Ashes To Ashes: Cremation By Water | TIME

[@IamKrissyKO]

I’m so late but we turned my grandmother into an orange tree in the backyard of my grandparents house.....Grandpa is still kicking he’s 102....lol he said he doesn’t plan on going anywhere anytime soon 🙄 lol gotta love em... Edit: Grandfather passed in November 2019 at 104 😭🙏🏾

[@Streetathlete_A1]

Krissy S. - God bless your family Man!

[@vickystevenson1814]

Krissy S. ..bless your family

[@treezareese2058]

I think burying the ashes w/the other soil to grow something, is a lovely idea. Especially if you have the opportunity to grow something they really enjoyed while that person was alive. God Bless you for such a lovely idea! Merry Christmas & may you have a blessed holiday!!

[@nancydeis7121]

Krissy S. oh my gosh that is so beautiful. I have heard about the tree before and it always sounded peaceful to me. Your grandpa is priceless i hope he is still kicking...or has he joined his love now. Either way at that age it truly is a celebration in my eyes

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

God bless you and your family. 🙏💕

[@leightmatters5570]

I kind of like the idea of being cremated and having my remains heated and pressed to form a diamond. Well, either that, or to have my ashes blown into the faces of those who pissed me off throughout my life.

[@unimatrix0605]

BEING THROWN INTO A CEMENT MIXER AND BECOMING PART OF A SIDEWALK SEEMS PRACTICAL.

[@linanicolia1994]

not by these guys...they are worst than used cars salesmen. Ripping people off to the end. Brrrrr.

[@karlasolis2829]

Lol ick! But I chuckled!! :)

[@queenfan2011]

"Heres a diamond ring honey oh by the way it's your dead grandmother." Can you just imagine the look of horror and confusion?

[@Bearboy312]

Leight Matters we are diamond dogs

[@christhorton6512]

I appreciate the respectful nature of the documentary and the sensitivity of the funeral directors.

[@JenniferbianknetjackonsistoisD]

Sdawsesrseedd. Gooooooght no

[@JenniferbianknetjackonsistoisD]

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[@roberthillsjr.3729]

So do I.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Yeah, just saying, it can all be an act. Not that they could possibly lie and scam as much as real estate agents, (not possible, they're the most disgusting people as a whole I've ever known, including many drug addicts and alcoholics. The latter actually lies much less)

[@KatieSakura]

My Grandad was cremated. See, we have a huge backyard at our house, and he always loved taking walks with his dogs outside. My family decided that after he was cremated, we would let him rest where he truly felt at home. We mixed his ashes with potting soil and grew a tree right next to the place where his dogs were buried. It was what he would have wanted...

[@colddarkness1798]

Maybe body in grave is more humane way for dead

[@SpiralBreeze]

My parents keep my grandfather in the China cabinet. when people come over they say, oh we forgot to introduce you to grandpa!" 😂 Got them every time.

[@freedomseaker1]

I had my mom cremated after she passed from breast cancer in 2013, I have her ashes in her bed room with her picture next too it.......When I die, her ashes, my ashes and my dos ashes will all go in my nook in the big old Gothic victorian cemetery where I live....

[@maryannhope8276]

Spiral Breeze. Lmao....thanx ✌

[@grbgeslnger24]

Spiral Breeze. Haha I've done that before

[@eastleford20]

My mom put my dad in the cabinet in 2008. He didn't die until 2010.

[@kayb6850]

+eastleford20 uh......

[@galemrin4721]

Can't remember what the program is called, but when my mom dies she wants to be cremated. The program will have her ashes put on an ocean bed to become a coral reef, fishes will be able to live because of her death. It is quite beautiful in my opinion, a nice thought for the darkness of death.

[@deeslim2]

Galem Rin I think the program was called Death it's a living

[@donnanoe6736]

I love this idea.

[@myataylor6583]

eternal reef! I wanna do the same thing

[@treezarose4732]

I've heard of it & seen a show about it in the last year or so. I think it's a terrific idea also. Maybe a funeral director can lead you in the right direction. Good Luck! (keep on keeping on!)

[@sassoscrib]

Neptune society?

[@emstererick4646]

I watch this not to entertain myself, but to strengthen. One day we all will come across this. To many act as if life isn't precious. Mental scaring to make maturity. Not for everyone.

[@tac0049]

Mental scaring to make maturity? You are so clearly young and NOT mature... No offence. You are right, one day we will all meet death. However, suffering is not the means of learning. Opening your mind is.

[@MrSvenovitch]

get off those meds, religio-psycopath

[@Ladytaylors87]

Same

[@brookechristine2940]

When I was in the Navy I was a Quartermaster which was responsible for visual communications and honorary ceremonies. Many people came to my ship and left ashes on board for us to hold a ceremony and dump the ashes at sea and we would record and send the video to the family members. we would often send packages to them containing a certificate which held the coordinates as to where the remains were dumped along with a folded American flag. I've had someone randomly ask if he could dump the ashes of his brother off the ship himself. (all these who had their ashes dumped at sea were Vets) obviously these services are free ❤😇

[@mozzjones6943]

petty officer navi on a ship? or a nav-et on a sub?

[@hoparartur]

Sounds like a great business idea after the Navy if you ask me.

[@felixramos3078]

You just gave me a great idea. I was a Sailor, in the U.S. Navy. I was Stationed aboard The USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), or as we better knew it, "The Shitty Kitty". I was sent to that ship, almost before it was scheduledto leave North Island, CA. Anyways, I guess I will love to be buried at sea. Do you know who I need to contact, to make preparations before my death? Thank you, 😊

[@tamiam4367]

Notice how the cremators didn't want to be cremated. Interesting. ...

