Funeral Cost

Floridatennisplayer said:
Changed my will recently. Cremation and a pizza party at our house just for the family...where they will read the funny stuff I put together for them. I’m not dead, just going ahead of them is my theme.
It will be a uplifting small gathering. Not a dark, depressing cold frightening ceremony that my kids and sweet grandkids would have to endure.

I remember my dads funeral. Ugh, the old traditional drawn out showings, visiting hours twice a day for 2 days....the long sad funeral service from a minister who probably had no idea who our God even was. It was exhausting. Never again.
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Not me. I've told my kids that I want professional mourners hired for my memorial gathering. Professional so that it's done right. My family and friends are apt to lapse into amusing anecdotes of my life, which will never do at so somber and tragic an occasion.

A few women dressed in black, head to toe. Veils would be a nice touch. Plenty of wailing and crying, please, not to mention repeated statements that life really isn't worth living now that I'm gone.
 

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Early afternoon commercial TV in the UK is aimed at older people who are obsessed by dying. All the adds seem to be "do you know how much a funeral costs? Why not take out a "you're going to snuff it" insurance policy to cover the costs." The ads also assume that the target audience have no savings and their relatives will have to cough up the funeral costs.
 
Cremation here and girls will scatter into Gulf of Mexico. Bought and paid for long ago.
 

StarSong said:
Not me. I've told my kids that I want professional mourners hired for my memorial gathering. Professional so that it's done right. My family and friends are apt to lapse into amusing anecdotes of my life, which will never do at so somber and tragic an occasion.

A few women dressed in black, head to toe. Veils would be a nice touch. Plenty of wailing and crying, please, not to mention repeated statements that life really isn't worth living now that I'm gone.
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This was my "chuckle of the day."
Thanks!
 
Aunt Bea said:
In 2015 I paid $3,580.00 for a direct cremation including cemetery fees and a modest granite marker.
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The funeral homes around here do not provide the grave stone. That is a separate expense apart from their services. Three years ago I bought a grave marker form my paternal grandparents and uncle's gravesite and it cost over $1700 - nothing huge (3 feet long) or elaborate.

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Floridatennisplayer said:
Changed my will recently. Cremation and a pizza party at our house just for the family...where they will read the funny stuff I put together for them. I’m not dead, just going ahead of them is my theme.
It will be a uplifting small gathering. Not a dark, depressing cold frightening ceremony that my kids and sweet grandkids would have to endure.

I remember my dads funeral. Ugh, the old traditional drawn out showings, visiting hours twice a day for 2 days....the long sad funeral service from a minister who probably had no idea who our God even was. It was exhausting. Never again.
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Great idea Florida
 
My husband and I will both be cremated and placed in a plot at the veterans cemetery here in Florida. I do not want a memorial, if the family wants to get together to comfort each other that’s their choice.
 
Floridatennisplayer said:
I remember my dads funeral. Ugh, the old traditional drawn out showings, visiting hours twice a day for 2 days....the long sad funeral service from a minister who probably had no idea who our God even was. It was exhausting. Never again.
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This is why I've opted for direct burial - no funeral service or viewing; peple looking at my corpse and saying "Oh my, how nice she looks." I've instructed my executor that if what's left of my family (likely a few cousins), want to get together and have a celebration of life memoriual service afterwards - knock themselves out.
 
debodun said:
Here are the quotes I received from two local funeral homes (I'll call them A & B):

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I'd like to know why B is consistently more (except for the cemetery fee)
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Sometimes the price of a funeral has more to do with a person's feelings towards the deceased than the actual cost of the materials involved.

I would skip the coffin and go with the cardboard box used for cremations mine was $250.00, pretty pricey for a cardboard box.

I am sure that if you question them they will find cheaper alternatives for the vault also.

Good luck!
 
And then, there is that line from the song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport",
"Tan me hide when I died Clyde, and leave me hanging on the shed."

Not my first choice.
 
When my sister died, she had her plots but the funeral itself had to be paid by family. It cost over $16,000. That was a basic funeral with a small head plate, not even a head stone.
 
The funeral would be paid out of her estate not family members. That's how it was done with my family. His will dictated that and we all knew it up front.
 
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