Posted by fixerupper on May 17, 2013 at 15:34:28 from (100.42.82.30):
In Reply to: O/T Funeral cost posted by mudcreek183 on May 17, 2013 at 13:36:03:
The funeral home will claim they do grief counceling (sp) and on-and-on to justify their fee. One thing we have to remember is in a small town the funeral home doesn't do may funerals so the money doesn't come in very often. Big funeral homes that do a couple a day are a different story.
My dad, who has the money because he's been conservative his whole life, wants to be cremated and he wants me to dig the hole by his gravestone. The service will be in his house. I think that's a very good way to do it. Marilyn won't have me cremated, no way, so I guess she'll just have to pay the price.
About ten years ago I went to a funeral that took place in the home out on the farm. The music was played on an old pump organ and the casket was taken to the cemetery in the back of a wooden wheeled triple box wagon pulled by a pair of Belgians in show harness. It was so meaningful and pleasant it brought a tear to my eye and I barely knew the guy. The funeral home still probably got a big cut from selling the casket and embalming the body. Jim
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