OT- Hearses

My mother's baby sister died this past week after a five year battle with something. The funeral was today. When the hell did Chrysler start making herses out of the Minivan?

Robin and I were hysterical with laughter, then Ellen saw it, and my mother was getting angry at us about our laughing. we figured that since she was a small woman, they use a minivan, cause a full fleged.........................you get the picture, the rear door up and the coffin sticking out the rear with a red flag.

Bill

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Bill Glass
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I've never seen a minivan used as a hearse... if they drove down the road with the rear hatch up, I'd have to at least say something to the funeral director about how tacky it looked.

Not a big deal to me, I plan to be thrown in the back of a pickup with a tarp over it if the weather is bad... don't want to ruin the finish on that $6000 wood casket before they throw me in a hole and dump dirt on it. Formal funerals are a huge scam in my opinion... $10K to pump you full of embalming fluid and stuff you in a box????

Lee

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Lee Aanderud

I have a note in my papers requesting that my executor inform the people attending my service that it starts 20 minutes earlier then it really does, that way, I can be late to my own funeral.

:)

p.d.

Lee Aanderud wrote:

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Oujdeivß

No I made a joke about the hatch open, but it was a Minivan with a landau roof and the chrome S that is on all hearses. The funeral behind ours was a full sized Cadillac.

It was a strange, strange funeral. I actually walked away from the grave site, and sat in the car and had a smoke.

Bill

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Bill Glass

I like that!

Jeff DeWitt

Oujdeivß wrote:

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Jeffrey DeWitt

I've seen one of those, it looked like a bad joke.

Jeff DeWitt

Bill Glass wrote:

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Jeffrey DeWitt

Lot's of modified Caravans as hearses in the deep south. Especially in the less affluent areas.

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Jeff Rice

Sorry to hear of the loss to the family, Bill.

I've never seen a mini-van for a Hearse but I have seen a lot of smaller, front wheel drive "full size" sedans converted to them in this area.

Lee DeLaBarre Daytona62

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Lee

Sorry to hear about your loss, Bill. It occurs to me that an outfit that would use a minivan for a hearse would probably do cremations in a gas barbecue from Target.

Gord Richmond

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Gordon Richmond

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karinhall

...and you Didn't get a picture? I gotta run this by a friend that is into hearses aka "professionsl vehicles."

JT

(Who'll be burried in the PowerHawk au naturale..)

JT

Bill Glass wrote:

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Grumpy AuContraire

That's a great assumption. I'm tryin' to figger out how to be burried for less than $100....

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

Thats easy JT. When your time comes , just go to the nearest big city without your identification or other documents. The city/county of your choice will foot the bill.

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noeone

Try the "budget burial", they let rigor mortis set in, then drive you in the ground with a sledge hammer.

Grumpy AuContraire wrote: > That's a great assumption. I'm tryin' to figger out how to be burried

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John Poulos

We were going thru Eagleville Tenn. one time on our way to the Shelbyville, Tn Studebaker meet I don't like to take the 49 C-Cab thru Nashville. And saw them using an old UPS van for a Hearse. They were at the grave yard unloading a casket. ..

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studeluver

That's exactly the disposal I want. But I'm willing to pay for it and I'm sure that the city (whatever) pays less than $1000 for the work. Then they can send what is left to the nearest Veterans cemetary...

JT

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Grumpy AuContraire

7k box.. $150 embalming..

--Shiva--

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me

Federal law now says funeral homes have to accept a casket you buy elsewhere. i.e.

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John Poulos

That website is at least 50% of what they want at funeral homes.

Lee

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Lee Aanderud

I didn't price shop the damn things, it was just the first one on Google, but even 50% off is not too shabby with free shipping.

Lee Aanderud wrote:

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John Poulos

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