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No added preservatives! (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Had this conversation recently when my wife died. She wanted to be cremated with no embalming but wanted a visitation. In the US you have to be embalmed to have a visitation. No amount of pleading to just put her in an ice bath would work sadly.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    You can't have a visitation with someone who has been cremated? Are you positive thats not a state specific thing?

    Maybe there is something else you can call it? It just surprises me because my grandmother and an uncle where both cremated, and we had services. I thought they were visitations.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    I think they meant she wanted her body to be seen before cremation, and the funeral home wouldn't do that without embalming her.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    because the funereal business is a sham.

    can't have y without x and if you get x you need z. we've conveniently packaged it together in our x-z package for a low cost of $6999. isn't this what the dearly departed would want from you? don't they deserve the best??

    and that's why I'm a complete fucking asshole. I don't deserve the best. I deserve to rot in a culvert on the outskirts of the airport.

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