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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TokenBoomer@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Vej@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why do we need a preserving corpse box. By the time I die, I will be more micro plastics than man. I will not decay. I will be embalmed by plastic symbiosis.

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      One last boost for the economy at Earth’s expense

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      • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        who can afford to die in this economy?

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    • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Soo you’re saying we should melt you down and make Legos out of you?

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      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d sign up for that. A new lease on eternal life!

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not to mention around here, by law that box goes in another box (a cement vault) so how many boxes I gotta pay for

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  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve told my family more than once to arrange my funeral the cheapest way possible. If they had the option to dump me in the ocean, they have my blessing. Don’t spend money on me, I’m DEAD.

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    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Funerals are for the living.

      Don’t tell your family what to do at your funeral, because you’ll be dead. It’s not for you, it’s for the people left behind. So let them do what they feel is right.

      Besides, how could ever know or care? You’re DEAD.

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      • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It seemed apparent, to me at least, that the person you replied to had the intention of telling their loved ones not to spend on OP’s account. Not that they’re forbidding the family from any course of action.

        I guess if you take it super literally, okay, whatever. But the smallest amount of thought seems to make this obvious.

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      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ^- this right here is the right answer.

        I have a song I’d like to be played for the 5 people who’ll attend, but that’s more about the message it convey - if I don’t get to use my death to influence people, then I guess I don’t really have a choice. I have a preference with regard to burial vs cremation, but that’s it. For the rest, you figure it out. Don’t want to maintain a burial plot? Fine, don’t want a tomb stone? Fine. You have to deal with it, so you get to decide.

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    • Travelator@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Donate your used meat parts to your local medical school. It’s fun, educational, and a great way to stay in shape!

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      • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Shapes…once they get to you.

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      • Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s fun I loved it when I dismembered a human /s

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      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m gonna eat a bunch of weird shit like rocks and styrofoam before I die, and confuse the shit out of whatever student gets to dissect my stomach

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      • electrogamerman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        i want the penis!

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    • ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hell I told mine to hit up those shady companies on This Week Tonight. You can get rid of my body and get a few hundred dollars? Win win I don’t care.

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      • MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I too would like to be a skeleton doing a backflip in a museum

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, what this ad should really read is “save your family thousands”. If you can afford it and have the resources, preplan your whole burial plan so your family can just grieve instead of dealing with all the admin of it.

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    • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ziplock bag and a catapult.

      ‘Goes to rent catapult’

      Fuuuuuuuuuuuu

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    • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can go ahead and prepay for the service, even if it’s just cremation and stuffing your bone dust in a cardboard box.

      That way your family doesn’t have to both grieve and figure out arrangements.

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  • EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dump my body unceremoniously on the lawn of a billionaire.

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    • And009@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ocean is public property. Float around the world in 800 days

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      • shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In the stomach of three sharks, twenty crabs and that one weird turtle

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    • VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like that idea !

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cremate me and blow my ashes in their eyes.

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    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hm I wonder if this counts as praxis

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No joke y’all, plan shit like this now, not tomorrow, not next year. And I don’t care your age or health. If you die tonight, the funeral industry vultures will swoop on your grieving people and fuck them over.

    Working on end-of-life stuff with my new wife (both of us 52), and she doesn’t like it, but it’s getting done. If I eat it tomorrow, she’ll be buying a casket, plot, headstone, whatever the hell she’s told to buy.

    Get a will drawn up, get a Living Will signed and notarized. Hell, just look up “end of life documents” and get to work if you love the people you might be leaving.

    And if you’re married, FFS get life insurance, preferably whole life. Study on it a bit, don’t get jerked around! Had a good friend over the other night who sells and explained much.

    Tried to get us on a plan that immediately pays out funeral expenses. Sounds great! Nah, we’ll self-insure that small bit. Instead we’ll setup a joint account and auto-pay $100-$200 a month until we’re feeling good about it. $10-20K? Can’t afford that? Who cares?! Pay $25/mo., whatever, it’ll stack if you’re young.

    tl;dr: The funeral business gets away with this shit because we don’t plan, and that’s on us. And if you want a casket? Sure, take a plan as pictured.

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    • Hellnikko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Plan WAY ahead and donate your body to science. Family isn’t stuck with a bill to the vultures. Cremation even costs way too much to pay people that prey on grieving family for something that is inevitable. And science benefits from your donation. Ultimate win.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “science” doesn’t take every body, and I’ve outlived two of the three doctors who want to experiment on my corpse (much to their chagrin).

