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Casket Cartel
Topic Started: Aug 16 2010, 07:28 AM (182 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
http://thehayride.com/2010/08/asinine-louisiana-monks-face-prosecution-for-selling-caskets/
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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ivorythumper
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I know several priests who are involved in helping to provide low cost funerals and caskets, and are harsh critics of the funeral industry, as a matter of social justice since it is the poor who are most preyed upon by the unscrupulous funeral industry.

FREE THE MONKS!!!!
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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jon-nyc
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No kidding. I'm with you, IT.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Change the regulations!
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Dewey
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Their Traditional style wood casket is exactly what I want - not any time in the foreseeable future, but when the time comes.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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Bad law.
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Jolly
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Knew a guy who tried to open up a discount casket business. The local funeral homes shut him down...no mortician's license.

Guy went back to school, got his mortician's license. Runs the smallest mortuary in town, has no place for viewing or a chapel for a funeral. Wakes and funerals must be held at a local church or home. He still sells his caskets discount, though.

The local guys are about to pull their hair out. He's about half the price they are...legally.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Dewey
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I've only done a handful of funerals so far - only one for someone who was actually a member of our congregation, and that was on paper only - I'd never met him. Still, so far I haven't performed a single funeral which was actually held in the church. I think that's a sad situation.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

"Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous

"Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011

I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14
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Jolly
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Dewey
Aug 17 2010, 12:12 PM
I've only done a handful of funerals so far - only one for someone who was actually a member of our congregation, and that was on paper only - I'd never met him. Still, so far I haven't performed a single funeral which was actually held in the church. I think that's a sad situation.
A lot of where the service is held, at least down here, depends on where the graveyard is. If the graveyard is not adjacent to the church the deceased attended, many times the family will opt to have the main funeral service at the funeral home chapel, with a small graveside ceremony.

If the graveyard is adjacent to the church, as it is with so many country churches, the funeral service will be held in the church.

My FIL recently did a funeral for a man he'd known all his life, but who rarely darkened the church door. Johhny was a good ol' boy, but he didn't give God much time until COPD laid him on his back. For some reason, when that time came, he was most comfortable with my FIL, even though my FIL is still having some problems from a series of light strokes he had a year ago, not to mention he doesn't drive or read much anymore, because he's legally blind.

When you're a pastor, even a retired pastor, there are times when "no" is not an answer when people call on you. When Johnny insisted my FIL do his funeral, my FIL told him he would do the best he could.

So that's how Johnny's family got to see a minor miracle. A man who sometimes can point at a cat or a sweater, and not be able to tell you the name of the object he's pointing at, no matter if you held a gun to his head...that man delivered a twenty minute funeral sermon, quoting all of his Bible verses from memory, and never stumbled or stuttered once.

Our family was amazed. Johnny's family was amazed. God, not so much.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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