People Took to the Internet to Share Little-Known Facts About Their Jobs That We’d Rather Not Know

The funeral business is unpleasant in many ways. It’s not nice to think about, but funeral homes are in the business of making money. Someone who used to work at a funeral home plainly stated that funeral directors have no shame when it comes to upselling services and products to grieving families. 

In fact, many of the overpriced products that funeral homes try to sell are total scams. This anonymous poster said that those extremely expensive cremation boxes are just big cardboard boxes. Of course, not all funeral directors are sleazy scammers, but it’s important to be mindful of how a funeral home interacts with you if you’re ever in such a vulnerable situation.