Funeral Costs - How much??
Discussion
ArsE92 said:
Sheepshanks said:
Cremation is £830.00 in Liverpool - £1050.00 for a fat person.
Mum's funeral was earlier this year. Pretty basic and that was £3500.
Crikey. How big was your Mum?Mum's funeral was earlier this year. Pretty basic and that was £3500.
No disrespect intended
N Dentressangle said:
Some info here:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/anatomy/bequests/
The uni then covers cremation expenses too, of course.
Thanks, I was all signed up for this in UK but having moved away to another country I need to check the system here. Not a major priority....planning to live to at least one hundred!http://www.bristol.ac.uk/anatomy/bequests/
The uni then covers cremation expenses too, of course.
silverthorn2151 said:
It is my dads funeral tomorrow.
North east London. £6,300 excluding flowers and headstone.
Nice independent undertaker. Their bit is £2,300. The rest is plot in Chingford Mount Cemetery and church. It's a double plot, they all are and I'm the owner for 50 years. Ill be 107 by then!
Not looking forward to it but everyone we have dealt with has been professional, compassionate and courteous.
Very sorry to hear that. North east London. £6,300 excluding flowers and headstone.
Nice independent undertaker. Their bit is £2,300. The rest is plot in Chingford Mount Cemetery and church. It's a double plot, they all are and I'm the owner for 50 years. Ill be 107 by then!
Not looking forward to it but everyone we have dealt with has been professional, compassionate and courteous.
Hope the day goes as well as it can in the circumstances.
Sheepshanks said:
ArsE92 said:
Sheepshanks said:
Cremation is £830.00 in Liverpool - £1050.00 for a fat person.
Mum's funeral was earlier this year. Pretty basic and that was £3500.
Crikey. How big was your Mum?Mum's funeral was earlier this year. Pretty basic and that was £3500.
No disrespect intended
I'm going to hell aren't I?
Wacky Racer said:
silverthorn2151 said:
It is my dads funeral tomorrow.
North east London. £6,300 excluding flowers and headstone.
Nice independent undertaker. Their bit is £2,300. The rest is plot in Chingford Mount Cemetery and church. It's a double plot, they all are and I'm the owner for 50 years. Ill be 107 by then!
Not looking forward to it but everyone we have dealt with has been professional, compassionate and courteous.
Very sorry to hear that. North east London. £6,300 excluding flowers and headstone.
Nice independent undertaker. Their bit is £2,300. The rest is plot in Chingford Mount Cemetery and church. It's a double plot, they all are and I'm the owner for 50 years. Ill be 107 by then!
Not looking forward to it but everyone we have dealt with has been professional, compassionate and courteous.
Hope the day goes as well as it can in the circumstances.
I work as a volunteer on the old planes at the Manchester Airport VIewing park and a chap was asking questions, we got chatting and I asked him what he did, he said he was a director of a funeral company based in Stalybridge, they apparently do a funeral for like £1000, no service, just the absolute basics of collection and cremation, seemed a very switched on and professional young chap, Far and Beyond they were called, no affiliation, just remembered what he had on his shirt and that he impressed me with his attitude to what is an unusual trade for a young lad, seemed to me his did fairly well, but worked very hard, said he was on call most of the time.
silverthorn2151 said:
Wacky Racer said:
silverthorn2151 said:
It is my dads funeral tomorrow.
North east London. £6,300 excluding flowers and headstone.
Nice independent undertaker. Their bit is £2,300. The rest is plot in Chingford Mount Cemetery and church. It's a double plot, they all are and I'm the owner for 50 years. Ill be 107 by then!
Not looking forward to it but everyone we have dealt with has been professional, compassionate and courteous.
Very sorry to hear that. North east London. £6,300 excluding flowers and headstone.
Nice independent undertaker. Their bit is £2,300. The rest is plot in Chingford Mount Cemetery and church. It's a double plot, they all are and I'm the owner for 50 years. Ill be 107 by then!
Not looking forward to it but everyone we have dealt with has been professional, compassionate and courteous.
