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calloy t1_ivb5d5n wrote

So they dug up a relative to sell the casket? That’s what used means, you know.

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JethroFire t1_ivbfvx3 wrote

Remember, inflation isn't a big deal.

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thoth1000 t1_ivblyla wrote

It was traded in within the last year according to the article, and the pawn shop owner doesn't say why it was traded in. Then it asks a completely unrelated person why they're shopping at a pawn shop. This is a terrible article, it doesn't connect the economy to the used coffin, at all.

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Prudent-Beautiful-33 t1_ivc1g2t wrote

Replying to Infynis (#459,057)

I paid $1200 to rent a casket for 2 hours that was specially designed so the cardboard cremation refrigerator box thing slipped inside.

$1200 gave me the right to ask the unamused undertaker if he fucked my wife as hard as he was fucking me.

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originalusername__ t1_ivc2msy wrote

Unfortunately buried my mom in April, cancer took her far too young. The cheapest casket available at the time was around 2000$ but there were nicer options that cost damn near 10k. They also offered rentals for those being cremated, I think that cost around 700$.

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TheLaffGaff t1_ivc60js wrote

A coffin? That's the last thing anybody needs.

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SilasX t1_ivc88go wrote

Replying to jpowell180 (#458,202)

Oh yeah it’s totally no big deal to take a body out of its coffin and bury it without. Just make sure to also pee on the body and turn it face down for final burial!

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HandsOnGeek t1_ivc8cxv wrote

Replying to JethroFire (#458,317)

Some of us are still trying to chew our way through the shit sandwich that got voted in in 2016.

I don't know about anybody else but I don't have enough bread to not taste the shit.

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HandsOnGeek t1_ivca322 wrote

Replying to JethroFire (#459,491)

It's the mid terms.
Trump Voters are the current problems.

Them and foreign Trump supporters like Putin.

Edit: As long as Mitch McConnell controls enough of the Senate to prevent a 60 person supermajority, the Democrats do not "control the Senate".
Much to the country's detriment.

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720hp t1_ivcaj4b wrote

I would take anything this news org puts out for public ingestion with three grains of salt. these guys are masters at miswording or taking information out of context. just beware...did someone pawn a casket? probably.

but people also return them to walmart as well long before this economy hit... (I link to this acct but it's not the first time I had heard the recounting of this tale)
https://youtu.be/yLxCYT4Kihw

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sameth1 t1_ivcgfhy wrote

Is the body sold separately?

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TheJollyHermit t1_ivcgqto wrote

Lightly used as upper bunk during occasional goth sleepovers. No sexual activity in coffin, guaranteed. Light drool stain.

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Maldibus t1_ivck668 wrote

Replying to _SurfingKoala (#457,725)

Sometimes I dig up all the bodies in my colony and stuff them in the crematorium. Especially when the graveyard is on some prime real estate. Smokeleaf is more valuable than dead raiders.

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GuitarGeezer t1_ivckodq wrote

Just wondering, did the guy who turned it in look like he was wearing an Edgar suit?

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farfacogin t1_ivcm7rv wrote

Is it styrofoam painted like wood, does it have handles to lower me smooth?

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SevenSebastian t1_ivcpdrq wrote

Is coffin renting going to be thing now? Like ride share but with a dead grandma? Instead of Lyft, it’s Lower.

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compuwiza1 t1_ivcq9k0 wrote

Coffins are always popular. People are just dying to use them.

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chevalier716 t1_ivcqsk3 wrote

Considering how many crypts get neglected or abandoned, I imagine there was plenty of this going on already.

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Billy1121 t1_ivcwclw wrote

Was this used on a Corncob TV show?

> COFFIN FLOP

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mei740 t1_ivcy7z8 wrote

If you choose to be cremated but have an open casket funeral you rent a casket.

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wigzell78 t1_ivcybe1 wrote

Used once, no complaints from previous owner.

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erichw23 t1_ivd2jfw wrote

Lol I can tell ya right now people keep ordering 100$s of dollars of shit food from the chain I work at, huge delivery fees, it ain't bad yet.

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littlebitsofspider t1_ivd3vh2 wrote

Replying to pseudocultist (#459,589)

What about a burial vault?

I'm trying to get the "this encloses that" matrioshka order of funerary containers correct so I can enclose the world's most anticlimactic 'pop goes the weasel' joke for future archeologists.

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JethroFire t1_ivd4v6y wrote

Replying to Atomhed (#460,720)

Because fetterman has scrambled eggs for brains these days. Even a TV charlatan is better. But it's already been received by the county, and I'm trying to convince everyone else I know to do the same. The red wave will be so satisfying.

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full_bl33d t1_ivd73kc wrote

Is there a Ralph’s around here?!

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aarons6 t1_ivda63f wrote

Replying to originalusername__ (#459,268)

you did know you dont have to buy the funeral home caskets?

when my grandma died their cheapest one was 2000 and it was junk they called it a "green" casket made from recycled wood or something.

anyways..

online i got a metal one with nice brass accents for like $400. (im sure they are more expensive now, but it was the cheapest one i could find online and it did its job)

they delivered it to the funeral home and got it all setup.

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aarons6 t1_ivddw54 wrote

Replying to originalusername__ (#461,278)

:(

the whole funeral and burial thing was just a high pressure sales scam.

most of the price they threw at us we got taken off and it ended up being like a third of what was "suggested"

we already had the burial plot tho.

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Girls_are_pretty t1_ivdj71m wrote

Replying to acidwxlf (#461,293)

I agree. That one particular scene where the hairs on the back of neck raised actually made me feel actual unease which I think the last time I felt that was watching a horror movie when I was a kid.

