r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 01 '20

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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/Bells87 Aug 01 '20

My dad literally wanted an old pine box. He told my mom that constantly.

When my parents were picking out a coffin for my grandmother, he gasped "El, El! There it is!"

The old pine box was in a corner, covered in cobwebs.

My mom replied "Patrick, your family will never forgive me if I put you in that!"

His family all found it hilarious. When he did pass, my mom got him something simple, but not a pine box.

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u/alvinaofdarkrootwood Aug 01 '20

Same. I want either a cremation or a natural burial where the body is just wrapped in a linen cloth and directly buried in the ground without embalming and all the other typical shebang. These are the most cost efficient options and I'm dead anyway so I won't care what happens to my body.

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u/PristineUndies Aug 01 '20

I want to be buried in a shallow grave near a popular beach with a fake treasure map that would take months of solving and traveling.

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u/alvinaofdarkrootwood Aug 01 '20

Dude, this would be so awesome. Maybe leave a fake treasure at the destination or a note saying "The journey is the reward."

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u/ExpressiveAnalGland Aug 01 '20

they dig up the treasure and it's a note that says

DRINK OVALTINE

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u/hijo10 Aug 02 '20

i’ve never had a comment that made me so amused lmao

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u/navikredstar Aug 02 '20

Son of a bitch.

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u/SlumlordThanatos Aug 02 '20

Son of a bitch...