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Cremation or especially burial as well as funerals and memorial services can be quite expensive and a lot of working class or middle class people don't have a lot of savings for emergencies so presumably donations help the surviving family with those bills. Especially in this case since it was a sudden unexpected death of a young person who may not have even had any kind of insurance, a will or any plans made for end of life preparations.
This. My mother in laws funeral that just happened was over $17000, and that was an inexpensive one with a cremation. Would have been way more expensive with burial.