In the Victorian era, the very poor — whose families couldn't afford burial — were given a pauper's burial. The deceased would be interred at a municipal cemetery and be given space in a grave, rather than a grave space. There were often multiple bodies within the same grave space and no ornamentation was allowed. Pauper's burials were so dehumanizing and stigmatizing that even the poorest people in Victorian London either paid a penny or two a week for burial insurance or belonged to a burial club that collected dues to pay for members' funerals. For those who didn't have burial insurance, the street or neighbors of the deceased would often take up a collection among themselves and loan that money to the deceased's family for burial.