Pre-need funeral plans and funeral insurance. Pay for it before you need it.
It is a financial instrument.
It exists to relieve The grieving are sold to at the worst moment. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Insurance regulation. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
5 organisations in this map sell it, 2 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
4 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.
- SolutionPre-need funeral plans and funeral insurance
- 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
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Corporation International | $12B | public · SCI | Dignity Memorial funeral homes, cemeteries, Neptune Society cremation |
| Globe Life | $10B | public · GL | small-face life insurance, juvenile policies |
| Homesteaders Life | mutual | pre-need funeral insurance | |
| Dignity (UK) | private | funeral homes, crematoria, pre-paid plans | |
| Co-op Funeralcare | mutual | UK's largest funeral director |