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00:00 If you are able to live, you will also be able to die.
00:04 How much will you pay from the time you are buried to the time you are buried?
00:09 May Bermudez has the first news.
00:12 The cost of death is not a joke.
00:19 From the time you are transferred to the time you are buried,
00:22 your pocket needs to be prepared.
00:25 The package of funeral homes in Marikina starts from Php 60,000.
00:31 That includes the packing of the coffin and make-up.
00:35 The price of the coffin depends on the material used.
00:39 Ma'am, these are our caskets that we packaged.
00:45 In that package, it includes caskets for days viewing in the chapel.
00:50 Good for one week to pack the formalin.
00:52 Then documentation, registration and obtaining burial permit.
00:56 It also includes picking up and bringing to the cemetery.
01:01 This is our lowest price, Php 60,000. It is a wood casket.
01:06 They also have golden caskets and different colored coffins.
01:10 The most expensive is Php 350,000.
01:14 The cremation is Php 15,000 to Php 22,000.
01:18 If there is no budget, there is also a funeral home of the town like this.
01:23 All expenses are paid by the government.
01:26 To get free services, you need a guarantee letter from DSWD, OLGU and other documents.
01:34 It's just for one day, ma'am.
01:35 As of now, the family complies with their requirements.
01:39 Like the death certificate, funeral contract, we issue it.
01:43 And then valid ID of the relative who asked for assistance.
01:47 The family will look for a cemetery to bury.
01:50 In the latest statistics of the Philippine Statistics Authority,
01:54 from January to December of 2022, the number of dead Filipinos reached 676,201.
02:03 It is lower by 23.1 percent compared to 879,429 in 2021 when we were in the pandemic.
02:12 That's why it's not just life that should be planned, but also death.
02:18 This is the first news.
02:20 Mai Bermudez for GMA Integrated News.
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02:37 [Music]