Six thousand dollars to RENT a casket?!

[petra]

Hi Everyone,

When getting cremated, often times people will rent a casket for viewing beforehand. Some places charge $900 which I find reasonable, other places charge $6,000+ for a rental! This rental fee is mainly for sanitary reasons - they have to change the inner box too.

Well okay, I get the need to be sanitary, but aren't they already dead? It's not like they can get any more dead than they are :P Yeah, I know.... cynicism.

I just do not understand how they can justify $6,000 for a rental for ONE DAY. My mother's friend recently got ripped off this way, she purchased the rental before checking the cost. If she had known it was so much, they wouldn't have had a viewing.

Anyway, thanks for listening to my rant. If anyone has any insight into how they can justify such costs, I'd love to hear.

[TargeT]

the whole funeral industry seems to be very predatory & also seems to feed off vulnerable types...


they can justify it because people will pay.... that's basically it.... doing stuff because we've always done it that way is a common mentality... tradition via inertia.

[bettye198]

I don't believe we are meant to be buried. Light a match. Every enlightened civilization before us abhorred putting diseased bodies into the ground.

[6pounder]

yeah i dont see any reason for my future dead vessel to be left rotting under the ground... i rather have it burned to ashes.

[chancy]

Hi Everyone,

When getting cremated, often times people will rent a casket for viewing beforehand. Some places charge $900 which I find reasonable, other places charge $6,000+ for a rental! This rental fee is mainly for sanitary reasons - they have to change the inner box too.

Well okay, I get the need to be sanitary, but aren't they already dead? It's not like they can get any more dead than they are :P Yeah, I know.... cynicism.

I just do not understand how they can justify $6,000 for a rental for ONE DAY. My mother's friend recently got ripped off this way, she purchased the rental before checking the cost. If she had known it was so much, they wouldn't have had a viewing.

Anyway, thanks for listening to my rant. If anyone has any insight into how they can justify such costs, I'd love to hear.

Hello Everyone:
The funeral is for the living not the person that passed on.
I recently was in charge of a funeral that had been prepaid for 15-20 years. ( Just think of the interest on the cash they had)
To my surprise it cost almost $5000 canadian dollars for the funeral to take place even though it was all prepaid.
Things that are NOT INCLUDED. No one but the funeral business knows this.
1. flowers...usually $500 or more
2. 1 time newspaper obituary. $550 in a small small ad.
3. dig the grave
4 new rules of putting a concrete box in so the casket goes inside it. There are 3 choices.
a. $2500 cash
b. $3500 cash
c. $4500 cash

6. extras that can add up to $1,000's

You can see that these things add up extremely fast.
The original cost of the funeral was $12,000 cash paid to the funeral home.

Believe me it costs alot more to leave this earth than to come to it!!
chancy

[ElfeMya]

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[shaberon]

I cannot quite think of any reason to view a corpse.

When they go through the oven, it's usually a batch of about six bodies, so whatever type of shrine or ceremony you have in mind for the ashes is...well, it's certainly not very focused on a given individual's remains.

No moral justification for any kind of increased costs--if something like a natural gas pipeline is more efficient than ten people spending all day to gather a huge pile of firewood, it should be cheaper.

[Sierra]

I don't believe we are meant to be buried. Light a match. Every enlightened civilization before us abhorred putting diseased bodies into the ground.

People ended up being buried because the forests of Europe got burned up in funereal pyres, I kid you not. England wiped out their forests further, building masts for sailing ships. India is a jungle so their ecosystem can support pyres.

What do Mid East countries do with their bodies? They have no forests... Cedars of Lebanon are long gone...

[sunwings]

Believe me it costs alot more to leave this earth than to come to it!!
chancy

Brilliant Line! Then the tax people come and take 40% inheritance, pushing your offspring back down the ladder with it!

[KiwiElf]

That's extraordinary! A whole funeral in NZ (casket, catering, funeral ads, flowers,venue hire, order of service, cremation OR burial etc) can be done well for between NZ$6 -10,000. Everything. No extras added on top. (and no tax to pay on inheritance either).

[neutronstar]

They exploit people in grief. Just as they do in healthcare. The justification is greed.

[neutronstar]

Believe me it costs alot more to leave this earth than to come to it!!
chancy

Not for one couple from canada. They went to hawaii for a vacation. She had the baby there premature. The cost was 1 million dollars and their insurance wouldn't pay because they had it out of country.

[conk]

Why on Earth do they put the dead in a box within a box? The body turns to slime and stays that way for a seeming eternity. If most had their choice wouldn't they want to be assimilated back into the ground? The funeral industry must have lobbied pretty hard to force us to utilize their expensive tools of death. What's wrong with a simple pine box?

No one in my family wants to go into the ground. All want to be cremated. It's a big deal, all around. We constantly reinforce that desire. "Swear to God you won't bury me".

My 85 year old mom lost her husband, and my father, when he was only 28. She told us to sprinkle her ashes on his grave so that she could ride that magnificent man for eternity. ;) We all blushed, she just smiled.

[bettye198]

As example, my parents. My Mom wants to be in a box because her Catholic Faith injected her with the ideology that the bodies fly up to their souls one day. Unreal but our family is forced to honor her belief. Beliefs run this mental construct.

[petra]

Why on Earth do they put the dead in a box within a box? The body turns to slime and stays that way for a seeming eternity. If most had their choice wouldn't they want to be assimilated back into the ground? The funeral industry must have lobbied pretty hard to force us to utilize their expensive tools of death. What's wrong with a simple pine box?

No one in my family wants to go into the ground. All want to be cremated. It's a big deal, all around. We constantly reinforce that desire. "Swear to God you won't bury me".

My 85 year old mom lost her husband, and my father, when he was only 28. She told us to sprinkle her ashes on his grave so that she could ride that magnificent man for eternity. ;) We all blushed, she just smiled.

My family is pretty much the same.. although my father wanted to be buried. Mother cremated him against his wishes, and I really don't blame her - the new living room floor is much more useful, and wherever father is now, I think he would agree.

I have to admit another horrendous money racket too - "ash scattering permits"...

Where I live, people have to buy a permit for $600 to scatter ashes. I don't even understand the logic in this, and when I try to think about it, I feel like punching myself in the face! Who the heck would be even foolish enough to pay that, is beyond me.

[Sierra]

My mother-in-law wanted a cheap biodegradable fabric/cardboard coffin, and her children did as she asked. Later, her daughter wept at the judgemental comments made by family members who equated cheap with lack of love or respect.

[petra]

Father was a bit well known and so people came around wanting to know where his grave was, and we had to send them away all sad =/