{"id":7985,"date":"2009-07-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/04\/making-hindu-last-rites-hassle-free\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T12:00:00","slug":"making-hindu-last-rites-hassle-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/04\/making-hindu-last-rites-hassle-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Hindu Last Rites Hassle-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/epaper.hindustantimes.com\/ArticleText.aspx?article=28_06_2009_013_005&#038;kword=&#038;mode=1\">epaper.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALLAHABAD, INDIA, June 28, 2009: Kanpur, lost his uncle a year ago, he made just one telephone call. And with it, all the funeral arrangements were taken care of, for a payment of $700. &#8220;There was no confusion at all,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We could grieve in peace. We only had to attend the cremation like any other visitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Traditional Hindu funerals have always been elaborate affairs: expensive and time-and energy-consuming. They remain expensive, but in the major towns of Uttar Pradesh, organizing them need no longer be full of hassle.<\/p>\n<p>For those prepared to pay, there is a new breed of funeral operators who take care of everything, from transporting the corpse to the cremation ground to performing the shraddha ceremony some days later.<\/p>\n<p>As with holidays,there are a range of packages on offer, varying from a budget class $100 to a premium $2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: epaper.hindustantimes.com ALLAHABAD, INDIA, June 28, 2009: Kanpur, lost his uncle a year ago, he made just one telephone call.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}