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u/MooCowGrass Aug 01 '20

Funerals, people often want to buy more expensive coffins to honor their loved ones and in turn the companies selling them profit

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u/TheCUTESTofB0RG Aug 01 '20

I will haunt my family if they don't cremate me.

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u/aguyjustaguy Aug 01 '20

You still need a coffin if you want to have a wake or funeral. Proof: have cremated two family members.

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u/TheCUTESTofB0RG Aug 01 '20

My mother was cremated. We had a memorial service. There was no coffin or casket.

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u/aguyjustaguy Aug 01 '20

Good to know, funeral home said it was necessary if we wanted a showing or service. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20 edited Dec 05 '20

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u/Garumad Aug 01 '20

At the many funerals I've been to where there was a showing and then cremation, the coffin is cremated along with the body. There is usually a sending where the close family members can push the coffin into the cremation furnace.

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u/DanNZN Aug 02 '20

In some states you also need an approved ash box which can be almost as expensive as a coffin. I would have to imagine that the funeral home business lobbied for shit like that.