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[@ArihanBaroliaA]

That's why I always hide the body properly, so no one's family member has to suffer this expensive fate.

[@FlankTheGreatest]

Genius

[@richdespiseus6243]

If you use suitcases and combine them with the airlines well established reputation for never mislaying luggage, the problem should solve itself.

[@Trump2024asw]

If your hiding it your already wrong it will be found only question is when an if your alive to be charged.

[@DemonicAdj]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@ravenlorans]

@@Trump2024asw Not if they are feeding Animals the remains.... by grinding it up into a Meat Slurry, including the bones....

[@Bluestar1079]

Pro tip. When dealing with funeral arrangements, bring a neutral third party with you. Like a distant family member or a friend who barely knew the deceased. The funeral home is going to throw all kinds of numbers and options and extra stuff at you. Stuff that you don't need at all. They are the ultimate upsellers. The third party person will be the one that says you don't need 18 bouquets of flowers.

[@SheilaRough]

When my mom’s brother died, my dad went with my aunt & cousin to the funeral home to make arrangements. Knowing his sister in law didn’t have a lot of money, dad kept trying to steer Aunt to the more modestly priced caskets, but cousin insisted on a very expensive casket with inlays of the Last Supper on it. Uncle wasn’t even very religious. Thank goodness Uncle was a WWII Navy veteran which entitled him & Aunt when her time came, burial in a military cemetery, which saved them some money. Fun fact: in some European countries, you only “rent” the cemetery plot for about 10 years or so. After your time in the ground is up, your remains are dug up so the plot can be rented again. My mother passed away recently. She had a prepaid cremation plan. All we had to do was come in & sign, giving the funeral home permission to cremate her body. He did try , halfheartedly, to upsale on a fancy urn. But when we explained that we will be spreading her ashes at a later date, he stopped trying to upsale us.

[@davidhamm5626]

That is a very good idea, thanks.

[@katrinaumana2127]

He left off that 100 years after your death they dig up your grave & remove your bones & reuse the grave. They did that in Paris 6 Million peoples bones are in the catacombs. So just cremate.

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

I can't count the number of times I've seen people standing outside holding signs, beginning for donations to bury someone. Like we're supposed to fund perfectly good money, that could be used for the living, to prop up some strangers family legacy and social status. Spiritually speaking, it's better if your corpse is not preserved so that there is no magical link between it and your spirit.

[@arokh72]

Good idea. Or do what I did when mum passed last Nov. Put the grief aside for a short time when dealing with funeral arrangements, and keep in mind they make used car salespeople and real estate people look like angels.

[@ezg2000]

Why does Roger seem like the perfect person to sell cementery property. It's like the perfect job for him. 😂

[@SovereignStatesman]

Because his jokes are dead from old age.

[@marylivingstone9815]

Awwww… he will live forever!

[@Squirrel-Chaser]

Disney should hire him to redo Haunted Mansion

[@smeagol7247]

He is perfect he reminded me of a corporate thug and the story when I went into a costco in New Zealand and they had a 1 meter by meter pizza and they sell coffins right next to where you sit down to eat the pizza. A bit of foreshadowing on there part we need a if supermarkets were honest trailer they charge a fortune here just to buy what you need

[@raymondcragg7282]

Roger could sell anything I am sure

[@aussiebloke609]

1:56 "...just one wrinkly statistic among tens of millions of boomers who are currently rushing the banks of the river Styx like it's Normandy on D-Day." What an awesome line. Thanks, Roger - I need to take a note of that one! 👍

[@musicmamma]

Now THAT is a line! Lol. River Styx...

[@JumpCutThis]

More evidence that Boomers do, in fact, ruin everything.

[@ADMNtek]

What a line haven't laughed that hard in a while.

[@benvoliothefirst]

I LITERALLY DIED. ... figuratively

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

That made me crack up! Thought he was gonna add another joke about how much business the Grim Reaper was doing ferrying all those people across 💀💀😈

[@ThePsiclone]

can we take a moment to appreciate the shine on Rogers shoes? You can always trust a man in well shined shoes.

[@petersarubbi]

Like Andy Dufresne? 🤔😁

[@DemonicAdj]

If his neck is high, I'll trust him.

[@vidiupload4174]

I like the way he ties his ties; it exudes trustworthiness.

[@singemfrc]

@@petersarubbiI was just gonna say, how often do you really look at a man's shoes?

[@petersarubbi]

@@singemfrc Roger did like he was told, buffed those shoes to a high mirror shine.... 😁

[@kalstonii]

“If you have to ask, you cant afford it” the line that created the current debt crisis 😂

[@CamaroAmx]

My twin brother was donated to science because my parents had no money. He does have a grave marker at the local cemetery.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

You'd have to be a natural born hectomillionaire (hundreds of Megadollars) from a top old money dynasty before you wouldn't have to think about the cost.

[@mousermind]

*can't

[@jabber1990]

@@CamaroAmx I plan on donating my body to science not because i'm poor (even though I am)....but because I think its more useful

[@MrEscape314]

@@dominicfucinari1942 thank you for saying hectomillionaire and not centimillionaire

[@timmi59]

What Roger’s been trying to tell me ever since I found this channel, is that everything, and I mean everything is a total scam or ripoff. Kind of a bummer. 🙁

[@Chris.Pontius]

Welcome to capatalism.

