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Money is exchanged for the rite of ceremonial burial. Most people don't just stick their mum into the ground - it's just not "proper". Social factors require a ritual market in most societies.

I pity your society. In mine, the community buries its dead for free. You're not even supposed to cook at your own house for weeks, neighbors bring in food.

Do you really think you're saying anything useful by baldly ignoring the context of the original statement in order to make a fuss over "free market capitalists"?

The context is not funerals or family reunions or random events, it's communities of people interacting over time.

At a funeral, people exchange stories, comfort, and grief.

In a market, participants are indifferent to where they get their products and services from, as long as the price is right.

In a funeral, I bloody hell care who comes to grief with me, more importantly, I care about who didn't.