• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • SternburgExport@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I don‘t want to be put in casket when I die and have people mourning. Two things should be thrown when I die: a big ass party and whatever is left of me into the trash.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If it were up to me … I’d prefer you just wrap my body in a plastic bag and throw it in the trash

    The world disregards human life so easily in so many parts of the world … why should anyone have any respect for my dead body.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    When I die, I don’t give a shit what happens to my body, do whatever causes people and the planet the least ammount of crap.

    I weigh alot, so use a cart to wheel me around so you don’t injure your backs trying to carry me.

    If cremation is the least bad, do that, if freeze drying is less bad than that, do that.

    If you can use my corpse for science or education, go ahead.

    Just, please wait untill I am dead.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Honey we’ve been over this: when I die, my remains are to be embalmed and presented like so.

    If you can’t afford that or don’t want to bother, just throw me in the trash 🙂