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Dying in America has become one of the most expensive final acts a family can face. A traditional funeral and burial now routinely lands between $12,000 and $15,000 once every charge is counted, a total that arrives at the exact moment when people are least prepared to absorb it. https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/2093398734763610190?s=20 The core numbers come from the National Funeral Directors Association. Its most recent detailed survey put...

A Montreal-area family packed up in 2022 and spent more than a year circling the planet so three of their four children could stockpile the sights they may one day lose. Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier left Boucherville, Que., with Mia, Léo, Colin and Laurent after doctors confirmed that Mia, Colin and Laurent have retinitis pigmentosa, a rare inherited condition that slowly destroys the...