Hope the day goes as well as it can in the circumstances.
For those talking about costs, I know money is important but make sure you choose somebody who will look after both the deceased and immediate relatives rather than trying to save a few quid. I went with my dad to 'see' my mum a few days before funeral, which was tough but good at same time. My dad struggled with it as he knew it was last time he'd see her. But no, the funeral parlour told him he could come back as many times as he wanted up until 11am on day of funeral, which he took them up on 3 or 4 times in the days preceding. It clearly helped a lot!
Day before yesterday he went there to sit with her ashes, which they are going to hang on to until he gets back from a trip away (he's heading abroad for a week or so just to get away and clear his head).
They have gone out of their way to support him through the process and have been fantastic! Sorry if I've taken this off topic a bit, but having just gone through it the cost seems trivial.
antspants said:
They have gone out of their way to support him through the process and have been fantastic! Sorry if I've taken this off topic a bit, but having just gone through it the cost seems trivial.
our funeral director was the same. It made a massive difference to the experience. It felt like they saw their role was to help us, and especially my Mum through it. And you're right, the cost was a trivial concern.Not everyone is able to deal with things like Its a refuse removal issue although that may well be what it is when stripped bare. Until facing it one just doesn't know what's involved both practically and emotionally.
I cannot conceive of a more staggering squandering of money than the average charge for body disposal. And I don't give a s
t about there being an event to mark my demise. The people who know me also know how disgusted I'd be at the idea.
I would go the medical research route but only if I could choose what my carcass was used for. I don't mind the idea of a body farm or having trucks drive over me until I'm paste. I don't want my remains to be some student's companion for a year until it was a hacked up load of scraps.
t about there being an event to mark my demise. The people who know me also know how disgusted I'd be at the idea. I would go the medical research route but only if I could choose what my carcass was used for. I don't mind the idea of a body farm or having trucks drive over me until I'm paste. I don't want my remains to be some student's companion for a year until it was a hacked up load of scraps.
I had a 'double job' last year wife 
and FIL Both from Hospital/hospice to FD then church then grave all in one hit .
I did 'discuss' BOGOF with FD, not quite possible but not far off, but the costs weren't over huge.
Just glad I used the FD we did utterly professional and a pleasure to deal with.
Rather than the other local one who looks like Rod Stewart with blonde streaks and rides round with a 'blown up barbie' half his age in a red ferrari with the number plate with his initials and RIP.
and FIL Both from Hospital/hospice to FD then church then grave all in one hit . I did 'discuss' BOGOF with FD, not quite possible but not far off, but the costs weren't over huge.
Just glad I used the FD we did utterly professional and a pleasure to deal with.
Rather than the other local one who looks like Rod Stewart with blonde streaks and rides round with a 'blown up barbie' half his age in a red ferrari with the number plate with his initials and RIP.
bloomen said:
I would go the medical research route but only if I could choose what my carcass was used for. I don't mind the idea of a body farm or having trucks drive over me until I'm paste. I don't want my remains to be some student's companion for a year until it was a hacked up load of scraps.
Genuine question: why?Medical students have to learn on some
bloomen said:
I cannot conceive of a more staggering squandering of money than the average charge for body disposal. And I don't give a st about there being an event to mark my demise. The people who know me also know how disgusted I'd be at the idea.
I would go the medical research route but only if I could choose what my carcass was used for. I don't mind the idea of a body farm or having trucks drive over me until I'm paste. I don't want my remains to be some student's companion for a year until it was a hacked up load of scraps.
I dont think you can be squeamish about matters if you donate.t about there being an event to mark my demise. The people who know me also know how disgusted I'd be at the idea. I would go the medical research route but only if I could choose what my carcass was used for. I don't mind the idea of a body farm or having trucks drive over me until I'm paste. I don't want my remains to be some student's companion for a year until it was a hacked up load of scraps.
