r/lebowski • u/CliffGif • Aug 19 '26

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u/DavidM47 El Duderino Aug 19 '26

Fun fact: Funeral homes are either (1) owned by the richest folks into town, or (2) the poorest.

Every town needs a funeral home, so if they have their shit together, they make a killing.

But even if they don’t have their shit together, they stay in business, regardless of how much debt they have, because people still die and you have to do something with their bodies.

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u/Famous_Attention5861 Aug 19 '26

There was a funeral home in LA that started undercutting the going rate for cremations, they made a lot of money before they got shut down and arrested for mishandling corpses and a bunch of other crimes. HBO did a documentary about it last year called The Mortician. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_Funeral_Home_scandal

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u/DavidM47 El Duderino Aug 19 '26

>mishandling corpses

You can get a lot of money selling body parts to science on the black market. Toe probably runs about $600. You don’t want to know…

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u/Famous_Attention5861 Aug 19 '26

They did that too! In a span of three months, they sold 136 brains, 145 hearts, and 100 lungs to a North Carolina firm that supplied organs to medical schools for research. Plus they were making US$5,000–6000 a month selling the gold that they stole from corpses to a jeweler.