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Re: Funerals are better these days.
« Reply #15 on: 22 January 2020, 12:50:49 »
I wish I knew what the point of funerals is. The person isn't there, s why "pay your respects to them" ? .They are dead. Its just a money spinning racket as far as I can see.
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« Reply #16 on: 22 January 2020, 12:58:05 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 22 January 2020, 12:50:49
I wish I knew what the point of funerals is. The person isn't there, s why "pay your respects to them" ? .They are dead. Its just a money spinning racket as far as I can see.

In days gone by, when such things were invented, I'd guess:

a) To stop bodies piling up in the gutters and causing a stink/disease/further death
b) So the church could extract money from you even after you'd gone ;D
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Re: Funerals are better these days.
« Reply #17 on: 22 January 2020, 14:23:26 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 22 January 2020, 12:50:49
Its just a money spinning racket as far as I can see.

It's probably one of the only big life expenses that we don't shop around for.  ;)

I was 23 when my Dad died and he was in a coma at home for his last 3 or 4 days, so we knew it was going to happen and when it did we just phoned the local funeral directors. I said to my Mum a few years later that I could have used that time getting quotes from all the local funeral directors. She said that he would have been very proud if I had!   ;D

I guess it seems a sort of a bad taste thing to do somehow?  :-\
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« Reply #18 on: 22 January 2020, 14:38:39 »
The relentless scaremongering on the telly box doesn't help...
At the end of the day, the funeral people simply take it out of your estate. If you owe more than you own, then they quietly cremate you. After all, it's not as thought they can just leave you where you drop  ::)
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« Reply #19 on: 22 January 2020, 15:33:10 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 22 January 2020, 14:38:39
The relentless scaremongering on the telly box doesn't help...
At the end of the day, the funeral people simply take it out of your estate. If you owe more than you own, then they quietly cremate you. After all, it's not as thought they can just leave you where you drop  ::)
If you don't look after your own affairs, it falls upon your nearest and dearest, or even the bunch of relatives you haven't seen for years.
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« Reply #20 on: 22 January 2020, 15:56:22 »
Better to do as I did, arrange for your Dad to die in a war in a faraway country when you are only 9 years old, and he's buried before you know itt!
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« Reply #21 on: 22 January 2020, 16:08:15 »
Quote from: STEMO on 22 January 2020, 15:33:10
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 22 January 2020, 14:38:39
The relentless scaremongering on the telly box doesn't help...
At the end of the day, the funeral people simply take it out of your estate. If you owe more than you own, then they quietly cremate you. After all, it's not as thought they can just leave you where you drop  ::)
If you don't look after your own affairs, it falls upon your nearest and dearest, or even the bunch of relatives you haven't seen for years.
My boss cremated his Mum on Monday, and the CoOp are taking their £8k from her estate...
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« Reply #22 on: 22 January 2020, 16:26:17 »
Just opt for no funeral as I have. £8k to dispose of a persons remains is madness imo.
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« Reply #23 on: 22 January 2020, 16:35:14 »
15 odd years ago I worked with a bloke who borrowed something like £12k from our boss to give his Mum a proper 'East End' funeral complete with the horse and carriage.  ::)  I'd imagine that an extravagant affair like that would be nudging £20k these days.  :-\

I remember commiserating with him, but thinking to myself that I bet his Mum would have rather that money be spent giving his kids a leg up in life.  :-X

The rule in my family is keep it cheap and simple and when my turn comes put me in a cardboard box and take me straight to the crem!  :y

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« Reply #24 on: 22 January 2020, 17:59:30 »
Buy Aaron & Jimmy an axe each & tell them to tidy up the OOF members list of those 'too old to be useful' & they & the 'student' will be the only 3 OOF members left. :P ::) :o
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« Reply #25 on: 22 January 2020, 18:56:07 »
And not an omega between us!  :y
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« Reply #26 on: 22 January 2020, 19:00:46 »
Quote from: Rods2 on 22 January 2020, 17:59:30
Buy Aaron & Jimmy an axe each & tell them to tidy up the OOF members list of those 'too old to be useful' & they & the 'student' will be the only 3 OOF members left. :P ::) :o

I'm too young to die.

STMO is too old to be useful. :)
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Re: Funerals are better these days.
« Reply #27 on: 22 January 2020, 19:10:11 »
never mind a cull on age, what about the sick lame and lazy?

bloke told me the other year he gets about £30k per year in benifits, free house etc, no one would pay him that.
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Re: Funerals are better these days.
« Reply #28 on: 22 January 2020, 19:15:07 »
Quote from: scimmy_man on 22 January 2020, 19:10:11
never mind a cull on age, what about the sick lame and lazy?

bloke told me the other year he gets about £30k per year in benifits, free house etc, no one would pay him that.
Heated and ventilated concrete studio with ensuite. £20 of supermarket basics to eat.

That'll sort the scroungers off their arses.
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« Reply #29 on: 22 January 2020, 20:03:48 »
Quote from: scimmy_man on 22 January 2020, 19:10:11
never mind a cull on age, what about the sick lame and lazy?

bloke told me the other year he gets about £30k per year in benifits, free house etc, no one would pay him that.
Benefits are capped, iirc, at less than £30K.
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