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How much are you worth after death?

How much $ would you spend on your burial? Stepson's mom had $20,000, included box, crypt, her pastor, luncheon for the mourners and an honor guard.

Husband and I are ash-to-trash. He is retired military, could have the honor guard too. But we are not ostentatious, we are pragmatic, and if everybody who died got a cemetery plot we would run out of land… and those mouldering bones will not re-animate (makes me think of Tales from the Crypt), religious ideas are weird to us.

So how much $ would you spend?
Northwest · M
I was already set to go with a cremation, and no ceremony. I am now looking into burial at sea, less emissions, and far better recycling option (fish food). It's a higher cost option now, but I believe is better for the environment, as multiple bodies can share a ride, saving diesel fuel.
Carla · 61-69, F
Already have purchased my cremation.
2200.00.
My ashes will be layed in a hole on family property and a fruit tree planted over me.
Easy peasy.
Funerals are to impress those that come to the funeral. you have heard it.......talk of how cheap the casket looks. Where are the live singers? How small the after buffet was.

The only person not impressed on a $15,000 casket is who's in it. The dead don't care and an hour after the funeral no one will else will either. Pay what you can afford.......and screw the ones that came to look.
SW-User
Well I've made myself an organ donor on license hoping for free cremation after death but who knows where or how my body will end up. Just don't want to be buried near my dad.
LunarOrbit · 56-60, M
Funerals are a waste of money. I hope some of my friends get together and scatter my ashes in the big lake.
I’ll leave them enough money for a good steak dinner and open bar.
oldercanuck1 · 70-79, M
not a whole lot just enough to cremate ,,, family on other side of country ,, already have said good by ,, so when happens no one left out ,,
1800.00 $ Canadian
I told My family to roll me in an old Persian carpet. Tie some cinder blocks to its and toss me in the river.
OceanRoses · F
All set cremation rest in a garden (ossuary) my whole family will over looking the ocean. 2 thousand each.
AlyAngel · F
Ive a 120,000$ life insurance policy, I don't want to be burried, just cremated.
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
Donate me to science. Throw me out in the woods to be eaten by scavengers. Let my body do some good whether it is advancing research, feeding hungry animals, or just fertilizing the earth for new growth. Sadly just being dragged out and dropped in the wild is illegal in most places.

Anything else people want to do is on them. Mourn how you need to. But if you are spending money, realize you are doing it for the people still alive and not for me. I'm gone. I won't care anymore. Use what I leave you to get ahead on debts or do something enjoyable.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@ViciDraco i have actually considered donating my body to a medical school to use as a cadaver.
I would spend the bare minimum money is for the living not the dead!
SW-User
It’s not for me to decide, I think once you’re dead you’re dead. So whatever will bring my family peace or comfort they can do…if they want to bury me fine, if they want to stick me in a trash bag and dump me in the bin that’s cool too…it’s just meat and bones at that point
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, F
@SW-User Even if there is life after death, a used up body isn' going to be re-used.
Lostpoet · M
I'm planning on a self burial at sea
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Perhaps more than alive.
SW-User
A lot more than I am alive
Bushmanoz · 56-60, M
As cheap as possible, a cardboard coffin would do me, it's not like id feel uncomfortable
Justenjoyit · 56-60, M
I think a few black rubbish bags cost less than one dollar.

 
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