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.
Save thousands
Submitted 2 years ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 years 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.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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.
Travelator@thelemmy.club 2 years ago
Donate your used meat parts to your local medical school. It’s fun, educational, and a great way to stay in shape!
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Shapes…once they get to you.
Asudox@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s fun I loved it when I dismembered a human /s
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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
electrogamerman@lemmy.world 2 years ago
i want the penis!
ATDA@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I too would like to be a skeleton doing a backflip in a museum
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Ziplock bag and a catapult.
‘Goes to rent catapult’
Fuuuuuuuuuuuu
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Dump my body unceremoniously on the lawn of a billionaire.
And009@reddthat.com 2 years ago
Ocean is public property. Float around the world in 800 days
shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
In the stomach of three sharks, twenty crabs and that one weird turtle
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I like that idea !
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Cremate me and blow my ashes in their eyes.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Hm I wonder if this counts as praxis
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
Hellnikko@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years 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).
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 years 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I just want them to play “it’s raining men” as they scatter my ashes. Because, well…
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What about “Freedom,” by George Michael?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years 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
just_change_it@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just buy them from costco. $1149 www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 years 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.
Travelator@thelemmy.club 2 years 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.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s a better meme, and online only.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 years 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.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
someone else’s problem
Me, looking at the semi approaching from the opposing direction of the highway:
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 2 years ago
They’re already doing mass graves in Gaza
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Coffins are a huge waste of money and space. Cremation’s the way to go.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just throw me in the garbage, man.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Hey, that’s taken! Find your own garbage death pit, damn freeloader.
wabafee@lemm.ee 2 years 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.
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s always been cheaper in my experience.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fuck it. Cryo.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 2 years ago
When I die fire me out of a freakin cannon into the sun.
ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
Norgur@kbin.social 2 years ago
Only 6k? That's a steal! As in "they are blatantly stealing money from you"
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Jeez, a refrigerator-sized cardboard box would be free.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Shit. Ours were $150USD pine boxes. Ugly as sin, but they got the job done.
raynethackery@lemmy.world 2 years ago
We just rented the casket for my father’s funeral. Then he was shipped to the crematorium.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 2 years ago
SternburgExport@feddit.de 2 years 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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 years 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.
FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The unfortunate answer to your question is very likely only because there is money to be made…
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 years 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.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 years ago
okay, I’m sure
RedditLemmy comments serve as a legal last will and testament & post-mortem directives. So we will remember what you told us.stoy@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
I will trust that you act a notary public on the matter.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Basically what I specified in my will
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Save thousands by picking the ugly color for your coffin!
Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well when I die, it is not my problem anymore…
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Catch me going out in that burnt mustard death whip babeee 😎
But seriously, it’s natural burial AKA “green burial” for me.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s not that absurd if you’re thinking of your family. Just… myself and other people have way different priorities.
starbreaker@kbin.social 2 years ago
When I die, roast weenies over my funeral pyre and blast old Judas Priest albums out of a boom box.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 years ago
“Offer not available in all areas”
ominous music starts playing
sndrtj@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Funeral insurances are pretty common where I’m from. This is not normal in the US?
Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Dig your own grave and save!
Saltblue@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s cheaper to raise pigs, they will dispose of your body, and any body for that matter.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 2 years ago
Username checks out
Banana_man@reddthat.com 2 years ago
Emi621@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Vej@lemm.ee 2 years 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.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 2 years ago
One last boost for the economy at Earth’s expense
metaStatic@kbin.social 2 years ago
who can afford to die in this economy?
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Soo you’re saying we should melt you down and make Legos out of you?
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’d sign up for that. A new lease on eternal life!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 years 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