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Atomhed t1_ivdkhgo wrote

Replying to JethroFire (#460,824)

Fetterman has a speech issue, that's what happens with a stroke, people can still think and process things normally.

>The red wave will be so satisfying.

Lol, why?

So you can continue to watch the GOP refuse to allow the government to function and work for you?

So you can spend another congressional cycle wondering why your life doesn't improve?

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TankSparkle t1_ivdksr2 wrote

Replying to caninehere (#460,437)

I don't get why people aren't buried in a way that allows their body to naturally decompose. That allows the body to return to nature.

Pumping bodies full of preservatives and burying them doesn't make much sense.

And per Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Cremation releases your body's energy as heat into the atmosphere, eventually radiating it out to space."

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MountainHopper t1_ivdl5r8 wrote

Just not sure if the cohort willing to pawn a coffin is the economic bellwether we think it is.

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caninehere t1_ivdmlka wrote

Replying to Schwarz-Adler (#461,074)

I mean, I don't give a shit. If I was dead you could bang me all you want. I mean, who cares? A dead body is like a piece of trash. I mean, shove as much shit in there as you want. Fill me up with cream, make a stew out of my ass. What's the big deal? Bang me, eat me, grind me up into little pieces, throw me in the river. Who gives a shit? You're dead, you're dead!

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caninehere t1_ivdmrm1 wrote

Replying to TankSparkle (#461,605)

Some people are. There's a thing called green burials. The body isn't preserved, just put in a shroud kinda thing that helps decomposition I think, and buried like that.

There's also companies that will take your cremated ashes and put them into a planter with a sapling, so you can plant it and grow a tree. Or if you wanna get really weird I've seen ones that turn your ashes into a vinyl record haha.

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littlebitsofspider t1_ivdnr08 wrote

Replying to BortWard (#461,560)

I guess so far I'm at: sealed vial of blood, inside paper bag of ashes, inside travel urn, inside urn, inside coffin, inside casket, inside sarcophagus, inside burial vault, inside tomb, inside cenotaph, inside pyramid.

🎶 "Pop!" goes the weasel.🎶

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w0mbatina t1_ivdx8zx wrote

Why not just get cremated?

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HIM_Darling t1_ive17xr wrote

Replying to aarons6 (#461,128)

My family went to a discount casket store when my uncle died. Imagine grieving over losing a loved one and you have to listen to the funeral home manager getting bitched out by the casket store owner because the funeral home was refusing to take the casket because it wasn’t “the right size”. It was the exact same as one they sold, the casket store owner called him out on his bullshit, even though he would have to take it regardless if it was the right size or not(he was saying it was off by an entire inch). They wouldn’t have used that funeral home but my grandma had a pre-purchased plot there from 20-30 years prior.

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Gnace1er t1_ive378w wrote

Why the guy who used it does tneed it anymore?

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Rosebunse t1_ivehrk1 wrote

Replying to w0mbatina (#462,041)

A lot of people who get cremated still want a coffin for a viewing.

Also, and I know this is an unpopular opinion, some of us just do t like the idea of cremation.

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w0mbatina t1_ivele62 wrote

Replying to Rosebunse (#462,758)

>A lot of people who get cremated still want a coffin for a viewing.

Like, the urn is placed in a coffin?

This whole thing with coffins and embalming the dead is so weird to me. I come from a place where the vast majority of people get cremated, and its really unusual to even see a coffin at all. I only saw it once, and never an open one, since I dont even think you can legaly embalm the body.

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Rosebunse t1_iveoyyo wrote

Replying to w0mbatina (#462,925)

I know people who have the viewing, where you see the embalmed body, then after that they take the body to be cremated.

In the US, cremation is definitely more popular, but I guess my problem is just what to do with the body afterwards. I don't really want the cremated remains in my home, partially because I am superstitious.

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w0mbatina t1_ivep8z7 wrote

Replying to Rosebunse (#463,111)

You dont need to keep the urn at home? We just bury it like you would a coffin, except the hole needs to be much smaller. Or you can scatter the ashes in a cool location or whatever.

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Rosebunse t1_ivepezg wrote

Replying to w0mbatina (#463,124)

Most people scatter the ashes. Some people get the big decorative urns and do keep them at home. Fuck, lots of people can't afford an urn and just keep them in the box they came in, which is my worst fear.

Burying the urn, for many people here, defeats the purpose.

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DoBe21 t1_ivetbbv wrote

Replying to hypnos_surf (#461,866)

This or it was just the display and that model is discontinued and someone bought it for their future funeral at a super cheap rate. One of my older neighbors did this and has his in his shed. Kind of different, but it will save his family money come funeral time.

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smithe4595 t1_ivfb6w6 wrote

Good condition, one previous owner

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Legitimate_Western83 t1_ivfk834 wrote

Replying to thoth1000 (#458,558)

Aren’t there cemeteries that only let you rent the grave for 20 years? Maybe somebody hadn’t paid their rent upfront and no one picked up the tab post-mortem. Regardless, yuck, but…hey what’s the discount?

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acidwxlf t1_ivfqfhx wrote

Replying to obsessivesnuggler (#464,493)

Yeah I think it's up and down, very dependent on the directors style and the quality of the story being adapted. I'm a Lovecraft fan so I really liked Pickman's Model and Dream In the Witch House (also watched the Masters of Horror episode on the same story, fairly different interpretation). My least favorite episodes were actually the first two. Lot 36 and Graveyard Rats.

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rounder55 t1_ivk9r48 wrote

Only willing to pay at market value if it's been on corncob TV

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