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re: Overnight caskets. Any experiences?
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:21 am to White Roach
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:21 am to White Roach
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I bought (near) identical caskets from them in Fall 2008 and early 2017, because that's what my parents wanted. I believe it was the monastic style. The price almost doubled in less than 8-1/2 years.
Maybe they were trying to recoup legal fees spent fight Big Funeral, maybe it was the 2016 flood damage to their shop, maybe it was because of their increased popularity. I don't know. But now, in addition to the shysters at the funeral home, you've got monks taking advantage of you too.
How is this taking advantage of you? No one forced you to buy from them.
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:46 am to AUFANATL
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If you're over a certain age you should plan out your own final arrangements, put aside the money out of your own pocket in a joint account and leave specific instructions. I know it is morbid but it is better than leaving that task and expense to your bereaved loved ones.
There's peace of mind and absolution in knowing this is the cemetery plot where daddy wanted to be buried, this is the headstone he wanted, this is the funeral home where he wanted a small service held, etc...
Depending on where you make the arrangements, many funeral homes actually allow you to pay for the services now so it's already done. Don't have to worry about price increases if you live another 5+ years, get to pick exactly what you want and not worry about people changing it to go cheap and "save money", and won't have to put any of that burden on your family during a difficult time.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:48 am to CAD703X
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or through Amazon.
Are you cool with Amazon again?
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:52 am to RedPop4
Friend,
Surely you have me mistaken for someone else. I love my Roman Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ. My second favorite New Orleans author, Walker Percy, after only George Washington Cable, was a devout Catholic whose writings I love. Each time I go to St Joseph Abbey, which is seldom due to its location north of the Lake, I visit Percy’s grave at the Abbey. We go to RC Mass at least twice every year. Some of my favorite theologians and philosophers, likewise, are Roman Catholic. I forgive your mistake, but if you insist on continuing your specious lies, I will have no other option but to pray for you, not as a friend but as my enemy.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Surely you have me mistaken for someone else. I love my Roman Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ. My second favorite New Orleans author, Walker Percy, after only George Washington Cable, was a devout Catholic whose writings I love. Each time I go to St Joseph Abbey, which is seldom due to its location north of the Lake, I visit Percy’s grave at the Abbey. We go to RC Mass at least twice every year. Some of my favorite theologians and philosophers, likewise, are Roman Catholic. I forgive your mistake, but if you insist on continuing your specious lies, I will have no other option but to pray for you, not as a friend but as my enemy.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:56 am to Bullfrog
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I don’t want to live with the thought that I cheaped out on mama.
My mom would get up out of the casket and slap me if I did not buy the cheapest casket possible to bury her in.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:02 am to TigerNutts
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Why have we buried millions of metal boxes underground? Let the body return to the earth.
Modern Humans are a strange species.
Personally, put my dead arse on a wooden raft and shoot flaming arrows at it as I drift off.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:04 am to BhamBlazeDog
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funeral homes really do take advantage of you.
They are worse than car salesmen.
They are specifically taking advantage of someone at their worst moment.
I did a fair amount of work in sales when I was younger... And spotting someone selling pisses me off. My cousin, who currently works in sales, is kind hearted. And he bought the pitch. He was then told to get up from the desk and go sit on the couch.
The guy had quoted a number on the phone and then tripled it in person. He figured no one would push back in a time of grief.
They are the scum of the earth. They arent your friend. They aren't actually sorry for your loss. You are nothing more than a dollar sign.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:15 am to TulaneLSU
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St Jospeh’s Abbey
Why couldn't we get cool beer brewing monks instead of these Gepetto mothers.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:18 am to MorbidTheClown
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it's been 26 years but, i still remember going off on the person at the funeral home when they told me it would have cost half as much if we had made the deal BEFORE she died.
Some of that is because the funeral home acts like a loan shark for insurance premiums. The expend the money for a casket, their services, cards, etc. They file for the death certificate and then file for life insurance policy. Once they collect the money from the life insurance company, they send you a check for what is left from the proceeds of the insurance payout.
In most cases, they will not pay for a burial plot. For that some cemetaries want cash in hand before burial.
On a side point, I received a letter last week concerning a life insurance policy my dad had with life insurance company that went belly up and was absorbed by a larger company. Crazy thing is that he has been deceased for 7 years now, did the funeral home screw up and miss a policy that he had.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:25 am to CAD703X
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$1,350
How ab i just pick up some plywood from Home Depot and fix you up for ab $50?
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:27 am to CAD703X
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This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 9:58 am
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:32 am to CAD703X
Check out this recent story from CBS Sunday Morning:
Link
I think you are smart to pursue alternative options and this might be another one for comparison. It’s interesting that the website you found instructs you to “hold” that you are going outside the funeral home for a casket until after you’ve received the first itemized estimate.
Link
I think you are smart to pursue alternative options and this might be another one for comparison. It’s interesting that the website you found instructs you to “hold” that you are going outside the funeral home for a casket until after you’ve received the first itemized estimate.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:37 am to TigerDeacon
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the body may be refrigerated continuously at a temperature not to exceed forty-five degrees Fahrenheit.
this was what they did, it was still less than 48 hours from official time of death to burial
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:43 am to 777Tiger
I’ve always thought the casket was in 2 parts and the actual “nice” part you see is not actually left in the ground???
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:44 am to jeffsdad
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I’ve always thought the casket was in 2 parts and the actual “nice” part you see is not actually left in the ground???
casket always goes in the ground, the concrete vault is optional, or at least that's been my experience
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:49 am to CAD703X
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:50 am to TBoy
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Our family has bought several simple wooden caskets from St. Joseph’s Abbey. Support the monks. Don’t pay the thieving funeral home business.
My grandfather helped the monks start that program and taught some of them how to make the caskets. They also do nice wooden boxes for ashes.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 11:56 am to TheBoogeyman
thank you for the well wishes in this thread, rummy, coon. 
this place isn't as horrible as it seems sometimes.
everything has been ordered; i was able to get 2 really nice caskets with the fit and finish we wanted for the same price as the 'cheapo box' option the funeral home offered which they know absolutely nobody is going to buy.
this place isn't as horrible as it seems sometimes. everything has been ordered; i was able to get 2 really nice caskets with the fit and finish we wanted for the same price as the 'cheapo box' option the funeral home offered which they know absolutely nobody is going to buy.
This post was edited on 8/15/23 at 11:57 am
Posted on 8/15/23 at 12:25 pm to CAD703X
Why not just buy the cheap 900 one from the funeral home. You can’t really tell the difference and they all leak. Was told this by a old HS friend who owns a local funeral home and he advised me to just pick a cheap one, anything else was a waste of money. Sorry for your loss, losing 2 ppl at once can’t be easy, prayers to you.
This post was edited on 8/15/23 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 8/15/23 at 12:28 pm to TheBoogeyman
quote:. Good on him, frick the state of Louisiana who at the urging of the funeral home cartel tried to shut the Priests from building and selling homemade caskets.
My grandfather helped the monks start that program and taught some of them how to make the caskets. They also do nice wooden boxes for ashes.
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