[@abc-jm2zq]

TammyB maybe because they are rich and have enough money to be burried

[@jonimaar__2023]

TammyB in Islam cremation is a sin and prohibited...only bury under the ground ... I don't wanna be CREMATED 😢🔥

[@jonimaar__2023]

C. L. Rule 😭😭😢😢😢❤❤👋👋👋 It's the best thing to be buried under the ground NOT CREMATED .

[@jonimaar__2023]

C. L. Rule I wish u long live 🌷⚘

[@jonimaar__2023]

***** oh Allah 😣😢 Why they didn't buried under the ground? What make them cremated him?

[@lawrencehurst46]

a friend of mine put her babys ashes into concrete and made stepping stones for her garden. I thought that was awesome!

[@viescotty3577]

Lawrence Hurst 😢

[@porch8370]

What if someone stepped on shit and walked up the stairs

[@hannahdunn5393]

A baby?? 😢

[@jimsonbrown9768]

Horrible.

[@haylenyofuhkk]

@@porch8370 bro wtf😂 very wise set of words

[@marclaw4511]

One business that is never going to suffer due to a recession.Always plenty of customers and price is no question.

[@bellametallica]

$2,570 to be put in an oven and turned into dust and ash. $7,755 to be thrown in the ground inside of a box and get covered up with 6 ft. of rocks, dirt and crap. Wow.

[@joeyvieira9618]

BellaMetallicA its the illusion of a dignified death. That’s why you pay these amounts.

[@Kimbrough87]

DyersEve That’s cheap compared to people drive cars that’s worth $40-$60,000

[@siannalannan1045]

"$7,755 to be thrown in the ground inside of a box..." Perhaps this number depends on where you are in the world? My neighbor's father in law died a few months ago, his casket alone was $15.000. This number did not include the service or anything else and she chose the least expensive one they had.

[@gussindica5771]

It's free if you jump into the ocean

[@jenniferjennings7002]

Sucks either way .

[@batsgochanour5422]

I want mine, my husbands and both my daughters ashes to be collected as we each go and put together. I just want to always be with them in any way I can. The thought of death and going alone, being alone, losing them is so heartbreaking to me. Our ashes being kept together is something that puts my heart at ease a bit.

[@tamlewis9690]

Expensive to be born, Expensive to die.Dame we can never win.

[@pthesmith]

Tam Lewis Winning is the part in the middle.

[@AlexSC2006]

Why that expensive?

[@ashlimac]

Embalming, open casket viewing, and earth burial for me. Tradition is important to me, and it’s a way to aid my family and friends through the grieving process. I made my funeral arrangements when I was diagnosed with pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer at 38. It was actually a great experience. Prearranging is just another way I can provide comfort for my family during a time that will be hard enough without having to make decisions, wonder what I would have wanted, and how much to spend.

[@KSATSpotting]

still kickin??

[@vooicu2]

@@KSATSpotting damn

[@gilson1982]

I believe this person has departed. Take this as a lesson - Death can get any one of us, anytime. Tomorrow is never promised.

[@greenred2121]

It's odd that he didn't wear a mask when all of that dust was rising

[@tomthecat268]

Marie Marin ikr...I was thinking the same thing.

[@susanmeadows9146]

Marie Marin yes ewwh

[@cyndytran8509]

He was working under a fumehood.

[@KVMusicPH]

Yas cringeworthy

[@richyrock69]

Read replies & comments, THERE WAS AN EXTRACTOR !

[@la-ia1404]

Let's go to Disney Land and scatter grandma off the roller coasters!

[@la-ia1404]

And letting memories go.

[@therealtachanka1181]

Tina and Einstein lol

[@NadyrydaN]

Obamalies100 and what a memory lol

[@erickg3508]

LOL I know it's been a year, but this is a great comment!

[@MWeatherbear]

They call that a code white and i guess people do that all the time!

[@2degucitas]

When I die I want to be in my coffin holding my cellphone watching youtube.

[@VinnyLam]

And be a ghost roaming across the KZbin comments section for eternity? That's a fate worse than death!

[@oxygen0069]

2degucitas you will need 500000 power banks to keep the phone charged

[@2degucitas]

Walking gamer nah. i won't know the difference

[@2degucitas]

Vincent Lam just think how I can troll people!

[@2degucitas]

kappelmeister123 I'll be DEAD!! How can I do something meaningful?

[@dano8328]

Cremate me and mix me with some cement and make me into a rock then drop me into the ocean. This way new life can grow on me.

[@somebluntdude]

There's actually a company that does that sort of thing where you basically are an artificial reef and there's also one for where your ashes help a tree grow.

[@jimmartin8654]

Putin Vladimir

[@DrinkWhiskeyRaiseHell]

Read a little bit more about the tree idea. It is just bunch of hype. Ashes are just that. Ashes. There are no nutrients for the tree. The idea is cool but in reality the ashes are not "nourishing" the tree.

[@lgaff2378]

Dano83 Inspiring idea

[@ChiChiGlamShop]

Dano83 good idea

[@JustinLodes]

So morbid but such a reality we can't avoid. I held my mothers ashes for years after she passed away till my sister took them. It's so emotionally draining on so many levels

[@jus10lewissr]

I just had an odd realization while watching this. The elderly woman at 10:16 talking about how she plans to be cremated has more than likely been cremated by now, ten years later.

