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[Jdvn1]

I always thought that a smart funeral home would put asbestos or a delayed poison in the refreshments...

Define "smart."

 

[Rystil Arden]

Define "smart."

Self-serving in the way that will make them the most money quickly, without regard to humanitarian losses, like most businesses

 

[Jdvn1]

Self-serving in the way that will make them the most money quickly, without regard to humanitarian losses, like most businesses

So it has nothing to do with avoiding illegal activity, or even attempting to hide illegal activity?

I think I may disagree with your definition.

 

[Rystil Arden]

So it has nothing to do with avoiding illegal activity, or even attempting to hide illegal activity?

I think I may disagree with your definition.

Oh come on, who would think to check the Funeral Home as the source of the asbestos?

 

[Jdvn1]

Oh come on, who would think to check the Funeral Home as the source of the asbestos?

Anyone who notices the odd materials a funeral home is buying...?

There are people who look out for that.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Anyone who notices the odd materials a funeral home is buying...?

There are people who look out for that.

Bah, a guy who went to my high school at the same time as I (but I didn't know him very well) managed to buy KCN along with AgNO3 from a jewelry site without raising any suspicions at all, as the two are used for curing jewelry. He threw away the AgNO3 and stuck the KCN into a soda, where it dissolved and he poisoned his best friend to death. Don't believe me? Some people don't. Google "Ryan Furlough" + "murder"...

 

[Jdvn1]

Bah, a guy who went to my high school at the same time as I (but I didn't know him very well) managed to buy KCN along with AgNO3 from a jewelry site without raising any suspicions at all, as the two are used for curing jewelry. He threw away the AgNO3 and stuck the KCN into a soda, where it dissolved and he poisoned his best friend to death. Don't believe me? Some people don't. Google "Ryan Furlough" + "murder"...

Does he buy that stuff on a regular basis, though?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Does he buy that stuff on a regular basis, though?

Well you don't want to do it on a regular basis. Just buy one batch and sprinkle it judiciously in small amounts over a long period of time. After all, you don't want everyone who goes there to slowly die or you might be suspected. Particularly, putting something in the little bowl of candies would target the children, which is a better idea because you typically wouldn't be seeing them for a while otherwise (as compared to the elderly).

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, but if you don't kill enough people, you don't guarantee that you'll be getting any more business, as a funeral home.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, but if you don't kill enough people, you don't guarantee that you'll be getting any more business, as a funeral home.

As long as you kill enough people to more than compensate for the cost of the materials, it doesn't matter. Assuming 1 person's funeral nets you enough to pay for the materials, killing even two children is advantageous, since on average the current funeral home owners will be dead before those children would have been dead.