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Thread: Home Funerals Grow As Americans Skip The Mortician For Do-It-Yourself After-Death Care

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    Home Funerals Grow As Americans Skip The Mortician For Do-It-Yourself After-Death Care-skek-jpg

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    I don't think it's legal to bury anyone at home in NC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lista View Post
    I don't think it's legal to bury anyone at home in NC.
    You don't bury them at home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post

    But a small and growing group of Americans are returning to a more hands-on, no-frills experience of death. In the world of “do it yourself” funerals, freezer packs are used in lieu of embalming, unvarnished wooden boxes replace ornate caskets, viewings are in living rooms and, in some cases, burials happen in backyards...

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    You don't bury them at home.
    ahem....

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    Imagine this to be a rather cadaverous feature of the home for the realtor to handle in the event of selling.

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    Imagine this to be a rather cadaverous feature of the home for the realtor to handle in the event of selling.
    Really...would you buy a house knowing Grampa is buried under the rose bushes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Really...would you buy a house knowing Grampa is buried under the rose bushes?

    As long as the roses were healthy and growing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    As long as the roses were healthy and growing
    Well they should be with grandpa as fertilizer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Really...would you buy a house knowing Grampa is buried under the rose bushes?
    Grandpa ain't there no more. And whatever little friends he left behind will be evicted in Jesus' name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel 33 View Post
    Grandpa ain't there no more. And whatever little friends he left behind will be evicted in Jesus' name.
    Grampa under a rose bush is easier to deal with than an “upside down Joey” buried under the realtor sign.

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