[@queenfan2011]

It's weird that the cremators chose to be actually buried and not cremated

[@andygirl333]

mdmelnoelle Yeah that's interesting

[@ajplays7241]

except,1he said either burial or green cremation whatever that means

[@mearaladybug1234]

Aj Plays green cremation is cool I think that’s where they plant a tree above your ashes in the ground so you essentially feed the tree

[@Mary-cg3cl]

I think the one who said he wanted green cremation or a burial (with no casket, no embalming, etc... green burial) was leaning towards the burial because it’s something that creates the least pollution and waste. I’m just assuming that because he mentioned the green cremation but I could be wrong. It’s also possible some are religious? I am unsure of other religions but I know that Jewish tradition is to have someone with for body for 24 hours then to bury.

[@2manycatsforadime]

a better way now is freeze drying where the body is in a liquid nitrogen shower then the body is vibrated to crumbles, then freeze dried. The remains then can be planted with a tree over it. This is true organic material from the body not just bone ash. Become a tree of your choice.

[@BecD1983]

My mother was cremated, and I have her with me for now. It’s only been 9 days since she died. I know I’ll make a decision one day.

[@gilson1982]

I’m so sorry for your loss.

[@PBMS123]

Imagine being cremated and and having your ashes mixed with your loved ones ashes. And thus being together and intertwined forever.

[@purplemirror6440]

In my home office, I have the cremains of 3 cats, one dog, and about 1/3 of my dear human friend who passed in 2012 at age 50 from cancer. I feel comfortable having them here with me.

[@bethechangeyouwannaseeinth9488]

dont you have any frinds like someone alive:=)

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

They start to add up after awhile. I'd bring them to a nice campground or something and put them there. Who wants to be stuck inside all the time?

[@caitlinbrosnahan2324]

For whatever reason, for most of my life, I have had a total fear of cremation. I think it is due to a traumatizing childhood experience, but now, after watching this, I feel A LOT better. This documentary is very respectful and almost calming. Thank you for providing this! It has really helped me. :)

[@heyimkzen7415]

Why am I on this side of youtube again?!?Anyone else agree?O-o

[@maryamali8586]

Same here, I guess it's that occasional existential crisis

[@brokendoll7286]

Same

[@amandaervine6508]

Same here...I've always have had a couriosity with death

[@SuperCoalBlox]

HeyIm KZen I was a reading a book and I got here

[@brainsaladsurgery6984]

My presence is not understandable by Mankind. I bring people to this page in order to spread the message bit by bit, I work on my chosen ones in a sub-conscience level. That is why you landed here again and many of you did as well, emotions shall not be consider.

[@barbaramoles8129]

Cremation is the cheapest way to go. I don't want the big funeral..way to expensive. Anyway when we die, we put on a beautiful spiritual body. The old body goes back to dust...we won't need it anymore.

[@chewbaccasatan3482]

I like the idea of cremation. Although I'm not religious, the idea of your ashes being scattered at a peaceful place is satisfying. I'd rather mix in the earth, travel in the wind or dissolve in the earths water rather than be trapped underground with no movement, no sound, no light and no energy to pass you on throughout the earth. It doesn't seem peaceful to me. I want my remains to be active by the energy on earth. That is a cool idea even though it won't matter lol. 💀💀💀💀

[@Weeeeezzzyyyyy]

chewbaccasatan well said

[@roberthillsjr.3729]

Actually, I understand that.

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

That's a useful way to consider it. I tend to agree with you, but I haven't made up my mind yet. Maybe I'll just let someone else handle it! I won't be around to care.

[@ralphfurley404]

Me to

[@epampoefmkfkefpeao4291]

The idea of cremation is kind stupid to be honest. I think that all of us were soil and were made from soil, and we should return to it and become it once our body will be fully decomposed. Hence I think that burying in coffin just a stupid way for people to waste their money, dead person doesn’t care if he is buried in coffin, what is more important is that coffins don’t allow the nature to complete its cycle, the coffin also polluted the soil. That is why I believe we should say no to coffins, also because decomposition of dead body is a natural process a natural cycle, made from soil will become soil. Decomposition of the body fertilizes the soil while coffins pollute the soil as I mentioned earlier.

[@lorenmarie2471]

My close friend died by suicide in 2015, she was cremated due to the trama of her passing. I appreciate these people they truly are amazing to deal with these things so kindly.

[@MarionMuscare]

I was a little taken back when they said it's amazing how many keep the cremains at home; saying it was procrastination of doing something with them. I keep my husband's cremains by my bed on purpose. First, I find comfort in knowing they're there. I could not have made it otherwise, even knowing his spirit lives on. Yes, I have held them and cried sometimes. Second, when I die I will also be cremated and our ashes will be mixed together, and then we will be planted into a tree.

[@InfiniteRandom]

I disagree with his comment too. The best thing about them is that you have a lot more freedom as to what you can do with the remains. Saying that they allow for "procrastination" is based on the assumption that they have to be buried or sealed away...and of course, that guy was just trying to make a sale.

[@leonvliegendhart9504]

A beautiful idea!

[@mouthywitch]

I have my mom's in my dining room and you'd never know. i find it comforting. having them hasn't impeded my grieving process at all, and having talked with others who've done the same, it hasn't them either. I know people who've held onto a loved ones for 20 years and didn't get sick because omg they didn't pay some moron to "dispose" of their loved ones cremains.

[@LuannOsbourne]

mouthywitch no one is talking 2 me

[@dixiewife47]

My husband and I joke with each other since money is tight. If he goes before me, I told him I'd just have him stuffed and sit him up on the couch so he can watch TV. =) Just our way of making the final wishes part of our lives, a bit easier. I'm too emotional and cry too easily to "have a straight face". It might sound horrid to others, but it helps us both.

