Can't you just put me in a plywood box and call it a day?
they do make cardboard coffins - but they're also expensive (Titan, the company shown in the OP for example, sells one that is $500)
You might as well just try to die in a state that allows natural burials and just dig a hole in advance lol. The real racket is though that most states that do allow green/natural burials, you still have to purchase a plot in some sort of cemetery. I should be able to just bury myself in the woods surrounding the public park
I can't afford to purchase a plot to live on AND a plot to die in. Can I just buy the cemetery plot now, and live there until I die? No funeral costs that way too.
In the running for best review I've read, ever...and it's for that casket: "***** My mother, who normally complains about everything, had no complaints and my father said it was the best purchase he ever made."
Brilliant execution, layered comedy. Top notch stuff, Peter
Around here the norm is that gravesites are rented. Usually families will pay to keep the plot for as long as the people who knew the deceased are alive and able to tend to the plot. After that it is allowed to expire and be used for new burials.
Around here the norm is that gravesites are rented. Usually families will pay to keep the plot for as long as the people who knew the deceased are alive and able to tend to the plot. After that it is allowed to expire and be used for new burials.
It definitely depends. Most of the cemeteries I've grown up around do have some sort of time-limit on plots like that (like 100 years iirc?) - but I mean, I also know of at least two 'memorial gardens' that are literally full and haven't done a burial in years. Presumably these are plots people are still paying for, because the economics doesn't make sense to me otherwise - especially since the ones I'm thinking of are quite literally the nicest cemeteries in my hometown.
Actually looking at their site, one of the ones I'm talking about - which is actually owned and maintained by the town - has sold all the plots and apparently they are either indefinite in terms of time or otherwise not listed anywhere.
they do make cardboard coffins - but they're also expensive (Titan, the company shown in the OP for example, sells one that is $500)
You might as well just try to die in a state that allows natural burials and just dig a hole in advance lol. The real racket is though that most states that do allow green/natural burials, you still have to purchase a plot in some sort of cemetery. I should be able to just bury myself in the woods surrounding the public park
For a couple hundred more dollars, you could get a new refrigerator and bury yourself in the box it came in
I can't afford to purchase a plot to live on AND a plot to die in. Can I just buy the cemetery plot now, and live there until I die? No funeral costs that way too.
In the running for best review I've read, ever...and it's for that casket: "***** My mother, who normally complains about everything, had no complaints and my father said it was the best purchase he ever made." Brilliant execution, layered comedy. Top notch stuff, Peter
Are American gravesites really never reused?
Around here the norm is that gravesites are rented. Usually families will pay to keep the plot for as long as the people who knew the deceased are alive and able to tend to the plot. After that it is allowed to expire and be used for new burials.
No, eventually all of America will be a graveyard
I kid, I kid.
It definitely depends. Most of the cemeteries I've grown up around do have some sort of time-limit on plots like that (like 100 years iirc?) - but I mean, I also know of at least two 'memorial gardens' that are literally full and haven't done a burial in years. Presumably these are plots people are still paying for, because the economics doesn't make sense to me otherwise - especially since the ones I'm thinking of are quite literally the nicest cemeteries in my hometown.
Actually looking at their site, one of the ones I'm talking about - which is actually owned and maintained by the town - has sold all the plots and apparently they are either indefinite in terms of time or otherwise not listed anywhere.