Black People : FUNERALS ARE UNNCESSARY

[Emerald_Queen]

Yeah! Yep, I only have a little to go before I can thank folks! Though this is true..I'm not really sure if it matters to me if I'm cremated or not...either way I am thinking about the expensese my family will have to endure once I pass...

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

In the Spirit of Sankofa and Real Truth!

Yeah! Yep, I only have a little to go before I can thank folks! Though this is true..I'm not really sure if it matters to me if I'm cremated or not...either way I am thinking about the expense my family will have to endure once I pass...

Okay Emerald_Queen,

Let's not talk about death...How are you doing with finding yourself? Are things working out for you? You certainly enjoyed yourself in the shout out box, lol...that's good, anything else?

 

[Ankhur]

The first form of Black organization,
during reconstruction,
when hardly anyone had money,
was a form of rotating insurance called the Burial Societies in the south, that would make sure that each member pff the community regardless of income would have an honorable and dignified funeral with proper and family approved casket and burial pocedures.

Mutual benefit societies was another name for burial Societies;

pages 419, 556-57,
Black Power; A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the 21st Century, by Amos Wilson