> The writers of the article are just mad that instead of state taking money away from someone, they just funded an event with voluntary donations.
In decent countries, a "voluntary donation" to state officials is called a bribe.
And in a decent society, the state forcibly taking your money away with the threat of violence is called a robbery.
You seem to have a strange idea of both money and government.
It is, unfortunately, a quite common misunderstanding many have, that value is exclusively created in the private sector and spent in the public. So the private morgue creates value, and the public birth ward spends it. Nail saloons and lawyers create value, teachers and nurses does not (unless they work at a private institution).