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he Funeral Industry needs to change, it all comes down to hurt customers. States that protect funeral directors as the only sellers of Caskets need to give up their funeral cartel laws. There needs to be free enterprise, so that appropriate funeral costs can be applied in the current double dipped recession.
True supply and demand need to apply to the funeral industry. It should not be that Catholic monks in Louisiana are not allowed to sell pine boxes to support themselves, just because funeral directors want to protect their market.
Hurt families only result from price fixing funeral cost.
“What I’m talking about is a way to do funerals and death honestly and affordable. Not in a way where the person has to make this extremely expensive decision with a numb brain, and an air to “just get the job done”. That’s what I did. While my funeral service was great, and lovely, was it worth $10,000 for a few hours to place him in the ground? He would have hated that it cost that much to die.
The funeral business is a nasty one, plain and simple. They’re out for our money based on our weak, heartbroken selves. Something needs to change.
Plan ahead, save yourself some money. In the meantime, let’s keep aware and help our loved ones through this process in a sensible manner when they cannot make those decisions for themselves.”-via crazywidow.info
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September 2nd, 2010People need to realize that a memorial service can be held anywhere, a park, a museum, community center, a backyard or a home. The casket does not have to be present. This can save you lots of money on funeral cost.
Snippet from a recent DearAbby:
Dear Abby: My parents passed away within two years of each other. Instead of funerals, we held celebration-of-life services.
We created slide shows and poster boards of their lives, told funny stories about them, and had people share their stories.
- Missing Mom and Dad, Eugene, Ore.via www.dispatch.com
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August 31st, 2010Dead people are still used in all kinds of testing and it is not all medical. Human Cadavers are still used to crash test cars.
“Snippet’
“‘automakers don’t have the medical resources that cadaver tests require.
But universities do. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funds scores of cadaver tests at schools across the country every year; many of those schools also get grants from automakers. And the data they gather can be shared widely.”
via jalopnik.com
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Would you donate your body to auto crash testing?
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August 27th, 2010
- Chemical reactions are the key to decomposition natural or Alkaline Hydrolysis accelerated - Image via Wikipedia
Alkaline Hydrolysis as a means of final disposition is now gaining some notice. There is a report of a machine going into Australia.
Clearly the United States is and will be the leader in bringing Alkaline Hydrolysis to the world.
A question raised in a comment at this blog is important- Is Alkaline hydrolysis disposition by low pressure or high pressure burial or cremation?
Here is the comment:
“If 90-100% of a body is interred, is it called a burial or a cremation?
“My Latin teacher would have taken a ruler to the hand of the person who decided to use a word derived from cremāre to describe a process, alkaline hydrolysis, that provides a family with an abundance of remains, not a few ashes.
You contend the world has been misled into thinking of alkaline hydrolysis as being another form of cremation. It is time to stop this madness. A cremation uses incineration and evaporation to reduce human remains to cremains. The cremains returned to a family are comprised of roughly 75% of the pre-incineration mass of the bones or just 4-5% of the total body. The cremains contain a small amount of residue of others who have been previously cremated. Conversely, some of one cremains will be given to other families. Alkaline hydrolysis differs considerably from cremation.
With a CycledBurial(TM) and with an unsterile burial, the entire body is available to a family for interment. Unlike cremation, there is no comingling of remains with either an unsterile burial or a CycledBurial. Incineration and evaporation are not processes used by CycledLife’s alkaline hydrolysis systems.
Although Alkaline Hydrolysis has been dubbed green cremation, aquamation, bio cremation, water cremation, and natural cremation, it really is not cremation at all, it is a form of burial.
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August 25th, 2010Cemeteries are dying so they are turning to new ways to bring in business. THe Wall Street Journal Recently did an article on this and put up a video.
The economy has now forced the Cemetery into more public events.
Cemeteries are now turning to new and creative means to bring in dollars.
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