[@Goobian]

Judy Davenport My best friend used to joke he wanted to be stuffed and put in the corner as a decoration. And I would say yeah and your hands will be out giving the middle finger and I can use you as a hat and coat rack. And he would laugh and say yes that is the spirit. He would also joke that he was going to come back and haunt me. And I would say what about if I was laying in bed with someone else? He said he would haunt me and the other person and scare everybody off because I was his and nobody else.

[@aquilhall262]

yes it's a very emotional subject.

[@brandyfetz2298]

I told mind to just not claim my body and have the county cremate me. Of course he said absolutely not...wimp lol

[@brandyfetz2298]

Mine**

[@Pius-XI]

@@Goobian That's fucking beautiful😁 Made me smile.

[@74Benedict]

My grandfather was a WWII veteran. His ashes and those of my grandmother were buried together in a metal 50-caliber ammunition can. My grandparents were very frugal -- products of the Great Depression -- and would have definitely approved of being in a $30 box rather than a $300+ "together" urn. The opposite of frugality is what my fiance would like to have done with his remains after he dies: he wants me to have him made into a lab-created diamond for me to wear.

[@GrahamMaguire-sc9my]

I recently attended a green burial of a friend I known for 20+ years,it was so natural I was sat in the vehicle which my friend was in chatting away to the Paul the funeral director who explained everything regarding the funeral I now know where I shall rest,to my amazement my friend chose his plot and arranged his own funeral , I miss him so much I wish I spent more time with him in the living years (no connection to the song),he deserved so much more from life he was a real inspiration and hero to me,GOD BLESS YOU "GO GO", Thanks for your friendship and being one of the nicest friends I could possibly meet.

[@TheBoss-ji5vg]

I absolutely love the fact that the funeral directors and embalmers/cremators chose a natural burial. Just goes to show when working in the industry, not all of them believe in one option over the other.

[@msriiko8666]

When my mom is gone , I want to cremate her and keep her with me forever. I will make sure to let her go one day when I feel the time is right and when I feel like she will be in a place she would've wanted. I think it's a very personal decision and it means a lot to be able to keep ashes. My mom is alive and shes okay she is only 48 and I am 25, and as I write this, the thought of it is making me cry. Me moving on leaving my mother under ground while I might not even be in the same country or never have time to go see her, it breaks my heart. I dont want my mom to be left behind . I want her present in my life in my happiness and sadness. I want to share my good moments with her and find support in having her nearby when I'm at my bad times. Enough tears. Point made.

[@TransistorBased]

I can get my dad made into a case of 12-gauge shells? Dude, he would think that's awesome.

[@Youre_Right]

MicroKORGI That's what I've always wanted! To be cremated and then have my ashes packed into 12-gauge shotgun shells and then shot them. I don't care what they shoot at.

[@TransistorBased]

David L Dirty reds

[@kaitlinski493]

MicroKORGI hahahaha! man my dad would love that too! that's awesome!

[@mcrchickenluvr]

MicroKORGI I'm now trying to decide between being packed into shotgun shells or swimming with dolphins.

[@yungxxxanaxxx1840]

Must be edgy cuz he wants to shoot himself

[@peggystoutemorin4529]

Rip us off alive; rip us off dead.

[@TheSkete]

That's the consumer culture we live in. I have to stay alive. I literally can't afford to die right now.

[@treezarose4732]

Amen!

[@MichelleSPodcast]

Right?! This country screws you from birth Past death!!!!

[@unknown0348]

its weird that everyone that is watching this video is gonna die 😳

[@hlrahmed]

No not at all

[@roberthillsjr.3729]

Happens to all of us. Natural to do so.

[@indianne9781]

Life has a very high mortality rate.

[@Kartfx]

Lol good one

[@treezarose4732]

Not weird, just curious maybe. You certainly don't make it out of this life, alive!

[@mjw1955]

You'd be surprised how many of the larger bones like the skull survive the cremation and have to be smashed into smaller pieces before it all goes into the pulverizer.

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

True, but it's a horrible thought! Maybe I can go on a cruise over a deep ocean somewhere, and jump over with my scuba-diving weight-belt around my waist, so I won't wash up on some shore somewhere! Actually, the whole damn thing seems pretty morbid to even think of it -- I'm outta here!

[@swizzleproxi4810]

Well it's not like we'd feel it cause we'd be well gone by then 👋🤣

[@ravengale]

I like the idea of being buried and allowing your body to become part of the earth again.

[@wall48291]

raven gale me too

[@jessicar4536]

Yes, wrapped in a sheet, & buried.

[@missmoxie9188]

I think it’s actually a good thing for family members to be involved. It’s oddly touching to hear about that father to ask the mortician if he could help load his son into the crematorium.

[@kota2770]

The fact that being buried means u all end up being eaten by insects is kinda gross so imma stick to being burnt to ashes....

[@carlycharlesworth1497]

They were lovely, gentle, compassionate people. I really liked this video.

[@BonjourAmen]

« I was there when my son was born and I will be there until the very end »

[@barbarino5775]

There is nothing wrong with cremation..these flesh bodies will not rise when Christ returns because the soul is with Christ. Those bodies buried in cemeteries will stay right there where they are. Why hang on to a body that gets sick all of the time? We will never need them.

[@DaveInBridport]

If you are buried at sea you come back as a dolphin but not a grey one - you will be red

[@rafaelguzman2038]

is sin,body must buried!!!!

[@kevinruiz4125]

Barbara Moles there is no god though

[@glorianajera5714]

Barbara Moles I always thought about that How will we rise when the trumpets sound if there’s no body

[@eova]

Barbara Moles according to Zeus that’s not what happens in the after life. I think Zeus is a better god than Jesus.

[@DroppinJewelzz]

Please explain to me how this turned into a debate on religious beliefs?

