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Transcript
00:00 If you can afford to live, you can also afford to die.
00:04 From the body to the cremation, how much is the possible expense?
00:08 Find out in the report of Mai Bermudez.
00:11 Expenses are not a joke when you die.
00:17 From the transfer of the body to the burial,
00:21 your pocket must be ready.
00:23 The package of funeral homes in Marikina starts at Php 60,000.
00:30 That includes the embalming and make-up.
00:33 The price of the body depends on the material used.
00:37 Ma'am, these are our caskets.
00:40 We are packaged.
00:43 In that package, it includes caskets,
00:46 four-day viewing in the chapel,
00:48 good for one week of embalming, the formalin,
00:50 documentation, registration, and getting a burial permit.
00:54 It also includes picking up and bringing it to the cemetery.
01:00 This is our lowest price, Php 60,000.
01:03 It's a wood casket.
01:04 They also have a golden casket and various colored caskets.
01:08 The most expensive is Php 350,000.
01:12 The cremation is Php 15,000 to Php 22,000.
01:16 If there is no budget,
01:17 there is also a funeral home of the town, like this one.
01:21 All expenses are paid by the government.
01:24 To get free services,
01:26 you need a guarantee letter from DSWD,
01:29 OLGU, and other documents.
01:32 It's just one day, ma'am.
01:33 As of now, the family complies with their requirements.
01:37 Like the death certificate,
01:39 funeral contract, we issue that.
01:41 And then, the relative's valid ID to ask for assistance.
01:45 The family will look for a cemetery to be buried.
01:49 In the latest statistics of the Philippine Statistics Authority,
01:52 from January to December of 2022,
01:55 the number of dead Filipinos reached 676,201.
02:01 It's lower by 23.1% compared to 879,429
02:07 in 2021 when we were in the pandemic.
02:10 That's why life is not the only thing that needs to be planned.
02:14 It should be a matter of life and death.
02:16 Myra Mudez, reporting for Jimmy Integrated News.
02:21 (upbeat music)

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