btw

[maevele]

don't die in ane county if you are broke, uninsured, and the person who shit defaults to is a fuckup. because, since my cousin dropped every possible ball, and didn't ASK FOR HELP, my uncle's body is SITTING IN A FUCKING FREEZER AT THE CORONER'S OFFICE. He has been dead since the last week in august for fuck's sake. Last we had heard was that the funeral home was turning him over to the county, who would bury him unmarked. Turns out the county doesn't do that shit anymore, just stopped this summer, so, yeah, Uncle Eddie is in the freezer until someone in my family comes up with cremation money. Which the funeral home dropped to a mere 1500 bucks, ignoring their storage fees, but no one in my family has 1500 bucks sitting around. If my goddamn cousin had been straight with people since the beginning, we'd have had 6 weeks so far to round up the fucking money, which would have been really hard, but not impossible, as we would have hit up the church he used to work at, and all his old friends and distant relations, and everyone pitching in we could have made it somehow. Now we get to start doing that now, instead of 6 weeks ago, while he sits in the goddamn county freezer. All because my cousin did not communicate what was going on, as it was going on, she thought she could just ignore phone calls and pretend none of this was happening.

Like, no one can really get on with the goddamn grieving, because this shit needs to be dealt with. My mother has enough goddamn emotional damage, and was wrecked enough to lose her only brother, that it so fucking sucks that she has to deal with this bullshit on top of it.