I can’t resist. My friend Josh Slocum, the brilliant head of the consumer-friendly Funeral Consumers Alliance (www.funerals.com ), has written a wise and sensible blog on mapping out — or rather not mapping out — your own funeral. And I couldn’t resist borrowing it today. Here’s what Josh has to say:
“In my experience. those who [...]
Here’s something for those of you who want to save a few dollars in these harsh economic times — particularly when you’re dead:
The San Diego chapter of the Funeral Consumers Alliance (www.funerals.org ) has done a terrific in-depth job of comparing prices among various funeral homes.
Don’t want to pay $5,000 for a casket? Or ridiculous [...]
Dear Judy,
I see from your web site that you’re a big fan of cheap funerals and cheap burials. Maybe you’ll understand my dilemma. My whole family hates me and thinks I’m cold and hard just because I want my sister, when she passes, to be cremated.
My sister hates the idea of cremation. She has Stage IV ovarian cancer, [...]
About the only good news in this economy comes, amazingly, from the funeral industry.
No, the funeral people who last year raked in about $15 billion selling coffins, services, burial plots, urns, embalming and cremations, are not exactly thrilled these days. But you, the consumer, are in a better place.
By which I mean you are probably thinking [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009