Are casket stores popular where you are located?

[KitchenWitch]

We just had one open in a strip mall about a half mile from our house.

:wtf:

[Technowitch]

1. Hmm... keep an eye on the Obits section of your local newspaper

If it suddenly doubles or triples in size, you'll know you have a serious problem on your hands.

Or a Made-For-TV movie.

Take your pick. Me, I vote for the former, as it's more interesting and won't feature washed-up has-been pseudo TV stars.

[MJP]

8. Now this made me LOL!!

I'm serious, that was really funny.

[KitchenWitch]

9. gotta love conspiracy theories

<grabbing my tinfoil hat> :tinfoilhat:

[kiraboo]

2. No, but there are a suspicious number of "monument" businesses

in our area. Apparently it doesn't take any special talent to design and carve monuments. Jes' hang up a shingle.

[Floogeldy]

3. Where I come from, caskets are sold by funeral homes

The same funeral homes who have licensed embalmers and licensed funeral home directors, and shit.

Are you saying this store does nothing but sell caskets?

[KitchenWitch]

4. yes, just caskets (and urns)

Supposedly to help people not get ripped off at funeral homes.

[Technowitch]

5. Interesting.

I've already told my spouse to strip my bod of any useable parts (donate to any who need, that is), burn whatever's left, and scatter the ashes in our sacred redwood grove.

Won't be nothin' but an empty urn left when I'm gone. :)

[KitchenWitch]

6. when I go to the summerlands, my body shall be burned and

ashes spread as well.

[Blue Diadem]

7. None here but I have heard about them

They are supposed to be reasonably priced compared to the funeral homes.

[Floogeldy]

14. Caskets might replace the single bed industry

I never slept in one, but its possible, I guess.

[Blue Diadem]

17. innerspring or foam mattress?

I don't think I could handle getting into one unless I'm uh..dead.

[Floogeldy]

18. Well, you don't have to close the lid

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

;)

[MJP]

10. What is their return policy? nt

[KitchenWitch]

11. "All sales are final!"

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. Yeah man! That's where all the cool kids hang out...

pfft, you adults don't know anything. :eyes:



:silly:

[Radical Activist]

13. Yes, people are just dying to shop there!

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. Naughty

not to mention tacky. You must be punished!

:spank:

[MJP]

16. This is getting out of hand

But it made me LOL, too.

[shawmut]

19. I've been seeing commercials for caskets on TV

:wtf: is up with that?

[China_cat]

20. We have one down the street.

My favorite though, comes from an online seller. (Underground humor has the best picture of it, but the casket actually comes from Funeral Depot)

[radwriter0555]

21. There's a one time, final sale for ya. No repeat customers there, eh?

Yikes.

[Cooley Hurd]

22. Over-the-counter casket stores are a great idea, IMHO...

You can save big $$$ by avoiding the funeral home markup (sorry David, Nate and Rico...;))

You can also buy them on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=88740&item=5549692029


A Freeper casket...:D

[BiggJawn]

23. No, not here...

But the Amish in Shipshiwanna will make a pine box for you and a group of Monks near Richmond will sell you a corrugated cardboard box.
I'm leaning towards the cardboard. Why give Batesville Casket 10 kilobucks just to have it burned?

[jmowreader]

25. Or buried, for that matter

A halfway decent woodworker could make a casket for three to four hundred dollars, and that includes the handles and lining.

[BiggJawn]

27. But the Batesville has a "Lifetime Guarrantee"...

Whatever that's supposed to mean.

About the only part of the Bible I can agree with is the "Dust Ye wre, Dust shall Ye Be..." part.

I don't believe what my local Undertaker offers as "Embalming" would last all that long, anyway...

I'm trying REAL hard here not to make a joke involving Cremation and the Summer's Eve factory....:evilgrin:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. I see them all over Florida

I guess it makes sense to have them there...

[Guy Fawkes]

26. I prefer to call them "Bedding stores"....

:evilgrin: