I’ve been thinking about saving up money to help my parents pay for my funeral. I almost want to write in my suicide nite for them not to bother with one, but I know they’ll probably want some send off for me. Apparently funerals cost from $7000 to $10000 dollars. I figure I’ll save up $7000 for the cost. If they want to waste more money on me, that’s on them. But they shouldn’t have to pay for an event they don’t even want to be at in the first place.
Why’s dying got to be so damn expensive?
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Funerals are ridiculously expensive because of our egos. We need flowers and lavishly adorned boxes in which to become dust mostly because we think way too much of ourselves. Look around – bargain funeral homes that offer burials and cremations for under $2000 are out there. I prepaid for a cremation package a few years ago. No bells, no whistles, burn my corpse and dump the ashes in a nice pretty urn. Total cost – $547. The choice was mine, however. If others are involved, it’ll probably be more expensive because it’s important to decay in luxury accomodations.
The funeral thing does seem a bit odd, doesn’t it? I have been to many and at the time they seem special and fitting but after a while they seem like an almost non-event. What counted was what happened while they were alive. The modern funeral process seems rather strange to me.
It seems that some how the funeral industry, the divorce industry, the child birth industry, and the healthcare industry have all learned how to greatly inflate their offerings while offering little more in real value. These industries maximize profits while leading us on to spend lavishly for mostly services not needed. Strange stuff.
“These industries maximize profits while leading us on to spend lavishly for mostly services not needed.”
That about sums up how they work. It’s like trying to decipher your electric bill with all the codes and separate charges. Noone can really explain what they are, but it’s irrelevant because you end up paying for it anyways…holy cow do they over charge.
Yeah, they get you coming and going! I’m totally on board with the cremation thing. Way less expensive and who wants to look at a dead body anyway? Not me!
It’s so considerate of you to want to help pay.
I’m really sorry that your parents don’t care. I don’t know what that feels like. Let me tell you that there are plenty of good people out there and I know someone wants to help you. Somebody wants to take you under their wing! I have quite a few older friends because I have friends of all ages and the older ones, well they have more experience in life and they can give you some really good advice and the older you get the more you realize what’s important in life. Don’t rob yourself of experiencing the good things that God has planned for you. Suicide isn’t the answer.
Nobody will find my body and if they do, they can just throw it in a dumpster. I’m done with it.
I put in my will no funeral, but basically I always planned to kill myself in the middle of nowhere so the body is never found. So no body, you can’t really have a funeral because you’ll have no body.
good to see you on here again but i know you are hurting
that was for COD:S