Anonymous wrote:No and we won’t. We’ll be cremated. Cemetery plots are outrageously expensive and so are the ridiculous fees associated with “opening” and “closing” the plot (gravedigging.) Coffins are stupid expensive and so is “preparing the body.”

As we went though all of this when my mom died DH and I were like NFW. We’ll have to suck it up once more for my dad though.

Don't know where your funeral plot is, but it was only a few hundred dollars to open up my dad's plot to put my mom's ashes next to him. Mom had already bought and placed the tombstone, too--all we needed to add was her death year.

I'm thinking about a green funeral for myself, but I haven't done much about it.

Sorry bury not buy mom...

Isn't it all bad for the environment? My parents were obsessed with sort of thing. I like the compost idea. Put me in a nice park garden.

I know several families where it created so much stress and hassle:

*The couple got plots together and now divorced
*The couple got plots and one died and the other remarried
*The grandparents bought all the plots and in the middle of the pandemic the family had to travel to another state to buy mom properly with the rest of her family at an already reserved plot. Then they all got Covid traveling on the woman's husband ended on a respirator all because she was honoring mom's wishes to be buries up north with her parents.