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Originally posted by Fugee
*Even cremation is not as cheap as I would have expected.
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I can speak to this. It is so much cheaper than a funeral. If I remember, under 1K to get my dad burned. Like others have said, funerals can get to near 10K because funeral directors are the used car salesmen for the dead - they convince grieving family members that Whoever needs at least a Cadillac to the grave. But without a 100,000 mile 10 year guarantee. No, this baby is guaranteed to be non-nature tight: your loved one will still be eaten by worms and decay to mere bones in a matter of months/years despite you paying for satin sheets.
Yet people continue to get suckered in to buying the Mercedes of funerals, when even the Hyundai is an overpriced ripoff. Burn, baby, burn, disco inferno. And, if [dad, mom, sib, aunt, uncle, adoptor, priest abuser, greatsomethingorother] had insisted on something else, great, but, shit, they're not here to complain, are they? Honor their wishes, but don't get tooled.
Less (cremated his father and spread his ashes with my sister) in a park (Foothill) that, as kids, we spent a many, many (think visitation rights) a weekend inSF
