Geoffrey Settle Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 With the costs of funerals being high (in my estimation) and the need not to burden ones family during the credit crunch, I wondered what the minimum spec for a funeral has to be? For example do you have to have a Vicar/father etc or even a ceremony? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Here ya go, http://www.globalideasbank.org/natdeath/ndh6.html looks like you can do it virtually for free if you end up buried in a shroud on private land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Are you thinking of leaving us Geoff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 So it's a R.I.P off then?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Thanks Inky Pete - the link above is a very good source of information. Some useful tips for me to use afterall I'm one day closer death than I was yesterday (as we all are) - so we need to be prepared and should NOT leave a big bill behind us when we go especially as we never quite know when that might be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve the Original Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Well when i pop my clogs im off to Holland to be burnt(not letting the Germans do that) then i hope to be returned home if not who really cares,i wont.. I dont need anyone to attend my funeral nor will there be a service.. cant get cheaper than that.. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 What's up with you Geoff; if you go out "owing", you've had the last laugh - no pockets in shrouds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 they don't leave anyone above ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Alligator pits? - that would be cheap and save on land take for graveyards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamemnon1 Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Reading some of the postings on this thread makes me rue the day they ever closed Winwick Hospital Care in the community just aint working !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Yer mean you've only just found that out?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted December 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Not sure if he always shows he knows about care but he certainly does about death! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 you could always leave your body to medical science, if they will have it that is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Obs.... you should really do that. One day someone might be able to finally figure you out and what it was that made you tick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Enigmatic will do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 My funeral won't cost me anything - except my life I suppose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 What no sea burial?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipstream Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 I see that you're still waffling obbsy? Life must be very dull, the amount of time you spend on here. No-one in the outside world listening to you any more? Still, I suppose that ex-politicians have to have somewhere to give their spiel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Well it's kept NuLab off the air for a while Blobs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kateoflymm Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 My funeral won't cost me anything - except my life I suppose Well neither will mine because, hopefully, I'll be dead when it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted December 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 But you will leave a load of Bills behind, the funeral that I went to last week was cica 3,000 pounds. If you have any relatives left behind then they will pick up the tab. In addition best making a will so that what little money you have left goes where you want it to go. Even then it's not straight forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Talking of funerals,as you are, reminds me of an aquaintance who went on holiday with his family, including his mother in law, to Wales. Whilst there, the mother in law died. They went to an undertaker who informed them that it would cost, at that time, 400 pounds just for them to just transport the body home. They were in a quandry because they could not afford to pay 400 pounds. The undertaker informed them that there was no law preventing them from transporting the body themselves, providing it was well wrapped up. So, they did that. They wrapped the body in a blanket then wrapped brown paper around it and tied it onto the roofrack of his car. He said it looked just like they were carrying a roll of carpet. They set off for home with the mother in law's body tied securely on the roofrack. On the way they stopped off for refreshments and toilets at a service station. On returning to their car they found someone had stolen the body, probably thinking it was carpet. Can you imagine the shock they would have had on unwrapping it and finding it was a dead body!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted December 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Great story brought a smile to my face - but it makes a good point about phantom hidden expenses of funerals even before the service takes place. I believe the Co-op do a good insurance cover, well worth the investment there or with similar companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 What you worrying about Geoff; yer won't be around when yer dead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Great story brought a smile to my face - but it makes a good point about phantom hidden expenses of funerals even before the service takes place. I believe the Co-op do a good insurance cover, well worth the investment there or with similar companies. Are you on commission from Co-op insurance by any chance Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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