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Why traditional mutual aid systems are failing in modern times

Our burial society has supported families for twenty years but now young people are not joining and we do not have enough members to continue helping people.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are watching a vital community institution slowly die as changing circumstances make old forms of collective care unsustainable.

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