Tcehnology is wonderful

[Margaid]

When it works!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59357306

I only use my mobile phone for calls and texts and the NHS App for proof of vaccination. I keep getting enails telling me to download the app for this that and the other. No way!

 

[Margaid]

And another one!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59347468

 

[Marigold]

I keep getting emails inviting me to ‘take away the worry and save money now by signing up to our great Funeral Plan!”
What worry are they talking about?

 

[bigyetiman]

Why should you worry, can't see anyone turning up at the chicken coop in the sky demanding payment from you.

Reminded me of that man whose will read " being of sound mind and body, I spent my money on chorus girls and liquor, the rest I wasted"

Or a work colleague who worried about how much a couple of us paid for our parents funeral decide to ring up an undertaker and pre pay for a funeral for his mum. He rang the number and said
" I won't beat about the bush I want to know your best price for a funeral plan for my mum, nothing fancy mind, what can you do"

the reply " well I would love to help you but we are a butchers sir"

 

[LadyA]

Well, my very elderly mum keeps fretting about how much her funeral will cost, and if she'll have enough saved to pay for it! She's got enough saved to bury the whole family, but doesn't quite understand anymore how much she has.

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[LadyA]

And actually, we had prepaid for my husband's funeral and headstone several years before he died. He even chose a verse he wanted engraved on the headstone. And, being in what I'm sure Jane Austin would call "straitened circumstances ", I must say, it did take a load off my mind!

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[MrsBiscuit]

Why should you worry, can't see anyone turning up at the chicken coop in the sky demanding payment from you.

Reminded me of that man whose will read " being of sound mind and body, I spent my money on chorus girls and liquor, the rest I wasted"

Or a work colleague who worried about how much a couple of us paid for our parents funeral decide to ring up an undertaker and pre pay for a funeral for his mum. He rang the number and said
" I won't beat about the bush I want to know your best price for a funeral plan for my mum, nothing fancy mind, what can you do"

the reply " well I would love to help you but we are a butchers sir"

Is that a true story 08 Most excellent anyway, thanks for putting a smile on my face!

 

[bigyetiman]

That is genuinely true, and to hear Micky who is a true cockney relate it was really funny. Micky is like Del trotter always got some deal going on, so we were quite surprised he couldn't rustle up a coffin from somewhere, he grew up next door to the Krays and his mum was best friends with their mum. He has got some stories to tell

 

[dianefairhall]

Not sure why people worry/prepay or about their funeral costs. I don't give a sh*t. Chuck me over the cliff in a bin bag, what would I know?

 

[MrsBiscuit]

BYM - I know we have said it before, but you should write down some of the anecdotes/overheard stuff that you have, you seem to be a magnet for interesting stories. I can just imagine a comedian relating them and everyone falling about. In the meantime, lucky us!

I suppose in days gone by, when more people were religious and real poverty was more common, not being able to pay for a plot in a graveyard and have a funeral service was more serious and worrying an issue to more people than perhaps it is now? I'm not sure when cremation introduced/became common.

 

[LadyA]

Cremation isn't that common here, although it's becoming more so recently. At the moment, there are only 2 crematoria in the country, so having to travel a distance might have something to do with it. There are plans to build more, but no idea when that will happen. There's a big problem here with NIMBYers, so could be a while!

As for pre-paying or saving for funeral costs - while my husband or (when the time comes) my mum wouldn't be aware of whether they had a proper funeral and a headstone or not, I would. I hadn't expected that a funeral would be so comforting, but it was. I just found great comfort in the fact that these people had made an effort to come out, and give the support of their presence at that final goodbye.

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[MrsBiscuit]

Good point, LadyA. I was dreading my Dad's funeral, and obviously it wasn't pleasant, but now, years later, I look back on it, pleased people came who we didn't know, and that we (the family) were able to share things about my Dad that they didn't know. I was also thinking that now we have a wider choice of how life is ended/celebrated, it doesn't have to be religious, we have the luxury of choosing what suits us/the dead person best, rather than going with what is expected.

 

[Hen-Gen]

I’ve got my gravestone and coffin in my shed and I’ve bought a plot in the boneyard. Unfortunately my neighbours have threatened a Viking burial ie shove a lighted candle up my a…… and push me out to sea.
Another neighbour has put dibs on my binoculars and my electric saw which were both bought with an inheritance and considered by some to be blatant exhibitionism. Personally I don’t get it. I mean who wouldn’t need a laser guided saw?
My husband has a more earthy approach. Skua food!