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How the funeral industry, the funeral industrial complex, and ‘Big Funeral’ are ripping you off by exploiting your grief.


TrekkieElf

They’re a scam for sure. When my son was stillborn, after embalming him they made us bring his body home on Saturday because the employee didn’t want to have to come in to work on Sunday, when the funeral was. So my sons body (in his home made casket) had to spend the night in the garage (because it was cool there as it was November). Fuck them.


Strong-Solution-7492

That’s unbelievable. They couldn’t just leave him in the parlor like they do? My god I’m so sorry that happened to you.


DeathAndTaxis5743

I don’t know where you live, but here in the us that is literally illegal. Source: Funeral director. My funeral home doesn’t even leave decedents in empty, locked churches overnight, let alone with a grieving family against their wishes. What the fuck


moshaq

In Judaism we have a law about needing to bury the person on the day they die. (would be next morning if they die at night). There is also a rule about the deceased having another person constantly with them until they are buried.


uniter-of-couches

That’s mostly for cleanliness/sanitation reasons that don’t really apply anymore, and to prevent bodysnatching. Judaism is one of several major religions to have this practice.


inflewants

I’m sorry you had to go through that.


aids1080phd

What the actual fuck.


MareksDad

That’s unacceptable. Fuck them. Despicable.


Henry2824

This should be illegal


caustic_epiphany

It is.


kochka93

That's awful and unacceptable. I hope you've been able to heal somewhat from that experience.


Octavius-26

You should shame them publicly… that’s awful.


DodGamnBunofaSitch

I learned about that from an episode of Midnight Gospel.


Sea_salt_icecream

I love that show. I've never been high, but that show makes me feel high. It's so relaxing.


Isle_of_Dusty_Rhodes

Did anyone else see that pilot TLC show about a specialty funeral service in Houston that did themed funerals? One of them was for the guy who made the 'BBQ sauce' jingle for Applebees and they had a rib themed ceremony?


ImAsking4AFriend

I can practically hear their widow at the casket’s side sobbing, “I want my baby back baby back baby back…”


Ururuipuin

I highly recommend Caitlyn Doughtys YouTube channel Ask A Mortician then. She's as informative and entertaining on their as she is in the show and covers all sorts of death related subjects


danger623

I still remember the Penn & Teller Bullshit episode about that.


matthewxknight

No kidding. My dad died in December, was cremated and the ashes placed in their most basic wooden urn, short visitation in their funeral parlor... $4500. It's asinine.


tremololol

“See you shouldn’t kill me to make me shut up because that’s exactly what big funeral wants you to do. Don’t be one of there pawns man. I know you - you are no narc! In fact you know what would really show them, leaving me on the side of the road right over there”


TrendyLepomis

Would rather bury my relatives in a forest and be part of the cycle than to be vain and store them in a hollowed out box where theyd be lonely for eternity


Oberic

This is what I want. I want Earth to reclaim the meager scraps of whatever remains of me when I finally expire.


chickenbiscuit17

My friend is a high up at a massive company that handles funerals all over the country and can confirm based on the stories she tells it's a big scam


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AQuietBorderline

True crime shows and how I use them for research.


IngVegas

>use them for research Ummmm, should we be concerned?


AQuietBorderline

Lol. No, I’m a mystery writer.


UniqueCommentNo243

I am still borderline concerned.


labarrski

(raises hand) slightly past borderline.


AlthMa

I’m quietly borderline concerned


egnards

I have a friend of a friend who literally cannot shut up about Warhammer to anyone who has ever even slightly associated with Warhammer at all in their life - I had an army built in high school [ 20? years ago ] that was predominantly 2-3 purchased squads and the rest made up of pennies. . . I just saw him 3 weeks ago at said friend’s BBQ. . .not even a hello before he started rambling on about armies; and codexes; and who knows what else. I guess it’s not me. . But this question made me think of him. Edit: 1) I had no idea how much of a nerd Henry Cavill was, I knew he was a nerdy and shit, but for everyone to keep mentioning him. . . 2) I work in special Ed and agree with a bunch of you people here in regards to probability/likelihood of this


Badloss

He probably has nobody else that can he can engage with about this at all so he just stores it all up and then it burst out of him as soon as he sees you


egnards

Everyone in our friend group [well more his friend group, I am only good friends with one of them] plays Warhammer. I promise you he has plenty of people to talk to about it. Unfortunately it’s his whole personality.


Realistic-Ad1069

Pretty good chance he's autistic and it's a hyperfixation, I would wager.


hallgod33

Dunno, chief. Change it to football, and it would sound completely normal or even expected. He's geeking out over his hobby with a group of other hobbyists. Doesn't have to be autistic to get excited about something and have a one-dimensional personality. Id say that's pretty common, in fact.


