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27 Oct 20, 08:04 PM |
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I've told my DH I don't want a funeral or a wake. I said all I want is for my body to be taken to the crematorium ASAP be cremated. Then pick my ashes up & to be scattered at a beach. I want my DH & DS to have the money they would spend on a funeral. My dad has signed to have his body donated to medical science. I totally agree with him. People will remember you at different times.
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27 Oct 20, 08:27 PM |
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Told my DH, cremo for who ever wants to come but no service just a word of goodbye, great life n my fave music played. Spend as little as possible on something I cant appreciate. Nothing afterwards, just everyone get on with life.
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27 Oct 20, 09:04 PM |
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Lost my Mum 4 weeks ago now, and we are a very small family. Before she passed, she said she didn’t want a full blown funeral, nothing fancy, something simple, as long as she’s scattered with Dad she would be happy.
I opted for an “unattended” funeral, exactly the same as a normal funeral, except there’s no service. We, hubby and I, were able to say our last goodbyes outside the crematorium, and then she was carried in to the chapel. All very dignified, and exactly what she wanted. |
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27 Oct 20, 10:47 PM |
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Join Date: Mar 15
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I don't plan on being at my own funeral. I hate looking at coffins so Ibwill be dumped at the crematorium (my husband jokes about putting me in the back of an estate car, opening the boot and driving off quickly under cover of darkness, leaving me at the crem) and the my family will have a memorial service in my church. This also saves £££s.
I also want people to wear comfy clothes, whatever they want without judgement from others. I don't do formal clothes myself, unless I have to, ie, weddings and funerals. I feel uncomfortable. So jeans, PJs, whatever. |
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27 Oct 20, 11:03 PM |
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Join Date: Jun 16
Location: God's Own Country
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I’m having this I think- a few thousand for the family to spend on a really cracking meal to remember me by sounds a better way to spend the money to me with the thousands left over going in the estate to them.
It’s usually the attendees who pay for the funeral.
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27 Oct 20, 11:51 PM |
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My MIL died last year. We had a very small family only ceremony at the crem, followed by a longer service in a church which was very full. And then the wake at the golf club where they had been members for 60+ years.
I wasn’t sure about two services but it worked well. |
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29 Oct 20, 09:17 AM |
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Apprentice Imagineer
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We are at a funeral today
Basic coffin , one car only for coffin and no speakers fees as family member doing a service 5.3 K thankfully insurance was in place for 3.3 due to funeral plan It’s made me think about putting a plan in place for 2 mums and a dad that we would end up paying for . I’m happy with direct cremation hate funerals and don’t want one , though I will let my husband do what he is happy with People think spending money on a funeral proves how much you love them 50 a letter for flowers today ( 5 in name ) and also a spray for the top of coffin that are driving ten miles then chucked . Stick a bottle of gin on top of mine ! |
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29 Oct 20, 02:10 PM |
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Join Date: Nov 10
Location: Durham
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Dad's undertaker minimal inclusion costs were, IMHO, expensive at circa £6k, pre-paid - bode collected from home, thoroughly disinfected due to C-19, placed in black body bag, transfered to transit van and taken to Freeman Hospital, Newcastle. Day of humanist service, hearse, one display of flowers atop his coffin, no cars, no undertaker speech. Ashes left in urn at crem garden of remembrance.
Looked into simple cremation c£1k costings, bar home collection (an additional £250) and the small flower display, most of the above is in the plan, can't help but feel my parents were well overcharged.
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29 Oct 20, 02:14 PM |
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29 Oct 20, 02:43 PM |
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I wonder if undertakers hike up prices when they know a funeral plan is in place. My mother’s private cremation (no guests or ceremony) came to about £1300.
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