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| Posted: Wed Oct 28th, 2009 10:01 pm | 1st Post |
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Wal-Mart Selling Caskets, Urns Online Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its Web site at prices that undercut many funeral homes, long the major seller of caskets. The move follows a similar one by discount rival Costco, which also sells caskets on its site. Wal-Mart quietly put up about 15 caskets and dozens of urns on its Web site last week. Prices range from $999 for models like "Dad Remembered" and "Mom Remembered" steel caskets to the mid-level $1,699 "Executive Privilege." All are less than $2,000, except for the Sienna Bronze Casket, which sells for $3,199. Caskets ship within 48 hours. Federal law requires funeral homes to accept third-party caskets. Returns are not accepted, the company says on its site, unless the product has been damaged during shipping. Part of the business model is to get people to plan ahead: Walmart.com is allowing people to pay for the caskets over a period of 12 months for no interest. The move gives more power to consumers and helps them avoid high mark-ups on caskets, which can often be several hundred percent, said R. Brian Burkhardt, a funeral director who blogs as "Your Funeral Guy." "You can get a quality casket for $1,000 rather than pay $2,000, $3,000 or $5,000 in a funeral home. That's where it helps the consumer," he said. The industry is not too concerned about Wal-Mart entering the market, said Pat Lynch, president-elect of the National Funeral Home Directors Association. Consumers have been able to buy caskets online and from other sources for years, with minimal effect on the business, he said. Wal-Mart's prices for caskets don't differ greatly from those offered at funeral homes, most of which range from $500 to $5,000, Lynch said. He declined to give an average price, saying a casket selection is a personal one. He said Wal-Mart can't offer one thing funeral directors do have: the ability to comfort someone during a trying time. "There's no question in my mind as a funeral director for nearly 40 years that the most critical element is the human contact," he said
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 01:12 am | 2nd Post |
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UBarW wrote: Wal-Mart Selling Caskets, Urns Online Yeah, right, he means the moment his hand contacts your wallet!!! blood suckers ALL!!!!!!!!! 
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2009 10:37 pm | 3rd Post |
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Plan ahead, it usually costs about $8 grand before the body or ashes are interred, that's why burial at sea is such a popular solution, just darn difficult to visit if you get my drift?
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30th, 2009 12:48 am | 4th Post |
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Wingle wrote: Plan ahead, it usually costs about $8 grand before the body or ashes are interred, that's why burial at sea is such a popular solution, just darn difficult to visit if you get my drift? gotta follow the current I guess. 
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30th, 2009 01:01 am | 5th Post |
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I've always wanted to be Buried at Sea,.......... but I can only afford to be cremated and flushed down the Toilet,...........I'l get there sooner or later  And Away Wee GOOO!!!!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30th, 2009 02:41 am | 6th Post |
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We aren't too concerned with outward displays in my family. My father carried a .50 caliber ammo can with him in WWII in the Pacific. He liked it because it was air tight and he could carry his tobacco and other things in the humid weather of some of the islands he was stationed on. When I was young, he gave me the box to keep my tools in. It didn't take too long before I outgrew that old ammo can so I carried my emergency supplies in my airplanes in Alaska, later on used it to protect tools and an Epirb in my boats in SE Alaska. I must have used that old ammo can for well over 30 years. A few years ago when my father passed away I upset a funeral home when I showed up with that old ammo can for my father's cremains. I'd cleaned it up nicely but it still had different coats of paint showing, you could see several different colors and even the registration numbers of one of my airplanes still on the lid. The funeral director didn't like it but I collected my father's remains in a plastic bag and installed them in the old box. I kept them there for about four months until my mother passed on a couple of years ago and put her remains in the box with dad much to the consternation of another funeral director. Last year we sprinkled both their ashes from my brother's boat in San Francisco Bay. My mother had lived in Oakland and commuted across the bay for years and met my father there so it seemed appropriate. It was a bittersweet emotion we all felt as we hoisted either a glass of wine in my mother's honor and then a glass of beer as a last salute to my father. A good honor for a long life well lived. They'd both be pleased it they knew we beat the waste of money that funeral homes try to squeeze out of you.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30th, 2009 03:17 am | 7th Post |
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Thanks Exavid, that was a great send off. When my younger brother died last Christmas I scratched my head at what I would place his remains in and by chance I was in a local store, The Bombay Co, they have really nice stuff in there and I was thinking of a humidor as present for a brother in law but a memory book in mahogany caught my eye. As my brother was an avid reader I got the "book" for his final resting place. I still have to carve a stone for him but that will come once I get a nice piece of marble.
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