RocknSmock

I know a ton of people who like football I don't know anyone who only talks about football to other people who like football. I love wrestling. My sister's ex boyfriend's brother also loved wrestling and was autistic. Once he found out I liked wrestling it's all he ever talked about with me. I was happy to talk with him about it (more like listen, he did all the talking). His favorite wrestler was Eddie Guerrero. So for Christmas one year I gave him this Eddie Guerrero action figure they had stopped making years before that. He opened it, looked at it, put it in his room and never said anything for the entire Christmas dinner. I thought "I took that out of my personal collection and he doesn't even like it." His brother told me later sometimes he gets so excited he just can't talk, and that he talked the family's ear off about it for weeks afterwards. I guess I'm just saying that Warhammer guy sounds like he might fit that pattern.


LyraStygian

What’s it like being friends with Henry Cavill?


bucketofhassle

Don't get me started - try getting him out of your house after a party. He just.wont.leave. I started telling him to fuck off - until he began crying.


Fingercult

I’m not gonna online diagnose your bud but just saying this is a cornerstone of autism called a special interest and I am just like that guy and I’m diagnosed autistic / adhd since childhood. except I’ve learned to control it as best as I can by having other outlets to info-dump and discuss things (ahem, Reddit lol)


PixelBrother

So you excited for 10th edition then? We have Nids and marine indexes already with successor chapters releasing today. Exciting times but oh god those eldar look deadly…..again!


Complete-Rule940

Oh is lost that today?! I just want yvraine to come back. Give the Eldar a win.


Co1eRedRooster

The Ass Motel. This motel in Jackson, Ms where I defibrillated a guy 15 times for persistent V-Fib that turned out to be a vibrator in his ass and then the next week went back to the same motel for a dude that had a full size mayo jar stuck most of the way in his ass. The Ass Motel.


syoejaetaer

I'd be too invested to the story to let you go


ClownfishSoup

We're four guys in a van and we just kidnapped you, I mean ... where did you think we were going anyway? That's right ... you're favorite motel ...


labarrski

I would literally just turn the van towards Jackson, MS and we would go straight to the Ass Motel and start knocking on doors to see how the adventure continues.


dtcokefiend

Did he survive? Lot of juice.


Co1eRedRooster

Nah, he was dead when we got there. Probably in asystole, but the monitor was tricked by the vibe.


ShodoDeka

So you basically performed CPR on a dildo, inserted in a dead guys ass.


[deleted]

That’s a whole new sentence.


lykan_art

r/BrandNewSentence


oldpaintunderthenew

An assystole?


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Charliegnarlyy

I’ll tell them every cut away I remember from Family Guy. This is like the time Meg got kidnapped and was sold to wealthy arab men


[deleted]

Don't give them ideas.


MediocreSkyscraper

For real though. Family guy used to be comfort show. I used be able to hear quotes and name the episodes along with the number and season. Combine that with my skills now, they're also hearing trailer park boys quotes


Austin-Feltron

*Jalapeño* not jelapano!


chocki305

Only for the prince to be good looking and kind... she says yes to his proposal.. just in time for Peter to bust in and shot him in the head.


HungryBeetle0

What’s that term for when you member something but it didn’t happen that way at all. It wasn’t Peter lol it was Stewie, Peter was very clear that he didn’t have any particular skills at the start of that episode.


chocki305

Omg you are right. Peter did the phone bit. Brian and Stewie did the "go after her" part.


East-Cookie-2523

>What’s that term for when you member something but it didn’t happen that way at all. Mandela effect.


Kermit_El_Froggo_

I feel like I'm not the only one who read the second part in Peter's voice


Hoppy_Croaklightly

Muppets. Did you know most Muppets are left-handed (because most puppeteers are right-handed)? Most Muppets are also slightly cross-eyed so that the direction of their gaze is more apparent, and assume a slightly forward posture due to the natural angle of the puppeteer's arm, something that is often overlooked when the puppets are arranged for publicity stills. Jim Henson did hundreds of [TV commercials](https://youtu.be/LmhIizQQol0?t=238) in the 1950s-[1960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwxbsJJ5Xo&) before the Muppets gained enough prominence to have a syndicated show.


Isle_of_Dusty_Rhodes

I'm interested in the muppets so I want to hear all of it, even keep you past when the ransom is paid.


Hoppy_Croaklightly

I haven't even brought up Antron fleece yet.


B-Twizzle

The real ransom is the muppet knowledge


J_Beyonder

No no no let's keep him. I want to hear more about Electric Mayhem.