[@elizabethhansen2889]

Samantha Brett Anything that involves death usually does. And people don't know how to just watch anything anymore

[@glorianajera5714]

Samantha Brett everyone thinks and believe differently

[@Smullet90]

Samantha Brett You really don't understand how a video about death could bring about religious debate?

[@mattstamper]

Your body is only a shell. Your soul has moved on.

[@Isa-cr7fd]

Matthew Schenker the “soul” is our brain and sadly when we are dead it dies too! We go back to nothingness just like before we were born. No memories no emotions nothing..

[@robsanders5808]

@@Isa-cr7fd and you know this because....?

[@Isa-cr7fd]

Rob Sanders because unlike the made up fairytale heaven I KNOW what it’s like to not exist. Remember before you were born? No? exactly that’s the exact state we go back too. All our thoughts are from our brain receptors. In order for our brain to work we need our heart to be pumping blood up there to provide oxygen. As soon as our heart slows down then stops our brain soon gets deprived of oxygen and then your brain dead.. soon after everything else shuts down as once the brain is gone all communication throughout the body is no longer getting told what to do. Our body is like a car, lots of mechanical parts and once one goes it’s like dominos. And then we die and go back to the same state before we were born. Your silly if you think we go to lala land and jump around on the clouds with Jesus sorry but it’s a complete joke. If a car engine dies although other parts may still be able to work, there’s no communication thus making the car dead. Unlike humans with a car you can put in a new engine but then it’s not the same car.. usually old people get pacemakers put in to keep the heart in a rhythm but that’s only temporary until it can no longer function. Once ya dead YA DEAD!

[@robsanders5808]

@@Isa-cr7fd thanks for your reply....it is interesting to know about other's beliefs and opinions regarding what happens after our physical body calls it quits....your ideas make sense from a scientific viewpoint and I respect that.....

[@metsl1870]

Amen

[@n8iv-NZ]

Larry J. Berken / + \ |RIP| _________________ March 19, 1923 March 16, 2013 _________________ Missed his birthday three days before he passed away..😭 That would of hurt him really *Sad* but he's in Great place now. Edit: I'm crying😢 Little bit.

[@jessicamendez6496]

@6:13 the old guy tells his wife “ Well, I won’t keep any of your ashes.” The wife responds shyly “oh thank you”.

[@TheInsightful1]

When I see the huge cost of funerals I'm so glad my husband & I preplanned 20 yrs ago. (As a nurse I've witnessed so many people unprepared for a death even when the patient had cancer, etc. & fell prey to high pressure sales tactics.) Forget those useless 'insurance policies', we paid $1000 for 'rented' caskets (now banned since the sealed liners tended to explode from inside pressure) & our plot. Well, during the 90's that money appreciated by leaps & bounds and guess what? cemetery/funeral homes do NOT return any money left over! It keeps adding & adding and if you don't use it so they get to 'keep' it. (Technically they can't reassign it without a court order at least 10 yrs after we both die & nobody applies for the account) We've already ensured it will go to our son & his wife & later to our g'daughter & possible spouse and their kids, too! Sorry, Western Reserve! Our funerals now include up to $8,000 caskets ( $4000 if bought online) which we don't want, the plot ($2100 for a double), opening & closing ($900/each), vaults ($1100/each) & the granite marker with our 25th wedding photo engraved ($3,000). All our kids have to do is add the minister & some flowers. There'll be plenty left over as a family account for generations! FYI: NEVER buy caskets, urns or markers from funeral homes. I've bought them online for family/friends for >10 yrs. Funeral homes won't tell you, but they are required by law to accept whatever casket you have delivered! (Takes 24 hrs to deliver to any funeral home in the nation) Ditto for the marker, vault, urn etc. The savings are a minimum of 50% over what the men in black charge. Oh, they'll tell you 'those aren't as nice' but it's not true. All items are identical to what they're selling. Just waaaay cheaper!

[@roberthillsjr.3729]

My mother in law got money each year from intrest paid on what she paid for the funeral. Got money back so to speak.

[@MedusasFeelinSalty]

You can buy a casket at Costco now

[@Pr0ph3cy-k5z]

@@MedusasFeelinSalty Walmart as well.

[@Pr0ph3cy-k5z]

I did contract work at a main casket mfg company. It will make you SICK knowing the mark up cost. During my time working there, the company had around $50 in total cost per casket. As an employee, you could buy one for $200. The same casket was several thousands $$ from the funeral homes!

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@MedusasFeelinSalty Plus etsy will have a guy handmake them.

[@jyenderman848]

Thats ridiculous to pay so much wasted money on storing ashes in a mausoleum. Your ashes should be planted with a tree. A tree that can never be removed.

[@patrickflores3676]

all you need are the memories of a loved one..but everyone is different.

[@amydelong7972]

When my grand dad died the family gathered to spread his ashes at the farm he grew up on. Sadly it was a windy day. 😕

[@AndysRetailExploration]

+Alana Weaver shut up bich it's no fun ._.

[@amydelong7972]

Personally, granddad had a dry sense of humor. He would have laughed at us breathing in his ashes. :p

[@briesthoughts2261]

I think it was kind of distasteful to say that people create a false reality. Everyone deals with death and grieving differently. Taking Gramps for one last ride doesn’t mean that the person doesn’t understand the finality of death. I wish they had discussed how water cremation occurs. It says a lot when a funeral employee prefers a green cremation.

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

True, people will always do whatever makes them feel better, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn't adversely affect someone else.

[@floppig7457]

What is green cremation?

[@pettyofficer30]

I have always been curious about the chemicals the dead are pumped with and the water table. Those chemicals will eventually seep into the ground.

