The grieving are sold to at the worst moment. Created by the funeral industry: pricing under duress.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the survivors, once in a lifetime, and rates 4 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce resources.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Funeral homes — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 3 ways: Pre-need funeral plans and funeral insurance, Funeral price disclosure rules and Funeral crowdfunding
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionThe grieving are sold to at the worst moment
- SolutionFuneral homes
- FrictionThe body must be dealt with within days
- Life phaseDeath
- Rooted inMortality
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inScarce resources
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.