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Why not, but it doesn’t end there. What kind of vault is it to be housed in, do you want NASA space caulk to seal it ( so intrusive critters can’t disturb your loved ones). No joke, had the experience and had to laugh. The car sales experience actually makes the whole experience easier.

They take someone who is grieving and often just broken inside and scam them for as much as possible. Someone will find a way to dispose of folks for $500 and make a killing.

Savage….But hilarious!
Urn for me.
When they’re ready they can dump me out into the wind where we hunt. My son and I glassing at sunset

Great pic, on top of the world, wish I could still climb up there.

Friend of my wife and I was taking his dad’s ashes out to such place. He suffered a heart attack and his brother had to make the same trip shortly after.

this thread band Harris kind of funny kind of like the classified threads p somebody would just want to split shipping with God

This is why I don't wear slippers

It may not be true but I heard a while back that you could rent a box/casket. that would work for me. I already have an old urn that can be used. I'm going as cheap as I can. Funerals are a huge rip-off.

Yes, you can rent a casket but it's not cheap, probably $1000+ here. They do that so you can have a viewing period for the funeral and then be cremated after. My wife had a relative do that. Waste of money to me but whatever. I'm going to use an Engel minnow cooler for an urn.

After the autopsy reclaim the body and bury it on your own land. Might need a permit from the county or some such (permits for everything).

I might look into that option if I can't find a burial at sea, no embalming, let the fish and worms eat me.

Or maybe I take a trip and wander off into some dark deep canyon and get lost where they can't find my bones for a few years.

No viewing period for me. Nobody wants to see me now, be damned if I want 'em staring at me then. If I could get away with it, I'd rot away up on a platform out in the woods.

My duck dogs and I are going in beautiful custom decoys I had made.

Then we can all still go hunting.

I use them every day for my duck hunting now.

I want one of two extremes.

Either build me something like the Taj Mahal in terms of Grandeur and extravagance.

Or no casket at all, just a hole in the the ground with several different family members
with much Respect,Adoration and Sense of Mind Numbing loss, each digging the hole with their shovel's.

But the far more likely scenario ,is one Family Member using a backhoe to dig the hole while the rest are drinking beer and arguing as usual , and telling the one running the Backhoe to hurry up its hot out here.

I went to college to pursue becoming an embalmer until that got screwed up by a family emergency so I know a bit about the industry. It is true that many states don't require the body be embalmed if its buried within usually 24 hours of death.

One thing that most people don't realize is that a body looks terrible once there is no vascular pressure and dependant lividity takes place. Not to mention the mottling of the skin and discoloration. Much of that is done away with during embalming by introducing arterial pressure, coloration and injection of fillers to stiffen and "plump" the skin.

Hell, I'd want it done just to make sure I'm not buried alive.

I have donated my remains to a local research/teaching hospital. Upon my death they will pick up the body and use it for any usable organs that they have need of and use the rest for teaching aids. Student doctors have to learn on something. After they are done in 1 or 2 years, they cremate the remains and ship to the designated recipient, all at the research hospital's expense. I have a plot reserved in a rural cemetery that contains many of my ancestors since the early 1800s. Several months ago, I had my headstone placed there as well. I want my ashes buried in a Dutch oven. I had originally thought my survivors could just use one of mine, but I realized they would rather have them to cook in, so I bought a new one and set it aside in my garage for this purpose. When my time comes, all my wife and/or children need to do is drive my ashes in the designated Dutch oven to the cemetery along with a shovel from my tool shed, dig a deep enough hole in the good sandy loam dirt, sing a verse of Dixie, pass around a bottle of good bourbon, and have the final date put on the stone. Done deal. Take whatever money and stuff I leave and enjoy their lives. In my opinion, it is nothing but a waste to spend thousands of dollars on an elegant casket and such to mummify remains that no one will ever see again. JMHO,YMMV.

Yep...and even if they can't get all of you into one of em, a pair of those is way cheap.

Green burial is always an option for those who want to save money.

I was in line at the grocery store yesterday when the cashier told the guy in front of me his card was declined for insignificant funds.

I can't blame the morticians for all of the high cost. American have come to believe that they aren't honoring the dead unless they spend the price of new car. They want the highest priced casket and the biggest funeral. It's become "Our dad was the greatest. Spare no expense." So, the morticians are just doing what the family wants.