Why do we need a preserving corpse box. By the time I die, I will be more micro plastics than man. I will not decay. I will be embalmed by plastic symbiosis.
Soo you’re saying we should melt you down and make Legos out of you?
I’d sign up for that. A new lease on eternal life!
By the time the next generation dies, this may be the only way to own Legos, with the company long since having gone over to a subscription service where your new lease on life is their only alternative to leasing Legos!
Not to mention around here, by law that box goes in another box (a cement vault) so how many boxes I gotta pay for
I’ve told my family more than once to arrange my funeral the cheapest way possible. If they had the option to dump me in the ocean, they have my blessing. Don’t spend money on me, I’m DEAD.
Hell I told mine to hit up those shady companies on This Week Tonight. You can get rid of my body and get a few hundred dollars? Win win I don’t care.
I too would like to be a skeleton doing a backflip in a museum
You can go ahead and prepay for the service, even if it’s just cremation and stuffing your bone dust in a cardboard box.
That way your family doesn’t have to both grieve and figure out arrangements.
Ziplock bag and a catapult.
‘Goes to rent catapult’
Fuuuuuuuuuuuu
I mean, what this ad should really read is “save your family thousands”. If you can afford it and have the resources, preplan your whole burial plan so your family can just grieve instead of dealing with all the admin of it.
Dump my body unceremoniously on the lawn of a billionaire.
Cremate me and blow my ashes in their eyes.
I’m here for this!
Hm I wonder if this counts as praxis
I just want them to play “it’s raining men” as they scatter my ashes. Because, well…
What about “Freedom,” by George Michael?
Great song. I can’t think of a worse time to play it’s raining men than when it’s literally raining men, tho
No joke y’all, plan shit like this now, not tomorrow, not next year. And I don’t care your age or health. If you die tonight, the funeral industry vultures will swoop on your grieving people and fuck them over.
Working on end-of-life stuff with my new wife (both of us 52), and she doesn’t like it, but it’s getting done. If I eat it tomorrow, she’ll be buying a casket, plot, headstone, whatever the hell she’s told to buy.
Get a will drawn up, get a Living Will signed and notarized. Hell, just look up “end of life documents” and get to work if you love the people you might be leaving.
And if you’re married, FFS get life insurance, preferably whole life. It’s hilariously cheap if you’re young, and I mean stupid cheap, like $10-20/mo. cheap for fat stacks. Study on it a bit, don’t get jerked around! Had a good friend over the other night who sells and explained much.
Tried to get us on a plan that immediately pays out funeral expenses. Sounds great! Nah, we’ll self-insure that small bit. Instead we’ll setup a joint account and auto-pay $100-$200 a month until we’re feeling good about it. $10-20K? Can’t afford that? Who cares?! Pay $25/mo., whatever, it’ll stack if you’re young.
tl;dr: The funeral business gets away with this shit because we don’t plan, and that’s on us. And if you want a casket? Sure, take a plan as pictured.
Plan WAY ahead and donate your body to science. Family isn’t stuck with a bill to the vultures. Cremation even costs way too much to pay people that prey on grieving family for something that is inevitable. And science benefits from your donation. Ultimate win.
“science” doesn’t take every body, and I’ve outlived two of the three doctors who want to experiment on my corpse (much to their chagrin).
THAT is a fine idea! Totally forgot!
And let’s not forget to check that organ donor box. See how it works in your country.
Just buy them from costco. $1149 https://www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html
That’s a better meme, and online only.
Nah. I really want to make my death someone else’s problem.
Also, people aren’t going to care about proper disposal when the apocalypse kicks in.
They’re already doing mass graves in Gaza
someone else’s problem
Me, looking at the semi approaching from the opposing direction of the highway:
Coffins are a huge waste of money and space. Cremation’s the way to go.
Just throw me in the garbage, man.
Hey, that’s taken! Find your own garbage death pit, damn freeloader.
Fuck it. Cryo.
That’s right, cryo is both cheap, viable, and resource light! Just smack some solar panels on that badboy and you won’t even have to think about rising electricity prices.
Fuck, I wish I was cryofrozen right now.
If things don’t go well, I’m probably not going to mind
To be fair cremation probably can cost the same or more depending on the additional cost. It’s stupid why death cost so much financially. Families already facing the emotional cost of losing their love ones.
It’s always been cheaper in my experience.
How many people did you cremate? And at what point does it become cost effective to invest in a small kitchen cremator?
If you are an aspiring serial killer planning on serial killing then I’d say at victim #3 you should really invest in a small kitchen cremator to ignite your serial killing career
Mmmmmm cereal
At a certain point in life you’ll usually have 6 family members who have died, and if you live even longer you’ll start having friends die.
Had to plan an unexpected funeral. They were going to be cremated but we wanted to have a service first. They have caskets, that are meant to be burnt, for the low price of $6,000. This was over 10 years ago too. I’m sure it’s much more now.
Jeez, a refrigerator-sized cardboard box would be free.
Shit. Ours were $150USD pine boxes. Ugly as sin, but they got the job done.
We just rented the casket for my father’s funeral. Then he was shipped to the crematorium.
When I die fire me out of a freakin cannon into the sun.
Well when I die, it is not my problem anymore…
Save thousands by picking the ugly color for your coffin!
Act fast! Bile yellow is selling out quickly!
Catch me going out in that burnt mustard death whip babeee 😎
But seriously, it’s natural burial AKA “green burial” for me.
I’m going to have a sky burial.
Classy
Is that the one where you’re offered up to vultures while your loved ones watch them pick your bones clean and fly away?
It’s not that absurd if you’re thinking of your family. Just… myself and other people have way different priorities. Some that might involve dipping my corpse in peanut butter and covering it in birdseed so that I might be the world’s first human pinecone bird feeder.
Edit: I just hope when I’m dead there is one person around to say, “He’s dead, he could in no way possible give one more single fuck…”
Make a will for the edit part
I agree with the edit so much
