Posted on 10/10/2009 2:46:18 PM PDT by reaganaut1
We could put Ma in the fruit cellar. It worked for Norman.
You have made a very valid point and I agree with you.
I know Washington state has a law that requires you to buy a coffin even if you are getting cremated. Well, guess how much the cheapest coffin is at the funeral home? My then husband’s step-grandmother had problems affording his grandfather’s cremation and my then mother-in-law paid for her ex-father-in-law’s cremation as a favor to the family. I think the cheapest you can get a cremation due to that law is around $3,000.
***Lots of families that cannot afford to bury their dead cannot afford health insurance either. The Democrats would fine them. ***
Lets all get together and demand the GOVERNMENT control the burial of our dead! Why should we be held hostage by the funeral parlors that rob people blind!
the Gov’t could provide a simple coffin, plot, urn, or Soylent Green processing freeing us from the drudgery of burying our dead! LET THE GOVERNMENT DO IT!
SARC/OFF
This represents more the obscene rates charged to bury your loved ones. The state can cremate for $750, while the same procedure costs over $5,000 to the rest of us.
I told my wife years ago to let the state get rid of my body. I won’t be needing it after I am dead and she can save money, but it pissed her off. I was serious but she thought I was joking.
So none of these people have estates?
I do know several people whose children don’t have contact with them. In one case, the woman’s daughter took and took and took until she was finally told “no more”. So the daughter stopped speaking to her mother. I could see her not picking up her mother’s body just for spite.
A few weeks ago I helped a friend who is a landlord empty out the house of a couple that bolted owing three months rent. The entire story could be told by the boxes they left behind.
They had boxes for:
A Playstation 3
A 52” Television
Two Apple Notebooks
Several generations of iPods
Assorted car audio hardware
Assorted camera equipment
They left behind a color laser printer and fridge sized wine cooler!
No wonder they couldn’t come up with rent, but naturally their story was one of them had lost their job and they had to buy a second car to get to their new job in the middle of nowhere and yada yada yada.
Perhaps true, perhaps not - but the recent purchases suggest they might have come up with the funds otherwise.
When I lived in Miami in the mid-80’s they needed to borrow a refrigerated trailer from a restaurant to warehouse the unclaimed bodies of unknown latin males. The law required them to hold the bodies for 30 days, but the columbians and cubans were blowing each other away in such large numbers they ran out of space regularly.
Great post. What you say gets right to the heart of one of Ameruca;s greatest ailments. Wanting and expecting things that you cannot afford.
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