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When making arrangements for my father the funeral director told us that an oversize casket would be required. He justified the need for this at a $3,000 upcharge by saying that my father's elbow to elbow width exceeded that for which a standard casket was designed. My father was 5'10" and 180-190# pretty average size for an adult male, I cannot see where a standard casket would not have worked. I feel that this was a rip off, has anyone ever heard of this kind of thing?

Sounds like he needed to be looking for a casket.

Doesn't Costco sell caskets?

It's a racket. So bad, the Feds have gotten involved several times.

Yes, Costco sells caskets, so does Walmart. For a lot less than your local funerary rip off artist. A good friend of mine is one of the last independent funeral directors, and one of the good guys, but most of the industry stinks to high heaven.

We would have been going somewhere else.

I've heard lots of stories about the "used car salesmanship" techniques of funeral homes who take advantage of grieving families by making them feel guilty if they don't cough p the money on their dearly departed.

When my father died in 1965, he was 6'4" tall and weighed about 220 pounds. His casket was a standard casket. Maybe today the caskets are all made in China just to fit Chinamen. Therefore anyone larger than an average Chinaman would need an "extra large" casket.

You think?

L.W.

I am sure if I was not about half drunk I would not be thinking about whether or not there was a Ralph's nearby?

You got ripped off. I work in this area part time.
Bigger casket, bigger hole?? Surprised he didn't try to sell you two plots also.

Ask his slimy ass if the extra room was to add his body to it after the local hitman got done

Would have a lot of hard questions to answer if I was asking them.

POST the TURD ball funeral homes name on here for others to AVOID..

Time to shop elsewhere.

Local funeral home owner and mortician (now deceased himself) also built and owned a local nursing home. Over the years he wound up owning quite a bit of real estate and physical property, a good deal of it from former customers, signed over as payment for services rendered.

There was a local lawyer who did that.

And bankers...

I buried my dad earlier this year, he stood an even 6' and weighed about 215. He did not require a specialized casket.

Guessing you already purchased?

Put that in your local paper. I would have been measuring the casket if they told me some cshit like that.

my younger brother passed away in 1970 at 16....

not long ago, I came up with the receipt for the funeral arrangements...

Transported from Metro Wash DC, to Southern WVa to be buried next to our grandfather...

Casket and then lying in for viewing for 3 days, and then transported to Comer's Cemetery
with the grave dug, a minister for the Eulogy, and burial....

1970... $255.00....

guess that is where they get that figure for governmental burial assistance under Medicare...

I have no desire to be buried... I will be cremated... no worries about a coffin...

I don't want some hole in the ground to be my final resting place.. period..

That whole industry is out of control and the experience is exactly like buying a car now, hold onto your wallet. Don't think because you are being cremated they aren't going to try and rip you off. They have an overpriced upsell for every situation. If you can take care of it yourself it is much easier on your loved ones. These people make their money by preying on grieving loved ones. 99% scumbags.