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Good grief...the comments on Hacker News never cease to amaze... ...just to give a representative example, last September my Dad died. 1) We had his remains cr
by jiggbenice 13y ago
Good grief...the comments on Hacker News never cease to amaze...
...just to give a representative example, last September my Dad died. 1) We had his remains cremated. 2) We got said remains without anything fancier than the cardboard box they came in. 3) We scattered his ashes ourselves as a family without any visitation, funeral ceremony, or anything.
No gravestone, no casket, no wake, no ceremony, no officiant.
Total cost: $6,000.
$20,000 is absolutely realistic if he wants to be buried with an average casket, average headstone and average ceremony.
- genwin 13y agoIt was $6K just for cremation? Or you had other costs?
- jiggbenice 13y agoWell, from our perspective that's all that was done -- his body was cremated and given to us in ash-form. But I'm sure from the funeral home's perspective they did whatever preparations they had to do, processing, helped us put his obituary together and submitted it to publications, administration costs, etc.
- syntheticnature 13y agoThank you for this. I am giving in to my urge to link it to some of the comments decrying the funereal cost given. I was told to set aside $20k fifteen years ago -- I'd expect now it would be much more.