🔗 It’s time to ask once again why it costs so much to die in Aotearoa.
I for one did not know this and come to think of it - I don’t know what the ‘cost of dying’ is in other countries either.
In New Plymouth, for example, it could cost over $7,200 for a burial … represent(ing) the burial plot itself.
Umm - burial?
Once you’ve covered the expense of the burial, there are a number of additional costs that can make the actual cost of dying far greater – the figure often cited in the media for an average funeral is $10,000.
Rough dollar translation … take 60% of those numbers for the US dollar.
Meanwhile in California …
Then again the average Californian income is three to four times that in New Zealand.