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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 28, 2016 21:21:34 GMT -5
The entire funeral industry is a huge scam designed to prey on people when they are vulnerable. I didn't give in to the pressure, but it was still distasteful. There. I said it. Seconded with strong conviction! I am furthermore disgusted by the way laws over here are on the side of the industry. You don't get to bury your dead yourself even if you have the means to do it in a safe, ecological and healthy way, no: you have to go through a professional provider of funeral services. One that will tell you must pay for embalming even if you want the body cremated (for "technical reasons", naturally). One that will likely try to convince you that your departed one "deserves" this or "would have wanted" that. Like the #%$ bronze coffin someone tried to get my grandmother to buy for a deceased husband. I'm not against paying tens of thousands of dollars for a nice funeral if that's what people want, but the obligation for grieving people to pay through the nose for goods and services they don't want strikes me as obscene. It's not as if mankind hasn't disposed of dead bodies, respectfully and without harm to society and the environment, for hundreds of thousands of years. There was enough outcry here that legislation was passed that the funeral industry now must make available a price-list for services and they can't claim that the deceased have to be embalmed if they are being cremated or if they are being buried closed-casket in a short time. They also can't claim that you have to have a concrete liner...though they get around that because most cemeteries require them. It's still a damn scam. My Mom's cost $5100 and was about as low-key as it is humanly possible to be. |
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Post by Gene on Feb 28, 2016 21:42:17 GMT -5
Whoa...I totally see David Bowie in your dog Luke. I think it's the shape of the eyes. Also, Luke and Bowie each have (or had  , in Bowie's case) different colored eyes. Thanks for posting your pooch pics, coldwater and Gene--your dogs are beautiful! Thank you, farrar! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 28, 2016 22:27:04 GMT -5
What does this mean? I hope it's not in reference to the dogs in the previous posts. It's Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 29, 2016 2:13:32 GMT -5
Seconded with strong conviction! I am furthermore disgusted by the way laws over here are on the side of the industry. You don't get to bury your dead yourself even if you have the means to do it in a safe, ecological and healthy way, no: you have to go through a professional provider of funeral services. One that will tell you must pay for embalming even if you want the body cremated (for "technical reasons", naturally). One that will likely try to convince you that your departed one "deserves" this or "would have wanted" that. Like the #%$ bronze coffin someone tried to get my grandmother to buy for a deceased husband. I'm not against paying tens of thousands of dollars for a nice funeral if that's what people want, but the obligation for grieving people to pay through the nose for goods and services they don't want strikes me as obscene. It's not as if mankind hasn't disposed of dead bodies, respectfully and without harm to society and the environment, for hundreds of thousands of years. There was enough outcry here that legislation was passed that the funeral industry now must make available a price-list for services and they can't claim that the deceased have to be embalmed if they are being cremated or if they are being buried closed-casket in a short time. They also can't claim that you have to have a concrete liner...though they get around that because most cemeteries require them. It's still a damn scam. My Mom's cost $5100 and was about as low-key as it is humanly possible to be. Just what you need to hear when you're trying to deal with the death of your mother. There's a book by one of the Mitfords about the funeral business - The American Way of Death. Maybe I should add it to my list. |
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Post by Spike-X on Feb 29, 2016 5:18:32 GMT -5
The entire funeral industry is a huge scam designed to prey on people when they are vulnerable. I didn't give in to the pressure, but it was still distasteful. There. I said it. I could've bought a decent second-hand car with what we paid for my mother's funeral. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 29, 2016 8:34:09 GMT -5
I did it so my corpse will be useful to someone, but I'm glad that a consequence of giving my dead body to a medical school means my family won't have to pay for a funeral.
Now to hope I don't die in such an interesting and spectacular fashion that my mangled remains can't be used after all!
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 3, 2016 17:57:48 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, A digital Comic should be much cheaper to purchase than the physical one. A 3.99 comic should be 1.99 if purchased as a digital version.
I said it . I said it. I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 18:00:17 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, A digital Comic should be much cheaper to purchase than the physical one. A 3.99 comic should be 1.99 if purchased as a digital version. I said it . I said it. I said it. I agree. I agree. I AGREEEEE. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 18:29:55 GMT -5
I think any comic store that has a codeword 30%-60% discount gimmick sale every day of the year probably has base line prices which are too high to begin with, and should have more realistic prices instead of sending me newsletters with new reasons why for new sales...a move, a new building, a broken toilet, a badly needed nose job.
Thank you Ebay for affording me much better buying opportunities.
There, I said it.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Mar 4, 2016 2:01:26 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, A digital Comic should be much cheaper to purchase than the physical one. A 3.99 comic should be 1.99 if purchased as a digital version. I said it . I said it. I said it. Well they are for me, new is like $8 for a 2.99 issue here, and I can get the digital for about $4 after conversion. |
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Post by batlaw on Mar 4, 2016 5:32:20 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, A digital Comic should be much cheaper to purchase than the physical one. A 3.99 comic should be 1.99 if purchased as a digital version. I said it . I said it. I said it. Completely agree. I'm astonished by the price point of digital and more so blown away by people's acceptance of the prices. For me, 99cents a single digital issue is a tough sell. |
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 4, 2016 5:36:05 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, A digital Comic should be much cheaper to purchase than the physical one. A 3.99 comic should be 1.99 if purchased as a digital version. I said it . I said it. I said it. I'm with Icky Trombone. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 10:21:14 GMT -5
90% of all my Comic Book Purchases been Online not Floppy and that why I used my 22 Inch monitor for my Comic Book Reading that was given to me by a dear friend of mine.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 4, 2016 10:32:01 GMT -5
90% of all my Comic Book Purchases been Online not Floppy and that why I used my 22 Inch monitor for my Comic Book Reading that was given to me by a dear friend of mine. Blasphemy ! There's nothing like the real thing. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 10:36:57 GMT -5
90% of all my Comic Book Purchases been Online not Floppy and that why I used my 22 Inch monitor for my Comic Book Reading that was given to me by a dear friend of mine. Blasphemy ! There's nothing like the real thing. I know what you are saying here ... but when you have a 450 square feet Studio Condo that you live in - you don't have a whole lot of space to work with. That's why I get my stuff at comiXology because it's more practical for me. There I said it!  |
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, in Bowie's case) different colored eyes. 