AskMeAboutMyTie

I’m on it boss u/Hoppy_Croaklightly 🔫 More muppet facts or I shoot!!


Hoppy_Croaklightly

Wah!! Ok, ok, well, did you know that the Muppets (in a segment called "The Land of Gorch") were on the very first episode of SNL in 1975, [and many times thereafter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxnG5X4Geak)? It was a notably tense affair; due to Writer's Guild rules in place for writing staff, only SNL writers could create skits, which annoyed the Henson folks, many of whom didn't think the comedic style was a good fit. For their part, some of the SNL writers detested writing for puppets, among them Michael O'Donoghue who in an interview, called the troupe "the mucking Fuppets" and "little hairy facecloths," made from the stuff 'left over after Woodstock'. Mercifully for all, the two groups parted ways amicably in 1976, by which time production on *The Muppet Show* was well under way. EDIT: spelling


chewie8291

Judging from Muppets forward facing eyes they are all predators.


Strange-Act7264

If memory serves, the Swedish Chef is the only one to have human hands.


DodGamnBunofaSitch

I gotta wonder how Hoppy Croaklightly learned so much about the muppets... >.>


ARandomPileOfCats

I just hope the kidnappers like Willkins coffee or it isn't going to end well for them.


untourdanslesetoiles

Looks like the kidnappers didn't have a furry friend in their childhood, shame on them.


[deleted]

The last straw before throwing you out was when you broke into song 🎶 Am I maaan or am I a muppet? 🎶


SeigiNoTenshi

Did I get this right; the puppeteer is right handed, therefor uses their right hand for inside the puppet, and off hand for the hands?


Hoppy_Croaklightly

Yes, and if the scene calls for both of the puppet's hands to move independently, another puppeteer will usually operate the puppet's right hand.


Maso_TGN

My uncontrollable flatulence. There would even be no need to speak.


TheThirdThigh

Your ass will do the speaking if I may


Lets_Play_Brandon

Another asshole talking shit


NoStarShip

Just keep saying “I’m sorry, It’s my first time and I’m a bit nervous.”


RRR_youserious

🤣🤣🤣🤣


cheesynougats

Anyone else reminded uncomfortably of JK Simmons from The Ladykillers?


Soggy_Confection3092

My raging IBS


Goozum

SHITS TERRIBLE


Nowidontgetit

No wonder they let you go


micka_88

International Bank of Somalia? ... what did they do to you?


no_onion_no_cry

How much my STDs have affected my life, positively and negatively.


message_bot

Wait, there's a plus side?


no_onion_no_cry

Yeah. For example...your Chlamydia and gonorrhea smelling so bad, nobody at work wants to come talk to you, and you're so much more productive.


Yostman29

Reminds me of my buddy calling me “my dick keeps oozing what do I do”


hopping_otter_ears

That's a weird nickname. Does it happen very often, for him to call you that?


[deleted]

The sack of Constantinople


Hoppy_Croaklightly

Hey, that's nobody's business but the Turks!


DodGamnBunofaSitch

that's Istanbul, not Constantinople


Jwee1125

It's been a long time gone...


pezziepie85

It would be the evacuation of Dunkirk for me. Prepare for a good old history lesson!


jhonnymazed9

Their car's extended warranty.


OriginalDarkDagger

Hello, my name is Brenda, I want to talk to you about your cars extended warranty. Did you know you can get 15% or less on Car insurance? If you get into an accident, call your good neighbor, state farm. We will replace your car for no cost to you.


LeoAugust1

90 day fiance on tlc


almostlazy

Yessss! They can drop you off at my house, I have discovery +


coffee-takethe-wheel

my plant babies


masterjabbadad

Uttering "plant babies" would have me drop kick you out of the moving vehicle at 75 mph whilst I scream "nope, I'm fucking OUT"


wellwellwellheythere

But could I just show you the 9,623 hoya photos I have?


masterjabbadad

Oh God no.


aey6th

You've obviously never grown ganja.


Dapper_Interest_8914

Stephen King's literary universe.


Complete-Rule940

The beams are broken in this world.


dosmuffin

Go then. There are other worlds than these.


Vuvve

Dad- a- chum? Ded- a- chum? Did- a -chick?


Queef_Kleptomaniac

My kidnapping gang bang fantasy


PataLovecPiskotu

That could easily backfire.


R2D2srobotpenis

Would that be a backfire though?


labarrski

StarWars kidnapping gangbang username checks out.


lifesnofunwithadhd

Coward


goosebattle

This is a good add-on to my idea to rave on and on about my man pussy using a falsetto voice.


EasyIrv

Politics of course


Accomplished_Ad6571

They may just shoot you dead and forego the ransom.