[@linanicolia1994]

it is very archaic to bury people into these coffins.They take for ever to degrade and waste precious land that could be used for a more constructive mean. Everyone should be cremated.

[@DianaPhoenix]

We all eventually seep into the ground or the water, unless sent into outer space.

[@thomassimpson95]

lina Nicolia Not everyone wants to be cremated, that's their right of choice.

[@acgillespie]

+J Evenden ...What do you think is getting everyone to be so damn stupid? now you know

[@thomassimpson95]

acgillespie But I really don't like the idea of being cremated! Why can't you accept that?

[@Threetails]

I hope that when I die, my family doesn't use silly euphemisms like "celebration of life," or bury me in a building that looks like an Apple store, or do something silly like take my remains for a ride with a seat belt on. I'm not even a big fan of cremation. It's too sanitized. Just put me in a wooden toe-pincher coffin with no vault, give me a simple, traditional headstone, and plant a tree next to me so my carcass will be good for something.

[@lamusico7746]

i want to be cremated and mixed with my garden and be a tree

[@odiliinao9746]

+Si Ilich-Crawford actually you are. several companies nowadays promote the idea of make your ashes "food" for plants, you can even choose the type of tree or flower you want to be

[@DowneasterProductions]

LaMusicero when I get when I die I'm going to be cremated and made into 2 shotgun shells then we have my friend shoot picture of my ex

[@landmarkflooringvancouver3660]

My father passed May 2018. We had him cremated. He sat in my home office shelf until July. Had those who wanted to meet us at a pier over the ocean in our town.. we took turns saying something, then we put Dad in the ocean. Everyone said nicest "funeral" they'd attended. With some money my dad left I tòok everyone to a nìce lunch. All together including the actual cremation it was about $1500. Not for everyone but I'd recommend it to anyone.

[@roberthillsjr.3729]

My brother died the day before his birthday and was cremated for 1500 Dollars. Illegal but daughter put his ashes underthe top of ground near our parents graves. He is with out parents till the day of rising.

[@lisalynnn]

I lost my baby son and cremation was the only option because of how premature he was. We have his ashes and we don't think "it's only his ashes". That was kind of hurtful. I know everything has an opinion, but no one should belittle another person's feelings.

[@axelvlll]

I highly agree with you, I have my cats ashes who passed two months ago..I still treat his ashes like hes still here..that is my cat he is the ashes now, its not just ashes its something we love..he really hurt me by that and I'm kinda glad I wasn't the only one.

[@JensSchraeder]

Your son is in heaven because he is without sin and innocent. You will be reunited someday. I pray you believe that.

[@jmagic32971]

scared to death of dying..

[@pjb7yt523]

For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is life eternal through our Lord Jesus Christ Romans 6:23

[@unimatrix0605]

ILL TAKE DEATH---ITS LESS OF A HASSEL....

[@DianaPhoenix]

And He doesn't care how you get there!

[@hylianwarrior8961]

Christians are too cowardly to accept the reality than when you're dead you're gone forever so ya'll make up bullshit stories about some nonexistent old man making you immortal. No thanks I'd rather face the facts.

[@wrekker69]

The wages of sin may be death, but what are the hours?

[@AngeloHerrera-ow3po]

“When I die, put my ashes in the trash bag, I don’t care where they go, don’t waste your money on my gravestone, I’m more concerned about my soul” -NF This video, admittedly, brought some tears to my eyes. My dad always jokes around and tells me “when I die, get my ashes and spread them all over Jemez (our favorite camping spot) he wants to be back with the nature he was so accustomed to. Sometimes we think he’s just kidding around. But I know this is is true wish. And he can bet I’ll be the one doing it. I love my dad and could never imagine my life without him.

[@ΦΡΑΝΣΟΥΑΖΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΙΔΟΥ]

I don't care how my body will end, bcz it will be worthless. I am expecting a new glorious body as Christ promised to anyone who believed in Him.

[@carsyncamp6846]

I think I'm gonna be cremated. I don't do bugs not even in death.

[@Luis-xr6ec]

Carsyn Camp LMFAO

[@jamesclifford5074]

U mean drugs?

[@swizzleproxi4810]

Hilarious statement 👍😆

[@bc5891]

5:35 complete rip off - $28k - $49k = justification because its a popular spot. Complete insanity with funeral homes! I'll just have someone spread my ashes on the beach of Jamaica

[@Jethro.980]

10:36. That would suck dying 3 days before your birthday!

[@BrenaMagdalena]

three days before his 90th birthday no less!

[@Acvasq]

I couldn’t do that job. Being around death all the time would bring me down. Respect to those who can do this and take care of folks in need.

[@YogiTheDoggo]

Follow Facebook.com/cremationinformation for more info on crematories & cremation.

[@ghostofmars83]

Very interesting...

[@darrellpaxton6096]

Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust I came from this Earth and Return I Must 😇

[@jpamusher]

Why not cremate the body naked? That way the ashes just are of the body itself. Leaving a shroud and clothes on mixes impurities in with the deceased`s ashes.

[@mcearl8073]

What difference does it honestly make? They are ashes regardless.

[@jpamusher]

I think most people just want the ashes of their loved one and not other things like the coffin.

[@mcearl8073]

+jpamusher you're probably right, I just don't see much of a difference personally. I wouldn't want a whole wooden casket being burned but clothes or a cardboard box is fine.

[@mcearl8073]

+jpamusher also it is considered to be undignified to be either buried or cremated without something covering the body.

[@erickg3508]

this is nothing... In Japan after someone passes if they are of shinto religion they burn all the person's belongings... I saw that in the middle of Tokyo guys burning all the beautiful furniture of the dead one. Can you believe that shit? burning the whole house furniture?

