But Patrick Schneider, whose firm Aarau operates across the country and offers funerals in Berlin for 499 euros, hit back, saying: Dignity has nothing to do with money.His low prices are down to ordering coffins in the hundreds rather than by the dozen, as well as getting special prices at the crematorium for being a good customer, he said.Dressed all in black and with a carefully groomed white beard, Schneider organises funerals-to-order for his wealthier customers at a plush MBT Sale, antique-furnished countryside building.By contrast, business for his 499-euro funerals is conducted at Aarau's spartan premises in Berlin where the only splash of colour can be found in a catalogue of urns laid on the table.The quest for the cheap, the easy, what can be thrown away, now doesn't exclude burials, Dagmar Haenel, an anthropologist at the University of Bonn, commented.At the same time we also have a rise in very individualised burials, sometimes very costly by rich and educated people, she said.When it comes to funerals, the struggle of the classes is gaining ground.
US former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier is in hospice care with liver cancer, his manager says MBT Outlet. Joe Frazier held the world title in 1970-73He says Frazier - also known as Smokin' Joe - was diagnosed with cancer several weeks ago.I would be a liar if I did not tell you it is very serious, Leslie Wolf told Reuters news agency.The 67-year-old held the world title between 1970 and 1973. He was the first man to beat Muhammad Ali in 1971 MBT Shoes. He lost the next two bouts with Ali.Mr Wolf said that Frazier was diagnosed with liver cancer last month and was now in hospice care in Philadelphia.Joe is a fighter. Joe doesn't give up, the manager said, adding that doctors and Frazier's team were doing everything we can.Frazier won the heavyweight title in 1970 by defeating Jimmy Ellis in New York. He held it until 1973, when he was beaten by George Foreman.But the boxer is perhaps most widely-known for three great fights with Ali, including the epic Thriller in Man Related articles:

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