July 27, 2002

12:59 AM

Another discount funeral store. Where overpaying is not dignified.
posted by swift (7 comments total)

I've heard about the avarice of the funeral industry before, especially their ability to charge exorbitant prices by getting some states to enact protectionist laws and essentially grant monopolies to the closed funeral system.
posted by insomnyuk at 1:25 AM on July 27, 2002

This has to be a joke, right??
posted by MaddCutty at 1:26 AM on July 27, 2002

I love the concept of an 'entry level burial vault'. If the corpse performs well, can it expect to be promoted to a higher level of vault?
posted by Slithy_Tove at 1:29 AM on July 27, 2002

for the rodney dangerfield in you.
posted by patricking at 2:24 AM on July 27, 2002

This has to be a joke, right??


Either it's real or they've fooled the BBB as well.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 10:13 AM on July 27, 2002

I want my casket to have my college mascot on it. Go geoducks!!!!! (Pronounced "gooeyduck," it's a giant clam from Washington State)

Or Edvard Munch's "The Scream"...

Naw, cremation for sure. Put my ashes in a cardboard box, and drop me in a bird sanctuary somewhere.
posted by readymade at 1:48 PM on July 27, 2002

I think the Bert & Bud's Vintage Coffins site is better, but that's my bias. And I have the T-shirt (Don't be caught dead without one).
posted by norm at 8:15 AM on July 29, 2002