Funeral Costs

[MrPastry]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

My fathers funeral cost less than £100. He asked me about 5 or 6 years before he died to make him a coffin, asked what kind, he said get some chip board an knock a simple box together ids gonna get burnt anyway. I made hin his box out of mahaogany faced chipboard. it stood in our front room for all that time after, every so of he would stand in it and say thad'l do. When he died in that place across from Accy Vic, got the death cert, went to cem, filled in all the paper work got a date & time of day, hired a white van, went tut crem at Accy Vic, managed wi a struggle tio get him int box, nailed the lid down and drove to crem, put him on the trolly wheeled him inside, and there was a god botherer stood at the lecturn wit back ground music playin, Ignored the lot and pushed fayther ontut conveuor belt, and was puttin the trolley away when mother, sisters, and an aunty came intut foyer, she geet angry an played ell because I hadn't told her, I towd her tu shud up, Im doing what he asked, an youv'e hated fayther for years, and if I had followed his wishes to the letter he would be sliding down tip up Whinney Hill, All the time the god botherer is stood there gob smacked, he didnd know what to do, I just climbed int van and took id back to firm an geet my deposit returned

I take my hat off to you and your father got his wishes which is what really counts. A paramedic pal of mine mentioned to me some years ago you could do a DIY job and it seems you did just that so long as you have death certificate.

[Eric]

This is getting too morbid. Time to lighten it up folks;

[Margaret Pilkington]

I think I might have that played at my funeral Eric

[Eric]

Or maybe get planted on Ilkley moor baht'at

[Margaret Pilkington]

Hell no Eric....I'm not defecting to Yorkshire.
Dying will be bad enough, buy dying and being ferried and buried in Yorkshire is just too, too much.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Hell no Eric....I'm not defecting to
Yorkshire.

Ah, but if you change your religion on your deathbed (and become a Yorkshireist) then that'd mean one less Yorkingshireist! Not all bad eh?

[Margaret Pilkington]

I don't want to be consigned for eternity in the afterlife as a yorkshire pudden.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I don't want to be consigned for eternity in the afterlife as a yorkshire pudden.

But in your will there'd be a clause to reclaim Lankyness.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I didn't know you could do that!

[DaveinGermany]

In my little world, the possibilities are endless!

[Rowlf]

My original point was that the cost relatively has not change since the early 1900's. I certainly agree with Margaret that today's 'poor' are not poor like folk in the 20s 30s and 40s. and they do not seem to be able to do without what they cannot afford.

[Gremlin]

An old guy who I used to drink with in Read Con willed his body to research. When he died nobody had to pay a penny. No funeral or cremation. They just carted his body away.

[Margaret Pilkington]

That is what my Ma is doing.
She doesn't want a grave or a gathering,or any kind of funeral....she just wants it all to be uncomplicated. After all she is a 'no fuss' sort of lady.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Rowlf

My original point was that the cost relatively has not change since the early 1900's.

You are probably right ... Back in the 40s in Saskatchewan, when combines were replacing binders, stooking, and thresher crews, a brand new combine cost about as much as a quarter section. When I was farming out there in the 70s, a brand new combine cost about as much as a quarter section. Probably still the same today.

Feel free to google "binder," "stooking," and "threshing crew."

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

An old guy who I used to drink with in Read Con willed his body to research. When he died nobody had to pay a penny. No funeral or cremation. They just carted his body away.

Over here, that's kinda simple. Every time you renew your Ontario drivers licence, you can check off the boxes for what part of your body you wish to donate ... including, of course, all of it. I went for the whole damned thing, apart from my liver, which is going to The Smithsonian.