You all do realize the cost of a funeral beyond the burial plot, right?
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Why should I give money when someone dies?
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 Monsieur Muggles |
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Posts: 5530 (11/18/08 7:19 PM) |
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 22835 (11/18/08 7:32 PM) MESS member |
I've usually seen money collected before funeral, but never during
and I just did an in lieu of thing - it was hard figuring out how much |
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MMMadcow |
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Posts: 6263 (11/18/08 7:40 PM) Registered User |
I just give what I'd spend on flowers. Depending on the closeness of the relationship to the person.
Last year we had a rash of deaths. I hope we go a couple of months this year without one. Florists overcharge the bereaved. |
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factoryhurl |
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Posts: 4319 (11/18/08 7:45 PM) Registered user |
everyone overcharges the bereaved. you can make a pretty good buck in the death business. not a lot of people are cut out for it but if you are, it is
recession proof.
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 22836 (11/18/08 7:50 PM) MESS member |
yeah, but I had problems figuring out what flowers would cost
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Aunt Pappy |
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Posts: 17263 (11/18/08 7:54 PM) |
Nope. Not gonna do it.
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MMMadcow |
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Posts: 6266 (11/18/08 7:59 PM) Registered User |
CB-I spent around 60 bucks on each arrangement. Like I said, overcharged by death. They weren't big arrangements, either. Yikes.
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SmrtAss |
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Posts: 4541 (11/18/08 9:10 PM) Lazy ass bitch, please |
Yeah, some people give money for Masses to be said in memory of the dead person. Nothing's free, you know.
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goner1 |
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Posts: 5861 (11/18/08 10:20 PM) Registered User |
Yeah this happened at work just last week for me. Donations were immediately solicited (like within 20 hours of the death), but there wasn't even a
sympathy card circulated around - maybe a not so subtle snub for seeming greedy I think.
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Shagnanigans |
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Posts: 1605 (11/18/08 10:31 PM) I'm not drunk
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HEY!
I only have one kid. |
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GoodNeighborgirl |
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Posts: 18295 (11/18/08 10:39 PM) Fatty McBadmom |
Did she fall off a horse and is bedridden now? Is that why we are being graced with her ghostly presence so much?
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Eurytol |
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Posts: 4189 (11/18/08 10:51 PM) Badass motherfucker-er
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I can assure you all that geddywhatever's post is a terrific lie.
That money was spent on 10 gallons of mead, a blonde Dante, and a raging case of the Great Pestilence. |
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GoodNeighborgirl |
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Posts: 18296 (11/19/08 6:53 AM) Fatty McBadmom |
...and Olive Garden.
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worstdog |
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Posts: 3527 (11/19/08 7:44 AM) Registered user |
You folks seem to know a lot of people who die, don'tcha?
They'll pass around an envelope at work - but it's for a group floral arrangement - not so the young widow can get that much-needed tummy tuck so she can resume her pole dancing career. |
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PassionatePiscesMan |
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Posts: 6562 (11/19/08 7:51 AM) Registered User |
Funeral costs are expensive if you are dumb enough to do that. Join your state's creamation society for a one-time fee of about $50. The creamtion itself
costs $800 - $1000 Without any viewing. They come pick up the body and you pick up the ashes in like a milk cartoon or perhaps $100 - $200 for an urn. A
memorial mass costs about $100. This is sooooooooooo fucking tacky.
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MMMadcow |
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Posts: 6269 (11/19/08 8:10 AM) Registered User |
We actually know a funeral director. Mark up is insane. Cremation is the way to go.
I just find funerals with open caskets so undignified. I don't want to be watched while I have no control over the situation. With my family of jokesters, I'd be surprised if they didn't stand me up in a corner. With a donation cup in my hand. |
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pinkdolphin |
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Posts: 7609 (11/19/08 1:08 PM) Registered User |
My aunt asked for donations in money - she had to pay for two funerals and burials plus host a get together for the family at a reastraunt. She still received
plants and flowers but not that many. She did not have life insurance for either.
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2ManyAndersons |
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Posts: 8709 (11/19/08 1:15 PM) Registered user |
factoryhurl wrote: Or the birth business. It's galling how one can make a living out of guilt. Just ask my uncle. "But madam, how would you feel about your hubby not having a comfortable casket to lay in for eternity? Didn't you love him enough?" For one, caskets are not waterproof. Depending on where they're buried him and the season he'll be covered in mold by next sunfall. Two, he's dead, why would he give a fuck? Fucking cretins. Also, my area is flowing with offers of cash donations, they're even printed in the obituary notices. |
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Kenscookie |
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Posts: 5302 (11/19/08 1:15 PM) Registered user |
One woman who worked here died suddenly earlier this year.
They were going around asking for donations for her 5 year old daughter's college fund. I didn't contribute. |
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Shagnanigans |
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Posts: 1612 (11/19/08 1:22 PM) I'm not drunk
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Congratulations, that's very um noble of you.
Even with cremation and no casket, funeral expenses are usually around $2000, give or take and depending on your region of course. I always preferred doing the donation thing, as flowers wind up in the trash or on the grave (where they die quickly) within a few days. |
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