What happens if you can't afford a casket?

Answer 1

Threaten to bury the body yourself - the government will quickly take care of a bare-bones (pun intended) burial or cremation. If not, then bury the body yourself - it has been done by family and friends for thousands of years, why are we now so weird about it that it has created a huge money-making business? Also funn how they will now tell you that it is illegal to do so...

Answer 2

If the deceased has no way of paying for their own funeral, and no one cal be found to foot the bill so to speak. The deceased if given a very simple burial, still referred to today as a Paupers burial. Their coffin is a simple box and they are buried in an unnamed grave, usually marked by a number.

Answer 3

Send a sympathy Card-through the mail. In France the pneumatic posts- with their so-called Little Blues ( petits bleus) were often used for this purpose- worked only in Paris, speed wise they were faster than regular mail, ( went through pneumatic tubes)- but obviously slower than telephone calls. There may well be a niche for a communications device of this sort- today.

Answer 4

Normally the state (government) or a church will provide a very basic funeral.