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Funeral industry "profiteering" is the reason?

Don't say I don't know, say a frightening breakdown, the funeral industry is really a "profiteering" industry, not to mention expensive cemeteries, a simple house of the underworld, often hundreds of dollars, thousands are not uncommon, but the cost of it? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that.

Talking about this funeral industry, "profiteering", analyze the following aspects of the causes:

One, the industry's natural monopoly. Due to traditional habits, the funeral industry is not very popular industry, happy to engage in this industry is not a lot of people, so the industry competition is small, not much room for choice. This creates a natural monopoly in this industry, a price, knowing that profiteering, but also must lead the neck to kill.

Second, the country's burial psychology. Loved ones deceased, the descendants are grateful for the deceased loved ones suffered in life, want them to die can live a little better, for the funeral industry those profiteering supplies will be extraordinarily generous, will not bother. In other words, it is just using money to buy a peace of mind.

Three, taboo psychology. In the minds of the people generally have a psychological, that is, "happy money" and "funeral money" psychology. Wedding some of the scattered expenditures collectively referred to as "happy money", the expenditure of this happy money, the host family will not count, figure a happy. Funeral "funeral money" will be even more will not count, it is easy to touch people's bad luck, a little inattentive, out of the money also made both sides unhappy, and even the knot beams are or not known.

There are a lot of reasons for this and many more, and the windfalls are coming.