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Just paid $1100 for a rock.

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kd2777

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My wife?s father pasted away a couple of weeks ago and didn't have very much in his Estate so we are picking up a lot of the tabs for his final expenses. I'm 28 and have never done any of this before and man this stuff has amazing mark up. When we picked out the coffin and vault it totaled 13,500, then today we went to go get the head stone and it was just a simple grey single plot design and it was 1097.25??1100 bucks for a rock!!!! If I was 18 again I would go into the death industry.

kd
 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
At least it wasn't a diamond...:roll:


Sorry to heard about your father-in -law. 🙁
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Diamonds costs you twice. 🙁

Sorry about your F.I.L. as well...
 
All funeral related business is a huge SCAM. They prey on the emotions of the living and gouge you to the moon. They use emotional blackmail to guilt you into spending way more than is needed and all for a box that is going into the dirt in most cases. It is all a joke. Burn me and cast my ashes across the lake at my lake house....they will gouge you on the cremation but you can't do anything about it since the government protects them with laws that require you to pay certain fees. I expect them to put my ashes in a Big Gulp cup though as I can choose the container.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
All funeral related business is a huge SCAM. They prey on the emotions of the living and gouge you to the moon. They use emotional blackmail to guilt you into spending way more than is needed and all for a box that is going into the dirt in most cases. It is all a joke. Burn me and cast my ashes across the lake at my lake house....they will gouge you on the cremation but you can't do anything about it since the government protects them with laws that require you to pay certain fees. I expect them to put my ashes in a Big Gulp cup though as I can choose the container.
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bwhahaha... :thumbsup:😀
 
Would've burned him in your backyard and put his ashes in mayo jar. Mark content w/ sharpie. He's dead, he doesn't know WTF you people are doing. Won't waste money.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Ronstang
All funeral related business is a huge SCAM. They prey on the emotions of the living and gouge you to the moon. They use emotional blackmail to guilt you into spending way more than is needed and all for a box that is going into the dirt in most cases. It is all a joke. Burn me and cast my ashes across the lake at my lake house....they will gouge you on the cremation but you can't do anything about it since the government protects them with laws that require you to pay certain fees. I expect them to put my ashes in a Big Gulp cup though as I can choose the container.
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bwhahaha... :thumbsup:😀
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I laughed at this as well. 😀
 
I know that jokes are a inappropriate in a thread about someone's death, but if anyone's seen the Big Lebowski, that's what I'm thinking of right now.

I'm sorry tp hear about your father-in-law, though 🙁

 
I should make my own coffin and have it stored away until my day comes and detail instructions in my will. I'll paper the inside with nudie pics and cushion the bottom of it with lingerie. A few bottles of beer at my feet and then nail gun that bitch shut. The outside would be camouflage with the stars and stripes emblazoned on it with motherboards long since retired attached to the outside as well. Everyone would pour the alchohol of their choosing on the outside, say their piece (no crying little bitches, I'm dead so your heart felt emotion BS doesn't matter to anyone and it will just embarrass you later when my friends who didn't cry talk $hit about your cry baby ass behind your back or to your face, either way) and shove the whole mess in the kiln. Yep, I think that's how I'll go. I'll make the whole thing out of pine and that 1" plywood so it's good and strudy, but cheap and economical. Yeah, that's it....that's the ticket to the afterlife for me.... 😀
 
Is it legal to request burning on a funeral pyre? I want that. Big ol pile of wood, put me on top and top with kerosene. If not, cremate me and put my ashes in a glass jar, then fire the jar out of a cannon into the ocean.
 
Excerpt from my will once I get around to writing it:

"After I die, you better not waste any money on my dead ass. Go to Home Depot, get the biggest cardboard box you can find, and bury me in it. As for a tombstone, take a piece of paper and tape it to a brick, make it say 'Here lies SHEiK124, the cheapest bastard to ever roam the Earth'"
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Ronstang
All funeral related business is a huge SCAM. They prey on the emotions of the living and gouge you to the moon. They use emotional blackmail to guilt you into spending way more than is needed and all for a box that is going into the dirt in most cases. It is all a joke. Burn me and cast my ashes across the lake at my lake house....they will gouge you on the cremation but you can't do anything about it since the government protects them with laws that require you to pay certain fees. I expect them to put my ashes in a Big Gulp cup though as I can choose the container.
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bwhahaha... :thumbsup:😀
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Reminds me of The Big Lebowski 😛
 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I want to be tossed in the ocean and recycled.
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well it's one or the other? Would you rather be tossed in the ocean or put into the bin and placed curbside? Also, should we put your body in the paper/cardboard section or the glass/plastic/metal section of the bin?
 
Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
I want to be tossed in the ocean and recycled.
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well it's one or the other? Would you rather be tossed in the ocean or put into the bin and placed curbside? Also, should we put your body in the paper/cardboard section or the glass/plastic/metal section of the bin?
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Fish eat body, body becomes fish turds = recycled!
 
Is he a veteran? If so he can be buried in a veteran's cemetary for free, including head stone. Many states also have veterans cemetaries. My dad and mother are both buried in a state Vets cemetary. (Vet is free, $250 for spouse).
 
Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Ronstang
All funeral related business is a huge SCAM. They prey on the emotions of the living and gouge you to the moon. They use emotional blackmail to guilt you into spending way more than is needed and all for a box that is going into the dirt in most cases. It is all a joke. Burn me and cast my ashes across the lake at my lake house....they will gouge you on the cremation but you can't do anything about it since the government protects them with laws that require you to pay certain fees. I expect them to put my ashes in a Big Gulp cup though as I can choose the container.
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bwhahaha... :thumbsup:😀
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Reminds me of The Big Lebowski 😛
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I have never seen that movie. Maybe I should.
 
Originally posted by: Yellow Dog
Is he a veteran? If so he can be buried in a veteran's cemetary for free, including head stone. Many states also have veterans cemetaries. My dad and mother are both buried in a state Vets cemetary. (Vet is free, $250 for spouse).
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Yeah he was a vet, but my wife wanted him buried with the rest of his family, so kind of had to do that. I'm for sure not bitching about having to spend the money, I just didn't know how expensive all of this stuff was.

I saw a couple of the nice double plot headstones that where well over 6000, and they weren?t no where near big, just the standard size, but they where the colored granite.

Oh well I guess it only happens once.



I was just like you guys, I have spent the last couple of weeks telling my wife if I die soon and she spends this kind of money one me I will come back and haunt her. I said go the cheapest route, hell donate me to science or something, maybe someone will get some benefit from me being gone.

kd
 
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