The Poor Spend More

Why are the poor more likely to spend extravagantly on funerals?

"The belief of the deprived that death is an escape from the coffin of life that warrants celebration; the desire to elevate a member of the group to heroic stature; the need of the bereaved to punish himself or herself, and to avert charges of "not caring", if they did divert from accustomed ways.

-Ruth Mulvey Hermer,