This morning when I went to the bus, I came by this sign. 10 seconds after I passed it I stop suddenly and had to figure out what I just read. I turned around and was relieved: I misread. But I wanted to know exactly what lead me to misreading the sign, since right now I was looking at the back.

I turned around and… saw that I read correctly: “prepaid funerals”.
I could not believe it. I guess I had the mobil phone contracts in mind. Having this, I started to wonder about the concept and the law stated around that topic in germay. You need to know, in Germany the mobil provider are allowed to cancel your prepaid contract/number if you don’t use it for over a year or so. Adopting this, it would mean that you need to use your prepaid funeral very soon.

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Fun aside. I saw quiet often commercials about insurance which covers only the costs of your funeral. It is advertised with the idea similar to: you don’t want to bedevil you relatives while they are already so much occupied by grieving.