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Pokermonster
24 Aug 16 23:26
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I don't like those television advertisements designed to scare the elderly into taking out insurance.  "Funerals can cost £7,000" they warn, "can your family afford it?"

First of all, seven grand for a send-off is obscene profiteering.  And, secondly, I reckon all funerals should be free and exactly the same for everyone.  A few words from the vicar and into the grave or furnace pronto in a cheap coffin.  Job done.  Spend what you can afford on a wake, but the service should be free.  It's the least one deserves from the government.
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Report Pokermonster August 24, 2016 11:28 PM BST
The monks send you up for twenty quid in Thailand.
Report tictacman1 August 24, 2016 11:41 PM BST
'sky burials'on brecon beacons where bodies are chopped up and left to be picked clean by vultures 'who take the dead to Heaven' ... Relatives and onlookers gather for the funerary practice in which bodies of deceased people are chopped up and offered to vultures to prey upon them.


cheap as you like
Report casemoney August 25, 2016 1:51 AM BST
Plain
Report zorrostrikes August 25, 2016 2:34 AM BST
yes - got you by the nuts.

someone - like easyjet should under cut them.
Report Zazu August 25, 2016 3:21 AM BST
baffles me when people spend thousand on the coffin. Id be more than happy if my relatives just tossed me into the sea or buried me in the back garden like a pet
Report Stow_judge August 25, 2016 2:26 PM BST
I think you mean on the taxpayer. The government does not pay for anything.
Report rob_dylan August 25, 2016 6:53 PM BST
What happens if you die with no money for a funeral?  What is a paupers funeral?
Report rob_dylan August 25, 2016 6:53 PM BST
Been fed to vultures is what the parsi do, look at images of tower of silence in bombay
Report Jack Hacksaw August 25, 2016 7:15 PM BST
The last thing that should be nationalised.

System is fine as it is.

Mugs pay loads.  Poor pay feck all.
Report Burton-Brewers August 25, 2016 7:21 PM BST
some mugs pay in advance and then end up not even being in the country when they snuff it. Sad
Report Makybe_Diva August 25, 2016 9:09 PM BST
I will be having a Bowie funeral. So will Mr Makybe.
Report cooperman August 26, 2016 10:28 AM BST
Cue, 'Headstone Wars', 'Celebrity Embalming', 'Coffin Building on Benefits' '16 Urns and Counting'. C4 luvvin it.
Report hectoratoratora August 26, 2016 10:38 AM BST
Whole thing is a rip off ,as most on here already know.Last year my father was pricing up replacing 2 headstones and was being quoted about £6k (for 2) for ones he liked the look of.I had a look on the internet and it was soon obvious that most monuments were not bespoke at all ,they were all being bought off a wholesaler and then being peronalised.I got the exact same 2 that he fancied for £2200 supplied and installed .
Report hectoratoratora August 26, 2016 10:39 AM BST
* they were actually kerbed memorials.
Report TheBetterBettor August 26, 2016 10:55 AM BST
Some people wouldn't mind if their corpse was dumped in a skip... With a buzzard pecking at your bones.
Report Gallivanter August 26, 2016 2:47 PM BST
I have no family so I'm relying on the dog to bury me in the back garden.
Report Dr Crippen August 26, 2016 3:11 PM BST
It's amazing how easily people will part with their money when the circumstances are right.
And the higher the price tag the easier they are to fleece.

People who will freely pay many thousands without questioning the price for a funeral, will scrutinize everything they buy at the supermarket for the best bargains simply to save mere pennies.
Report zorrostrikes August 27, 2016 2:29 AM BST
I buried a pet two yeras(or years)ago. I had some marble from a fireplace
I'd kept and it took a couple of hours to carve his name into it.
Why are people forking out thousands of pounds for a rock? Are ye all nuts.
Form a committee and get the law changed. buy a power tool and make your own?
a weekend project?
Report zorrostrikes August 27, 2016 2:31 AM BST
AFTER THOUGHT - ye just might kill yourself doing that?
wear safety goggles and earth yourself from shocks?
Report Just Checking August 27, 2016 9:04 AM BST
Re OP .....
Abslutely ****ing not. I'm not owned by the state and I sure as hell wont be buried by the bastards.
Gravestone to be:

Just Checking .. Out

:)
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