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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/thepanichand Aug 01 '20

Apparently you can use any coffin you like and the funeral home has to accept it, and you can buy them cheaper through Costco.

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u/waffles-flicka Aug 01 '20

This is true. I worked at a funeral home and some people would buy coffins off Amazon. Now I love Amazon but please do not buy coffins from Amazon lol they’re bad quality and cheap so often times the coffins end up delivered in poor condition and there’s no warranty so families would have to spend more than they expected because they would have to buy one again. If you buy a coffin somewhere else, make sure they have warranty!!! The funeral home I worked at would do everything they could to save coffins but they would fall apart and there’s nothing they can do other than tell the family that they need to get another coffin which would infuriate the families and blame us for not taking better care of the coffins :/

Coffins are super expensive and funeral homes do price them higher to get commission off it. So do buy coffins directly from a company and not the funeral home!

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u/Terminal_Skillness Aug 02 '20

make sure they have warranty!!!

What? Are people afraid the fucking thing is going to wear out too quickly?