| My mom had been a teacher for
a long time in our small town. She said she didn't want to be
put on display in a funeral home - so we kept her at home for
two days so close friends could stop by and visit. Until we
read (Last Expenses) we didn't know you could do that or how.
Two weeks later we put a death notice in our paper and announced
a Memorial Service at a party room in a local restaurant. We
had snack food and a cash bar. Over two hundred people came
by to visit and exchange stories and photos - three generations
of them. It was wonderful. JM - UT |
| Last year there were two funerals
- my mother and younger 'Agent Orange' brother. My brother was
very sick - even went to pick out his own coffin. When I think
back over the impersonal funeral home services - the limos -
and all the rest - and think what could have been done - all
the money his kids could have used - I get angry. My brothers
and I just didn't know any better. VAL - IA |
| When my father died he said
he wanted to be cremated and didn't want any fancy show at a
funeral home - was going directly to the crematorium. The funeral
home people said he had to be embalmed. Because I had read the
Manual (Last Expenses) I told them they were either stupid or
lying. We went to another funeral place that did what we wanted.
PS - CO |
| We had never been told that
you could rent a casket. For this funeral we insisted or said
we were going to another place. We saved almost $1200 of needless
expense. PJ - TX |
| When our brother died, the
three of us other brothers decided we would build out own casket
instead of sitting around doing nothing. We knew from reading
(Last Expenses) that we could tell the funeral home we were
bringing our own. We got the instructions on the internet -
the lumberyard cut the materials for us. Cost less then $50.
We assembled it in less then an hour drinking beer just like
the four of us used to do together. When done, we set it in
on the kitchen table and the four wives and our mom got some
fabric for the outside and inside. Better then crying. SP -
AZ |
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