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Hi Kim, I am happy they caught this guy, This was a young child, how aweful to do that to the family, My niece died at 3 months old and the funeral home we went to didn"t charge us anything, they covered the whole thing, we had no insurance on her, she was 3 months old,ever since then everyone in our family goes to this funeral home, They did a wonderful thing, and they will not be forgotten, I"m sure they have made more money from us, then they lost, So my point is, some homes are out to make money and some do what they do because they care, Shame on them for trying to make a quick buck! off the death of a sweet child!

BCAM,

I'm sorry your family had to bury such a small angel. That must have been horrible.

Kim,

I don't know what the maximum penalty is for this, but that's what he should get. What a piece of scum!

Fenway,

The fact that you would consider leaving monetary donations to the MSPCA just placed you at the top of my VIP list. Granted, there are no glamorous benefits to my VIP list, only being one of the people I consider priceless.
By the way, I just got a new baby kitty this past Saturday. His name is Pocket and he's 3 and a half months old. I added his pic to my folder.

Kim: This is good information you have posted.
This is a question that should not be allowed. Companies for years asked too many personal questions during interviews. It is time the state jumped in and regulated the questions asked by funeral homes.

Excuse me Heather,

Don't drag real estate agents or car dealers into this.

I'm a Real Estate agent, and I never, ever, ask what someone is worth. I listen to their wants and needs from the get-go. Their over-all fiancial worth is irrelevant. I do not need to know any of that, no agent does. If you're a buyer, I would obviously need to know you price range and how much you plan to finance. As a seller, I need to advise you on how much your house is worth in the current market.

I've done many deals and NEVER have I had to know, or cared to know what anyone is worth, especially before listening to what they had to say. Any realtor that does has no idea what they're doing. So don't generalize!

I've also bought my share of cars and, again, NEVER has any dealers asked me or needed to know about what I'm worth. A credit check is plenty.

You clearly either have NO idea what you're talking about, or have delt with some real morons. Choose wisely!

It's the mortgage companies and the banks to blame for the foreclosures. Exactly ho are ther agents to blame? Back that up elitist!

Kim, some insurance companies actually provide a number for funeral home directors to call. It verifies that someone has a policy, but won't tell them how much the policy is worth. In this day and age, that should become required if "people" (and I use the term VERY loosely here) like Mr. Diaz are doing business.

Although, in some cases, IF you are working with a trustworthy funeral home and your loved one had either no insurance or very little, it is a good idea to let the director know this fact. For instance, when my grandfather died, he had very little insurance. (I don't remember exactly how much, but it was 3 or 4 thousand dollars.) The funeral home we dealt with was very good about working with us to make sure he had a decent funeral on the amount we could give them. So, when my brother died 3 years later with no insurance, we dealt with the same funeral home again, and again, they were wonderful. Like BCAM's story, they didn't charge us anything, even though my brother was 23. The director said that they would submit a claim to his auto insurance (he died in a car accident), and if the company paid, great, but if not, not a big problem. Granted, neither of these funerals were very fancy, but both went above and beyond the little bit we were able to pay.

There are crooked people in every profession, even yours. I myself have never led a client to any mortgage broker, nor do I know an agent that has. The mortgage brokers I do know are NOT crooked. I've bought property before, and did my homework before hiring a mortgage broker. It's my responsibilty to make sure I get all the info I need before making one of the biggest decisions of my life. Although I do feel badly for all these peole losing their homes but, all these people that had no idea their mortgage was gonna double in 2 years speaks volumes about ignorance.

Now elitist,

What do you do for a living? Judging by your handle you work on Beacon Hill. No crooks there.

I did not say all, just some.

Just a foot note to my last blog. You can also blame all the buyers who lied on their loan applications as well for the foreclosures.

The solution is for each of us to take personal responsibility (am I a broken record or what....) and contact our favorite funeral home. It is possible to buy our own funerals, at today's cost, just as we'd like it. This takes both the vultures and the added heartbreak off our families.