DONATING TO FAMILY OF THE DECEASED

Dear Heloise: In regard to your hint about flowers at funerals, I no longer send flowers to funerals. Sometimes the service is so darn short, maybe 2 hours, and then it’s right to the crematory or cemetery. I put the money and check form in an envelope that is made out to the family to help them with their expenses.

Why waste the money on flowers? There are hospital expenses, funeral expenses, and expenses of finding someone to watch children so that they can have their services. There are also expenses afterward of having a wake for the people who did attend the funeral. There are expenses all over the place! Take the money and donate it to the family.

Donating it to a charity sounds fine, but how much of it really goes to the charity? The bigger per

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