Behind The High Fees Of Funeral, There Is A Huge Profit Chain.

along with

Reporters questioned the survey of Netizens found that the current funeral industry chaos: "kill point" hospital source of the corpse, death information into financial resources, high price of the urn, monopoly, sales services bundled...

Funeral industry

In order to get rid of the corpse source funeral home hospital, "stay at the point".

Many netizens have exposed the funeral parlour "robbing corpses" chaos on the Internet.

Sina friend "smile in life" said: "the patient is still in the resuscitation room, and several funeral services company's salesmen have received" notice "waiting outside the door of the resuscitation room, and the informant who calls the funeral service company will get an information fee every time.

Sina netizens "222sY" said: "many places are like this, we ordinary people can not speak bitter."

Reporters in Hefei, Anhui, some hospitals found that by developing "informants" such as hospital care workers, timely access to patient information and quick "door-to-door" service has become a common means of competition in funeral services.

Lao Zhu, a nursing worker in a third grade hospital in Anhui, told reporters that in addition to cleaning his office and helping doctors and nurses to run errands, he would call the salesmen of funeral services companies after the patient died.

If the funeral service company he called can get the business successfully, he will get hundreds of dollars in information costs.

People have not "gone", there are funeral companies waiting for the door at the door, and some funeral companies in order to fight for business in the hospital openly noisy, which made the family members of the patients very angry.

A Hefei netizen who had personally encountered such farce as "waiting for death" and "fighting for corpses" posted on the Internet that not only did the people of a funeral company stay at the doorway of the ward for several days and nights before the death of the man, but also suddenly came out within twenty minutes after the death of the people, and three funeral companies claimed they were "funeral homes".

"The information fee paid to the" informants "in the company has risen in the competition of various companies. From the twenty or thirty yuan in 2000 to 1800 yuan now, we can imagine how much profit it will have.

Wang Hong, deputy director of the Hefei funeral and interment management office, told reporters that there are about two hundred or three hundred funeral services companies in Hefei. Among them, only three funeral services companies have been approved by the Hefei Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau.

Many funeral service companies that do not have service qualifications often have two or three people, one car and a few "salesmen", so they can go to hospitals and other places to pull up business, asking for a wild price and disorderly competition.

Riding a monopoly to make a profit, each shows "magical power".

Micro-blog netizen "Guai" said: "funeral reform for many years, still can be monopolized industry, ordinary families simply can not afford expensive funeral expenses."

Sina net friend "Lin Feng" said: "now the funeral home is so nausea, no money will be cremated."

Netizens "Xin five grandpa" said: "funeral industry is an industrial chain, every link is full of money."

The chaos that the hospital scrambled for the source of the corpse was just the prelude to the huge profits chain of the funeral industry.

Reporters in an unannounced visit found that apart from the designated funeral cremation of Nanchang funeral parlour in Jiangxi Province, a number of funeral services enterprises and private cemetery were bundled and rents were charged or forced to consume the relatives of the deceased, so as to achieve the purpose of profiteering.

Nanchang City, north of the village is the most concentrated tomb area, Nanchang funeral parlour and most cemeteries are located here.

"I sell at least two hundred of the pottery casket, and the funeral home sells at least four hundred or five hundred."

The owner of a funeral home shop near the funeral home in Nanchang told reporters that their casket was basically sold out because the sale of casket boxes was monopolized by the funeral parlour.

"The price is doubled, not to be cremated."

Another funeral vendor near the sales booth said.

Unlike the Nanchang funeral parlour with the only cremation business qualification in the city, some private cemetery areas in Nanchang found the way to get bundled services in the process of selling cemeteries.

Reporters at the tomb Hall of Qingshan cemetery in Nanchang saw that in the price list posted on the wall, in addition to the cost required to buy the cemetery, there are as many as 10 kinds of forestry fees, such as lettering fees, gilding fees, tomb selection fees and greening fees.

