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I hope someone prepares my canoe with cedar boughs to take me back to the place I came from - and I'm not talking about Boise.
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I'm game for being cremated. I'm not going to feel it or care. I wouldn't care if I was buried other than that it's a waste of money and space. Stick me in a pine box and reduce me to ash (or a cardboard box since it's being burned). |
Dad passed in July and he wanted cremation, but we still had a ceremony at church. As for me, I don't really care what happens, I'm gonna be dead, i won't know the difference. Its really all about cost and NOT spending so much money.
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At the funeral home we were picking out a casket for him. The funeral director was trying to sell me this $10,000 thing made out of mahogany or some other exotic crap. He's saying stuff like, dont you want the best for your father? I told the guy, ( who was also a member of dads american legion post..) "Listen, 48 hrs from now it is going to be a lump of charcoal, besides, if my old man sees me spending that much money on one, he will haunt and torture me for the rest of my life. Give me the nice cheap one..." $1,100 later... . |
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My dogs have all been cremated and we have spread their ashes at a camping spot in Wyoming that we went too a lot with them.
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If I am lucky I can do it myself, no need to burden others. Get myself way, way out one hundred miles or more. Have a few drinks make my peace with the world, a few more drinks and a handful of put ya to sleep pills to ensure I don't wake up in the middle of the festivities, open the seacocks, sit back, relax, watch the sunset until I close my eyes.
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Your post got me wondering if they ever showed up on CL. Sure enough there's 2 on there right now....only $300/ea! https://daytona.craigslist.org/d/for-sale/search/sss?query=casket&sort=rel |
I recently went through this with my father and was blown away by the price range of cremations. From a few thousand at the local funeral home to $650 at a local specialist. We chose the latter (confirmed no mixing of ashes). Bought a few small urns from their catalog and that was it. I just couldn't stomach a $2k delta to have it done in a nice marble and stone building versus a store front in a small strip mall. The result was exactly the same.
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Maybe also have a large sign on the wall that faces the front door "Please open upon my death" that will contain my wishes and instructions. I have attorney friends too I can plug in as needed. |
You can get a little discount by prepaying your cremation. They get the money now and expect you to live a while longer, so you get locked in at current pricing. I deal with the demographic that cannot afford to prepay for anything, so they often get roped into super expensive payment plans, where, if they don't pay the plan off within 2-4 yrs, they get socked with a 40% finance charge and then they never really pay it off. Gotta be sure to prepay at a place that's part of a national network or is wherever you're sure you'll die. I ran into a guy whose 95 yr old mom prepaid everything for $5000 in 1988 in Dallas. She's in Phoenix now, will die here and will not get transported back to Dallas for that funeral plan. It's free money for that funeral home.
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I prefer to be cooked in a coffin rather than a casket..
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I'm thinking cremation and an urn made out of a piston or similar auto part . Add a Porsche crest and good to go 😋
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I think you'd need something like the dry sump tank from a 3.2 liter Carrera to hold all the ashes.
Piston is too wee. The (c)remains are too mighty. |
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