[@robertm2000]

If you look at memorial societies cremation is available for MUCH cheaper rates than this piece says. My parents and I have both been members of the People's Memorial Association of Washington and the cost of a cremation through People's Memorial was around $700. It is now up to $750 . People's Memorial also has their own funeral home which can supply full funerals from less than $1300 to less than $3,000 for the fullest burial. This is an excellent group to deal with for funerals. I was a night attendant at a funeral home for three years and their main tactic and point of pride was to upsell anyone who wanted a funeral that didn't cost the full price - about $11,000- to $15,000 thirty years ago! - to that full-cost funeral.

[@kimjimenez8752]

thank you for this information you gave me more information then i knew before........... it made me wonder

[@usa7530]

I don't know how I got to this site 😢

[@rboudville]

".......I believe in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting Amen."

[@HippieWitch1967]

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low. - David Bowie

[@swizzleproxi4810]

Who wants to live forever? by Queen

[@nocilantro_gack]

Sprinkle my ashes on the dancefloor at The Stud in San Francisco..I can dance the nights away forever at the best bar in the world...

[@guerlinesaintlouis4471]

Thanks for that wonderful footage...now I am in the know.

[@ItsDanny91]

I'll be washed, shrouded and buried. No coffin

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

Why bother with the washing? It isn't going to matter anyway! But I have heard of that with some religions.

[@tsheavenly]

So do the ashes come out half human half cardboard box ?

[@tinasuper]

LOL I thought the same thing x]

[@thenightpack6704]

i dont know good question

[@ToFierce2handle]

No, the remains are called ashes but what remains after a funeral are actually just certain parts of big bones. The bones are put in a sort of blender called a cremulator and crushed to a fine powder.

[@dinagiolo3091]

VIDEO TELLS YOU NOTHING ABOUT HOW BIO CREMATION WORKS.

[@kathywest77]

Mix my ashes with soil and plant a beautiful garden with all my favorite plants.

[@genegene002]

There was a guy in my area that was a owner of a fireworks factory and he had a great Idea for when he died! They loaded his ashes into firework mortal shells and put up a really beautiful display and this spread his ashes far and wide in his community. I myself love fireworks and put off a bug display every year. I really have been thinking about how cool that would be to do.. Im not sure how much it would cost compared to a real funeral but I am sure it is expensive. But everyone knows me and knows even as a kid I loved fireworks and model rockets. It has just been an idea that went through my head a few times,

[@chloe7046]

I'll stick to being buried, thanks

[@iamnotsupposedtobecute142]

Kloe Gilliam Same

[@wall48291]

Kloe Gilliam me too

[@JuarezDerrick]

And take up space for what reason?

[@teresas8173]

And rot away.... yuck!

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

@@JuarezDerrick You have a point there! I wonder, do people really go to a mausoleum, stand by or beneath a slot on a wall with a name on it, and grieve? I don't know, but I wouldn't. The more I think about it, the more cremation makes sense, but then what, I guess they just keep your ashes there if no one claims them. I've seen a picture with metal boxes of ashes on a shelf somewhere, but I can't remember details. But the more I think about it, I think ashes scattered on a river or the sea sounds nice. I know a lot of people do that. You're just gone anyway.

[@dixiewife47]

Thats it, a celebration of life. I know death is a time of mourning and grief, but it can also be a time of reflection of someones life. I cannot afford to bury my husband if he passes before me. He doesnt believe in any amount of insurance money as far as final expenses, What little i might have, would have to be for a cremation.

[@anitapotts8664]

to be absent in the body is to be PRESENT with the LORD if you believe in CHRIST JESUS.when you die your SOUL immediately goes with JESUS. The body is only a shell. YOUR love one is no longer in their body

[@contrastej]

We only borrow the bodies during our stay here. It becomes useless when we leave. I strongly agree with you, a dead body is an empty shell.

[@anitapotts8664]

yep yep

[@ericanderson4701]

And putting SOME of the WORDS in all CAPS makes what YOU say that MUCH more CORRECT.

[@anitapotts8664]

hummm

[@savefuneralcosts]

An thoughtful informative documentary, and interesting to see that water cremation has been popular in the USA for sometime. Hopefully it will be here in the UK in the near future.

[@seriouslyyoujest1771]

Part on the mantle next to my father-in-law, Minoru. The remainder in the rock garden among all of those beautiful rocks I collected over the years, and grandma arranged. What a beautiful resting place regardless if the property remains in the family, past the next two generations that follow, I’ll lie next to those rocks I collected.

[@xXHarunoSakuraChanxX]

I'm not decomposing. This is what I'm gonna do.

[@DianaPhoenix]

Eschew entropy, you betcha'!

[@thomassimpson95]

Pia Dawson You don't have to decompose. You could be embalmed, that's where decomposing is stopped. It's what I'd want.

[@SariennMusic73]

@@thomassimpson95 embalming just slows the decomposition process. You'll still bloat, gas up, spit open, seepage, slough off skin and muscle and decay into bones. Hundreds of years later your bones may or may not be there still. Depends the quality of the seal on the vault and casket and how good the embalming is. But aye, the body still putrifies, seeps, swells and then fully decays.

[@thomassimpson95]

@@SariennMusic73 Well whatever, but I'm not keen on cremation, I would prefer to think of leaving my body behind like an empty shell, besides body burial has a more positive outcome as you get a gravestone of remembrance and you don't get that with cremation.

