Mumm_ra wrote: » Not really all good - in times of grieve some don't challenge. If you didn't have a benchmark would you have questioned it? I'd ask how the mistake happened.
Purgative wrote: » Sorry for your loss Jayisplay. Stay safe and be kind to yourself.
Addle wrote: » Condolences OP. Are your parents buried in the same plot? I’d ask the undertaker for an itemized bill.
costacorta wrote: » From my little experience I think all funeral bills come itemised .
Metroid diorteM wrote: » Where is the competition in this service? Who the eff has 8k to spare for anything?
costacorta wrote: » I was actually asking this question during week and thinking funerals should be half the price today that they were we say 2 months ago .. in cork out the county and our average funeral cost would be €8000 and that’s owning a grave . I know this as seen bill for my aunts funeral last September..
Trampas wrote: » Sorry for your lost OP. Why would they be half price? I cremated my father last week and bill was €6000 give or take a few quid
costacorta wrote: » Firstly sorry for your loss also and reason I was thinking they be half the normal price is funerals are usually a 3 day or sometime 4?days work for undertakers from death to burial . Lately it’s burial day after death and no embalming, cleaning of body etc if Covid related .?. No use of funeral home for removal , no choir , sarcrasent or mass singers to pay . So I’d be disappointed if a funeral today that usually cost 8k would be more than 5k so maybe half was a bit much to be thinking..
olestoepoke wrote: » Natural burial grounds in Wexford cost around 950 for the plot, 200 for the hole to be dug and a cheap biodegradable cardboard coffin. Thats me in the hole for less than 1,500. Funerals are a rip off, they take advantage of a really tough time for a lot of people. I am not religious and would rather my family kept the 6k difference so it's down to wexford for me in the back of a van.
salmocab wrote: » The 6k is nothing to do with religion to be fair, in your scenario your family have to collect your corpse go out buy the coffin and organize having the hole dug, stick you in the back of the van then they all will want to traipse down to Wexford to make sure you go in the hole. I doubt they’d be that happy with you.
olestoepoke wrote: » No not at all, I have it all arranged and paid for. My family do not have to organise anything. they go to wexford to say goodbye and then go home 6k richer. Lovely nature walk in gorgeous forest setting and a rock with my name on it and a tree planted beside me. No poisonous chemicals in my body so that I'm of some use to the flora and not a priest or greedy funeral director in sight.
Jayisplay wrote: » It was actually eating at me so I just rang them today and they said it was a mistake , that no way was it that price so all is good thanks.
salmocab wrote: » My father in law was cremated a few weeks back and it cost 6000 too, although no mourning cars were done for covid related reasons.
salmocab wrote: » First of all they don’t go home 6k richer unless you’ve organised cheques to be handed out. So you’ve paid for someone to collect your corpse already and stick it in a box and that’s all included in the 1500?
costacorta wrote: » Sorry for your loss ,, Is that what it would have cost before restrictions? €6k sounds cheap in today’s market. Maybe Dublin and Cork would be dearer for funerals as average without grave is €8k
olestoepoke wrote: » Obviously they don't go home 6k richer, what I meant is that it's 6k more that I get to leave them so you are being facetious there. Regarding sticking it in a box , thats optional as you can now be buried without a coffin so great cheaper again. and yes I have everything arranged and it will all cost less that approx 1500. Why is it so hard for Irish people to get that there are options. They are opening a similar graveyard in Cork soon and Dublin won't be far behind id wager. If you are religious you can still use a natural burial ground, they cater for all.
splinter65 wrote: » If you want a Roman Catholic funeral then you will have the priest probably come to your dying/dead loved one to administer Viaticum, often in the dead of night. You will then have the comfort of the priest come to the funeral home/house to say prayers as the coffin is closed and comfort the bereaved. Then if you remove the deceased to the church the night before the funeral you will have the priest there, the church will be clean and warm and lit, as it will the following day for the funeral mass which the priest will celebrate for your deceased loved one. Then the priest will accompany the bereaved to the graveyard and officiate over the actual burial while continuing to comfort the bereaved. For this the priest will ask for a donation of around €200. If you think this is either a rip off or extortionate then you should make enquiries about one of the independent celebrants and get a price from him/her?
Addle wrote: » How did you arrange that license?
