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.
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Submitted 6 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
Shapes…once they get to you.
Asudox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s fun I loved it when I dismembered a human /s
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 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 6 months ago
i want the penis!
ATDA@lemmy.world 6 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 6 months ago
I too would like to be a skeleton doing a backflip in a museum
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 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 6 months ago
Ziplock bag and a catapult.
‘Goes to rent catapult’
Fuuuuuuuuuuuu
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 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 6 months ago
Dump my body unceremoniously on the lawn of a billionaire.
And009@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Ocean is public property. Float around the world in 800 days
shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
In the stomach of three sharks, twenty crabs and that one weird turtle
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I like that idea !
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Cremate me and blow my ashes in their eyes.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hm I wonder if this counts as praxis
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
I just want them to play “it’s raining men” as they scatter my ashes. Because, well…
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What about “Freedom,” by George Michael?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 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 6 months ago
Just buy them from costco. $1149 www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html
Rusty@lemmy.ca 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
That’s a better meme, and online only.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 6 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 6 months ago
someone else’s problem
Me, looking at the semi approaching from the opposing direction of the highway:
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re already doing mass graves in Gaza
samus12345@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Coffins are a huge waste of money and space. Cremation’s the way to go.
Furbag@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just throw me in the garbage, man.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hey, that’s taken! Find your own garbage death pit, damn freeloader.
wabafee@lemm.ee 6 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 6 months ago
It’s always been cheaper in my experience.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fuck it. Cryo.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
When I die fire me out of a freakin cannon into the sun.
brenstar@programming.dev 6 months ago
What if I don’t want to be a delivery boy?
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
signed sealed delivered. back door delivery possible and he always handles with care.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world 6 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 6 months ago
Only 6k? That's a steal! As in "they are blatantly stealing money from you"
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Jeez, a refrigerator-sized cardboard box would be free.
pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf 6 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 6 months ago
We just rented the casket for my father’s funeral. Then he was shipped to the crematorium.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Shit. Ours were $150USD pine boxes. Ugly as sin, but they got the job done.
SternburgExport@feddit.de 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
The unfortunate answer to your question is very likely only because there is money to be made…
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Save thousands by picking the ugly color for your coffin!
stoy@lemmy.zip 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
Well when I die, it is not my problem anymore…
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 6 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 6 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 6 months ago
“Offer not available in all areas”
ominous music starts playing
Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dig your own grave and save!
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good call on leaving the buttons in the crop.
Saltblue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s cheaper to raise pigs, they will dispose of your body, and any body for that matter.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 6 months ago
Username checks out
Banana_man@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Emi621@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Vej@lemm.ee 6 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 6 months ago
One last boost for the economy at Earth’s expense
metaStatic@kbin.social 6 months ago
who can afford to die in this economy?
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Soo you’re saying we should melt you down and make Legos out of you?
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d sign up for that. A new lease on eternal life!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 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