ABC News
Feb 27, 2012
It sounds like a simple way to make the inevitable more manageable: Prepay for funeral services, so your loved ones have one less thing to worry about when the day comes.
“I’ve just had so many families mention to me, ‘Mike, I am so glad that we did this years and years ago, because everything was taken care of exactly as we wanted it to be done,'” says Mike Ruck of the National Funeral Directors Association.
But there have been numerous consumer complaints about pre-paid funeral contracts, specifically complaints about fraud, abuse and high-pressure sales tactics aimed at the elderly.
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Thanks to the HVCC Mortuary Science Alumni and Student Association for altering us to this article.
