http://laughingsquid.disqus.com/a resource for art, culture and technologyenFri, 02 Nov 2007 17:40:41 -0000http://laughingsquid.com/good-magazine-presents-the-business-of-death/#comment-1809826<p>I am all about pre-need! I know this sounds weird, but I have been though this several times. 1) it locks down the price. 2) It takes away some surreal decisions from your upset and fragile survivors.</p>TracyFri, 02 Nov 2007 17:40:41 -0000http://laughingsquid.com/good-magazine-presents-the-business-of-death/#comment-1809825<p>Tell me about it. <br>Dad used to work commission sales as a "pre-need counselor" for Forest Lawn when we lived in southern California.</p><p>Dad, not a salesman at heart at all, was trying hard to just make a living. Most salesman don't give a shit about the product really; they can and will sell anything.</p><p>Most unsettling was the dopey selling points they would push like having a 1/2 scale Michelangelo's David or an "authentic replica of the gates of Buckingham palace:, the crazy euphemistic names of various "need plans" ("Oh we have a lovely eternity garden plan at "Heart' Level in the Mausoleum.")</p><p>A good read on the subject from "the queen of the muckrakers", Jessica Mitford - "The American Way of Death"</p>Brooke von GrouchosuavitéWed, 31 Oct 2007 20:14:11 -0000