I don’t understand why people would want to be pumped full of toxic chemicals, to slowly decay for hundreds of years, and be put into an insanely expensive ornate wooden box that you’re not going to see nor enjoy, but someone will have to pay through the nose for it.
Personally, I prefer to be cremated, as these are the only 2 options currently available.
This video is rather interesting. Talks about better methods for disposing of bodies.
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I want to be put through a chipper.
I liked the Swedish process promession. And I would gladly donate my body.
Yes, promession sounds pretty neat.
“promession hasn’t been approved for human beings yet.”
-why? we’re already dead. it won’t harm us. but it would mess with the burial and cremation industry, so…
Don’t get me started on the funeral industry! It would be a VERY long rant!
idk, it may have to do with contagion?
That silly casket right there is about $2995. All this money and fuss does nothing to change the end result.
I just averaged a proper American death (those hanging out in a nursing home, end of life at a hospital, and standard funeral) and it came to $116,385.
Nah, that casket in the pic prolly costs at least 5 grand. Maybe more. The death industry is insane.
The nursing home figure is per year right? And most people spend a bunch of years there. So your figure should be much higher. Also, most people can’t even afford to be in a nursing home.
I found out just a few mo ago that regular insurance doesn’t cover it. You’d have to get private insurance, and it is expensive as hell. So only upper middle class and above can afford a nursing home. And those are the “lucky” ones. The rest? What happens to those too poor to afford private long term care insurance? And that’s not even life insurance we’re talking about. Life insurance is affordable, but long term care insurance? Think private health insurance but double or triple per month, for 20 years, before it kicks in. Something like that. It’s insane. But hey, we live in the “#1 country in the world,” right?
The nursing home cost is insane. About 73,000$ per person per year. About 4 out of 10 Americans are expected to go into one and the ones that do go into one stay about 2.4 years. It is just absurd. I want no part of this foolishness.
Oh yeah the casket. It that thing is made of stainless steel, incorporates the Eternal-Rest adjustable bed with the matching pillow, you could hit $5000 real quick.
Where I live taxes cover the charges of the indigent who go into nursing homes. About 7200$ a month so I hear. I have been in those places. I have no intent of entering one except as a visitor.
It’s just insane. You think living is expensive. They’ve managed to make death insanely expensive too.
I wonder if McDonalds would sell me a french fry crate, and whether it would have a faint aroma of trans fats and salt. I bet all the preservatives would work as a substitute for embalming fluid, too. Win/win/win
I read about a dude (boat captain actually) that was killed in action in a war boat circa 1870 I think and they shoved his carcass into a barrel of port wine. Weeks later he was fished out in an excellent state of preservation.