Walmart.com is now selling

[harley89]

Caskets and urns some of the urns are for pets   walmart wants people to plan ahead so you can make payments  Sort of creepy
http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=funeral&search_constraint=0&tc=0&ic=48_0&ref=+125874.425084&tab_value=168_All

[disneyland lady]

Having just dealt with the costs of a relative dying I can tell you these are quite a bargain. I am getting one for everyone in my family for Christmas! 

[Stinkerbell]

Having just dealt with the costs of a relative dying I can tell you these are quite a bargain. I am getting one for everyone in my family for Christmas! 

The experts say that planning ahead is the wise thing to do. I'm hoping that my family will get me one with internet access!   

[disneyland lady]

The experts say that planning ahead is the wise thing to do. I'm hoping that my family will get me one with internet access!   

I am pretty sure these have it since you buy them online.

[harley89]

My personal choice is cremation and I want my ashes placed in jugs from a Harley engine   Already got those around here so no expense

[Stinkerbell]

I am pretty sure these have it since you buy them online.

Excellent point. Because since it was an online order, if there's something about the casket you don't like, say... drafty, or the fabric is itchy...you'd have to contact them via internet to make the return arrangements.

[Squid]

I told my family to scoop me into a Hefty bag. 

[Stinkerbell]

I had a talk with my kids and told them that cremation was fine, preferred actually, and they could do whatever they wanted with the ashes, even divvy them up 3 ways. I also requested that there be no funeral service for MY sake, but if they felt that they wanted to have one then to go ahead.

I feel like so much of the whole death ritual (memorials, funerals, burial, etc.) is not for the deceased but for the living, to help them cope. I told them I was ok with a BBQ in the back yard, but no skinny dipping.

[harley89]

I had a talk with my kids and told them that cremation was fine, preferred actually, and they could do whatever they wanted with the ashes, even divvy them up 3 ways. I also requested that there be no funeral service for MY sake, but if they felt that they wanted to have one then to go ahead.

I feel like so much of the whole death ritual (memorials, funerals, burial, etc.) is not for the deceased but for the living, to help them cope. I told them I was ok with a BBQ in the back yard, but no skinny dipping.

We are of the same mind  cremation then a big old party.  Want people to go away saying its the most fun they ever had at a funeral

[disneyland lady]

Thinking I was doing my family a favor to lessen things at that time, I bought a service where they covered all the processes to get ashes dusted over the surf at sea. Unfortunately the company went bankrupt 10 years ago and we were all informed that we were out of luck. I have since joined The Neptune Society of San Diego. My son is a Medical Examiner here in town and we got a hefty "professional discount" when my mother recently died. I don't know how many per family before they start investigating us.

[roadwarrior]

I had a talk with my kids and told them that cremation was fine, preferred actually, and they could do whatever they wanted with the ashes, even divvy them up 3 ways. I also requested that there be no funeral service for MY sake, but if they felt that they wanted to have one then to go ahead.

I feel like so much of the whole death ritual (memorials, funerals, burial, etc.) is not for the deceased but for the living, to help them cope. I told them I was ok with a BBQ in the back yard, but no skinny dipping.

So your the type who likes to put the FUN in funeral?



in all seriousness-

I told my family to cremate me, bury me, throw me over the back fence.  Where I'm going I'll have no need for this body.  I believe I'll be going to a better place, to heaven/the other side/the afterlife (insert your preferred term here) but I won't need this body where I'm going.

Frankly I think $1000 bucks plus for a casket nobody is going to see except once or twice is a little much.  An urn-I can live spending eternity in an urn on someone's fireplace.  Won't affect me.  I know where I'm going.

I'd just rather people here-that are living-would just throw one big party in my honor when I'm dead and gone from this earth.

Want to help me put the fun in funeral stinky?

[Stinkerbell]

So your the type who likes to put the FUN in funeral?



Want to help me put the fun in funeral stinky?