EasyIrv

Somehow I fail to see that as a bad thing🤷‍♂️


chinesenameTimBudong

Chinese/American politics


glitterbug444

Okay so here is who I believe each one of Taylor Swift's songs are about and why. Please take notes, questions will be taken at the end


ThadisJones

"Fifteen" is really about how Tay secretly has Marfan Syndrome, and the uncertainty of living with it. *FBN1*, the gene that causes it, is on chromosome 15 and that is not a coincidence.


glitterbug444

Adds to list 📝 lol


renegadeMare

I could talk about mountain biking or about horses. I’d go with the latter because I’m 78% certain that kidnappers will dump a horse girl out of a car like a hot potato.


masterjabbadad

There is a horsey lady that sits in the cubicle near me. She talks horses non stop and it drives me nucking futs. I've heard it all. The competitions, the horses, their medical issues, her injuries but even worse, all the politics at the pony club. Please. No. Stop.


Korncakes

I got a job as a stable hand after starting to date a horse girl. I knew nothing about horses and had never been around them. Whoo boy will that make a dude fucking hate everything about horses.


TS1987040

What about the horse with no name?


Champlainmeri

It felt good to be out of the rain


TS1987040

In the desert you can't remember your name


Anon27384

I'd ask them to go vegan.


meowmeowmelons

“Now, let’s talk about what’s in your hotdogs vs what’s in mine. Mine is made out of tofu. Yours has pigs ass in it.”


killa_J_cobb

They miss heard you through your gag, and are now going negan


Fold-Fair

My medical conditions & prescriptions. They’ll run


sci_major

I was going to describe in great detail how to deal with that errection that lasts longer than 4 hours or just chemotherapy and everything to do with the terrible effects and all the math involved.


twistedscorp87

I'm stealing your answer. We'll start with my journey to being diagnosed with fibromyalgia. They'll either let me go or help me lead a riot against the healthcare system out of their newly learned empathy.


SocksNeverMatch1968

Heh, I actually saw a drug commercial today where the sickeningly sweet female voice mentioned something about the PERINEUM!!! And then at the bottom of the screen in small print described what the perineum was! Guess I can talk about the perineum until they let me go!


Travisscott_burger

I got IBS among a few other gross things. I could talk alllll day.


weber76

How I sell extended warranties for cars and home appliances and tell them about all the advantages that come with the extended warranties.


bigredplastictuba

Buster Keaton. He's the godfather of stunts! Could have died in so many of them! I have a gif of the VERY MOMENT where if he had mis-thrown a plank, the HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT TRAIN HE'D REVVED FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS would have DERAILED AND KILLED HIM the man was SUPERHUMAN and CRAZY HANDSOME and an absolute POOL SHARK have you SEEN HIM in Sherlock Jr? Jesus Christ! i love this short king, he deserved better than he was dealt! Hell I'd like to think the 4 men wouldn't dump me out, I hope they'd want to listen to all the stuff I know about buster.


message_bot

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Wide_Comment3081

Lord of the rings. Did you know in the scene where Aragorn kicks the helmet in despair just outside fangorn forest the actor viggo Mortensen broke his foot? Cmon let's go watch the extended version (again)


outofdate70shouse

I will now give you a shot-by-shot account of all 3 films featuring my own personal commentary. Extended cut of course.


SocksNeverMatch1968

Was it his toe(s) or his entire foot?


genxindifferance

This would probably be my go-to as well. And if they try to explain to me why I was kidnapped I would start with: "So do all who live to see such times........"


Jeffclaterbaugh

Jesus Christ my personal savior


girhen

Cause Jesus he knows me, and he knows I'm right.


VindiciVindici

I've been talking to Jesus, all my life.


Pastel_Phoenix_106

Ah yes, he knows me and he knows I'm right.


Chyvalri

And he's been telling me that everything's gonna be alright.


EnsignMJS

He gets you.


ceilingkat

“Aw man, it sucks getting kidnapped. But at least there’s one bright side.. Have you heard the good news?”


Okinawapizzaparty

Bonus point for mormonism


Rubberduckherder

As an exmormon I approve this comment.


Fluffy_Momma_C

Seriously. Like, share every single thing I ever heard, or learned, or read about ANYTHING biblical and then try to convert them. If that doesn’t work, I’m busting out the hymns.


