Explaining funeral debt an examination of socio-economic and.pptVIP

Another strategy to defray costs is to expand responsibility for financial costs through informal and formal contributions. Informal contributions (whip round) be a ‘whip-round’ or impromptu financial donations from of friends and workmates to pay for a funeral. Our Māori interviewee discussed how this played out for a family member who lost a child at a very young age. (Interviewer: You talked a little bit about, is it your brother in law?) Mmm. … ( Interviewer: ‘but with their young child dying and people helping out. I mean was that like really informal’).It was informal... There was p