I do agree that it is a lot of money, I think a lot of folk think you have to have a funeral, hearse, flowers, pall bearers, 14 minute slot at the crematorium and then off to a pub for some ham sandwiches and a pint, thing is, you dont, its all a bit old school and generally unpleasant, who needs to go to building where they burn corpses ? church at the front, industrial incinerator at the back.
I wont be having one, a lot of a funeral is religious, a vicar saying nice things ne has been told to say, basing a eulogy on a few facts from the relatives is an art up there with mediums in the making a few grains of truth stretch out. I dont need to go to see the deceased's last shaky 10 foot ride through a purple curtain, its mawkish and every bereavement I have had or known has the phrase "Will be better once the funeral is out of the way", well, guess what, dont have one, everyone hates them and if they dont they are a bit strange, its either painful or a pain in the arse, a day off work, dig the suit out, traipse to the crematorium and then listen to b
ks like "Lovely Service", er, was it ? do we need to mark the end of life like this ?I would resent four grand to get rid of my remains and to obligate people to attend, spend a grand on the cheapest option, I like value for money in life, so paying 4 grand for something I dont want would not be my choice, then perhaps at some time in the future have a meal and a few drinks, no black clothes unless you are that teenage relative in a goth phase, few quid behind the bar, band on, make it fun, if it still costs four grand, so be it but paying for a big black estate car, old men with hairy noses to carry me a few yards into a council crematorium, nah.
The traditional funeral is very Victorian to me, its generally dreadful, guess what I have to do on Thursday ? thats right go to a funeral, the lovely lady next door died recently so its off to the crematorium.
Bear in mind, that if someone dies and they have no money, then that is their responsibility and not yours or someone else.
If Great Aunt Maud dies and she is boracic, don't put yourself in hock to pay for her funeral. The council/state will pay for the funeral. You don't have to.
However, there are ways to economise.
Don't have cars following the hearse. In fact, do you need a hearse? A man with a van can do it.
Don't have an expensive coffin. Cardboard is cheap and practical.
Don't have a celebrant. a friend or neighbour can do it.
Print your own order of service.
Costs of cremation and burial vary widely across the country. Hanworth crematorium is one of the cheapest at £490.
https://beyond.life/blog/2017-cremation-burial-cos...
If Great Aunt Maud dies and she is boracic, don't put yourself in hock to pay for her funeral. The council/state will pay for the funeral. You don't have to.
However, there are ways to economise.
Don't have cars following the hearse. In fact, do you need a hearse? A man with a van can do it.
Don't have an expensive coffin. Cardboard is cheap and practical.
Don't have a celebrant. a friend or neighbour can do it.
Print your own order of service.
Costs of cremation and burial vary widely across the country. Hanworth crematorium is one of the cheapest at £490.
https://beyond.life/blog/2017-cremation-burial-cos...
The Mad Monk said:
Bear in mind, that if someone dies and they have no money, then that is their responsibility and not yours or someone else.
If Great Aunt Maud dies and she is boracic, don't put yourself in hock to pay for her funeral. The council/state will pay for the funeral. You don't have to.
However, there are ways to economise.
Don't have cars following the hearse. In fact, do you need a hearse? A man with a van can do it.
Don't have an expensive coffin. Cardboard is cheap and practical.
Don't have a celebrant. a friend or neighbour can do it.
Print your own order of service.
Costs of cremation and burial vary widely across the country. Hanworth crematorium is one of the cheapest at £490.
https://beyond.life/blog/2017-cremation-burial-cos...
That's quite the thread resurrection!If Great Aunt Maud dies and she is boracic, don't put yourself in hock to pay for her funeral. The council/state will pay for the funeral. You don't have to.
However, there are ways to economise.
Don't have cars following the hearse. In fact, do you need a hearse? A man with a van can do it.
Don't have an expensive coffin. Cardboard is cheap and practical.
Don't have a celebrant. a friend or neighbour can do it.
Print your own order of service.
Costs of cremation and burial vary widely across the country. Hanworth crematorium is one of the cheapest at £490.
https://beyond.life/blog/2017-cremation-burial-cos...
Pun totally intended.
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