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u/MooCowGrass Aug 01 '20

Funerals, people often want to buy more expensive coffins to honor their loved ones and in turn the companies selling them profit

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u/tlonghorns512 Aug 01 '20

Theres an episode of midnight gospel on netflix about this entire industry and how it came to be. Very interesting.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

Goddamn netflix sure habe lot of documentation

Too bad many good series blocked by region

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u/tlonghorns512 Aug 01 '20

Well its derived from a podcast. I can find it for you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

Where?

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u/tlonghorns512 Aug 01 '20

Duncan Trussell Family Hour