those with foxtel do the constant funeral ads annoy you

[carly2579]

  they are such  ghouls    i know it is a real life issue but  do they have to be on every 5 minutes??

[katymatey*]

There should be somewhere to protest that sort of *astardry.

[katymatey*]

I have heard recently that the cover runs out at around 80, not sure if that is true.

[gkam2]

We used to have Foxtel but got rid of it because of the funeral ads, they are bad enough on free to air but having to pay an arm and a leg to be assaulted with constant ads is the definition of insanity.

I have decided not to die just to spite the bathtubs. Go the Immortals.

[lyndal1838]

I think that with most of them you cannot join after age 79/80 but they do not stop the coverage if you are already paying.

The average person could not afford the premiums if they are in their 70s anyway.

[newstart2380]

It proves how much money they are all making to be able to advertise the way they do at prime time, vey annoying and sick and tired of the funeral ads. It is cheaper to put X amount away in a savings account to pay for your funeral because if you pay over 30 years or more you have paid for your funeral and 6 other peoples. It's a money grabbing scurge by scummy insurance conmpanies playing on the insecurities of people and if you cancel the policy you don't get any refund.

[lorra-tappe]

Yes,please cut them back

[*kazumi*]

I do not have Foxtel; I usually watch midday news on the ABC as I cook my lunch (my main meal for the day) and then switch to SBS and watch the american news, PBS newshour and if there is something interesting afterwards, and I watch/listen while I knit my jumper.  They also have all these funeral ads; never mind, as soon as it starts I put the knitting down and go for walk, make myself cuppa, wash the dishes..........  But then again I find almost all ads annoying. 

They also had all these cruise ads, just as on the news we were watching over the past few months people quarantined on ship in Japan, they would go straight into cruise ad.  I thought that was rather waste of money.  Talking about inappropriate. 

[springyzone]

You think that's bad. I get emails from cruise companies trying to get me to book cruises for the second half of 2020.

Now I like cruises as much as the next person, but tell them they're dreaming! I am not confident international borders will be open any time soon. Or that some of these cruise companies might not go belly up in the meantime.

[icyfroth]

Well...someone has to make money somehow. With all the businesses closing down, I mean.

Us baby-boomers have created a lot of prosperity in our lifetime, it's only natural we will do the same in our declining years, before we exit this mortal coil.

Look how many ppl are working the health and aged-care industry. They don't want us to die (except for the funeral industry, wthich is doing it tough). They're dieing for us to die, pardon the pun.

We are the last holders of old traditions, crafts, learning, and practices. The last link between the old and the new. After wer'e gone, nobody much will have any knowledge of the old ways to hand them down.

How to survive wihout supermarkets and retailers?

Look how we are keeping the medical, pharmaceutial, aged-care industries alive and well. Not to mention Real Estate, lawyers, financial planners, etc.

Once we've all dropped of the perch what major industry will there be left to employ so many? 

[lurker172602]

Why?