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Mine was a great aunt about 1963. Folding chairs in the funeral home followed by the burial. Now a days seems like a 15 k 2 day process. My cousin that died at birth was a grave dug by her father and my grandfather. A simple ceremony. Why does it cost so much to die????

Doesn't have to.

Mine won't.

My Grandfather in 1957.

Same here, grandfather 1957, at a country church and cemetery built by my great grandfather.
Mine will be very simple and low cost.

Same here. Burn my ass and dump me below my deer stand. No funeral, just a heck of a drunken bash and hopefully strippers.

Society used to deal with their dead as a family process and saw it through, literally from cradle to the grave. Now death has been made taboo over the past 60 years and the funeral industry has swooped in like vultures to fill the void.

Our local funeral director is a heck of a nice guy (and gun nut too). Every time I see him he asks if I still smoke and when I say Yes he says "Thank you for the business".

I have 14 deer stands at the moment

Bring a teaspoon

I intend to be torn apart by wild dogs while my friends sit around and drink beer.

A friend of the family, about 1979. Creeped me out!

Duh f uc k you saying? 😂

Fish camp...

Mine was my 6 year old cousin. Kissed his
head as I saw him for the last time.

Make your kids wear life jackets.

Grandfather, 79'. First one of the four to go.

My plot is paid for since 1983 when a Great Aunt bought a double plot next to the Grand Parents. When she passed she willed the extra space to me just incase I needed one as I was single at the time. Tia Amelia was a hoot, never married. She was always traveling around the the country taking care of family when they got sick.

Told the wife if she goes first that's where I'm sticking her. She was not amused.

I plan on being cremated, if I know I am about to die, I am eating a bag of unpopped popcorn, should be epic.

There are no requirements where I live to involve a funeral home, have body embalmed etc to be buried on your property.

Highs cost to die are driven by the funeral industry, 100%.
I wll be cremated and have my ashes scattered in the Superstition Mountains. I've already done this for a friend (scattering the ashes, not the cremation. Some things are best left to pros).

The three year old sister of a kid on my hockey team. I was 12 and that was a rough one.

In the dirty south, funeral homes weren’t used.

Dead were brought home, usually the main room ( living room).

Someone stayed with the body around the clock.

Called it “sitting up with the dead”.

Also burned smut pots out in the yard so passer bys knew what was going on.

This was the scene when my paternal grandfather passed.