I got my notice in the mail

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I got my notice in the mail

from a local funeral home informing me (that's what it amounts to) that it's coming fast mt turn to kick the bucket, and I should make arrangments now to make it easier on the family, so when the big day comes it all works out smoothly. Now, if they were to approach me in person I would show them how smoothly I can work things to put their asses on the deck with very little effort. They would learn very quickly how I as a youngster was highly acute and astute in such matters. These types can conjure up visions of vultures high up on a cliff waiting for some poor unfortunate morsel far below to die from thirst and hunger.

Plan- A. write return to sender on the envelope and put it back in the mail.

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lol. Capitalism...

lol. Capitalism...

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Another scam industry. My

Another scam industry. My father planned his funeral and ended up not getting every thing he wanted.

Mine is simple. Cremate me. Put me in a balloon. Release me at 2 miles, then watch me float up in the atmosphere for 10,000 years.


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Vastet wrote:lol.

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lol. Capitalism...

Yes. So much better when only the Socialist party leaders and their cronies get an eleborate expensive funeral. The workers break their backs supporting them and get nothing in return but being shot in a food riot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wda9XSHyM9g

 

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Old Seer wrote:....Now, if

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....Now, if they were to approach me in person I would show them how smoothly I can work things to put their asses on the deck with very little effort. They would learn very quickly how I as a youngster was highly acute and astute in such matters. 

 

 Formidability means absolutely nothing and death doesn't just visit the old.  Bruce Lee was only 33 when he died suddenly and he was certainly more than capable of kicking ass.

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EXC wrote:Vastet wrote:lol.

EXC wrote:

Vastet wrote:
lol. Capitalism...

Yes. So much better when only the Socialist party leaders and their cronies get an eleborate expensive funeral. The workers break their backs supporting them and get nothing in return but being shot in a food riot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wda9XSHyM9g

 

More capitalism. Nothing socialist here at all.

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the whole deal--casket,

the whole deal--casket, burial, plot, funeral--costs hundreds here in postcommunist slovakia. hundreds. during communism, it cost next to nothing. so yeah, i'll go the evil socialist dictatorship route.

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Now

it's the gravestone people. Hmmmm, do they know something I don't. OK, ok, I just for spite I refuse to go. That'll learn'em.

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iwbiek wrote:the whole

iwbiek wrote:
the whole deal--casket, burial, plot, funeral--costs hundreds here in postcommunist slovakia. hundreds. during communism, it cost next to nothing. so yeah, i'll go the evil socialist dictatorship route.

Except of course the cost of the dictator and his cronies' funerals. Your argument against for socialism/communism is that a man works hard his whole life and then he can't afford an expesive funeral?

You're looking at this with American cultural bias. In USA, the average take home pay is about $30,000/yr. So an average funeral is around $10,000. In country where the funeral cost is less than $1000. The average salary is much much lower. So for them it is not any better. It's only better for you cause you got some evil American capitialist dollars in your pocket.

The reason why things are expensive where you have a booming capitialist economy is that a lot people move there to get rich/make good wages. This drives up the cost housing and everything else. So it is really a problem of a lack of land, not a problem with free market capitalism. When you have a booming economy, you have housing shortages.

 

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lol I'd rip that apart but

lol I'd rip that apart but iwbiek can do so much better than I.

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EXC wrote:iwbiek wrote:the

EXC wrote:

iwbiek wrote:
the whole deal--casket, burial, plot, funeral--costs hundreds here in postcommunist slovakia. hundreds. during communism, it cost next to nothing. so yeah, i'll go the evil socialist dictatorship route.

Except of course the cost of the dictator and his cronies' funerals. Your argument against for socialism/communism is that a man works hard his whole life and then he can't afford an expesive funeral?

You're looking at this with American cultural bias. In USA, the average take home pay is about $30,000/yr. So an average funeral is around $10,000. In country where the funeral cost is less than $1000. The average salary is much much lower. So for them it is not any better. It's only better for you cause you got some evil American capitialist dollars in your pocket.

The reason why things are expensive where you have a booming capitialist economy is that a lot people move there to get rich/make good wages. This drives up the cost housing and everything else. So it is really a problem of a lack of land, not a problem with free market capitalism. When you have a booming economy, you have housing shortages.

 

WRONG.

The average cost will vary from state to state, but on average it is $6,600.

My father had his for $5,300.