Re: Buried or cremated?
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01/26/22 10:08 AM
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Basic Cremation for my Uncle last year Dec. 2021 $2, 950. We're making the urn ourselves. Just seen on the news the other night in order to be environmentally friendly, someone one has a patent on a machine that uses water and hydraulics somehow to turn one into soup then drys you out to nothing but dust. Wish I had been paying more attention at the beginning, but I'm sure we will be hearing more in the future.
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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Basic Cremation for my Uncle last year Dec. 2021 $2, 950. We're making the urn ourselves. here its 1000 dollars. Who is bringing the marshmellos? With all add on charges, as others have stated above^^^?
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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01/26/22 11:54 AM
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Basic Cremation for my Uncle last year Dec. 2021 $2, 950. We're making the urn ourselves. Just seen on the news the other night in order to be environmentally friendly, someone one has a patent on a machine that uses water and hydraulics somehow to turn one into soup then drys you out to nothing but dust. Wish I had been paying more attention at the beginning, but I'm sure we will be hearing more in the future. Campbell's
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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01/26/22 12:57 PM
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There is no biblical direction for either one. Your body returns to the earth whether it decays or is burned. Same thing. Thou art dust and unto dust you shall return. We were made from the dust of the earth.
My doctor suggested I start doing squats, so I moved all the beer to the bottom shelf of my fridge.
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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Prior to my dad's death, he told us kids he pre-paid for his funeral. So, we wouldn't have any cost to worry about. He felt comfortable about that. This is what he was led to believe. His funeral was to include embalming, viewing, church service, etc However, upon his death we were told about certain "extras" that weren't included in his pre-payment. Such as $800 to transport his body from nursing home which was 8 city blocks away from the funeral home. $300 to put his name in the local paper. Someone had to identity his body at the funeral home. They charged $300 for one of us to view him which they had added makeup to make him presentable. To transport his body to the church and set up that portion of his funeral was around $2500. So, we opted to have him cremated and a small service at the funeral home which costs $1200. There were some other smaller charges like an urn, etc. In the end we had to fork out close to $3,000.
Pre-paying for your funeral isn't what it seems.
My doctor suggested I start doing squats, so I moved all the beer to the bottom shelf of my fridge.
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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01/26/22 01:26 PM
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As a Trustee of a cemetery, I can see one major problem with scattering someone's ashes. Most of the time there is no record of the person's ashes being spread . No headstone, nothing written anywhere, you just dissappear. What if down the road some relative, say 100 years from now wanting to visit his Great Great Grandpa's gravesite? What if they are wanting some kind of information on where they came from? I enjoy going to graveyards and reading various headstones. You can learn a lot from those who were here before.
For years I have been tomstrap, now I must change because of the whims of the cyber world. NRA Life, ISTA Life, FTA Life, NTA Life
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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01/26/22 01:41 PM
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I have a friend who was the superintendent of an old, local cemetery. He told me once they had to move some graves from the 1800s to another area of the cemetery. I don't remember why they needed to move them. I asked him that old of a grave there can't be much left in the casket.
He said back then they had wooden coffins. They would find bits of wood and the only thing left of the body was a different color of dirt.
My doctor suggested I start doing squats, so I moved all the beer to the bottom shelf of my fridge.
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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01/26/22 01:46 PM
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here its 1000 dollars. Who is bringing the marshmellos?
With all add on charges, as others have stated above^^^? No add ons but the box..I asked if a walmart plastic bag would suffice.....they said no. Well that's cheap. Here they sell all in one, WITH ***exceptions Doesn't make sense Complete but not complete
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Re: Buried or cremated?
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01/26/22 01:57 PM
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cemetery charged 1500.00 to open the grave, funeral home 400.00 for the use of a tent! Lots of extras you don't think about.
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