Will life insurance pay for funerals?

[Saint_Sebastian]

I suspect this is a violation of law. But how ironic for them to be all too happy to take a Catholic’s money and help them get their loved ones properly interned so they can get on with thier time in hell huh?

If I ever ran across a place like this I’d go create a website and get the information out on them with copies of all documenting evidence (emails, voice messages, letters, photos of business and faces of management etc.). Then I’d make sure they got an invitation in the mail to come visit the site to see what their customers and your many family and friends are writing about their bigoted and hypocritical attitudes on the blog and how google is picking it all up for the whole world to see.

I just bet that you could get them to offer to “bury” the hatchet and buy out the web site from you and become more flexible in their policies - who know even convert.

People like this need to be exposed for the two-faced hippocrites that they are.

James

Blessings to you James, I certainly agree with you wholeheartedly. The funeral home has a responsibility to consider the religious beliefs of the family who are paying for the funeral as well as the persons in mourning to respect all protocols of faith. The action I took which was also effective was to report the violation to Father Bill at Saint Marks in Shakopee, Mn who said he would get the word out to all our Diocese to refuse referrals to this funeral home and further to question any requests for funerals taking place at this home so that they are identified and recorded in the Diocese as anti-Catholic so that any future burials will be diverted to a pro-Catholic funeral home. The funeral home in question currently is losing business anyway from their poor management so it seems to me that Divine Providence is having His effect. As Saint Paul mentioned in his Gospels, “Take care to leave room for the wrath of God” which I take it to mean that God Himself will induce justice with those who dare to oppose His Holy Will which of course is a matter of fact and does not require any speculation on my part. We did bury my brother and his wife according to the Sacramental Rites of the Catholic Church and finished praying the Rosary at the grave site. Thanks for your understanding, support and encouraging faith response.

 

[Jay53]

The reason the funeral home denied the recitation of the rosary was because the management is protestant and does not believe in the Blessed Mother of Christ and the practice of prayer in the Holy Rosary.

They actually said this!?! How horrible!!! I can’t imagine ever doing that to a family - our funeral home serves all faiths (although most of the employees are Catholics ) and even if we may not agree or believe in the same things as a family, our job is help them in one of their greatest times of need. I am so sorry they did this to you.

 

[daeve]

Hello, Daniel. Is your friend’s insurance from his job or is it a private policy?

The only two funerals I planned were just paid in cash, my mother and my aunt. But, I used to administer the life insurance plan for my company. Many of the funeral homes chosen by our associates would allow the families to submit their bills to us, and we’d cut a separate check for their portion of the insurance proceeds. So I’d frequently send a check to the spouse or some adult children AND one to the funeral parlor.

People tend to go crazy when their relatives die. We had a big battle because my aunt did not want a funeral Mass. I could not talk her into one, but I also did what she wanted. Many of our older relatives wouldn’t come to the little service we had in the mausoleum and a couple actually yelled at me. But that was what she wanted, so that was what I did. My mom had a big blow out funeral, with hundreds of people coming to the funeral parlor, flowers out the doors, and more people at the Mass than on some Sundays. Then one of my brothers-in-law had a big reception in his very fancy house. The priest gave an amazing eulogy. What a send-off!

 

[Saint_Sebastian]

They actually said this!?! How horrible!!! I can’t imagine ever doing that to a family - our funeral home serves all faiths (although most of the employees are Catholics ) and even if we may not agree or believe in the same things as a family, our job is help them in one of their greatest times of need. I am so sorry they did this to you.

Dear Jay, God is with you in your service to families in need. The denial of the Rosary is horrible although there is a greater injustice done to Christianity by communities that claim to be Christian as they refute and deny all that is Christian while pretending to have Christian faith. Pope John Paul 11 wrote the Doctrine on Ecumenism which states that there is only one Church established by Christ and that is the Catholic Church and that those who present themselves as true inheritors who are not true inheritors give scandal to the cause of Christ and damage the preaching of the Gospel. This is a far greater and more horrible injustice than the denial of the Rosary as it is the denial of Christ himself. Think of the large number of protestant who never have nor ever will taste the Body and Blood of Christ in Holy Communion nor will they ever confess their sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation with a Priest. In the Catholic Church and the Catechism one Catholic who denies Sunday Mass and the Sacrament of Confession is guilty of mortal sin so what is a protestant guilty of? In the Gospel Christ explained that unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you and with that saying many fell away because they could not accept this teaching. How many in this present day have fallen away because they will not accept the Catholic Doctrine of Holy Communion with Christ. No protestant has Holy Communion with Christ and that is why they deny not only the Rosary but all things pertaining to the Catholic faith, that is why they are considered “protestant” meaning they protest the Catholic faith. Peace and Blessings to you Jay, through Our Lord Jesus Christ.