Please forgive my ignorance but who pays for these funerals? Here in the USA, funerals easily cost thousands of dollars, even without a casket or burial plot.

Please forgive my ignorance but who pays for these funerals? Here in the USA, funerals easily cost thousands of dollars, even without a casket or burial plot. To my knowledge, unclaimed remains end up in a mass grave with no fanfare. It’s nice that in the Netherlands, EVERYONE gets a little dignity at the end, no matter who they were.