Funerals are usually emotional events. But if you’re worried that it won’t have enough sad faces, there’s a company that will help you make it sadder.

63213115 07<strong>01<\/strong>31 173357, 子瑜” style=”max-width:440px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;”>The U.K.-based “Rent A Mourner” allows family members of the recently deceased to make sure their loved ones part ways in a packed house. For about $68 a person, “discrete” and “professional” grievers will offer two hours of crying, CBS affiliate WWJ reports. </p>
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<p>“We are typically invited to help increase visitors to funerals where there may be a low turnout expected,” the firm states on its website. “This can usually be a popularity issue or being new to an area, or indeed, the country.” </p>
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<p>Steven Kemp of Haley Funeral Directors in Michigan said it’s not a common practice in the U.S.,  <A HREF=http://wb2030.be/jean-claude-hariga/>카지노 홍보</A> but he has heard of families renting mourners in parts of the south. He told WWJ Newsradio 950 he doesn’t see a problem with it. </p>
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<p>“If the families want that done, then I mean that’s certainly incumbent upon them and what they want,” Kent said. “Our business is in serving their needs and wants, and at least in my practice, that’s what I try to do. I try to please what they do as long as it’s not dangerous to my staff and the <a href=building.”

He said the concept of hired mourners is no more unconventional than the funeral practices he’s seen – such as animal sacrifice or the burning of money.