- Prepaid funeral plans - 1 Update
- Prepaid funeral plans - 4 Updates
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Aug 03 07:32PM -0400 >Nothing's more permanent than death, so why worry about it? Let someone >else deal with it. Bingo! DW&I have prepaid cremation for whichever of us dies first but no provision for the second because Who Cares? Personally I wouldn't mind knowing that my cats will eat me. |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Aug 03 10:21AM -0700 Has anything changed since this article appeared about 10 years ago?: https://consumerist.com/2008/01/04/prepaid-funeral-planning-dont-do-it/ |
| ggggg9271@gmail.com: Aug 03 10:49AM -0700 > Has anything changed since this article appeared about 10 years ago?: > https://consumerist.com/2008/01/04/prepaid-funeral-planning-dont-do-it/ Here is a NY TIMES article from earlier this year: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/smarter-living/death-funeral-planning.html |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 03 12:43PM -0700 >> https://consumerist.com/2008/01/04/prepaid-funeral-planning-dont-do-it/ > Here is a NY TIMES article from earlier this year: > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/smarter-living/death-funeral-planning.html Simple cremation in California from some organization (not Neptune) is ~$650. That includes a plastic container of ashes to take home. 'Burial' at sea is extra. Certified death certificates (go in to the registrar's office and pay) are $21 each. OTOH: <http://www.sciencecare.com/california-no-cost-cremation/> I would wish a Forest Lawn funeral only on my worst enemies. An actual funeral at one's own church/etc. with one's own pastor/etc. is very different. -- Cheers, Bev I didn't break it! It was doing that before I broke it... er... |
| Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net>: Aug 03 04:17PM -0400 On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, The Real Bev wrote: > That includes a plastic container of ashes to take home. 'Burial' at sea is > extra. Certified death certificates (go in to the registrar's office and pay) > are $21 each. I think I just heard on the news the other day that things have tipped, more people are being cremated than buried. Even my mother two years ago went with cremation, I hadn't expected that. The ashes are supposed to be buried with her parents, but their still behind the tv set. Nothing's more permanent than death, so why worry about it? Let someone else deal with it. I'm joking. I was just reading that the tombstones where my great, great grandmother and her siblings are buried were in bad shape. No government money, though it's considered a historical site. But the church finally got some money from somewhere and worked on the graveyard. But the money ran out before they were all done. So some "Clan Ross' group raised some money and finished it off, the website detailing it even had a photo of my great, great grandmother's tombstone all restored. It's weird to be uncovering all this family history, and the reason I can is that family history is actually some level of history, period. Michael |
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