Funeral costs

[DollaBill]

My friends was 12K last week. Kind of middle of the road I guess

 

[Offshore Ginger]

My father went to a funeral home of his chioice and picked out a package that suited is budget and prepaid for it in advance and that was over three years ago .

 

[MarylandMark]

as for me, my daughter knows to cremate me, put me in a big miller lite bottle and set me on the mantle.

This should fit ya

 

[Von Bongo]

had the unfortunate opportunity to go through this twice in the last 3 years. $7900 the first time and $8500 the second. Had some mileage to the cemetary that was about 300 miles round trip both time.

 

[Dan The Man]

You may want to look into an "ITF" account at her local bank. Set the money aside in an account with her name and social security #. (In case she ever needs some of it for other reasons she can access it.) "ITF" In Trust For the name of the funeral home taking care of her arrangements. This way, when she dies, the funeral home takes a copy of the death certificate to the bank, they pay the funeral expenses and any overages go back to the family. If you have $10,000.00 available that should be more than enough considering she already has a cemetery plot. You will be looking at the funeral home service charges for a traditional service with embalming,casket,viewing(calling hours),funeral,hearse and other livery(limos or flower car etc.) and some printed materials such as obit in the newspaper, prayer cards, thank you notes and register book. You will also be looking at the clergy / church offering and death certificate copies. The cemetery will require a grave opening fee and may also require a burial vault (the cement or steel box in the ground that the casket goes inside of) these are especially important if your cemetery digs with backhoes and heavy equipment as they hold the grave up. PM me if you need any info at all, you can "trust" me. Remember, enjoy your family, friends, health and your boat , as you are dead a long time...

 

[Magicfloat]

Thanks,Dan.I will take you up on your offer at some point,as I am in uncharted territory for me. I called the funeral director at the funeral home where she lives and will want to use,and did not come away with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

 

[glassdave]

I dont think Dave can have the boat ready by then :blush5:

sure i can . . . couple of drywall screws an some OSB an yea . . . one of 'um should float i'm sure . . . :biggrinjester:

 

[cosmic12]

Thanks,Dan.I will take you up on your offer at some point,as I am in uncharted territory for me. I called the funeral director at the funeral home where she lives and will want to use,and did not come away with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Believe me when I say that whatever Dan tells you, you can bank on it. In the bis all his life and runs one of the top homes X 2 in New York State. He is the Man:sifone:

 

[KENNYO]

They can put you un-enbalmed in a fiberboard box if you want. That's even more than I'd want to see spent on me.

In fact, my ideal would be to have a big party and a Viking burial- push me out to sea in a burning hulk of a boat.

You can use my boat, we'll just have to make it look like an accident!

 

[boostbros]

i just went thru this with my dad hospice since july the last 2 weeks were bad the last few hrs horrifing no one warned us how bad things could get! i have learned a lot and will share to help others we had him creamated and for the funeral yesterday we had 6 floral arrangements made with drift wood an urn and his pic don,t ever put folks thru the shock of seeing a 200 pound man waste away to a 75 pound skelaton the funeral parlor is owned by my brother inlaw we worked had to make it a joyful occasion we made a video and played it on a large screen its easy and free the folks from out of town could view the video its the way to go here is the one we made http://memorial.yourtribute.com/Law...ode=view&videoType=videotribute&videoId=18433

 

[Chris]

I am free this thursday, lets make it happen:seeya:

Everyone wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to go today.

 

[MarylandMark]

RIP and sorry to hear boostbros

 

[Magicfloat]

Very touching tribute,boost,thanks for sharing. Looks like your dad lived a full life and had a large,loving family. May he rest in peace.

 

[MarylandMark]

boostbros- 104 race boat - his? How about a new thread with some pics and history for us?

 

[boostbros]

104 foreplay was the old triple threat shadow cat we renamed it when we rerigged from a triple to a quad it was owned by doc merola we ran a lot of poker runs even raced key west broke a huge amount of parts used to have an expensive habit of breaking the center 2 engines the midcase would break with the loss of 2 lower units with props i do not miss that boat! we run blackcloud now a 388 hustler with huge power and arnsons i will say they are tough drives

 

[DonMan]

Everyone wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to go today.

Amen brother.






My wife and I both want to be cremated. I was a little surprised to find that cremation cost about the same as a nice casket.
Kingsford doesn`t cost THAT much, does it ?