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Should be a volunteer, not a government employee tho.
Comes up occasionally for London Irish who die alone over there and they ask for volunteers to attend the funeral. Never have any problem getting large turnouts but it’s sad that people have to be asked all the same. I can see why that approach wouldn’t work with the Dutch though tbh, just different attitudes to things.
Dutch must be paid to be compassionate?
No I don’t think that’s fair, because I don’t think they’d do it even if you paid them. Dutch people just want to be left alone for the most part and I think they’d just view it as very strange to attend the funeral of someone they didn’t know. I regularly attend funerals of people I don’t know (if you know a relative you generally attend a funeral even if you never knew the person who died) so doing it for someone lonely isn’t a big difference for me. I don’t think our volunteerism approach to this kind of thing would transfer to the British either, so I’m not having a go at the Dutch, just that we’re different is all. Now I think of it it might be a Catholic vs Protestant thing. Catholic funerals are always huge compared to Protestant ones in my experience.
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