Is there a third choice?

Ocean cruise, one way ticket to get you out far enough and jump after dark.

snipped-for-privacy@home.com wrote the following:

Cremation is much cheaper. You only rent the casket (if you want viewing) and there's no plot to buy. Besides, you get a nice urn to place on the mantle.

"Is there a Ralph's around here"? - Walter Sobchak

I read once about a musician that was so rich he spent a year dead for tax purposes. I never heard how well it turned out.

-C-

I have strict rules for when my time comes. I want the cheapest funeral with cremation that money can buy. Loved ones jet so suckered into spending a small fortune with just the friggen casket. I have pondered though if I want the cardboard casket or splurge for a pine box.

Depends on the size of the family and number of close friends, their religious beliefs, and presence/absence of specific instructions in the Will. Sometimes it's impossible to avoid a big show.

If the coroner does not require an autopsy, one is not desired by the next of kin, organ donation is not accomplished, and the body was not traumatically mutilated, anatomic donation to a medical school is usually at zero cost to the next of kin.

In many states, it is legal for the mortuary to cremate the remains without a casket. Ashes can be scattered at sea or returned to the next of kin in a simple cardboard box. Funeral parlor services are not obligatory. Placement of the ashes in a columbarium or grave is not obligatory. Not entirely free, but probably the most cost effective.

If you're too big to fail, the government will turn you into a zombie.

I'm going for the cardboard. My first idea was to just strap me onto a wood pallet and set it adrift, but the law enforcement people frown upon that. Cheap is good, no reason to spend money to get rid of a body no longer being used.

No, not at all. There would still be lots of money in "extras" that met the dead person's lst/s.

Not true of all veterans; not globally applcable.

And can get at your money/property.

So? Once you're dead, you aren't going to care about much of anything.

Instructions should not be in the Will. Often, that is not found or read until the person is already buried. Ooooooooooops, too late!

Best to have an envelope containing instruction where others can find it and open it soon after you are dead.

Reincarnation, and donate your unwanted human body to medical science?

(I wonder if it's legally possible to donate your body to somewhere that doesn't have medical interests - e.g. McDonalds?)

Plasma?

It's the fourth state of matter, and the newest kind of tv, so it might work here too.

A very wrothwhile thing to do.

I'm pretty sure you can be autopsied if the law finds reason to require it, donate those organs that are good to go, and still donate the rest of your body to a medical school. If parts are missing, they can look at the other table.

I've been carrying an organ donor card all but 6 months for the last

And I'm typed and registered as a bone-marrow donor too, for the last

The mortuary I went to once, had a bunch of expensive caskets on display and hid the cheap ones. 15 years ago, 100 dollars for a pine box. I'm not sure about cardboard in this state. Didn't Sears say it was going to start selling coffins cheaply, or Walmart?

Powers of Attorney expire when you do. (Also checking accounts and uncashed checks, etc. The checks become a claim against the estate, paid it is hoped at 100%. )

I suspect everything in your family is done right, and the power of attronery and medical power of attorney is for when she is still alive but not entirely with it.

Wouldn't it show in a title seach?

Didnt' they already have a scandal, that they were using animal fat on the fries, not just vergetable oil? They probalby wwouldnt' accept your idea.

Then go down and buy a pre-pay plan. As for the casket. One is not needed if there is to be no viewing, nor is embalming required. I thinkg the specification is "Immediate cremation".

Even cremation has gone way up. I started the process a few years ago, then procrastinated at that time they quoted $700 range. This year I finally did it and it was already $1700 and change. It won't get any cheaper.

Harry K

?? If you are talking about adding 'extras' when you buy the pre-pay then yes, of course but _you_ have control of them not a survivor who can have a guilt trip laid on them for going "cheap".

So don't bother to check it out all all, eh?

Name your own or have the court name one. Like it or not there _will_ be an executor.

So you will just dump the decisions and costs on your survivors? Nice guy!

Harry K

You get my vote for funniest comment of the month.

-- Bobby G.