Pure Cremation v AIS

[LONG_KEELER]

When budgets are tight , what do you think has a higher priority. ?

 

[jamie N]

AIS.

 

[Bobc]

No contest. AIS every time.

Companies like Pure Cremation strike me as a scam (a bit like the Christmas savings clubs). They take your money on the promise of providing the service at some point in the future, but by the time you die, they'll probably have paid your money out in Directors bonuses and gone bust.

If you want to save for the future, put your money in a savings account, but my advice would be to buy the AIS, as at least you'll get some pleasure from it yourself.

 

[Halo]

Why pay for a bare minimum cremation when the local authority will do this for you if you die penniless?

 

[Bobc]

Why pay for a bare minimum cremation when the local authority will do this for you if you die penniless?

Exactly. What will you care anyway, you'll be dead.

 

[Capt Popeye]

We found that when the time Arrived to bury a family member , we could negotiate with the various Undertakers nearby , and get a Good Deal from them ; just asking them if they could price match another one ; worked very well for us.

Also all the Funeral Pre Plans that we investigated had sort of hidden cost /charges ; like a maximum mileage for collection of the deceased , often like 30 miles maximum distance travelled ; more disdatnce put the collection costs up quite a bit ; once tied into one of these Pre Pay its difficult to get the best deal going

 

[dunedin]

If you don’t buy the AIS you might be run down and lost at sea - that would be a real waste of the cremation fees

 

[Stemar]

My will says to cremate me without a ceremony and use the money saved for a party to celebrate my life. Seems like a far better use of the money.

Still a grand, though. Maybe I should tell the kids to tie me to an old anchor and chuck me overboard somewhere S of the IoW. (Must remember to tell 'em to wait til I'm dead)

 

[johnalison]

My will says to cremate me without a ceremony and use the money saved for a party to celebrate my life. Seems like a far better use of the money.

Still a grand, though. Maybe I should tell the kids to tie me to an old anchor and chuck me overboard somewhere S of the IoW. (Must remember to tell 'em to wait til I'm dead)

OK, I'll fall for it. What kind of anchor?

 

[Sandy]

Still a grand, though. Maybe I should tell the kids to tie me to an old anchor and chuck me overboard somewhere S of the IoW. (Must remember to tell 'em to wait til I'm dead)

It will need to be after getting a special licence, How to get a licence for a burial at sea in the UK marine area , and off the Needles.

That has put me right off sailing in certain areas!

 

[mjcoon]

My will says to cremate me without a ceremony and use the money saved for a party to celebrate my life. Seems like a far better use of the money.

Still a grand, though. Maybe I should tell the kids to tie me to an old anchor and chuck me overboard somewhere S of the IoW. (Must remember to tell 'em to wait til I'm dead)

Hence the last shroud stitch through your nose...

 

[Juan Twothree]

It will need to be after getting a special licence, How to get a licence for a burial at sea in the UK marine area , and off the Needles.

That has put me right off sailing in certain areas!

I know of a fisherman who didn't bother about all that officialdom nonsense, and was doing burials at sea on the quiet.

It all went wrong when one of his "clients" got trawled up, and Mr. Plod got involved.

 

[Mistroma]

AIS and some petrol. See if you can arrange a Viking funeral.

I also said to my wife a few weeks ago that these schemes seemed to be like the Christmas savings plans (as mentioned earlier). You give them money and no guarantee you will get anything. At least you won't notice, unlike a failed Christmas savings plan.

 

[Stemar]

See if you can arrange a Viking funeral.

The trouble with that idea is that these days, someone will call the fire brigade and then you'll have wreck disposal and a funeral to worry about ...

 

[Stemar]

OK, I'll fall for it. What kind of anchor?

Naughty!

Probably a fake CQR. It'll hold me down as well as any other, and it's no bloody use for anything else

 

[LONG_KEELER]

The way gas prices are going the cremation format may outprice itself.

 

[ithet]

My FIL has paid more into a funeral plan than it will pay out. If he stops paying he looses it all. He would have been better with a savings account.

 

[KompetentKrew]

No brainer. The cost of the funeral is someone else's problem. ??

 

[harvey38]

Probably more requirements for a coffin used for a burial at sea than a cremation or regular burial-
200kg of ballast? That won't be taken out to sea on your average MOBO or sailboat!

• between 40 and 50 50mm (2 inch) holes drilled throughout
• corners butt-jointed and strengthened with mild steel right angle brackets screwed internally, or substantial wooden bracing struts 50 x 38mm
• about 200kg of iron, steel or concrete clamped to the base of the coffin with brackets of 10mm mild steel bar, or blocks of weak concrete mix
• weight distributed evenly to prevent the coffin from turning to the vertical
• 2 long mild steel bands running from the top to the bottom of the coffin
• several mild steel bands across the coffin at about 30cm intervals along its length

 

[oldgit]

MOB ?
Some might suggest this also describes a typical "mostly" wood yacht from the 1960s ? but perhaps slighty faster and more seaworthy and considerably less malodorous.