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Who is Left to Pay?

In some cultures, lavish funerals take families to the brink of bankruptcy
Posted on September 3, 2015 by Julie Gesin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

In Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, an impoverished widow spends her last rubles on her husband’s funeral and ends up destitute with her three children. The bitter satire of that chapter can still ring as true today as it did in … Continue reading →

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