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Storyville: The Polish Ambulance Murders (BBC4) [43]
The whole tragedy of this story is that in reality it's a free market enterprise gone horrid.
thats stretching it a bit
Firstly, the Polish government does not pay undertakers for burials. The money (zasiłek pogrzebowy) is paid to the family of the deceased to ease the financial strain of the burial.
thats stretching it a bit too - the money might have gone through the families of the deceased in order to ease the strain (cost) of burial but its obvious whos pocket the money was destined to ended up in
Nevertheless, this money has nothing to do with the ensuing murders, because people would bury their dead even if they never received government aid to do it.
thats not strecthing it - its plain wrong
this money was the sole motivation for the murders. as you quite rightly say, people bury their dead even if they never received government aid to do so but the point is that these people wouldnt be dead if the money wasnt there to fund their burials... as you also said, the ambulance people dont have to wait to get paid until someone actually dies...
