Why waste so much money on funerals?
- Thread starter MikelArteta
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What's so hard about picking up the phone and saying thank you to the people wishing you happy bday?
I just don't understand how someone gets to this point in their life
Funeral homes are caking. A casket is relatively cheap, but they'll mark that up in the thousands. Plot of land, that's cheap too. Maintenance? Mowing the lawn.
I still believe you should bury a person appropriately, but to charge thousands of dollars is nuts? You can have a million dollar wedding or a Vegas drive-thru wedding. I have a business idea of having a walmart type of funeral home where funeral services and caskets would be super cheap. The only issue would be that you would have to transport the deceased body to a location that is remote, not city land.
I still believe you should bury a person appropriately, but to charge thousands of dollars is nuts? You can have a million dollar wedding or a Vegas drive-thru wedding. I have a business idea of having a walmart type of funeral home where funeral services and caskets would be super cheap. The only issue would be that you would have to transport the deceased body to a location that is remote, not city land.
Atsym Sknyfs
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I agree, It is an overrated thing especially when the person was no good but the family got the pastor lying saying he/she was a good person who also helped out and stuff..
On a side note... I was in the pharmacy recently and after buying these prescriptions that my MIL will need for life I was like damn .. its cheaper to die. Why waste all this money in medicine knowing damn well we gonna die. And why prolong your life taking pills if you cant enjoy it because you on pills
On a side note... I was in the pharmacy recently and after buying these prescriptions that my MIL will need for life I was like damn .. its cheaper to die. Why waste all this money in medicine knowing damn well we gonna die. And why prolong your life taking pills if you cant enjoy it because you on pills
HookersandIceCream
#TeamOrange
lol @ funerals being a capitalist/american thing
BlvdBrawler
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What's so hard about picking up the phone and saying thank you to the people wishing you happy bday?
I just don't understand how someone gets to this point in their life
shyt's annoying, breh. Plus I hate talking on the phone. Send me a txt... or don't... and I'm good.
Carolina Slim
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I remember someone saying once before that "Funerals are for the living"... I was like 
but it made perfect sense. It seems that everything is so that the surviving ones can feel better about THEMSELVES. My pops was in the hospital for a good 2 months before he passed away, and maybe about three weeks before he died, my moms had told me that she was thinking about cremation, in case this was the end. Now I had an older cousin (she's since passed away) on my pops' side, who lived like THREE BLOCKS from the hospital. And I never saw her at the hospital once; I was there every single day. After she found out that we were going to have him cremated, she wanted to make a fuss on the low about "he wouldn't have wanted that; he should be in a casket". My moms was stressed enough without having to hear all this, so when I saw my cousin, I pulled her aside on some 
... "You was never at the hospital while he was in his last days, but now you wanna run stuff? You only want him laid out so you can come in and make a big scene over the casket, when we all know that you was mad at him cause he told you the truth"
but it made perfect sense. It seems that everything is so that the surviving ones can feel better about THEMSELVES. My pops was in the hospital for a good 2 months before he passed away, and maybe about three weeks before he died, my moms had told me that she was thinking about cremation, in case this was the end. Now I had an older cousin (she's since passed away) on my pops' side, who lived like THREE BLOCKS from the hospital. And I never saw her at the hospital once; I was there every single day. After she found out that we were going to have him cremated, she wanted to make a fuss on the low about "he wouldn't have wanted that; he should be in a casket". My moms was stressed enough without having to hear all this, so when I saw my cousin, I pulled her aside on some ... "You was never at the hospital while he was in his last days, but now you wanna run stuff? You only want him laid out so you can come in and make a big scene over the casket, when we all know that you was mad at him cause he told you the truth"mortuus est
Veteran
I think my grandmother's shyt cost a lot i think, god bless her soul, now their is no god but god bless her.
PikaDaDon
Thunderbolt Them Suckers
Put food on my table for years
It's just a way of honoring the dead. No matter how much of a deadbeat someone can be, if that person's family loved them, it's a way of sending them off. I'd want something simple myself, but I can understand the thought process behind it.
I will just leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics
Not sure about you guys but I want to live forever. Would be cool to be revived (as my teenager self with advanced reverse aging techniques) in the year 3120 and travel space.
As much as my moms did for me there is no way i could just dump her in a hole in a wooden box. The total for my moms funeral was 8 grand and it was very nice. The money came out the life insurance policy so its not like anyone went into debt to pay for it.
I think about that when I read sites like this: Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events
Some of that shyt would be
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beenz
Rap Guerilla
i always felt this wayCrazy how people on the coli think alike.
I would honestly tell my fam to just toss me in the ocean when I'm dead but theyd probably look at me like a mad man
same here. I specifically told my wife to creamate me cuz that was the cheapest funeral option available. I think u can get that done for under $500.
kermit da hustla
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