Paying for Funeral

[grandmoon]

I decided to open a bank account and put money aside to pay for my funeral.

When I mention it to people most of them say "But you would die for years yet."

Today Tony said "So you can't die before you have saved up enough money "

Tony thinks like me.

[grandmoon]

Before my MIL died she when through her possessions and decided what she wanted to leave to whom.  After her funeral my BIL when though what she had left (not big enough to leave in her will ) and handed them out to us.  On the back of the articles were band aides with our names on them.  She died in 1986 and I still have the band aides on the back of the wood carvings she left me.

[jean2579]

My OH and I each pay $12 a fortnight into a funeral fund. When we told our Son and DIL they were both annoyed as they said that they could easily pay and it was morbid and unnecessary.

We don't feel that way, we have always paid our own way and don't see this as any different.

[cherry*135]

My Mum did that too, grandmoon. Wrote on china in black marker pen or on strip of tape on other things. I like to see that written on them now.

I don't know if some kerfuffle happened in the past (her grandmother?) after a funeral and family fought/ fell out over possesions, or it just happened to someone else she knew but she was making sure it didn't happen when she was gone.

It got to be a bit of a joke, as she started doing that many years before she died. If we liked something of hers we would say ' you can write my name on that!"

[gleee58]

Does anyone know if you have to pay to book a spot at the body farm?

Funeral at body farm, guests advised to wear gumboots   😄

[raptor_rebooted]

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@gleee58 wrote:

Does anyone know if you have to pay to book a spot at the body farm?

Funeral at body farm, guests advised to wear gumboots   😄

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contact the uts and ask them:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-19/body-farm-to-study-decomposing-human-corpses-set-up-in-sydney/...

[bluecat*dancing]

That's tough with them passing so close together. Mine were 18 months apart and that was difficult enough so I can imagine how hard it must have been for you.

My Mum had only a short window of time in which to get her affairs in irder. Fortunately, she made sure thather surviving children knew where important documents were kept. The brain tumour that she had was very aggressive and was already quite advanced when it was diagnosed. She was given 2 months to live and she did only live for 2 months. However, within about a week, she was mentally gone but during that week, she was able to make sure that we had the funds to organise a prepaid funeral for her. Apart from her over-religous sister hijacking of the funeral, I'm sure my Mum would have been happy with what her kids had done.

My Dad,on the other hand, was ableto organise his funeral  long before he died. The doctors kept predicting his demise and he kept proving them wrong, right up to the very end. He chose one song, his wife chose one song and they both chose the third. Beautiful choices. My Dad said that even though funerals are for the living, if his funeral became too maudlin, he was going to get up and leave.lol.

I should organise a prepaid funeral for myself. And a will.

[curraone]

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@lurker172602 wrote:
That's interesting curraone. What is it called please and how do you get it?

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I am not sure now and I don't have it with me - I left it with the rest of the family.     I think the retirement home was handing them out.

[ashjoma]

My dad says I can save the money and just stick him in an old cardboard box and wheelbarrow him up to the crematorium

[polksaladallie]

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@gleee58 wrote:

Does anyone know if you have to pay to book a spot at the body farm?

Funeral at body farm, guests advised to wear gumboots   😄

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That's what I would have preferred, but was told there were none in Australia, so I will be doing the next best thing.

[mainecoon1]

My Mum has hers all arranged and paid for, she did this after Dad died and while she was arranging his funeral.  My Dad would not discuss his funeral as he thought it was morbid so when he died we did not know what he wanted so we decided to have him buried in his favourite clothes which was a pair of trousers, a jumper and his slippers.  Even though he looked great in suits he always hated wearing them and we knew he would not want to be put in one for the fureral.  He also had a coffin full of Birthday cards as he was buried on his 79th birthday.