The number of funerals at public expense has risen sharply last year, both in the city and in the countryside. More and more people in debt, can not afford the funeral expenses of a family member.
The group departed placed on the public expense to their final resting place, is growing.According to new research from the Ede Christian University.
Had to municipalities between 2010 and 2014 to organize some 1,800 funerals, last year the number increased to 2100. This increase of more than 15 percent is much stronger than the increase in the total number of Dutch deaths, which grew by 5 percent last year.
The larger debts that people may face, play a role, knows researcher Henk van Deutekom.So it is not so much people in eenzaameid die - they are responsible for 10 to 20 percent of the municipal funerals - but people who die in poverty
Poverty
,, Prolonged poverty and debt problems have risen sharply in recent years. Municipalities find that more and more survivors are unable or unwilling to pay for the funeral. In those cases, must provide the municipality funeral within 6 working days. You can not leave under a bush are deceased. ''
If municipalities are facing a deceased person where no one about compassion, she studies first or family who can take care of the funeral. Is not found or who has no money for the deceased to pay their last respects, the municipality is obliged to arrange the funeral. Trying to take the utmost account of the wishes of the deceased, if known, in the choice of burial or cremation. In all cases, municipalities opt for a sober ceremony, here and there, dressed up with a final salute of the poet.
Elderly ANBO Bond sees that relatives no longer blindly as before accepting the inheritance. ,, They better watch liabilities and to the existence of a funeral, '' knows ANBO spokesman Yuri Veen. ,, That you have to take a legacy not necessarily, has gotten more publicity. ''
In addition, older people play their funeral have denounced more often by the crisis.
Heerlen
Although Amsterdam with 441 funerals on beats the cost of the municipality limits the problem is not limited to the big cities. Smaller municipalities showed notable increases. So took in Heerlen, the number of municipal funerals increased from twenty in 2014 to thirty in 2015, in South Holland Rijswijk from one to five.
,, We mainly see an increase in municipalities with a regional function, for example, where you'll find a mental health institution, and municipalities in the border region. Which seem to attract more people with mental health or social problems, with few opportunities in society. '' Van Deutekom does not believe that the increase is incidental in 2015. There are municipalities that are already on a number of funerals it was only halfway through the year reached in 2015. ,, This will be continued in the coming years. ''
By: Editor's AD / Heleen Boex / Photo: JORGEN CARIS
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