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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 29, 2009, 03:08:29 PM
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Oh my.
The Sears, Roebuck primitive:
Craftsman (855 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:04 PM
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Walmart Is Now Selling Caskets Online, EKK!!!!!
http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_const...
Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:05 PM
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1. Can I get one with the WalMart smiley face on it?
Craftsman (855 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:06 PM
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2. Always Low Prices, about 6 feet under
derby378 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:06 PM
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3. There's a discount casket store just down the street from our home
So I guess I'm used to the concept already.
tammywammy (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:07 PM
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4. Costco has sold caskets for years.
Kalyke (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:33 PM
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14. Are they branded as "Caskco?"
Laf.La.Dem. (526 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:07 PM
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5. I assume made out of the country
China??
Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:09 PM
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7. It's not like the lead-based paint is going to kill anyone.
tammywammy (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:10 PM
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8. 1 is made in Canada, the rest the United States
It's listed, and I looked since you asked.
OneTenthofOnePercent (724 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:08 PM
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6. Some funeral homes will not assume the risk of "cheap caskets"
So they will not handle them. I think it's a load of crap.
What are the odds a casket will fall apart in under a week?
I think it's just a cover to get distressed peopl eto buy their overpriced death boxes.
woodsprite (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:48 PM
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16. In my mom's end-of-life planning, she printed out a casket that she found in perusing the web. I had a printout of it when we went to the funeral home to show him the type/style. The last thing on my mind was price. We were there to make arrangements after she died and I showed him the casket she wanted. He said "Well, we don't have that particular one. We use this manufacturer, but since you have the price listed, I'll discount the casket to meet that printed cost."
Who have ever thought of 'shopping' casket prices? I hadn't. I was taken off guard that they discounted it by $750. My SIL had gotten rid of the gown my Mom had chosen to wear, so I had to go find something. The funeral home didn't have any 'funeral dress/negligee' that fit my Mom's color/design wish - we would have had to settle for something. I ended up finding one that she would have loved at Macy's that was marked down at the register from $159 to $17. She was always so worried we'd spend too much on her funeral. The family joked that she may have had a hand in guiding the process.
Spinzonner (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:49 PM
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17. Well, it's not like they can sell them with a lifetime gurarantee.
Contrary1 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:11 PM
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9. Save money...
Live Die better.
SacredCow (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:17 PM
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10. I can't buy one where I live....
It's illegal for anyone other than a licensed mortuary to sell caskets in Louisiana.
The skidmarked underwear primitive, the older middle-aged farmwife in eastern Iowa:
Skidmore (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:18 PM
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11. They're just looking forward, anticipating market share. You know, we Boomer are going to start to keel over soon, perhaps with a little help from the insurance industry and its bought and paid for legislators.
DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:26 PM
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12. Sorry but I don't have a problem with this.
I can not imagine being able to come up with a defense for the ridiculously high cost of a burial in this country. They make survivors feel guilty and empty your checkbook. I would rather swim with hungry sharks.
I don't like Walmart but I prefer them over the funeral homes.
Myrina (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:29 PM
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13. Pretty soon, they will have every dime we make ...
... from cribs and diapers, through to caskets. Our entire lives, all of our income. To Wal Mart.
Ain't unfettered capitalism grand?
Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:57 PM
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18. Good for them.
Bad news for funeral homes that make huge profit margins from ridiculously overpriced caskets by guilt-tripping the family of the deceased when they are grieving and vulnerable.
Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:11 PM
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21. But you're putting mom & pop leeches out of business
aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:00 PM
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19. I already told my wife -- no coffin -- just lay me out on a table and then turn me into ashes.
If my funeral costs more than 1k, I will be an unhappy ghost.
nykym (410 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:09 PM
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20. Now that's what I call
Cradle to Grave marketing!
The vindictive primitive, who's looking for a free hip transplant:
Vinca (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:12 PM
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22. What the heck is a "memory tube?"
callous taoboy (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:16 PM
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24. Just put me in a burlap sack and plant me under banyan tree.
Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:30 PM
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25. I looked for those in the pots and pans department and didn't see them.
eShirl (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:42 PM
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26. try the Tupperware aisle
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 02:45 PM
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33. Try aisle 3 in the Grocery Department - Coffee, Tea and Spices
The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 01:45 PM
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27. Can I return later if it is not comfortable enough?
cayanne (401 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 02:16 PM
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28. So does Costco
woo me with science (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 02:33 PM
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29. They'll probably decompose before the body and leach mercury & melamine into the ground.
fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 02:35 PM
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30. profiting from the dead
a niche that never goes away. I guess due to all the poverty here in the US, Walmart believes regular folks will need a discount to purchase caskets for themselves. How touching of Walmart, always thinking of the consumer.
tammywammy (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 02:40 PM
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31. Do you feel the same about Costco? They sell caskets as well.
rucky (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 02:42 PM
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32. Those were supposed to be saved for the employees...they took life insurance policies out on.
question everything (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 03:26 PM
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34. Why not? Mourners often shell thousands of dollars because, in their grief, they are in no position to search for something that will naturally decompose in the soil.
