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As my wife and I drove to the funeral eight years ago, she received a telephone call on her cell phone. It was some woman working with the hospital, demanding payment. My wife informed the woman that we were on the way to my son's funeral. The woman said this to my wife: "Then who's going to pay this bill?" Ah, the tender mercies of hospital bill collectors! My wife gave a perfectly good answer: "I have no idea." That was the last we ever heard from the hospital.