Three-headed cartel adds to the high cost of dying

By Eric Boehm

The cost of living is always going up, but it’s the cost of dying that no one seems to talk about.
Ask Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a Vermont-based organization that favors a more open market for funeral providers and their recently deceased customers.Slocum can tell you that the high cost of dying is largely the result of a three-headed system – of state lawmakers, licensing boards and the professional funeral home industry – working as one to limit competition and maintain high prices for the dead and their grieving loved ones....

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