Family started a Go Fund me page to covet her last wishes for cremation. Thats pretty sad when you figure its about $4,700 with a graveside service.
Who pays those high costs? My family certainly didn't.
Both my parents were cremated. Per their wishes, we didn't spend money on funeral services or expensive urns. We spread their ashes in the river where they went fishing on their honeymoon.
Cardboard box for the ashes and the cremation ran $600 each.
My parents nor the rest of our family believe in spending a fortune on expensive coffins and funeral services.
My wife and I own a 30 acre farm in Florida. A half an acre is designated as a family cemetery. We pay no property taxes on it. I will be cremated when I die. The VA will supply a headstone at no cost. My wife or daughter will shovel a hole below where the tombstone will be placed to deposit my ashes.
Total cost: Zero dollars.
Some people will start a go fund me for anything. Not out of need but because they have an angle to get $.