Does one really need those fancy metal caskets to be buried for eternity?
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Think of the carbon footprint of a casket....DUmmies should all go "green" and rot in the woods...it would be good for the wildlife, the trees and the 'planet'.
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http://www.wovenwickercoffins.com/
We are specialize in environmental friendly wicker willow coffins, bamboo coffins, seagrass coffins, hyacinth coffins and cornskin coffins caskets for about five years,all of them are biodegradable and support the weight attains 450 pounds.
And then there's:
Eco-Friendly Burial Sites Give a Chance to Be Green Forever
In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet. "It is not enough to be a corpse anymore," said Thomas Lynch, an author, poet and Michigan funeral director. "Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/national/13cemetery.html
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http://www.wovenwickercoffins.com/
And then there's:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/national/13cemetery.html
I wanna be buried in something like that, or, just wrap me up in a sheet and throw my my ass in the hole.
I do not want to be buried in a friggin' Titanium, or whatever they use, casket that'll be around for hundreds of years.
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When will they sell Tombstones?
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/ColonialMarine/image.jpg)
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When will they sell Tombstones?
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/ColonialMarine/image.jpg)
Sears, Roebuck used to sell tombstones by mail-order, during the first part of the last century.
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I have to say, they came up with some of the lamest jokes, ever.
What is a funeral negligee? (From the OP). Did they really put mom in pajamas? Is that customary in certain parts of the country? Where I'm from, you dress them in something nice enough to go to church in. Some people are getting away from that. If I laid out my husband in anything but golf wear, he will haunt me the rest of my days.
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I have to say, they came up with some of the lamest jokes, ever.
What is a funeral negligee? (From the OP). Did they really put mom in pajamas? Is that customary in certain parts of the country? Where I'm from, you dress them in something nice enough to go to church in. Some people are getting away from that. If I laid out my husband in anything but golf wear, he will haunt me the rest of my days.
I've read the term "funeral negligee" before.
Shock, especially at a sudden and unexpected death, does things to one.
When one of my older brothers died (at home, in his sleep, of cardiac arrest, aged 40), after I went through the formalities with the county sheriff and county attorney and the body could be removed, the funeral director said he needed a suit to go with the body.
Oh, I said, and opened the closet door.
Wherein hung only my late brother's baseball uniform, nothing else.
I was confused (his home was new territory to me), because my late brother had of course used other clothing, but there was nothing else to be seen. I gave the baseball uniform to the funeral director, saying, "Well, this will have to do, I suppose."
And so my brother was buried in his baseball uniform, and everybody thought that was such a great idea, such a wonderful idea, and complimented me on thinking of it.
As it later turned out, his clothes were in other closets; it had never occurred to me that one would keep one's clothes in more than one closet, but then and again, this brother had been affluent, and I had always lived the spartan life.
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Frank, your avatar.................................... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Frank, your avatar.................................... :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
I'll replace it with something more tasteful after this thread has at least 100 "reads."
It's a marketing ploy, remember, to draw attraction to a particular thread, in this case this one.
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Think of the carbon footprint of a casket....DUmmies should all go "green" and rot in the woods...it would be good for the wildlife, the trees and the 'planet'.
There was a battle in Texas over the sales of discount caskets, undertakers fought tooth and nail, I dunno what the outcome was.
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Skidmore
11. They're just looking forward, anticipating market share. You know, we Boomer are going to start to keel over soon, with alot of help from Obamacare and its bought and paid for kook legislators.
Fixed.
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As soon as I read this thread's headline I knew there would be a shroud of controversy.
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As soon as I read this thread's headline I knew there would be a shroud of controversy.
You just couldn't vault over the chance to make a pun, could you?
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As soon as I read this thread's headline I knew there would be a shroud of controversy.
Well you can just throw a few shovels full of dirt on it to cover it up.
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Why are they worried about caskets ? I told my folks to throw my carcass in the nearest active valcano. Good to know how your going to spend eternity. What the hell is a banyan tree ?
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By the time I plan on kicking the bucket, I'd like to think I would have made my own casket. A man's got to have something to spend his time on.
I'd have to learn how to sew if I want one of those fancy insides, though.
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Well you can just throw a few shovels full of dirt on it to cover it up.
Maybe this thread can be buried on page 2 . . .
. . . or not.
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Maybe this thread can be buried on page 2 . . .
. . . or not.
Are you trying to stiff us?
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This thread is decaying.
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This thread is decaying.
I'm mortified that this is the case.
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If these terrible puns keep up, there could be some pyre consequences.
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If these terrible puns keep up, there could be some pyre consequences.
Someone may blow a casket.
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Someone may blow a casket.
It's dead Jim
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By the time I plan on kicking the bucket, I'd like to think I would have made my own casket. A man's got to have something to spend his time on.
