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Posted: 01/19/06 - 05:32

Xion
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1588

Take solice in knowing that Costco will be there, with overnight shipping for all your casket needs.

http://www.costco.com/Common/Category.aspx?cat=23078&eCat=BC|20595|23078&whse=BC&topnav=

Posted: 01/19/06 - 06:17

Baha
Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 1159

wow.. thats so tactful, it's as if costco was a realpoor run company.

do people really shop for caskets online? if so.. at costco? I just dont see it happening.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 06:36

Yellow Journalist
Joined: 20 Oct 2002
Posts: 1970

wow.. i can imagine someone walking out of costco with a coffin that would be comedy...

Does costco loan you pall bearers ????? or can you purchase those too?

Posted: 01/19/06 - 11:38

Occulis
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 13299

You can pay $12k for casket brand B at a funeral home, or pay $2k + shipping ($1k?) for a costco one. I don't see the big deal. Funeral homes are a very profitable business, and grieving people should have choices.

Anyway, people who follow the wasteful tradition of pickling and entombing dead ones have no room to talk about 'class' or 'tact'.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 12:43

Luturb
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 3887

Occulis wrote:

No kidding. Even $2k is a ridiculous amount to spend on a dead person box. Personally when I die they can just skip the fancy silk-lined box and just dump $50 worth of concrete into a form, put me in the middle, and bury that.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 13:04

sinrakin
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 6094

When I go, I'm torn between this:

this:

or maybe this:

Posted: 01/19/06 - 13:22

Occulis
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 13299

They say bodies are full of toxins, and don't necessarily make good fertilizer, but I'm pretty sure the organic bags which define our shape would do the deep ocean critters some good.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 13:37

Yabden
Joined: 13 Oct 2002
Posts: 2300

im going to donate my body to science and hopefully some chick has to touch my dead weiner

Posted: 01/19/06 - 14:27

Ishmael
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Posts: 4482

I'm going to donate my body to Silvermouse, and hopefully it he goes easy on me.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 15:02

Frax
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 8190

Ishmael wrote:

I'm going to donate my body to Silvermouse, and hopefully it he goes easy on me.

If you are over twelve he'll refuse you!

There is nothing wrong with being frugal on a funeral, the person is dead. If you wanna blow your life savings burying someone, be my guest, it is your money to p**s away. To most people dropping 12-15k on a funeral is a serious chunk of cash. Both the funeral home and VISA love funerals.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 15:12

Tamrissa
Joined: 29 Nov 2002
Posts: 7068

well im a donar so my body will be swept away harvested for usables then tossed in the furnace.

i told steve he can do whatever he wants with my ashes, keep em in a vase, scatter them to the wind, burry em, seal em up in a zip lock baggy, snort em up his nose for all i care.

im just glad noone will ever be burdened with having to buy me a casket, from a funeral home or costco, and stuff me in a hole in the ground.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 15:30

Smin
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 141

What I want to know is would they take the casket back if 5 years down the line you don't like it anymore.

Posted: 01/19/06 - 16:37

Zimzulu
Joined: 02 Dec 2005
Posts: 890

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snort em up his nose for all i care.

ROFL that would bring a whole new meaning to.

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