{"id":59,"date":"2021-10-11T13:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T13:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/?p=59"},"modified":"2021-10-11T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T13:09:32","slug":"family-blindsided-after-marketing-company-funeral-home-cash-in-on-fathers-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/family-blindsided-after-marketing-company-funeral-home-cash-in-on-fathers-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Family blindsided after marketing company, funeral home cash in on father&#8217;s obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/author\/rosa-marchitelli-1.1856775\">Rosa Marchitelli<\/a>&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;CBC News&nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp;Posted: Oct 11, 2021 4:00 AM ET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marketing firm removes sales links, doubles the money it charged and donates it to family&#8217;s cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before pancreatic cancer took his life in April, John Rothwell made his dying wishes clear: if mourners wanted to donate to a cause in his name, the money should go to an educational fund he and his family set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, family and friends unwittingly paid for a product that puts money into the pockets of companies profiting from grief, says his son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really alarming,&#8221; Nathan Rothwell, 36, of Toronto told Go Public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/obituary-memorial-trees-funeral-frontrunner-1.6119639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Rothwell says his dad wanted memorial donations to go to an educational fund. Instead, some money went to private companies using obituaries to sell memorial-themed tree plantings. (Robert Krbavac\/CBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theethicalnetworks.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}