I'd have to learn how to sew if I want one of those fancy insides, though.
Queequeg!!
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 12:29 PM
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13. Pretty soon, they will have every dime we make ...
... from cribs and diapers, through to caskets. Our entire lives, all of our income. To the government.
Ain't unfettered socialism grand?
Fixed it for ya, DUchenozzle.
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I have to say, they came up with some of the lamest jokes, ever.
What is a funeral negligee? (From the OP). Did they really put mom in pajamas? Is that customary in certain parts of the country? Where I'm from, you dress them in something nice enough to go to church in. Some people are getting away from that. If I laid out my husband in anything but golf wear, he will haunt me the rest of my days.
"Toots" better plant me in my blue jeans, T-shirt, and my leather jacket. Anything else would be blasphemy!
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I'm mortified that this is the case.
You're dead wrong.
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When we buried my mother, my Mormon step-siblings were very interested in the outer poly box that the casket is actually buried inside of. They were quietly discussing amongst themselves the 20 year guarantee that the box would remain sealed against the elements. I suspect that there are now a couple of those boxes buried in a couple of back yards in Idaho, filled with all kinds of fun things. :evillaugh:
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I wanna be buried in something like that, or, just wrap me up in a sheet and throw my my ass in the hole.
I do not want to be buried in a friggin' Titanium, or whatever they use, casket that'll be around for hundreds of years.
Memory's of fun and laughter, outrageous conduct ----Shame on us.
Had this man come to our house, because the crazy Asian War was still going on and business was brisk, He somehow got the addresses and phone numbers of the Crew of the Sub my Hubby was on.
Slow weekend for my family, why not let this guy come out and give us his spiel.
Hubby was 32 me 24, 3 kids. First the sales man walked in with a very serious face. He looked like one of us had already passed. He was about Hubby's age and was wearing a VERY expensive suit and shoes.
We both noticed and knew off the bat that we would have to use allot of self controll as he had to have a silver tongue.
We offered him a drink, he chose coffee. We got vodka and orange juice in tall glasses.
We had no idea where we would end up at death at that time, Hubby from California, me from Maine. We both died together that was a problem for the family to fight out. He wanted a burial at sea. Me I still have no idea where I will end up, perhaps as lobster bait salted down, my kids got to make a living.
BTW 2 of my kids have no idea where their dad is, they don't know where his body is, or ashes are. His new wife refuses to even speak to his children------I believe that since we were married for 14 years, she is afraid I can claim some her income from the government as she was married for just a few years to a retired Officer.
Anyway, back on subject, this salesman pulled out about 3 big photo albums of low cost caskets---$500.00 and up. Hubby was getting into his old [ Chief ] mind set and asked about the mattress and if it had spring form-----this he did with a serious face.
Then on to these caskets that are top of the line. They were guaranteed to protect against water, and earth quake.
I went to get my and hubby's second drink came back and asked who was guarantying all this. This I was told had a life time warente-----Hubby and I both started laughing I had to run to the bathroom fast.
So Hubby says, to protect this kind of investment I have to dig up my wife every 2 years to make sure she is dry and cosy.?
Not to be outdone as I drank my drink, I asked,= how he thought I should go about knowing if this casket really worked. I don't want to go to the trouble to dig up Hubby every 2 years, who will inspect the coffin, who will pay the bills for the disinterment.?
Not only that , but the sales man wanted us to go into a cemetery with flat grave stones easier to mow the area. If Hubby had died at that time I wanted a submarine in his stone. A big BOOMER.
This salesman was one of those people that make money on the fear of death to a loved one. After he ran for the door, I made Hubby and me another drink and we retired to the bedroom to laugh, giggle and conseve out last child.
Casket $500.00 grave sight depends. Could cost a few thousand. any viewing or services at the funeral parlor cost the earth. All the people bringing in the flowers, the cost of having a loved one embalmed for public viewing. They say the average cost of a funeral is $8.000 dollars.
For $1500.00 cremation and a urn for the ashes, one can place grandma on the mantel or on a book case, No problem visiting grandma across country, there she is .
I just hope you guys have not seen the segment of Married with Children and the Bundy Berger.
Lots to be said here did you know that you can still in this age have a funeral from your own home.?
Unless the body is taken across state lines they need not be embalmed.?
How many of you have paid to have a relative buried in the state of their death been charged for embalming.?
I am old enough to remember funeral directors coming to the homes of the diseased, laying them out and if a man, coming in every morning to shave them. No the hair did not grow, it was the skin pulling back that on hair and nails gave the impression of growth.
As Big Mouth Billy Bass sings----Take me to the river, drop me in the water---------
I came to be out of nowhere. Had my parents not met, I would not be here. Life is a mystery of chance and that great wheel of fortune. This all leads to the future.
Death is final, gone forever for all of us and a future.
Went by a woman's clinic on to the funeral, protesters standing out side.
How did we get to the point that females feel an need to remove a human life so they can go happily on their way.
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