeral Consumers Alliance&#8221; \u2013 which has a surprisingly more spry membership base than one would expect \u2013 is advocating against rising prices Other protesters sit outside the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s offices with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120313_1235_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10199,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions\/10199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}