Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
Aug 9th 2007, 3:58 pm
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Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
MY FIL passed away last year. My husband is one of six kids, but suddenly none of his siblings had any money to help pay for the funeral. Not wanting to upset his mother any more than she already was, we ended up paying for everything - top of the line coffin, a concrete box on the outside of the coffin, so the coffin itself wouldn't rot (!!!), plus the wake and funeral - a tidy $30,000 when all was said and done. Complete insanity.
Aug 9th 2007, 3:58 pm
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Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
MY FIL passed away last year. My husband is one of six kids, but suddenly none of his siblings had any money to help pay for the funeral. Not wanting to upset his mother any more than she already was, we ended up paying for everything - top of the line coffin, a concrete box on the outside of the coffin, so the coffin itself wouldn't rot (!!!), plus the wake and funeral - a tidy $30,000 when all was said and done. Complete insanity.
you didn't HAVE to pay $30k though really did you.
Aug 9th 2007, 4:02 pm
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Aug 9th 2007, 4:05 pm
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Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
Just googled average funeral costs in the US is $6,750
Aug 9th 2007, 4:15 pm
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Aug 9th 2007, 5:06 pm
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Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
I don't care what they do with me. If someone spends 10 grand on it though, I'll haunt them forever.
Aug 9th 2007, 5:13 pm
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Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
Hi All,
My dear Mother-In-Law passed away suddenly, last week, due to a Massive Heart Attack. We had the Funeral Service, for her, this past Monday.
Just wanted you to know that the cost for a Basic Funeral will run you about $10,000 and that is for a Casket made by our local Trappist Monks
Jim.
My dear Mother-In-Law passed away suddenly, last week, due to a Massive Heart Attack. We had the Funeral Service, for her, this past Monday.
Just wanted you to know that the cost for a Basic Funeral will run you about $10,000 and that is for a Casket made by our local Trappist Monks
Jim.
Aug 9th 2007, 5:18 pm
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Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
No, we didn't. But we didn't have the time to shop around. He passed away on Sat. am and the wake had to be on Sunday and Monda, with a funeral on Tuesday (they do it the opposite way around to the UK). With my MIL in such a state and my husband and I wanting to appease her as quickly as possible, we got suckered into going to the nearest funeral home and paying for the whole package -- apparently having price tags attached to coffins would be in poor taste, yet shelling out $30,000 isn't considered to be. We're also living on Long Island, where everything is fairly expensive. And, of course, when you have a MIL who wanted the best of the best for her newly deceased husband, it was hard to slap her down.
Aug 9th 2007, 5:25 pm
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they embalm here so just do that and keep the body until the family have chance to gather round and price the funeral up realistically.
Aug 9th 2007, 5:35 pm
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I completely agree. My FIL was dying for several years and had plenty of time to think and plan and pay for his funeral that there was no reason why we should end up paying for it. However, there was also a sense that "my kids owe me this after all I've done for them". Inexcusable and selfish, I know, but there it is. But when it came down to it, none of his offspring would put their hands in their pockets. Families are great, huh?
Aug 9th 2007, 5:37 pm
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Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!
I completely agree. My FIL was dying for several years and had plenty of time to think and plan and pay for his funeral that there was no reason why we should end up paying for it. However, there was also a sense that "my kids owe me this after all I've done for them". Inexcusable and selfish, I know, but there it is. But when it came down to it, none of his offspring would put their hands in their pockets. Families are great, huh?