Saturday, May 14, 2011

Die as cheaply as possible

13 Things the Funeral Director Won’t Tell You
1. Go ahead and plan your funeral, but think twice before paying in advance. You risk losing everything if the funeral home goes out of business. Instead, keep your money in a pay-on-death account at your bank.
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This might be number 14 — Ahem

3. You can buy caskets that are just as nice as the ones in my showroom for thousands of dollars less online from Walmart, Costco, or straight from a manufacturer.

4. On a budget or concerned about the environment? Consider a rental casket. The body stays inside the casket in a thick cardboard container, which is then removed for burial or cremation.

5. Running a funeral home without a refrigerated holding room is like running a restaurant without a walk-in cooler. But many funeral homes don’t offer one because they want you to pay for the more costly option: embalming. Most bodies can be presented very nicely without it if you have the viewing within a few days of death.
[Full Reader's Digest Article]
Remind me to tell you how Jack Northrop's Flying Wing sent me looking for Reader's Digest.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

OK whats the connection with the wing and a funeral?

Anonymous said...

Couple years ago, I saw one (unused) at a flea market. Sold quick, too. It was at Brumwells! Was that you, Rog?

Ole Phat Stu said...

@Anon,
the connection comes in on a wing and a prayer ;-)

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