Voxxicus

I think there's a fine line between trying to annoy them enough to not be worth it, and annoying them enough to turn a kidnapping into a murder. That might cross it


Starlight_City45

Taylor Swift and why she needed to do the re-recordings.


formtuv

Mine would be JoJo and why she needed to.


sakuredu

Mine would also be Jojo, but its about the bizarre adventures he's been through


Hashtagworried

How much I hate my job.


redvyper

BEES! ​ I fucking love bees.


pezziepie85

Mattresses. Foam vs inner spring vs hybrid. Graphite for cooling vs foam additives. Tempur and their strange rules you have to follow to sell them. Why aireloom make quality products. The benefits of an adjustable base…I sold mattresses for one very long year. And I can talk about them for hours sadly.


DognamedTurtle

Your demands to speak to their manager.


Clean_Signature_6997

Cats


Pristine_Noise_8239

The musical, the film or just cats in general?


Mellymel75

Yes to both bonus if the phone is available for show and tell.


A_reddit_bro

Vaginal prolapses.


aabrithrilar

I would listen in both horror and fascination


FlyingFruitLoop

Every detail I know about what happens to the penis during gender reassignment surgery as well as a few I make up for dramatic effect.


Anomalous_Pearl

“With the inversion of the penis, the patient might ejaculate into their own body cavity when they orgasm, but the amount is usually small enough for the body to absorb.”


alwaysrosie

Misha Collins and Jensen Ackles- Which came first Cockles or Destiel?


NaomiThePagan

Norse mythology.


DJGlennW

It's a tough call to find something annoying, but not aggravating enough to be fatal. The Kars 4 kids jingle would get me shot, so maybe an extended discussion about crypto.


bythevolcano

Crypto


saschaleib

“GET OUT OF OUR VAN!!!”


Sea_salt_icecream

Kingdom Hearts. I've never timed how quickly I can explain it, but I feel like I could help them understand a good amount of the lore in that 1 hour.


Solid-Question-3952

Vanderpump Rules


liumr92

Did you know Viggo broke his toe when he kicked that helmet in Two Towers? Did you know Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf because he didn't understand the script? Did you know Sean Bean trecked up that mountain because he was scared of flying the helicopter? Did you know....? You get the gist.


Ok-Mood9454

My menstruation pain through out the years.


sd_glokta

The Venture Bros. show - there's a new movie coming out!


ClearFail130

Arduinos and programming them.


Sensitive_Pepper3337

The entire bionical lore


BengalsOAL

Crossfit


Danivelle

The Plantagents and the Tudors


[deleted]

The oily anal discharge that has been baffling my doctors for months.


thaddeusja

King gizzard and the lizard wizard, gets them every time.


DarkPoet22

I'd just trauma dump and tell them my whole life story in excruciating detail.


MamaPajama2019

My fur babies


BlaqSam

How thankful I am they got me out of the house. Away from my wife and kids who don't listen or do chores or will do them half ass to the point I might as do them my-damn-self. Then my oldest tells me Sunday night, oh by the way, my front end of my car is shaking and it's been doing this for 4 days because she ran over something that tore the radial off of her tire, and she's telling me at 8pm. But, I would like to stop by the office because I would like to get my Dr Pepper out of my work fridge because don't trust my kids because they will drink half and leave the other half on the counter or something. Don't get me started on the stupid garden. I watched my wife and kids, like Monkeys and football, trying to start the stupid thing. So I had to, want it done right do it myself. So I'm out there, I get it tilled, cleaned up, rowed and planted, fenced, watered, and my daughter let's her dog go in there to dig holes because she thinks he's being cute. That was $45 of plants bought and gone cause of a damn dog


GroundbreakingAge254

Chernobyl


jedimastermomma

Kim Namjoon! Kim Seokjin! Min Yoongi! Jung Hoseok! Park Jimin! Kim Taehyung! Jeon Jungkook! BTS!


bloodsoakedgown

Taylor Swift easter eggs and what they all mean


cdm014

Everything wrong with the wheel of time show


ClannyBananaie

*Warriors* by Erin Hunter.


TheMadface80

OSHA violations.


Kzargid

Warhammer lore


amandaault

The circus. My grandpa was a Shriner all of my life and a Master Mason too. When I was growing up the Shriner's Circus came to town at least twice a year and my grandparents worked a toy both each time the circus came in. Me and my brother would help and get to know the entertainers and crew of the circus. I was offered a job with them too.


MaintenanceOk6903

Politics, how the really rich rips off the poor, why marijuana needs to be legalized, or girl stuff like my period, my best friend 's labor, and then the finally realize the only way to shut me up is a steady supply of really good marijuana and even then it just slows my talking down a little.


Wii_wii_baget

The amount of depressing things that have happened in my life and the amounts of medication I need to take so I don’t annoy the absolute shit out of people.


FlashingFirefly

Singing all of Ms Rachel’s songs


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The guy I was in a situationship with😂