Costco to sell caskets

[klah]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040816/ap_on_bi_ge/costco_caskets

Whether you're in the market for a good night's sleep or the eternal kind, there's now a discount store somewhere that has you covered.

On Monday, Costco Wholesale Corp., better known for bulk chicken and cases of soda, started test marketing caskets along side mattresses...

Will their liberal return policy still apply :Q

 

[Balt]

As expensive as it is to bury someone these days, I guess it was only a matter of time...

Edit: Or maybe if they are putting them alongside mattresses, they are trying to cater to the goth crowd?

 

[Xionide]

$800 for a fvcking casket? My loved ones will be lucky if they get a cardboard box. I mean come on, THEY ARE FVCKING DEAD!

-Xionide

 

[Pliablemoose]

$800 for a casket is a good price, funerals are expensive as hell...

 

[TheAudit]

Now is the time to stock up!!

 

[AcidicFury]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
$800 for a casket is a good price, funerals are expensive as hell...

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: AcidicFury

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
$800 for a casket is a good price, funerals are expensive as hell...

That's why I've chosen to be cremated when I die. No sense in paying all that money for my funeral.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I wouldn't mind buying a casket at Costco if I didn't have to buy so many at once. I have no place to store all of them.

Can't we all just get cremated an put into empty mayo jars?

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Xionide
$800 for a fvcking casket? My loved ones will be lucky if they get a cardboard box. I mean come on, THEY ARE FVCKING DEAD!

-Xionide

Yeah, last time I went to one the casket was like 3 grand. They are ripoffs, just Mortuaries bleeding grieving widows for the little bit of money that was left behind.

 

[azazyel]

a can of gasoline and a match are all I want after I die. (and someone to light them)

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: azazyel
a can of gasoline and a match are all I want after I die. (and someone to light them)

I call dibs

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: MogulMonster

Originally posted by: AcidicFury

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
$800 for a casket is a good price, funerals are expensive as hell...

That's why I've chosen to be cremated when I die. No sense in paying all that money for my funeral.

Does anyone actually know how much cremation costs?? I imagine that's how I'll go, but I've never looked into what it costs..

 

[Beau]

/me thinks that some exec must have had a death in the family and wanted to get a company discount on caskets.

 

[TuffGuy]

Do they come with Costco's lifetime satisfaction guarantee?

:laugh:

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: blakeatwork

Originally posted by: MogulMonster

Originally posted by: AcidicFury

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
$800 for a casket is a good price, funerals are expensive as hell...

That's why I've chosen to be cremated when I die. No sense in paying all that money for my funeral.

Does anyone actually know how much cremation costs?? I imagine that's how I'll go, but I've never looked into what it costs..

It cost us $300 to have our dog cremated. And that was just for the "we cremated 20 dogs at a time and give you some of the ashes" plan. I assume it works the same way for humans but it's much more expensive.

 

[Pliablemoose]

A couple of links:

http://www.funerals-ripoffs.org/ a little on the loony side, but informative

How Much Does a Funeral Cost? From the Motley Fool

You can be creamated for $1500 or less.

(note to self, I still have wife's ex's cremains in my closet... )

Been meaning to snort them or something...

Already let one of his buddies launch some ashes in a model rocket. :shocked:

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Xionide
$800 for a fvcking casket? My loved ones will be lucky if they get a cardboard box. I mean come on, THEY ARE FVCKING DEAD!

-Xionide

You must be out of the loop...last relative we planted cost us around 7K.


Ausm

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: TuffGuy
Do they come with Costco's lifetime satisfaction guarantee?

:laugh:

:evil:

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: azazyel
a can of gasoline and a match are all I want after I die. (and someone to light them)

I call dibs

Fvck that borrow my blow torch

Ausm