[@hahakakaoskdbbd9648]

U still alive? Lol

[@DianaPhoenix]

What the hell! I intend to be cremated & have my ashes buried under an apple tree behind the family home. My children's father's ashes are buried there, & my family will be near by. I really don't want the worms fighting over my remains, but by then it won't matter, will it?

[@tspiderkeeper]

Diana Phoenix You will not be there but be on the other side with loved ones and the Lord

[@auruminsanity1600]

Diana Phoenix When we are dead, our five senses are ceased.Therefore we can't sense anything that we used to FEEL and enjoyed while we were breathing.Our brain can't interprete what is around us.So, there is no fear, no pain, no suffering, no end of suffering, no interferences, that is Nirvana.lol.

[@auruminsanity1600]

Diana Phoenix So enjoy your life, there is no bigger business.

[@katiryon7809]

+david barrett do you have any idea how science works? ashes are a great fertilizer. who are you to judge what she does with herself after she's gone. op I would be glad to have an apple from your family's tree.

[@threeamigos842]

hes a weirdo . its obvious

[@peachylady]

I find it so disgusting how much these people make off of grieving loved ones.

[@Tr1Hard777]

+Natalie A i agree

[@jocelynesarabia207]

well i mean there not gonna do it for free either. someone has to deal with the deceased and that is where they come in. This is not an easy job, not alot of people can handle the emotional stress that comes with doing this type of work. the same goes with the men and women who work to dispose of dead babies after abortion. i mean they get paid for doing that too and that job is horrible. somebody has to do it.

[@peachylady]

I'm not saying that it is easy. When it comes to embalming, which is extremely disrespectful to the body itself (teeth are pulled out, mouth is sewed shut, blood drained, eyelids glued shut), a coffin is involved. Many funeral homes try to sell you outrageously priced coffins because the cheap wooden one is pitched with the attitude that if you buy that one, you don't love that person enough. People don't want to look cheep when it comes to honouring their loved one, not to mention, they usually aren't in their right mind and can make rash decisions due to stress and the main fact they just don't want to deal with a funeral in the first place. Those are the type of people in the death industry that I am talking about.

[@peachylady]

MEC316 Lol, everything has gone over your head.

[@callmeyourmajesty09]

Agreed

[@littlebobas9656]

I have seen so many videos about US mausoleums deserted and in ruins with remains still interred. So that salesman in the mausoleum at 6:05 when he says... "I think we would all be surprised to learn just how many people retain the cremated remains at home....but then if nothing gets done with them and that person should happen to pass on too, then what happens? What cremation does allow is procrastination."..... ...its just as risky to inter ashes in mausoleums as it is keeping them at home. The fact that mausoleums and cemeteries are private businesses is what makes it a risk.

[@markjones5856]

My grandfather also had an smile on this face about cremation and he wanted to be cremated so we did and we spread his ashes in Columbus Ohio

[@EphemeralProductions]

we are all a skull and skeleton. someday that skull and skeleton will be in the ground. or burnt up like this. it is sad but it is a reality. when someone dies their body goes to nothingness. gotta live the best we can while we inhabit that body, before it goes away forever

[@rybread3568]

I rather like to be creamated instead of buried because when your buried your flesh slowly rots and worms come in. but when your creamated you can choose what u want. to be scattered or kept. I like mine to be in a grave as a plated book showing my whole name. my signature. and how I died and who I was. that is a badass cremation.

[@arkansastrash320]

+Rybread :3 Worms cannot get in a sealed casket! Unless its a cheap one without seals and the likely hood of earth worms is not much!!

[@arkansastrash320]

I do not believe worms develop after we rot ! Do you have info that proves that? I never heard that before ever!!Now back in the 1800 when caskets were made of wood and rotted worms could enter.When we die our bodies never roam any where we are just dead thats it. But our souls will be with GOD and I hear its so wondefull you will feel love so strong and light and its better than any happiness you ever feel alive!!! There is a book a brain surgeon wrote called proof of heaven.I want to buy that book he died in surgery and was dead and came back and told what he experienced its so great !!

[@shaheedalishabazz5103]

I can't lie, these funeral Directors voice is very comforting. ........I started getting very sleepy......WTF!!!

[@kimjimenez8752]

living in different states... it has become a subject as I age.. my son wants me to be his diamond, my daughter sort of agree's but they don't want someone to mistake me and steal me.. but again they said I would never leave them if I was the diamond they would not take off.. that makes me reconsider so much.. I used to only want full on burial but after mom passed.. this is a whole new concept and if my kids talk about it that is all I want is them not to forget me and their wish for me to be part of them

[@forgive89]

Cremation is awful. It's like you watching a loved one burn in hell. Could never let a loved one burn and them grind their bones up after. What's funny is there is no way to get all the bones and ashes out from the previous cremation so you are getting "who knows"ashes mixed in with your loved one!

[@DianaPhoenix]

Does it matter? There's no more you!

[@forgive89]

Just watch a family member of yours, it's part of the biz but I hate it. Respect all opinions.

[@DianaPhoenix]

forgive89 Dear Forgive89, my family will not view my remains as they are being cremated. They will be spared that trauma. Who would want to look anyhow? As for my ashes being mixed with others, this doesn't matter to me. As I posted its not me any longer. Just one more finite human off to the great "spirit in the sky" or wherever. I respect your opinion as well!

[@hylianwarrior8961]

Hell doesn't even exist, stupid. Religion makes people so ignorant.

[@DianaPhoenix]

HylianWarrior89 You are very rude, but its easy to call names anonymously,isn't it? You do not know me nor my beliefs. I'm neither stupid nor ignorant. Religion/philosophy can give a person hope, and can help them to be kinder to their fellow man. If misused of course these beliefs can also cause great harm; I know this, so I try to take the best and leave the rest.