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Comment by geodel | Hacker News Reader

It is indeed a terrible loss. But what I don't understand is:

> His bereaved wife and his family are trying to raise money to send his body back to India for his funeral

Is it a common thing to raise money as in community support etc or despite being engineers and all people just do not save money for their emergency needs.

Edit: Sorry about this question. Now I think it is rather tactless question, asked on this unfortunate occasion.

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Even assuming his wife was also working, it's a good bet she has plenty of bills to pay, and dipping into savings for funeral expenses when you just lost half your household income is not something I would ever suggest anyone do.

The costs of a funeral, transportation, and legal work can be excessive. Additionally, no one plans to be shot at a young age. I am sure they would rather spend their savings on their children/healthcare/rent now that there is no one providing for their household. Just because he was an engineer does not mean he was paid 10x everyone else.

It seems very weird for a person that age to be setting aside money for funeral expenses.

You don't know their story before the guy was killed for the color of his skin.

You don't know whether they had some emergency funds that had recently been drained, or whether they chose to send money back to India to support someone else, or whatever.

You don't understand that sometimes people don't hove money?

Didn't they just deplete their emergency funds on the hospital treatment?

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