WalMart Caskets: Bring out your dead. Would you buy one?
Edward Barrera
2009/10/30 15:48:42
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I refuse to walk into Wal-Mart on principle, but maybe I'll just be carried out in one of its caskets. The cut-rate retailer, blamed for destroying "Mom and Pop" stores throughout the country, is now after funeral home businesses and selling caskets and urns online. And, in this fight, I'm pulling for Wal-Mart.
Catering for cradle-to-grave needs, Wal-Mart already sells everything from baby wear to engagement ring at low prices. Prices for the store's caskets range from a "Mom" or "Dad Remembered" steel coffin for $895 to a bronze model at $2,899. From some of the numbers I've seen, the national cost average for a wood coffin is between $1,588 and $3,277. The average cost of a metal coffin is between $880 and $6,227. The funeral service industry generates $11 billion in revenue a year, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.
Truthfully, I'm signed up for cremation. Give any part useful away and barbecue the rest. I'm always stunned by how much people spend on funerals. But maybe a sleek Wal-Mart urn will do. What do you think?
For a laugh, I posted Monty Python's Bring out your dead scene from the Holy Grail.
Catering for cradle-to-grave needs, Wal-Mart already sells everything from baby wear to engagement ring at low prices. Prices for the store's caskets range from a "Mom" or "Dad Remembered" steel coffin for $895 to a bronze model at $2,899. From some of the numbers I've seen, the national cost average for a wood coffin is between $1,588 and $3,277. The average cost of a metal coffin is between $880 and $6,227. The funeral service industry generates $11 billion in revenue a year, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.
Truthfully, I'm signed up for cremation. Give any part useful away and barbecue the rest. I'm always stunned by how much people spend on funerals. But maybe a sleek Wal-Mart urn will do. What do you think?
For a laugh, I posted Monty Python's Bring out your dead scene from the Holy Grail.
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melly~thwarting Satan since... 2009/10/30 16:20:29WalMart caskets are...
+5I'm with you...poach my parts and throw me on the pyre. I'm not against low cost caskets, but I am totally against Wal-Mart.
However, I have a lot of questions about a coffin from a retailer. Do you buy it ahead of time? Then where do you store it? Do you go to Wal-Mart on the day your loved one died to order the coffin? What it if won't be in for a week or two? Does Wal-Mart deliver? If you buy it ahead of time, where do you store it? Wouln't it be creepy to keep in your house? And what do you do if you want to use the services of a funeral home? Tell them you are doing the BYOC thing? Who delivers it from your house to the funeral home?
I have a better idea! Get cremated and save the money for those you left behind. Cremation doesn't hurt and it's the 'green' thing to do!
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
I'm not against Wal-Mart like some people are though, I'm a mother 1 and a step mother of 2 (my step children live with me) so with three kids and two parents, Wal-Mart saves the day more often than not in my house.
Kennedy1st
Some customs or religions cremate people. The Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism, mandate open-air cremation.
Other religions, like Judaism, require no casket or a simple, pine casket with no decoration.
Edit: added Monty Python Video
I'm with you on preferring cremation. I don't need people to waste money on a funeral for me.
Love Monty Python though!
If Pelosis health care bill passes, these will be selling like hotcakes and it'll be almost impossible for even Wal-Mart to keep up with the demand.