It would be my honor. A dying wish, even. 

My friend lost his step mother and father within a month of each other. I was shocked to learn all the cremation details and that people actually spend a small fortune on a box to be cremated in. What's the point?

[Stinkerbell]

Thinking I was doing my family a favor to lessen things at that time, I bought a service where they covered all the processes to get ashes dusted over the surf at sea. Unfortunately the company went bankrupt 10 years ago and we were all informed that we were out of luck. I have since joined The Neptune Society of San Diego. My son is a Medical Examiner here in town and we got a hefty "professional discount" when my mother recently died. I don't know how many per family before they start investigating us.

Good question. Don't want to attract too much attention, ya know.

[Hocky]

WOW..all I gotta say is wow.....seems kinda creepy knowing that Walmart is selling caskets and urns. 

My mom and dad have all their stuff prepaid for including their mausoleum crypt, opening and closing, etc....but yanno, if the place that sold me my casket is out of business by the time I croak, I would hate to think that I am (will be) SOL. 

I am like the rest of you...don't need a big whoop de doo when I pass on, just put me somewhere where I can rot in peace.  I know the soul goes somewhere....depending on your beliefs, but whether I am ashes in an urn or a rotting corpse in a casket makes me no matter. 

By the way, since most of us are cheaters (in pogoland), does that mean we are going to hell?    I mean we already "crossed over to the dark side".  Even if we did get enticed by the cookies, are we gonna burn for all eternity?   Inquiring minds wanna know....I am just sayin'....

[Stinkerbell]

By the way, since most of us are cheaters (in pogoland), does that mean we are going to hell?    I mean we already "crossed over to the dark side".  Even if we did get enticed by the cookies, are we gonna burn for all eternity?   Inquiring minds wanna know....I am just sayin'....

OMG! What if our final destination is determined by our life's activities? So, hell for us cheaters would be living out eternity with autos that don't work!   

[Hocky]

OMG! What if our final destination is determined by our life's activities? So, hell for us cheaters would be living out eternity with autos that don't work!   

Or worse!  Having to play pogo games BY HAND...each game having 1000 ranks! 

[Stinkerbell]

Or worse!  Having to play pogo games BY HAND...each game having 1000 ranks! 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

[disneyland lady]

My friend lost his step mother and father within a month of each other. I was shocked to learn all the cremation details and that people actually spend a small fortune on a box to be cremated in. What's the point?

When my mother died I learned that all of San Diego is zoned not to have anything considered a fire hazard and so they take the body to Los Angeles for cremation and the "remains" are returned to the funeral parlor that sent them off. This meant special fees but it also make me aware that there are dead bodies being transported in traffic every day. Yet another reason to hate So Cal traffic.

[roadwarrior]

Just to show you guys how much I DON'T care what happens to my body after I die, I've left in our will that my heart be cremated- my hubby put it in the urn I bought for 75% off from a funeral home going out of business-owner was retiring-and the rest of my body be donated to the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility-in other words my body is going to a body farm after I die.

I requested and filled out the proper paperwork from the university late last year and had our will updated to include my request.

I know it sounds morbid to some people but I really don't think I'll need this body in the afterlife.

[Stinkerbell]

Just to show you guys how much I DON'T care what happens to my body after I die, I've left in our will that my heart be cremated- my hubby put it in the urn I bought for 75% off from a funeral home going out of business-owner was retiring-and the rest of my body be donated to the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility-in other words my body is going to a body farm after I die.

I requested and filled out the proper paperwork from the university late last year and had our will updated to include my request.

I know it sounds morbid to some people but I really don't think I'll need this body in the afterlife.

It doesn't sound morbid at all. I think we are too uncomfortable discussing death, confronting our own mortality, so we don't want to have our bodies desecrated when in fact, there's nothing to stop the slow decay anyway. So I think it's a great idea what you've done. How lovely to be able to help others even after you've moved on to the land of autos that always work.