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 11 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/201b15e4-1fc4-4832-b20d-f8ec03781773.png
Comments
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Shapes…once they get to you.
Asudox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s fun I loved it when I dismembered a human /s
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months ago
i want the penis!
ATDA@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
I too would like to be a skeleton doing a backflip in a museum
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Ziplock bag and a catapult.
‘Goes to rent catapult’
Fuuuuuuuuuuuu
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Dump my body unceremoniously on the lawn of a billionaire.
And009@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Ocean is public property. Float around the world in 800 days
shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
In the stomach of three sharks, twenty crabs and that one weird turtle
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I like that idea !
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Cremate me and blow my ashes in their eyes.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Hm I wonder if this counts as praxis
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
I just want them to play “it’s raining men” as they scatter my ashes. Because, well…
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What about “Freedom,” by George Michael?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Just buy them from costco. $1149 www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html
Rusty@lemmy.ca 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
That’s a better meme, and online only.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
someone else’s problem
Me, looking at the semi approaching from the opposing direction of the highway:
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re already doing mass graves in Gaza
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Coffins are a huge waste of money and space. Cremation’s the way to go.
Furbag@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just throw me in the garbage, man.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey, that’s taken! Find your own garbage death pit, damn freeloader.
wabafee@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
It’s always been cheaper in my experience.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck it. Cryo.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
in general, agreed on the point about coffins, and using land just for butial into perpetuity is not a great tradition.
If and where it’s just about the use of a box, and/or about the using of land space solely for burial, then one other option they can adress bith of these is ‘green conservation butkal’.
The land is used for nature and ecosystem restoration and conservation at the same time, and there is no box/coffin required at all. They can also sometimes be less expensive than conventional burial (with the box and the embalming and so on) or even conventional cremation. Some more about the subject at:
saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
When I die fire me out of a freakin cannon into the sun.
brenstar@programming.dev 11 months ago
What if I don’t want to be a delivery boy?
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
signed sealed delivered. back door delivery possible and he always handles with care.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Only 6k? That's a steal! As in "they are blatantly stealing money from you"
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jeez, a refrigerator-sized cardboard box would be free.
pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
you know, I was thinkingaabout purpose made carborad caskets, and they do exit, but reusing a fridge box seems like an even more fun idea if thats something that appeal to loving peron planning thir future funeral a More eco friendly, and more evonomical as yiu metión. 📦
also a shout out to the idea of shorids, in that cade case a clean old beafheet of the right size and material, will probanly work just as well as any shroud, for a burial, while being potentially free. (For some some burial grounds, no box needed, just a shroud is perfectly fine. basically a fabric sheet wrapping)
raynethackery@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We just rented the casket for my father’s funeral. Then he was shipped to the crematorium.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shit. Ours were $150USD pine boxes. Ugly as sin, but they got the job done.
SternburgExport@feddit.de 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
The unfortunate answer to your question is very likely only because there is money to be made…
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Save thousands by picking the ugly color for your coffin!
stoy@lemmy.zip 11 months 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.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Catch me going out in that burnt mustard death whip babeee 😎
But seriously, it’s natural burial AKA “green burial” for me.
Doorbook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well when I die, it is not my problem anymore…
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
When I die, roast weenies over my funeral pyre and blast old Judas Priest albums out of a boom box.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
“Offer not available in all areas”
ominous music starts playing
Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dig your own grave and save!
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good call on leaving the buttons in the crop.
Saltblue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s cheaper to raise pigs, they will dispose of your body, and any body for that matter.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 11 months ago
Username checks out
Banana_man@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Emi621@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Vej@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
One last boost for the economy at Earth’s expense
metaStatic@kbin.social 11 months ago
who can afford to die in this economy?
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Soo you’re saying we should melt you down and make Legos out of you?
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d sign up for that. A new lease on eternal life!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months 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