@roamer_1 @Bigun To begin with, the responsibility lies in the family - the native contract between generations. Those without family to care for them are next cared for by the church, and failing that, the county. That is how it has traditionally been handled.
GOOD PLAN!
I remember well how after my father (not really,but he raised me),the man who had to quit school in the 3rd grade to go to work in a shipyard to support his 6 brothers and sisters,AND managed to put them all through school,died,and I called his oldest brother,who OWNED a locally prominent mega-church with teebee services on Sunday,died,and told him that my father's only request was that his brother,the preacher,preach his funeral services at the family cemetery.
He told me,"You know,I am not as young as I used to be,and I don't think I feel good enough to do that."
My subtle reply to that was "I don't give a rabid rats ass HOW bad you feel because you are going to feel a hell of a lot worse after I cripple your useless ass for life in you don't show up and preach that bleeping funeral"!
I see to have a bad rep amongst the Bible Trash in the family,because he told me "Well,after thinking about it for a minute,I do believe I can make it after all."
He did make it,and he did preach his brother's funeral,and the SOB had the gall to walk up to me and ask me what his "Brother Bill" left him.
I told him he was left the right to stay the bleep OFF of MY GD property.
To be fair,I had one other uncle that was also a fundie preacher,and he was always a very respectable and upright man who was living a middle-class lifestyle when he died,and I can't remember a single person ever having anything negative to say about him.
Also the first one mentioned above served time in prison for printing counterfeit money. He "got religion" while serving his sentence,and even opened a prison ministry. IIRC,when he left Oregon to come back east,he owned at least 3 tv and radio stations. He,or course still charged us rent for the house he owned that we were living in at the time.
Lived within a few miles of us for at least 20 years,and never visited us once,or even sent a get well card when either my mother or father were in the hospital. Didn't even bother to come to my mother's funeral.