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.