An even less expensive way to go would be cremation. And painting an urn so much easier.
jerryc41 wrote:
That's my choice.
My wife's and my choice too. Nothing left to exhume and check for poison or ligature marks :-)
SqBear
Loc: Kansas, (South Central)
Yes, my wife and I are being cremated but, we will be "buried" in our tomb stone, not the ground.
On each side of the stone there is a hole cut for the urn. then the cover stone will be "glued" to seal the cut hole in the stone.
My kids are gasping at the thought!
We'll see.
I've long thought of making my own coffin. Why not? if one is fairly good with wood making tools, it can be much less expensive and could even look much nicer. Mine will allow me to be cremated in it, so it won't be made out of cheap plywood so it will be even less expensive but do the job. Oh, by the way, I am a minister and this is theologically OK with me.
Well said, foggy preacher!
Very interesting concept.
Around this retirement facility the going trend is to donate the body to science. So upon death the family tells, with prior arrangements, the facility that wants the body "it's time" and they take care of everything and all expenses from that point on. All that the descendants then need to do is call up the cemetery where the headstone is located and have the date of death put on it. For some reason this remains the responsibility of the family - so they can have some closure.
Of course the whole "headstone" part can be skipped.
It was fun to buy a half dozen headstones in a package deal with custom engraving - cheaper too. Now that the remaining immediate family members have theirs in place more family members are getting together to buy another half dozen.
The reason for this process is most all relatives live in some place far away from the family cemetery. My spouse and I are the closest and it's still a five hour flight to get to the area and then more transportation to get to the hundred year old family gravesite. No one but us has been there in the last dozen or so years and that has been only every couple years or more. We've given everyone permission to find their own place of internment but for some reason everyone is holding on to that "family area" in a perpetual care cemetery. The city where its located has bought a hundred or more acres around the "family area" to establish a city cemetery and named it after our first relatives buried there.
There's room for several more generations of family members should they follow the trend.
G Brown
Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK
You can buy a cardboard coffin - there are even 'natural' burial sites on some private land so because it is not consecrated there is less charge. Even less if someone will dig the hole for you.
If you have a local teaching hospital you can donate your body to them for free.
dancers
Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia
nothing worse than funerals..............nothing!
a plastic bag and the crematorium and put the ashes on the flower beds.
no service, no music, no people..............all arranged!
My idea was to dig a hole, maaybe 8ft deep or so.
Drop me in, feet first, add dirt.
Plant an apple tree right on top.
Ooh, wifey just said "Why wait?"
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