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title="The Cost of Saying Goodbye: Rethinking Funerals, Finance & Farewells >> Listen this week on WWJ"
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(WWJ) Americans are quietly rewriting the rules around death.
In a special six-part series airing this week on WWJ Newsradio 950, reporter Tim Pamplin examines how funerals, finances, and farewell rituals are shifting in real time.
Rising cremation rates, changing religious traditions, generational attitudes, and economic pressure are reshaping how families say goodbye. What was once guided by strict custom is now driven by personalization, practicality, and open conversations many families once avoided…