“That section of Ga./Tenn. border is not exactly up scale Ritz. It looks like the funeral home was following procedures. And the family was a bunch of cheap skates. And Catoosa county is sort of a cheap skate area. Sometimes poor people will try to game the system. The so called sympathy vote. Mountains over molehills. Molehills over ant piles. Calling Barney Fife. There is injustice here.”
See I and others here would not have known this. Plus the fact funerals have gotten very expensive. Figured they were waiting for the life insurance policy to pay because they were strapped for cash and could not afford the 9 grand.
I’ve heard tell Wal mart is going into the business of selling affordable coffins but don’t know if that’s true. 9 grand seems a lot, for that one should have a sarcophagus and 4 canopic jars included free.
“”could not afford the 9 grand.””
That is just plain obscene. Madness for anyone struggling OR EVEN OTHERWISE, to pay that kind of money for a casket or coffin. The VA will furnish a wood box on request as a friend in CA did that last year when her husband passed away. He said she was not to spend a lot of money on a coffin and he didn’t want to be cremated so she sought the help of the VA and that’s what happened...a wood box.
My husband’s mother was a “pip” and when his stepfather died in the late ‘70’s, we found out she had paid for her funeral plans and plot at Rose Hills Cemetery in Whittier, CA but she NEVER PAID FOR his...they had plots together but his wasn’t paid for. We all had to chip in and pay for his funeral. She never batted an eyelash...Poor guy didn’t have a clue...
When she died in a horrible house fire 8 years later, we had her cremated as we knew he would not be happy with her by his side. Today there is an available plot fully paid for in that cemetery with no one to use it. We are 3000 miles away now and will be cremated; plans are prepaid. Probably have our ashes put in the VA cemetery...