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The only things they're not doing is embalming and using concrete liners or having some funeral home people haul the body. Doing it all by hand and it still costs more than cremation!?
I come from a long line of morticians. They always talked about how the loved ones of the deceased felt compelled to spend large sums of money, no matter how hard the funeral director tried to argue for cheaper alternatives.
(In their own wills, they specified that they be cremated and deposited without ceremony. They were devout Christians, but they didn't believe God cared what kind of funeral was held.)
That fear of the survivors that they will be seen as "cheap", "disrespectful" or "unloving" (along with the greed of some industry workers) tends to drive up the prices for all of us.
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As for "green" funerals or even cheap funerals, why not? The physical body is like a suit of old clothes. The loved one isn't there to "wear" it after death.
That doesn't answer txsvicki's question and assumes that the only opinion here (moticians) is truthful. Kind of like asking occupants of a prison their opinion of LE and validating that opinion.
TGIRecovered, I'm sure there will still have to be regulations. Cities such as London and (particularly) Paris that have buried the dead willy-nilly have found themselves engulfed in eruptions of corpses.
(P.S. I'm a dude. No offense taken, but I don't want you to feel misled.)
Oopsie! I'm sorry I called you a she!
As for the London thing, eew! I wonder if their abundant rainfall contributes to the erupting... shifting mud and all. I live in a drought prone area of Texas. Our ground is dry and hard. Things tend to stay put if you bury them deep enough.
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What next, for Petes sake!
Most towns most likely require a cement liner and casket but pine boxes are available if people insist.
I really dislike the idea of embalming my used up body so that generations down the line it is still somewhat preserved lying in a coffin that costs much more than most of the cars I have driven.
I have decided that cremation is the way to go.....I don't feel the need to have people look at my made up body after death....take the money and throw a BBQ or whatever kind of party the family that's left might enjoy.
In the county I live in you must have the cement liner and be embalmed. There are no "green" cemetaries. Most people spend $10,000 or more burying their loved ones. What a waste that could be used for something else that might be needed.