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        THAT is a fine idea! Totally forgot!

        And let’s not forget to check that organ donor box. See how it works in your country.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also, tell the guy that digs the hole how big the coffin is including handles.

      Because I went to a funeral last year where it didn’t fit.

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      • minyakcurry@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Good God what happened then?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just want them to play “it’s raining men” as they scatter my ashes. Because, well…

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    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What about “Freedom,” by George Michael?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Great song. I can’t think of a worse time to play it’s raining men than when it’s literally raining men, tho

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  • just_change_it@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just buy them from costco. $1149 www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why are coffins so expensive? I’m going to start telling people to throw me into trash when I’m dead like Frank Reynolds.

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      • Travelator@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have done some woodworking, and I’d have a difficult time providing a decent casket for $1149. These are obviously sourced from low labor cost areas.

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    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a better meme, and online only.

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah. I really want to make my death someone else’s problem.

    Also, people aren’t going to care about proper disposal when the apocalypse kicks in.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      someone else’s problem

      Me, looking at the semi approaching from the opposing direction of the highway:

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    • GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re already doing mass graves in Gaza

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Coffins are a huge waste of money and space. Cremation’s the way to go.

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    • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just throw me in the garbage, man.

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      • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hey, that’s taken! Find your own garbage death pit, damn freeloader.

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    • wabafee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be fair cremation probably can cost the same or more depending on on the additional cost. It’s stupid why death cost so much financially. Families already facing emotional the cost of losing their love ones.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s always been cheaper in my experience.

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    • magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fuck it. Cryo.

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      • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s right, cryo is both cheap, viable, and resource light! Just smack some solar panels on that badboy and you won’t even have to think about rising electricity prices.

        Fuck, I wish I was cryofrozen right now.

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  • saltnotsugar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I die fire me out of a freakin cannon into the sun.

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  • ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Had to plan an unexpected funeral. They were going to be cremated but we wanted to have a service first. They have caskets, that are meant to be burnt, for the low price of $6,000. This was over 10 years ago too. I’m sure it’s much more now.

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    • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only 6k? That's a steal! As in "they are blatantly stealing money from you"

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Jeez, a refrigerator-sized cardboard box would be free.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shit. Ours were $150USD pine boxes. Ugly as sin, but they got the job done.

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    • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We just rented the casket for my father’s funeral. Then he was shipped to the crematorium.

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  • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • SternburgExport@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don‘t want to be put in casket when I die and have people mourning. Two things should be thrown when I die: a big ass party and whatever is left of me into the trash.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it were up to me … I’d prefer you just wrap my body in a plastic bag and throw it in the trash

    The world disregards human life so easily in so many parts of the world … why should anyone have any respect for my dead body.

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    • FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The unfortunate answer to your question is very likely only because there is money to be made…

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I die, I don’t give a shit what happens to my body, do whatever causes people and the planet the least ammount of crap.

    I weigh alot, so use a cart to wheel me around so you don’t injure your backs trying to carry me.

    If cremation is the least bad, do that, if freeze drying is less bad than that, do that.

    If you can use my corpse for science or education, go ahead.

    Just, please wait untill I am dead.

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      okay, I’m sure Reddit Lemmy comments serve as a legal last will and testament & post-mortem directives. So we will remember what you told us.

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      • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I will trust that you act a notary public on the matter.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Basically what I specified in my will

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Save thousands by picking the ugly color for your coffin!

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  • Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well when I die, it is not my problem anymore…

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  • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Catch me going out in that burnt mustard death whip babeee 😎

    But seriously, it’s natural burial AKA “green burial” for me.

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not that absurd if you’re thinking of your family. Just… myself and other people have way different priorities.

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  • starbreaker@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I die, roast weenies over my funeral pyre and blast old Judas Priest albums out of a boom box.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Offer not available in all areas”

    ominous music starts playing

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  • sndrtj@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funeral insurances are pretty common where I’m from. This is not normal in the US?

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  • Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dig your own grave and save!

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  • Saltblue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s cheaper to raise pigs, they will dispose of your body, and any body for that matter.

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  • TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Username checks out

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  • Banana_man@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLq0kkr0zQ

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  • Emi621@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    youtu.be/Do0rpBd7cXo

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