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  • Mrvmax

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    I'll be dead. What do I care what happens to my belongings. Once they are passed on, I make no claim on them. My heirs may keep what they like and sell off the rest. Any relatives not worthy of my kindness won't be in the will, LOL.
    I’m with you, once I’m gone I don’t care what is done with my personal possessions. If my daughter doesn’t want them she can sell them, it won’t matter to me.
     

    Mrvmax

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    That's pretty much what I say when asked why I don't mind being cremated. Will I care?
    I’ve been involved in too many funerals and see the wasted money. I told my wife to cremate me since that’s the cheapest way. Now I’m hoping my daughter will pass down my guns but I won’t be around to care one way or another.
     

    benenglish

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    I’ve been involved in too many funerals and see the wasted money.
    My best friend died when his daughter was 16. She had been a holy terror and broken his heart too many times to count. However, they were drifting back towards each other when he died.

    Suddenly, she was slammed with the realization that she had been a shit to him, she was genuinely sorry, and would never be able to tell him. Her guilt was debilitating.

    I helped him in his business and knew quite a bit about his circumstances. He had a profitable business that was, at that point, essentially a turnkey operation that she could have sold for good money or taken as a career. She inherited the business and ~$50K in cash. The business didn't survive a month.

    She blew every last cent and more on the funeral.

    When I saw the vault cover being lowered into the ground, I nearly lost it. The insanely expensive casket and the wall of flowers was bad enough but the vault cover, something we were all literally going to see for 2 minutes before it was buried, nearly made me lose my mind. It was a giant cast aluminum slab with a carved border, topped by an solid inch-thick slab of engraved copper.

    It was an obscene spectacle. I wanted to murder her. I wanted to torture the entire funeral home staff to death; they saw guilt walk in the door and exploited it to a degree that beggars description.

    Bottom line: Cremate me. Donate my body. I don't care but don't spend a single extra cent disposing of it.
     

    easy rider

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    I have often said that after I died if by chance I sit up and say I want my body disposed of a certain way, then do as I say since I have powers beyond belief. Otherwise, hang me naked on a flagpole and throw rocks at me if that is your wish, because I am beyond wishing.
     

    Davetex

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    Cremation all the way. If you have ever done any ground water work near a cemetery, there''s no way you'do want to be anywhere near that place. Nasty doesn't even come close to describing it.
     

    ETREDNECK

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    The only 2 guns my Father had were a P38 his baby brother sent home from the war and a single shot 22 German Mauser (training rifle I think) which Mom's brother sent home from the war. Super accurate, as a kid got lots of squirrels with it. I passed it on to his grandson with the stipulation it goes to his son. None of mine worthy of the P38 so I swapped it for new Glock with lots of extras. Step daughter wasn't too happy bout that. But she will get plenty of my guns as will her kids. They are all very big on hunting and such. She teaches all types of classes including CHL
     

    lightflyer1

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    If my wife dies before I do I will try and sell everything and spend every cent I have before I die. I don't want to leave anyone anything if I can help it. Let them work for theirs, I did. I spent nearly 50 some years working and saving so I could enjoy my last years. I am going to try if it kills me! If there is anything left they can have it.
     

    toddnjoyce

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    The good thing when one of my relatives passed away is knowing how some of my relatives act.

    Went through this recently with my mother’s passing.

    I’m proud of my brother and sisters for upholding my mother’s well-known wishes for how she wished her final days to be.

    And, proud that my mother had the foresight to ensure her wishes for what she left behind would be carried out simply and correctly.

    And even prouder that she shared those wishes openly with us each year, together, in a family meeting.

    She was a depression-era baby, raised by farmers in east Texas because, “that’s where the soil was good”; military spouse, civil servant, God-fearing proud Texas woman.

    We are lucky to have had her in our lives.
     

    Frank59

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    Gave my 20 year old shotgun to my youngest grandson this morning!! He was as happy as a tick on a dogs ass to get it!!
     

    toddnjoyce

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    Do tell.....I just have to know even though I will regret asking.

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    Just to do business with the funeral home, for my mother’s recent passing with $5K. Then, it’s a la carte or packaged services that added another $7K and we went bare bones, had a discount for paying cash and for pre-arranging. She’s had the plot as long as I can remember, but if she didn’t, then you’re looking at another $5K or more. Average cost of a funeral and burial today is >$20K.

    When my sister lost her step son, he was cremated. They were bare bones for the service and it was $5K and this was 7 years ago.

    Knowing that, we’ve started to pre-plan our final arrangements (mid-40 yr olds) and provide explicit instructions as to what we want done with our remains.
     

    robertc1024

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    Yep. That's some bullshit right there. I told my wife to put me in the compost pile. At least I'd be doing something worthwhile.
     

    diesel1959

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    Yeah, there’s that.
    Some “family” will not even be informed of my passing.
    They’re only “family” when there is profit in it for them.
    I have no relatives that are "gun people". If I had any guns (see boating accident), I'd be making arrangements for some of my gun-loving friends to inherit any guns that I, hypothetically, might have had.
     
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