spirits
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When my father passed away 8 years ago I was very grateful that he had made arrangements beforehand. He had picked out his casket,and was already arranged to be placed beside my mother who predeceased him by 7 years.
Everything was paid for except the honorarium for the priest and the funeral supper. And flowers of course. I was very grateful that he had decided before hand sparing me making arrangement at a stressful time.
Wanting to spare our children the burden of deciding after the fact, my husband and I prepaid the burial part. (Hopefully we are still married to each other by the time either of us go...we have the memorial already inscribed with our birthdates (;
Last week we made final arrangements for my MIL. I was very glad we had arranged for her while she was still capable. Again all that was left was, as our funeral director put it, the COFF (casket, obituary, flowers and food)
And so while we were at it,we paid the other 1/2 which is the ceremony part. Later on, we were discussing the costs and it will cost us at least $40000( in today's dollars) to put us into the ground. That is a lot of money and so we decided to ask around.
Of 4 close couples, 3 are definitely being cremated and the other couple is undecided. We of course have chosen burial since that was the method we are comfortable with.
However, it has gotten us thinking....we believe that life is for the living. We have provided a good home and education for our children. They are both fine and established in their lives. Although we plan on living for another 30 years at least, we feel that we need to live our lives fully and the children get whatever is left after we are gone and they pay our COFF with the money they will receive from our estate.
At the time we had heard informally, that the costs of cremation were not that much less than burial. Not wanting to get a sales speech I thought I would go to the wisest counsel I know of. Tuggers.
So here is my question.....how much money do you save if you choose cremation over a burial? Assuming the COFF is kept out of the calculation.
Everything was paid for except the honorarium for the priest and the funeral supper. And flowers of course. I was very grateful that he had decided before hand sparing me making arrangement at a stressful time.
Wanting to spare our children the burden of deciding after the fact, my husband and I prepaid the burial part. (Hopefully we are still married to each other by the time either of us go...we have the memorial already inscribed with our birthdates (;
Last week we made final arrangements for my MIL. I was very glad we had arranged for her while she was still capable. Again all that was left was, as our funeral director put it, the COFF (casket, obituary, flowers and food)
And so while we were at it,we paid the other 1/2 which is the ceremony part. Later on, we were discussing the costs and it will cost us at least $40000( in today's dollars) to put us into the ground. That is a lot of money and so we decided to ask around.
Of 4 close couples, 3 are definitely being cremated and the other couple is undecided. We of course have chosen burial since that was the method we are comfortable with.
However, it has gotten us thinking....we believe that life is for the living. We have provided a good home and education for our children. They are both fine and established in their lives. Although we plan on living for another 30 years at least, we feel that we need to live our lives fully and the children get whatever is left after we are gone and they pay our COFF with the money they will receive from our estate.
At the time we had heard informally, that the costs of cremation were not that much less than burial. Not wanting to get a sales speech I thought I would go to the wisest counsel I know of. Tuggers.
So here is my question.....how much money do you save if you choose cremation over a burial? Assuming the COFF is kept out of the calculation.
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