{"id":36649,"date":"2013-06-02T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/02\/saving-money-on-a-funeral.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:13:13","slug":"saving-money-on-a-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/02\/saving-money-on-a-funeral.html","title":{"rendered":"Saving money on a funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\"><i>Not<\/i> that I plan on spending any on one any time soon, but some good advice to be able to reference when the subject comes up and it&#39;s the last thing you want to be worried about &#8230;<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/X7H9y_JzAUJbuXNSJt9Bdg2oIyt1qcS-kFdKT1nVakBQCQhwevdxRnP9VA8VMvkgMpZno2YQaW9uOK4_CS1v9iVZsH6O_l_cBhmMbvCAAZiSSsVUE85DFAxFBJuAPNpWavpky-HB6Q8hvNjM3gebzLfPDaOA8N24hRB4=w125-h125' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/03\/06\/save-money-on-a-funeral\/?utm_source=feedly'>Save Money On A Funeral<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Someone wrote to us this week that a person in his family is terminally ill, and that he was told &#8220;that the cost of the casket, funeral, viewing, and burial would possibly exceed 12,000 dollars.&#8221; 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