"The service item is optional, because we have the regulation that the following fees must be paid together."

Cemetery staff told reporters that the price list of less than 6000 yuan cemetery has long been sold, with all kinds of charges, the cheapest cemetery is certainly more than 10 thousand yuan, the most expensive about one hundred thousand have.

"From the pportation, makeup, cremation, until the earth, some are clearly marked price, clear, but some so-called" self selected items ", if do not understand people, it is indeed easy to be misled consumption.

Nanchang Jin Anfu cemetery, a surnamed Ye sales manager, told reporters that the entire funeral and interment expenses of the consumption of large floating space, on the pport, makeup, cremation of these basic expenses, less two thousand or three thousand, more than seven thousand or eight thousand, "the key is to see what kind of consumption you choose".

When the reporter interviewed a funeral company in Hefei for a record in the Civil Affairs Department, the customer manager told reporters that the price of the "one-stop" service of funeral and interment is not uniform and there is no standard. The industry is calculated according to the actual price of the supplies.

For example, the urn, there are thousands of yuan, there are also tens of thousands of yuan.

Such as wreath, shroud and other funeral supplies, prices are also different.

And the boss of a funeral company said, because the charges are not standardized, some companies seize the sad psychology of the families of the deceased and make profits by making profits. A price box with a price of about 800 yuan can be bid up to 2300 yuan, and the cost of the shroud is almost 500 yuan.

Regulation of short leg industry chaos needs urgent solution

Netizen "Tang Shui Qing" said: "how to solve the chaos in the industry how to solve the problem of" can not afford to die "phenomenon. Netizens" Foshan TV Xiaoqiang hotline ":" to solve the funeral industry profits, what is the best way to break the monopoly of the funeral market, the introduction of industry competition, the relevant departments to impose strict price limits, or the introduction of subsidy mechanism, subsidized by the government city private affairs. "

In fact, there is no such thing as "can not afford to die". The key is to see what kind of service content and cemetery you choose.

Yan Jianguo, deputy director of the Nanchang funeral and interment management office, said that the cemetery of the Qiongshan cemetery, the only state-owned cemetery in Nanchang, was built in 2000. It only needs to charge 50 yuan a year. However, influenced by the traditional concept of "entering the country", more than 30 thousand ashes have been sold for less than 1000.

He believes that if only some basic funeral services are selected, the whole funeral process will cost less than 1000 yuan, except for the cemetery.

For the funeral industry's profiteering phenomenon, the head of the Nanchang Civil Affairs Bureau believes that at present, the 3 basic services of funeral service pportation, refrigeration and cremation are priced by the government, and there is no room for profiteering.

The public's query of "burial profiteering" generally refers to some extended services, that is, "self selected projects".

We must strictly curb the possible profiteering in the "self selected projects". On the one hand, the departments of price, commerce, industry and civil affairs should jointly strengthen the rectification and standardize the management of the funeral services market.

On the other hand, the state should accelerate the revision of the existing laws and regulations through legislation, clarify the funeral homes, the cemetery and other non-profit organizations, and make sure that the cemetery built in the cemetery area must ensure a certain proportion of the low price cemetery and restore the public welfare nature of the tomb area.

In addition, many people in the industry suggested that the government should incorporate the construction of cemetery into the overall planning of local economic and social development. At the same time, we should try to guide the masses to set up the concept of "thin burial" and civilized funeral and interment, simplify the funeral procedures, and choose more funerals such as tree burial, flower burial, and "ashes pouring the river", which not only saves land, reduces consumption costs, but also advocates a new civilization.

Netizens "Jiu Tai Ping" published a blog that the government should promote funeral reform and strengthen funeral services.

On the one hand, we should strengthen the reform of funeral and interment system and the management of funeral and interment market, and crack down on the speculation of burial grounds and arbitrary charges.

On the other hand, we need to reform funeral customs and provide quality services.