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Reply #15 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:38am
 
Is this funeral company racist?

Reckon a company called blackmanfunerals would do well?

https://www.whiteladyfunerals.com.au/about-us/white-lady-promise

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Reply #16 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:46am
 
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:35am:
$1,700.00 just to hire the thing for a couple of hours?


Well, it would be for a few days but yeah, the funeral industry is full of rip-offs.

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Reply #17 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:54am
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:46am:
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:35am:
$1,700.00 just to hire the thing for a couple of hours?


Well, it would be for a few days but yeah, the funeral industry is full of rip-offs.


Why a few days.  If someone was after a viewing in the expensive box, they'd just bung the body in it for that viewing period, and then out into whatever.

Just had a look a a floor plan of a crematorium.  When the coffin moves out of sight and disappears through the curtain, it arrives in a transition room.  The buggers could do anything there, as it is out of sight.  Change the box or whatever.  I'm also told that they do not necessarily fire up then and there, and often will wait until they can burn several one after the other to keep powerup etc costs down.
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Reply #18 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 12:21pm
 
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:54am:
Why a few days.  If someone was after a viewing in the expensive box, they'd just bung the body in it for that viewing period, and then out into whatever.

Sometimes they're available for viewings for a week or more.

So, they might need to roll out the expensive coffin quite a few times.

The price you pay compensates them for moving the body in and out of the fridge, dusting off the fancy coffin, etc.

Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:54am:
Just had a look a a floor plane a crematorium.  When the coffin moves out of site and disappears through the curtain, it arrives in a transition room.  The buggers could do anything there, as it is out of sight.  Change the box or whatever.  I'm also told that they do not necessarily fire up then and there, and often will wait until they can burn several one after the other to keep powerup etc costs down.

Yep, that's right.

They quite often store the bodies until they have a half a dozen or so to do.

They rarely fire up the oven for just one body.

And yes, they can do anything back there.

At the very least, they remove the brass handles, but it's not uncommon to put the bodies into a cardboard or thin pine coffin.
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Reply #19 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 4:58pm
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 10:58am:
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 10:51am:
Naughty.

However, why spend money on a thing that will be incinerated?


Exactly.

And why would anyone care about it?

Better to reuse the coffin, than waste something someone has spent hours making.

I thought everyone knew that the bodies were put into cheaper boxes for the cremation.

The expensive one is purely for show.







its news to me..I have heard of them taken off handles and such.. but asking for $1700 and then swapping it for a $70 one..

no never heard of that......

that cant be right at all...

I have always thought the ashes were very suss...... but what the hell can you do about it?>..

but the coffin con   yes we should be able to stop that.
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Reply #20 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 5:00pm
 
Gordon wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:38am:
Is this funeral company racist?

Reckon a company called blackmanfunerals would do well?

https://www.whiteladyfunerals.com.au/about-us/white-lady-promise




sexist maybe   they are all Ladies involved but I dont think they only cater for females
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Reply #21 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 5:15pm
 
Rang elder Brother when I saw this story to check if he had any suspicions when our parents were cremated. As the elder Brother, he was in charge of all that.  Neither he nor I were advised of any practice like this, but neither of us can point a finger, because it never occurred to us to check.  He then told me about the funeral of the Mother of a mate of his.  In her Will, she stipulated she wanted go out in a cardboard box, so, the Son obliged.  There the Son is, in the funeral column of cars right behind the Hearse going to wherever, the box falls apart and there is Mum rolling around in the back of the Hearse!

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Reply #22 - Jan 11th, 2018 at 5:24pm
 
When you're dead you're dead, so exactly what difference does it make what they actually cremate you in?

For the sake of the relatives, friends, and onlookers offering them solace by the deceased going through that curtain in a nice shiny casket with nice shiny handles is fair enough...........If you don't want that or can't afford it, look for a cut-price funeral outfit....... Undecided
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Reply #23 - Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:20pm
 
Nifty footwork!  I don't buy it.  Who cares if it cracks in the cold room?  It's gonna be burned, isn't it?

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Reply #24 - Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:27pm
 
Fuzzball wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 5:24pm:
When you're dead you're dead, so exactly what difference does it make what they actually cremate you in?

For the sake of the relatives, friends, and onlookers offering them solace by the deceased going through that curtain in a nice shiny casket with nice shiny handles is fair enough...........If you don't want that or can't afford it, look for a cut-price funeral outfit....... Undecided


Agreed.

Hire the fancy coffin for the viewing, and burn the body in a cheap cardboard box.

Nothing wrong with that.

It's such a waste to destroy a well-crafted oak coffin.

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Reply #25 - Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:39pm
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:27pm:
Fuzzball wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 5:24pm:
When you're dead you're dead, so exactly what difference does it make what they actually cremate you in?

For the sake of the relatives, friends, and onlookers offering them solace by the deceased going through that curtain in a nice shiny casket with nice shiny handles is fair enough...........If you don't want that or can't afford it, look for a cut-price funeral outfit....... Undecided


Agreed.

Hire the fancy coffin for the viewing, and burn the body in a cheap cardboard box.

Nothing wrong with that.

It's such a waste to destroy a well-crafted oak coffin.



Yes.  In fact, why do they need a box at all when it goes in the oven?
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Reply #26 - Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:41pm
 
Aussie wrote on Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:39pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:27pm:
Fuzzball wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 5:24pm:
When you're dead you're dead, so exactly what difference does it make what they actually cremate you in?

For the sake of the relatives, friends, and onlookers offering them solace by the deceased going through that curtain in a nice shiny casket with nice shiny handles is fair enough...........If you don't want that or can't afford it, look for a cut-price funeral outfit....... Undecided


Agreed.

Hire the fancy coffin for the viewing, and burn the body in a cheap cardboard box.

Nothing wrong with that.

It's such a waste to destroy a well-crafted oak coffin.



Yes.  In fact, why do they need a box at all when it goes in the oven?


Exactly.

I was thinking that as I typed my last reply.

I suppose it makes it less traumatic for the person operating the oven.

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Reply #27 - Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:48pm
 
This is not clear from the schmedia, but reading between the lines, and just taking days as an example to make the point.

Grandma had her funeral on Monday, and disappeared through the crematorium screen that day in the oak box.  Family were told she would not be burned until Wednesday so they ask for a final viewing on Tuesday.

Monday afternoon, Grandma is moved into the pine box and put in the fridge.  The oak one not used in case it 'cracks.'  (Really?)

So, Family arrives on Tuesday for a final look, and she is still in the pine coffin with the Funeral Directors having every intention to bung her back in the oak box for Wednesday's burning.

Yes.

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Reply #28 - Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:49pm
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:46am:
Aussie wrote on Jan 11th, 2018 at 11:35am:
$1,700.00 just to hire the thing for a couple of hours?


Well, it would be for a few days but yeah, the funeral industry is full of rip-offs.



No reason - people are dying to get into it.......
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Reply #29 - Jan 12th, 2018 at 2:50pm
 
It would really piss the Funeral Directors off if, when the oak box was bought, someone carved their name on it.  "Re-sell that, you Bastard!"

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