Funeral Plan alternative

WoodyMax

My husband died recently and he always said ''Just throw me into a skip''

I noticed that many funeral companies are now doing 'Direct Cremation' which is basically no frills but provides for everything required, no flowers (I brought flowers with me) no wake, or service just the closest family members to see the coffin into the Crematorium - the ashes were then delivered back to me to decide where we would scatter them. Total cost was £1550.
It worked well for our small family. This type of funeral is now becoming extremely popular. People just don't have money these days for lavish funerals.

McKneff

Bonbon wrote: »

I've also prepaid mine with the Co op.
If you join the Co op ( I did it online and it costs £1) then as a member you get £200 off the price of any plan.

And a donation from the coop community fund to a local charity. Check that it happened, i had to chase mine up on the phone.... they handnt done it. someone forgot to tick the box

I think it was 1 percent, mine went to the local YMCA

Sterlingtimes

I suspect that medical schools now have more body donations than they can deal with. I wrote to the University of Birmingham and they failed to respond at all. I wrote to the University of Leicester and they responded politely and very quickly. I discovered that there is a weight limit of 80 kg for bodies for "health and safety reasons". I think the messages that bigger people need not apply.

FunnyUseName

WoodyMax wrote: »

My husband died recently and he always said ''Just throw me into a skip''

I noticed that many funeral companies are now doing 'Direct Cremation' which is basically no frills but provides for everything required, no flowers (I brought flowers with me) no wake, or service just the closest family members to see the coffin into the Crematorium - the ashes were then delivered back to me to decide where we would scatter them. Total cost was £1550.
It worked well for our small family. This type of funeral is now becoming extremely popular. People just don't have money these days for lavish funerals.

I've jokingly bounced this idea off the children and their response was pretty nonplussed, so I'm going to look into it further. Hopefully I've got a good 30 years or so to further convince them that a) I never wanted anything expensive or the least bit stressful and b) it was their brilliant money saving idea in the first place;)