WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll ·
07/05/2019 11:14
These are sooooo patronising to the elderly - not that most people in the huge 50-80 age bracket would be considered elderly anyway. I'm guessing that before long, they'll be targeting the over 40s, then the over 30s, then approaching young adults at uni freshers' week. Before long, they'll be paying to have their leaflets in the Bounty packs that get shoved at new mums - and not just aimed at the mums.
That bloke who spends his whole life making dodgy parsnip jam (boak!) and trying to foist it off on poor June. She should definitely defer getting a plan for a month or two and spend the money on a door chain and spy hole for whenever he toddles on over with his manipulative ways. He's clearly on commission and he has her firmly in his sights. Whoever knew that funeral insurance could eventually enter the MLM fold?
He's clearly very easily pleased - see his face light up at the prospect of getting a free pen. Imagine, it would otherwise cost him at least 15p to buy a perfectly good pen himself. Also, that glint in his eye when he sees Parky on the telly is slightly unnerving.
Now there's one from a rival company, telling you that "It can go towards your funeral or [your family] can spend it on what they want".
Note the word 'towards' - as these don't typically pay out a huge sum. How could they when they'll sell them to anybody under 80, without any medical questions at all?
Also, that little word 'or'. They're clearly suggesting that arranging a sincere, dignified, traditional way to honour your loved one's passing is NOT what your family could possibly actually want, which is a bit off, but funerals are not obligatory and are not everybody's preference, as discussed in a recent thread (although this is obviously the whole intended purpose for scaring encouraging people into buying these policies in the first place).
However, what I really don't understand is, if you don't spend the money on the funeral and instead use it to go on the razz, what are you meant to do with the body? Stuff it in the wheelie bin? Seal it in a huge vac-pac loft storage bag and pop along to the council tip at dusk? Maybe you could use the money on a new 'memorial patio shrine' and kill two relatives birds with one stone?
I don't object to these plans in principle, but why the need for the little kitchen-sink dramas and ludicrous suggestions with which to hawk them? Maybe the very fact I watch the kind of programmes that endlessly advertise them in the breaks is a hint that I should get one myself, although I'm not quite 50 yet 