When you die what do you want your family to do with your body?
dear diary
Dealing with funeral proceedings at the moment and this chit is getting expensive.
$5k for the funeral service (just to occupy the building for an hour to have the ceremony)
$3k just to dig the hole
$2k for the cheapest coffin
no idea what the etching on the gravestone is going to cost yet, but i'm assuming thats going to be another $1k even for the simplest design.
Oh, and even though she (my grandmother) has life insurance to pay for all of this, it won't be paid out until 3-6 WEEKS after they receive a copy of her death certificate and the processing of the death certificate takes about a week to process. So, it will be as far out as late march before we see that money.
If we didn't have the money to pay for the funeral services (and had to wait on life insurance money), then the body is treated like a car thats been impounded. Every day they charge you to keep the body "on ice," so the mortuary would have gotten a decent chunk of that money.
The only reason why it isn't even [i]more[/i] expensive is because my grandfather is already buried in a plot 12' deep. We're just going to place her 6' on top of him. Creating a brand new burial plot would have been an additional $5k minimum
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All this boomer "Pomp and Circumstance" for funerals is essentially one giant racket meant to get as much money out of a family/household one last time. When I die, I don't care what happens to my body (because i'll be dead) just cremate me or throw my body in a dumpster because this is ridiculous.