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24 Aug 16
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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.
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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The monks send you up for twenty quid in Thailand.
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'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 |
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yes - got you by the nuts.
someone - like easyjet should under cut them. |
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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
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I think you mean on the taxpayer. The government does not pay for anything.
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What happens if you die with no money for a funeral? What is a paupers funeral?
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Been fed to vultures is what the parsi do, look at images of tower of silence in bombay
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The last thing that should be nationalised.
System is fine as it is. Mugs pay loads. Poor pay feck all. |
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some mugs pay in advance and then end up not even being in the country when they snuff it.
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I will be having a Bowie funeral. So will Mr Makybe.
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Cue, 'Headstone Wars', 'Celebrity Embalming', 'Coffin Building on Benefits' '16 Urns and Counting'. C4 luvvin it.
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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 .
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* they were actually kerbed memorials.
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Some people wouldn't mind if their corpse was dumped in a skip... With a buzzard pecking at your bones.
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I have no family so I'm relying on the dog to bury me in the back garden.
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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. |
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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? |
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AFTER THOUGHT - ye just might kill yourself doing that?
wear safety goggles and earth yourself from shocks? |
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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 :) |