The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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The Velvet Curtain said:
I will not be having a funeral, I'm off for a direct cremation. If anybody wants to meet at a pub some time after my death, get drunk and have a laugh at my expense then I'm fine with that.
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Exactly the same here. I don't know if those schemes are available in other countries but in the UK its loads cheaper to do that. There are a number of companies which specialise in it.
 
TastyReuben said:
No, they're going to wheel me in on my way to the blast furnace
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That makes me sad even just reading it. I get awfully devastated by funerals. We lost a high school friend to cancer 4-5 y ago, seeing her husband and two little kids sustaining tears was heartbreaking. I cried a lot.
We were not very close but that does not matter, she was nice and jolly... it was enough to imagine the emptiness in their family.
 
Morning Glory said:
I don't know if those schemes are available in other countries but in the UK its loads cheaper to do that. There are a number of companies which specialise in it.
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That is an interesting information. Several y ago I started paying monthly sums to relieve the final cost. I might ask the company what options are there.
 
I know it's a lot cheaper if you pay in advance here. When Craig's brother passed from cancer, he had called a couple of weeks before he passed away and got a price, but hadn't finalized arrangements yet because we weren't sure whether he was staying in Florida or going back to Maryland where his son and long time on/off lady friend lived. He decided to move back north, but passed while we were packing up his home to move him. When I called the funeral home, they gave me a price nearly 3 times what they had quoted him pre-need. I was like you told him $$$ 2 weeks ago. They were like oh, okay and honored what they had quoted him.
 
I've looked up some prices, not the newest ones, they went up. Funeral is anywhere between 1.000 to 5.000 Usd here.
Getting a resting place is expensive. Place for ashes is less expensive.
There are so many options and services that it gets confusing.

I'm gonna drop an email to the service provider I'm paying and ask.
 
You ever have one of those arguments that's not an argument, but damn, you sure feel like you just got yelled at for 20 minutes straight?

Yeah, just had one of those that started out with my wife saying she no longer feels the need to travel to a bunch of new places, and I agreed, but before I could blink my eyes twice, I was getting yelled at, to the point I had to get up and leave the room. 😳
 
caseydog said:
My view on death includes... If you die at 16 years old, that's tragedy. If you die at 99 years old, that's victory.

But, I have some weird views on death. My friends all know I don't want a funeral when I die, I want a triple-kegger -- and they better float all three kegs. Oh, and do something REALLY irresponsible with my ashes. :wink::whistling:

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We have a family area in a cemetery in new Brighton, my great grandparents set it up, he was a very successful plumber. There are 3 generations and room for fourth (my age) buried there.
I'm breaking the group and will be buried not far from where I live. My wife is still undecided.
I'd like to hear what you call irresponsible???

Russ
 
LissaC said:
I've always wanted to donate my body to science (here in Portugal med schools take body donations, they use them in classes for students to dissect). I like the idea of my body being useful after I die. I think funerals are a useless waste of money. They don't help me with my mourning, personally . Although I see a lot of pople who care about funerals for religious reasons and I understand that. Otherwise you can pay respect to a person's memory in many other ways that are cheaper and perhaps more meaningful.
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We have that here as well, two friends (wife's family friends since childhood) passed away a few years ago, they both liked s drink and never saved anything for a funeral, they both donated their bodies to science to spare their partners a debt of around $10k. The bodies go to med school in Dunedin where students study and dissect. They had no assets. And rented.

Kinda sad but helpful.

Russ
 
Today is bicycle day...........

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