Thursday, April 11, 2024
Just as expensive to die there as it is to live there
While death is simply a fact of life that everyone must ultimately face, planning for the costs of our own passing is not generally a hot topic of discussion, which is why many in California, among the top five most expensive states to be buried in, get sticker shock when dealing with funeral expenses.
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My dad died in Yuba City, Ca. I live in Florida, so I was afraid of some real big costs. A local Funeral home reached out, we agreed on terms (somewhere below $2k) they did a cremation and shipped the remains back to me. I went through the VA and was able to set up burial at Jax National Cemetery, and they were nice enough to have some Marines do the ceremony. Very dignified and relatively inexpensive.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the mafia still has good control over the funeral industry.
ReplyDeleteI'm planning to drop everything when I go.
ReplyDeleteTell the funeral vultures to stick it.
The worst part about dying in CA isn't the cost, it's that you have to begin voting for Democrats.
ReplyDeleteBuy a casket at Costco, they run between $1100 - $1300. If you prefer, a casket isn't always necessary in Colorado and neither is embalming. Depending on where you're buried a plot can be relatively inexpensive too.
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ReplyDeleteIt all has to do with the human trait of emotional reacting displacing critical thinking and the funeral folks use that to extract boucoup shekels from the relatives of the body.
Back in the 1970s my father, mother, sister and I got together to plan for the transition from exist to don't exist. We agreed when non-existence is achieved the inert lump of protoplasm would go directly to the industrial ovens. No bullshit of a bunch of hypocrites standing around an expensive crate while whining and saying what a wonderful person he or she was when they existed. No expensive grave burials and expensive carved stone. Now that they're gone the only existence of dad and mom are just fading memories in my sister’s and my brain cells. That’s just fine with us.
Agree 100%! We didn’t even have a memorial service for my dad. Mom doesn’t want one either when she goes.
DeleteMan when a now ex girlfriend's dad died a few years ago her mom was just wanting to throw money at the funeral home..... Cypress, lined, waterproof casket for 10k, day and half of wake, church service and a 40 mile hearst ride to the prepaid burial site,... He had something like 15k of life insurance so she was looking to borrow 8k from me to cover the difference.. The ex's dumbass brother was no help with this telling her, sure mom whatever you want, of course he doesn't have a pot to piss in so he wasn't coming out of pocket for any of it... It took a lot of talking but the ex finally got her mom to see the waste it was just to make a show, the guilt trip that she was put through by the funeral home should be illegal....
DeleteThat's why I did the prepay , fuck all that
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One of our local funeral homes has a "Pay now, die later" plan where you pay up front to avoid inflation. You can even set up a "layaway" payment plan.
ReplyDeletePrepaid funerals are popular around here, I prepaid for my cremation a couple years ago
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Speaking of funerals. O.J. Simpson dies at 76 after battle with cancer, family says. Think they'll have a mariachi band at the wake?
ReplyDeleteMom and Dad pre-paid for cremation and scattering their ashes at sea. The estate paid for a bigger boat to take the family out for the ceremony but that was it. Not even close to 5k for both of them.
ReplyDeleteIt's all a racket. Like weddings, it's a dog and pony show for the guests.
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