General Chat

I'd love him!

Cynthia: 'Due to circumstances, OH watches daytime television quite a lot. All we get, is a constant stream of adverts featuring funeral plans, sick children, starving children and cruelty to animals. Most of these request that we donate to each and every worthy cause - it must be thought that those who watch television during the day have limitless funds!'

Two reasons.

1 - advertising is cheap during the day so charities get better value then

2 - they flog this stuff at women and it is mostly women watching during the day - women worry about funerals and sick children and cruelty to animals and are more easily guilted or manipulated into giving up their money

I want the football spectators and top gear gans to have to see the sick children and sad animals and be urged to dig into their pockets for a change. Which audience is bigger and who has more money anyway?

Our local market has a stall selling wicker coffins for £350.0, to be taken away and stored at home. As I love all kinds of basketry, I am very tempted to get one and keep it in the loft. I could even customise it to my own taste lol

Lizx

Cost of a nice dignified funeral with cremation is around £3,000 including minister, flowers, car and simple catering.

We were sadly involved with two within the past 18 months, one was just over that figure, the other just under. In fact the cheaper one by about £500 was with a small family run undertaker, and was a nicer experience.

The family of the bereaved is not responsible for travel and accommodation for guests, unless of course the cost is not an issue to them, in which case they would not be in the sort of position being shown by these adverts in the first place.

There is nothing new about these 'Whole Life' policies currently being touted, but they are not necessarily the best option financially, as others have suggested.

Maybe there is a price difference in different parts of the country..?

I can assure you I paid a lot more, earlier this year ......cremation and no cars other than hearse.

Flowers and refreshments extra.

I'm sure it does. Costs in parts of London, especially, are much higher.

One of ours was in Lancashire (incidentally the more expensive one) and the other in Cambridgeshire.

Well I live in Kent too and we used a local family run business

All in including the flowers I bought from a local florist ,and the after service reception at a large motel chain which was local to the crematorium for 35 people was £3500 and some change

This did included all the fees and the fee for the parish catholic priest to take the service

The only extra had been the cost of the urn for hubbies ashes which I have at home .
When I pop my clogs daughter has been instructed to have us both together when she decides where we go

Yea dead boring ads ;-)

Just read this. Maggie, if you want to donate your body to medical science the hospital will send you a form to complete, I believe.

Also, I am told by a reliable source, not to die at weekend because no one will be there to receive/collect your body. :-D

This was what I was told a couple of years ago.

We've decided: "Er Indoors" body donated to Sci but if not then same as me:
Cardboard coffin, body collected by Crem and cremated. No service of any sort, no flowers, no wake et al. Why waste money on the dead?