{"id":7589,"date":"2010-04-20T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7589"},"modified":"2010-04-20T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T15:31:54","slug":"letter-to-a-funeral-home-very-sad-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7589","title":{"rendered":"Letter to a funeral home &#8211; very sad indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Baird<br \/>\nTharp Sontheimer Funeral Home<br \/>\n1600 N. Causeway Boulevard<br \/>\nMetairie, LA 70001<\/p>\n<p>Re: Pat Namer Funeral<\/p>\n<p>Dear Bill:<\/p>\n<p>As I explained today, my sister is the executrix of my mother\u2019s estate. At the time my mother was admitted to the hospital she had an annuity that could have covered her prepaid funeral expenses, which my sister deposited into her own personal account. My sister did not execute the will in accordance with my mother&#8217;s desires as she left town with items my mother had willed me (thankfully my mother was smart enough to give me most of what was in her will before she died). In addition, my mother left us an insurance policy of $6000 split evenly between my sister and me. I assume that this money was to use for her funeral.<\/p>\n<p>On December 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, when I arrived at the funeral home for my mother\u2019s service, I felt I was shanghai\u2019d in the midst of my bereavement into signing a document that I had no business signing as I was not in charge of handling my mother\u2019s financial matters.<\/p>\n<p>However, as her daughter, I do feel responsible for half of the funeral expenses and believe that my mother left a policy to me to help pay my share. So I\u2019m enclosing $4,042.41, which is half of the costs.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry that you have to deal with my sister, but I will also assure you that I will not be responsible or liable for her share of the funeral cost.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Dangermond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Baird Tharp Sontheimer Funeral Home 1600 N. Causeway Boulevard Metairie, LA 70001 Re: Pat Namer Funeral Dear Bill: As I explained today, my sister is the executrix of my mother\u2019s estate. At the time my mother was admitted to the hospital she had an annuity that could have covered her prepaid funeral expenses, which my sister deposited into her own personal account. My sister did not execute the will in accordance with my mother&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-1Yp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7591,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions\/7591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}