Posted on 12/09/2011 2:16:19 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
A weakened economy has spurred Americans to revamp their household budgets from the ground up – even in the afterlife.
With the average cost of a typical burial service hovering around the $10,000 mark, cremation has become the go-to burial practice for more than 41 percent of American deaths, The New York Times' Kevin Sack reports.
There are a number of factors that could be behind the spike in cremations, with budget restraints landing at the top of the list. According to the National Cremation Research Council, crematory services cost a little more than $1,100 on average – a fraction of the cost of a full-blown burial.
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Going UP in smoke, hopefully!
Hopefully the entire Obama Admn gets cremated in 2012.
My special request is for my butt to be cremated and the ashes sprinkled into the ventilation systems of various institutions I have great disdain for. After that, well, I don’t really care, I’ll be dead.
I’m so sick of this thugocracy in DC. Obama is a communist pofs as are and is anyone voting for him.
Once the Catholic Church allowed cremation, funerals became much more affordable. The cost of space for an urn is much less than mausoleum space or a plot, and some people won’t even use that (though they’re supposed to).
Those suckers will burn down the WH if they get voted out.
Should be a lot less than a 1000.00. What a rip off.
That’ll kill the funeral industry, Morty! Bodies rotting on the streets. Others refusing to die to make room for newborns.
I know in my head that it really won't matter whether burned or buried but there's always that nagging thought that burns hurt like hell.
Choosing cremation. If I can’t afford it then put me in the bum cementary with a number. What do I care? I’m dead.
Is that the economy or people finally getting smart. Expensive funerals are dumber than expensive weddings, they’re dead, it’s too late to lavish them with stuff, go out to dinner someplace (I want my survivors to go someplace I don’t like, it’s a good acknowledgement that I’m gone), drink a toast to them, go mourn.
The funeral industry is one of the biggest rip-offs we have. One hundred year guarantees for a $12,000 box.
Who in the hell is going to check that out, my great great great grandson?
Strike a match and I’m done. Thank you very much!
I hope people soon come to their senses regarding the waste of such things.
Big pharma to follow the slide down as the old, mostly fully insured generation dies off, as millions in the private sector are left with little or no health insurance, or money.
The downside, of course, is you can't exhume the body more than a century later and see if they died of poisoning as they did with president Zachary Taylor, a distant cousin of mine.
burial at sea, sewn inside a hammock, how expensive could that be?
BTW, lets get rid of these stupid, dangerous funeral processions in traffic. They do nothing but cause accidents and create traffic chaos.
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