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Originally Posted by Tarana
About a year before my dad died I read on the Internet about graveside funerals. Way cheaper. That became his preference and that is what we did for him and will do for my Mom. Most of the people that my Dad cared about had already passed away, other than immediate family, and Catholic Church does not require a funeral mass .
My sister passed away last year and we're still trying to find an affordable place to bury her ashes. Local places are nearly $5000. I already told my family that my preference is to be cremated and placed in a little Viking boat set on fire and pushed off into a lake or river. Alternatively just scattered.
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There are so many things you don't think about for a body besides a funeral. There's transport charges from morgue. There's embalming. There's preparations for body, casket, death certificates, clergy, obituaries, Transport to cemetary, burial, headstone and the plot itself. If you're being bury in the ground there's a gravebox that must be bought as well. Crypts which are part of Mausoleums start at 12,000 for single no gravebox needed just embalming and casket. We got a good deal 5182 for everything because we had a crypt given to us by a relative. It would have been more but the funeral home gave us a discount due to the circumstances and they owned the cemetery.
I agree a graveside funeral would have cut cost but it was too hot for one. The dinner hall was donated and her church threw a potluck that was just amazing. My nephew donated food from his restaurant. I played the hostess, shaking everyone's hand and thanking them for being there. From the funeral to the cemetery to the dinner hall it was a very long day then mom fell and I was with her three days at the hospital. She's in a nursing home now. I'm struggling through each day dealing with everything. I'm not the executor there is not one because sis did not leave a Will.
I agree cremation if your beliefs allows it is the cheapest way to go. My sister's belief system did not allow it.
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