The average funeral costs around $6000. Why waste that much money on someone who's dead?

Question

Nicole wtf are you talking about? They're DEAD why would they care about respect?

Squirt I'm sorry to hear that

Answer 1

There are a lot of reasons, mainly cultural, why this happens. First, very few people plan or tell others what they would like as far as after their death. Second, a lot of people feel that an expensive funeral is a last way of showing respect to the person, as well as a way to begin the grieving process. third, a lot of people feel that this is expected of them to prove they loved the dead person. And when you combine all these factors with the emotional disturbance of death, people often do things they would not have done if they were in a rational frame of mind.

I and all my family members carry cards that our bodies are to go to the local medical school. When my father died, we had a small memorial service a few days later at his church. It cost almost nothing and we personalized it by having his picture on the dais and some pictures and other items of the important things in his life out in the lobby. We will do the same for my mother. I am not a church member, so I plan for there to be a picnic in a park after my passing.

I don't think it's just a waste. I think it is a practice that cannot long continue. Can you imagine how much land would be used up if everyone alive today is buried when they die? There are already areas where people have to be buried upright, or on top of family members. Cremation is much more appropriate for the earth.

Answer 2

My husband passed away last year, and in an effort to keep peace with his family, I was pushed into several thousand more than the amount mentioned. No, I am Not stupid, and I only did it trying to pacify an unreasonble bunch of in-laws and two step-daughters. My husband would have pitched a fit, and I am making my arrangements so my children will not be guilted into some big send off. Let the dead bury the dead. I won't be there!

Answer 3

You're absolutely right. The dead are not around to see the lovely service, flowers and not even the casket. What happens to the body after death is irrevelant. Just like a seashell, there's nothing inside a dead body, but expensive fluids, just for a couple hours of "viewing".

We should be more concerned about where people go after death and warn them of the consequences of not accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Answer 4

Bury them your self on your guy or woman backyard (backyard in the U. S.). that's not unlawful in the united kingdom presented you have the staggering place of work work, which you have have been given to get no rely what you do with the physique. some bodies are donated for forensic technology education - left to rot in controlled places so pupils could be conscious the cost of deterioration and what bugs colonise the physique at which point. the terrific element to do with the lifeless is to permit their organs to be harvested for transplantation if suited. they don't need them to any extent further and you in basic terms would sometime. some hospitals will then remove the physique in case you want them to.

Answer 5

I totally agree with you. Many people are assuming that to have a proper funeral, you need alot of money. You really don't need to use an actual funeral home. You can show the dearly departed in your home and the body cremated. What the funeral home does is to provide a place of refuge for the living to mourn.

Answer 6

After my usable parts are culled for organ donation and research, just put me in a pine box (or not) and then dump me into the crematorium. Use the money for charity instead. Seriously. A beautiful memorial can be held anywhere, with no need for the body to be present.

Answer 7

It ought to be the other way around. I donate my dead body to worm food, I get paid for my trouble. My family takes the proceeds and gets a round of Cherry Lime-Aid Cream Slush's at Sonic.

Answer 8

I agree. The body returns to dust, so why embalm it etc and put the families thru all that expense when our bodies are only our shells that held our souls and spirits. Our soul is us. The body is the house we lived in. The Spirit lives always and is NOT THERE anymore once the body dies. So, why pay $$ to bury the shell (empty house)? That person already left this shell, house and went to another house to live FOREVER (heaven or hell). Good point.

Answer 9

Most people are terribly afraid of dying.
Imagine the terrible psychological effect, if on top of this, they saw that those who died were thrown unceremoniously in a garbage dump. ( I am exaggerating a little to prove a point.)
Maybe by showing consideration to the inanimate body of a person, we can deduce that we should show even more to his living body.
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Answer 10

I've left instructions to salvage all useful organs then cremate and flush what's left of me after I'm gone since it's of no value. I'd leave it out for the crows but it would stink up the neighborhood.


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