我国的丧葬费用普遍上涨

（文本为视频大致内容，可能与视频并非完全一致）

It's not only the price of burial plots that's on the rise. Funerals are also becoming a financial burden for many families across the nation, as they seek to provide eternal sanctuary for their dearly departed loved ones.
不仅墓地价格不断上涨。丧礼也成为全国各地许多家庭的经济负担，因为他们想为他们过世的亲人提供永恒的避难所。

A pile of bills that shows just how expensive a funeral can be these days.
最近一堆账单显示了一个葬礼的昂贵费用。

Mrs. Li from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, spent nearly 78-hundred yuan on her mother's funeral.
黑龙江哈尔滨的李太太在她母亲的葬礼上花费了7800元。

Two thousand of that went on the coffin alone. The rest was for the ceremony and undertakers' fees.
单单那个棺材就要2000元。其余的就是丧礼和殡葬者的费用。

Mrs. Li, Harbin resident said "When my mom was dying in hospital, someone just rushed into the room after the nurse made a phone call. He said his colleagues would help provide the whole service after my mom died."
哈尔滨的李太太说：“当我妈妈在医院去世的时候，护士打个电话后马上就有人冲进房间。他说他的同事将会为我妈妈的死提供全程的服务。

So Mrs. Li trusted the undertakers to take care of the funeral.
所以李太太相信殡葬者，让他们处理丧礼。

Mrs. Li said "There's a board that lists all of the fees. And it appeared to be rather good value."
李太太说：“有个布告栏列出所有的费用。这样看起来好像物有所值。”

But she soon realized that was not the case, as the actual cost far exceeded her budget.
但很快她就感觉到不是这样了，因为真正的费用远远超过她的预算。

Mrs. Li said "I planned to reserve a room for the body to lie in that cost 50 yuan per day. But I was told there were no rooms available at that rate. So I could only choose the so-called `high end room,` which is four hundred yuan per day."
李太太说：“我计划每天花50元预定一个房间来存放遗体。但是那样的话就没有空房。所以我只能选择每天400元的所谓‘高档房间’。”

What's worse, the body was only there for 32 hours, but the funeral home charged 12-hundred yuan -- the amount for three days.
更糟糕的是，遗体只存放了32小时，但是殡仪馆收取了1200元——3天的价格。

The ensuing procedures weren't any cheaper:
接下来的程序也没有任何便宜：

Flowers for 800 yuan
鲜花花费800元

Six men walking about 20 meters, heaving the coffin, and putting it to the wagon ... 400 yuan;
6个男人举起棺材走差不多20米，把它放到殡仪车上——400元；

Four men playing music for only one minute ... 220 yuan;
4个男人奏一分钟的音乐——220元；

Wagon driving three miles ... 350 yuan;
殡仪车开3英里——350元；

And other services of 160 yuan.
还有其他的服务费用160元。

The bills were coming in thick and fast.
这些账单频频到来。

When it finally came to the ceremony, Mrs. Li was required to pay another 850 yuan, although she'd already paid 250 yuan in cremation charges.
当最后到葬礼，李太太又得交850元，尽管她已经交了250元的火葬费。

Mrs. Li said "Everybody is saying that it's just too expensive to die. I didn't fully understand that until now. It's not transparent. Even though I know it's unfair, I still should just accept it and be ripped off."
李太太说：“每个人都在说因太昂贵而不能死。直到现在我才完全明白。它不明显。尽管我知道这是不公平的，但是我依然要接受它并被它剥削。”

Mrs. Li says she also had to pay an additional thousand yuan to the funeral home. She still doesn't understand why burying her loved one has cost her so much - emotionally and financially.
李太太说她还要多付给殡仪馆1000元。她依然不明白为什么安葬她的亲人感情上和财政上要花费这么多。