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Lifer
Dec 28, 2004
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What's wrong w/ people spending so much on the dead. They're DEAD, they don't know WTF you're doing. Paying respect? Well, respect them while they are alive, not when they're dead. Use that money on something else. Just burn the body in your backyard, and put the ashes in an empty Crisco can and store that in the attic.
 

Modeps

Lifer
Oct 24, 2000
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Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Modeps
You people obviously dont know anything about getting rid of bodies. If you're gonna burn them with gas, it's gonna take more than 20 gallons considering the bones arent easy to turn to ashes. Cremation chambers are extremely high temperatures and the body must stay in there for about 2-3 hours before it's reduced to ash.

Amateurs. :roll:

or you can just get a bunch of pigs...
:laugh::thumbsup:

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."
 

Originally posted by: MySoS
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: MySoS
A casket for $10000
A stone table with carving for $20,000
A 10 feet by 10 feet marble floor that went around the stone tablet and casket
4 10 feet tall stone pillars with carvings
A roof on top of the pillars with carvings.
The funeral service lasted for 14 days

All in all it was a nice funeral and not over the top.
No, of course it wasn't. Why would anyone think that?

Well this was the only funeral I have ever been to so I assumed this was how most funerals where.
Well to give you an idea, most funerals cost around $10,000 all said and done.

Your grandfathers funeral was far above and beyond the normal funeral. So your extended family has a lot more money than you think, or your numbers are poorly estimated.
 

MySoS

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Dec 7, 2004
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Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: MySoS
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: MySoS
A casket for $10000
A stone table with carving for $20,000
A 10 feet by 10 feet marble floor that went around the stone tablet and casket
4 10 feet tall stone pillars with carvings
A roof on top of the pillars with carvings.
The funeral service lasted for 14 days

All in all it was a nice funeral and not over the top.
No, of course it wasn't. Why would anyone think that?

Well this was the only funeral I have ever been to so I assumed this was how most funerals where.
Well to give you an idea, most funerals cost around $10,000 all said and done.

Your grandfathers funeral was far above and beyond the normal funeral. So your extended family has a lot more money than you think, or your numbers are poorly estimated.

Grandmother not father. My grandfather is still alive. Perhaps my view of being poor is not correct. But I do know the funeral cost more than $100,000.
 

Originally posted by: MySoS
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: MySoS
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: MySoS
A casket for $10000
A stone table with carving for $20,000
A 10 feet by 10 feet marble floor that went around the stone tablet and casket
4 10 feet tall stone pillars with carvings
A roof on top of the pillars with carvings.
The funeral service lasted for 14 days

All in all it was a nice funeral and not over the top.
No, of course it wasn't. Why would anyone think that?

Well this was the only funeral I have ever been to so I assumed this was how most funerals where.
Well to give you an idea, most funerals cost around $10,000 all said and done.

Your grandfathers funeral was far above and beyond the normal funeral. So your extended family has a lot more money than you think, or your numbers are poorly estimated.

Grandmother not father. My grandfather is still alive. Perhaps my view of being poor is not correct. But I do know the funeral cost more than $100,000.
Yes, perhaps your view on the world is not correct. :)
 

Anubis

No Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: MySoS
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: MySoS
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: MySoS
A casket for $10000
A stone table with carving for $20,000
A 10 feet by 10 feet marble floor that went around the stone tablet and casket
4 10 feet tall stone pillars with carvings
A roof on top of the pillars with carvings.
The funeral service lasted for 14 days

All in all it was a nice funeral and not over the top.
No, of course it wasn't. Why would anyone think that?

Well this was the only funeral I have ever been to so I assumed this was how most funerals where.
Well to give you an idea, most funerals cost around $10,000 all said and done.

Your grandfathers funeral was far above and beyond the normal funeral. So your extended family has a lot more money than you think, or your numbers are poorly estimated.

Grandmother not father. My grandfather is still alive. Perhaps my view of being poor is not correct. But I do know the funeral cost more than $100,000.
Yes, perhaps your view on the world is not correct. :)

it definitly is, 100K is more then the average home costs where i live, hell thats almost as much as my parents make in a year,

the average income in this country is what like 50k/year, and you think spending 2x that on a funeral is normal
 

BHeemsoth

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My grandfathers funeral was $10k, and it was a funeral better than many other will ever receive, even those that pay 100K + for their funeral.

He was a firefighter for 65 years and had a full firemans funeral attended by over 300 fireman, with 6 10 story american flags draped between ladder trucks.

It was remaniscent of a presidential funeral.

If you are paying 120k+ for a funeral, you are def. not going to a cemetery, and are instead purchasing regular land to do the burial. 120k seems like a huge waste to me, and I think the person who said his grandmothers funeral cost that much is either mistaken or full of sh!t.

Brian