[@CamaroAmx]

That’s how capitalism works. Everything is a scam (even if it didn’t start that way) to make money. There are dishonest practices in every industry and it’s been happening so long that it’s completely acceptable (and mostly legal) as part of doing business. No one has every made millions without taking a lot of that money from people who aren’t rich. Usually by taking or selling something that costs very little (service or product) and charging a fortune for it. And marketing it in a way that makes society feel they either really want it or even just flat out need it. In some cases it’s something not really needed but due to marketing and lobbying, it becomes a requirement to have by eliminating the alternative (usually the cheaper or free one that was used just fine for decades or even centuries).

[@dominicfucinari1942]

I wonder what role the thin framework of regulation has to do with it. The economic system has frequently felt monopolistic, ever since Milton Friedman had his way with it.

[@TheRealLesterGreen]

And the crazy thing is socialism is the biggest grift of all.

[@dominicfucinari1942]

@@TheRealLesterGreen Which is why what we're asking for is actually different from socialism.

[@BLACKICEXlV]

I love how Roger is like this trillionaire man who owns many businesses and he's way of profit is honesty and it works

[@vukkulvar9769]

Or he's just too rich to need to lie

[@mousermind]

*his way

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

He forgot to cover the biggest risk of all: Having your loved one's corpse rise up for the zombie apocalypse. Cemeteries are a waste of land.

[@oentrepreneur]

​@@EmeraldEyesEsotericwhat?

[@Bob-yh7ir]

Parents have it set and told us, No funeral and no burial. Cremate, Place ashes in an empty jar of peanut butter or whatnot, dump said ashes at specified locations, throw the jar or container of coffee away and move along with life. Affordable and no worries about future issues with cemeteries being moved or built over.

[@NoName-ik2du]

That's what my grandpa did. Had the ashes in some weird resealable Oreo container (found out they were Grandpa when I went to eat an Oreo and just found a bunch of ashes in the container). Then we all took red solo cups and spread his ashes around various places. Last place we spread them the wind picked up and blew all the ashes back in our faces and mouths. Grandpa's last laugh, I guess.

[@source3nergy203]

Nice

[@akirak1871]

Definitely. I've seen people put themselves through hell planning a funeral and burial. All the damn expense, decisions, arrangements... Screw that. I could get all philosophical about it, but it just seems silly to obsess over the physical remains of the body.

[@jmurray1110]

Although cremation is quite bad for the environment But you can put the ashes in sone glass work and that’s cool I hear didlos are a popular resting place

[@michaelbedsole970]

It would seem to me that in the case of a build over moving the graves would be the cemetery owner's responsibility and burden. I can't see how they could pass the buck (literally) on to the surviving family.

[@nickvandernet]

"Millions of boomers rushing the bank of the river Styx like it's Normandy on D-Day"! Oh gosh. Roger you had me in hysterics. This has got to be one of the best lines ever written!

[@GladysAmelia]

Completely agree!

[@TehPwnerer]

They're finally meeting their brothers

[@davidwhitney1171]

A neighbor of mine, whom I'm friendly with, has reminded me many times that funerals and the whole funeral industry is all for the living- the dead don't care all that much- although it's a good business to have- you'll always have customers...

[@djpuplex]

I work in hospice 99% of people nowadays are cremated.

[@toxihex876]

The biggest funeral agency in my country is named Karizma, and yes, it means charisma. It about sums up the adequacy you can expect.

[@deanstanley2125]

When my grandmother passed the hospice called to say that she expired. I know it's business but I took offense at the word expired. She was my grandmother, not a carton of milk.

[@katrinaumana2127]

Yes both my dad & my brother were cremated. I want to be cremated when I die.

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

Somehow, where I live, it has become common practice for people to stand outside with signs begging for money to bury someone.

[@tylerrandolph6193]

Is it true that extra size people can take up to 10 gallons of diesel to fully cremate?

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

My sister in Germany was told that she had to move her 2 babies' remains from their graves in the city because it had been over 25 years and she doesn't live there. She's always gone and kept their tiny plots neat and tidy, but "they're taking up room". To say it upset her was an understatement.🤬 So yes, graves aren't always permanent. However, my parents were cremated and their ashes were put in the ground with a small marker above. The crematorium holds Gran, Nanna and Bampa, too. Fortunately the place is pretty huge and many people take the ashes home to be buried or scattered elsewhere, so it's not likely to get overfilled anytime soon. My sister-in-law was, according to her wishes, scattered in her favourite woods. 💔 I've asked to be buried in a cardboard coffin in a field with an oak tree planted on top of me, so I can do more good in death than I've managed in life 😆

[@jameswoodard4304]

Depending on your jurisdiction, burial on private land might be illegal.

[@DemonicAdj]

Green burial is a thing I recently learned about. It's basically a shallow grave in the woods in a biodegradable coffin. At least that way all those nutrients go back into the soil and they're not just gooping up in a concrete-encased corpse box until they pave it over or move the corpse.

[@mystuff9999]

Just heard about it from my dad who already decided this was the way to deal with his remains. Great concept 👍

[@mitcharendt2253]

I'm doing that for my remains

[@crunchytoast6007]

Just don’t let anyone stumble across it because if a body is found the police will go through the records and charge you with improper disposal of a corpse

[@kyoyameganebereznoff]

@@crunchytoast6007Green burials are still typically done through a funeral home

[@john1701q]

I did that with my sisters creepy boyfriend. In fact I help all her boyfriends.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

In Europe it has long been practice for renting the spot for a set period then moving the bodies to mass graves. Also a few rock stars have been evicted from their graves due to loud parties held after they were buried.

[@traveller23e]

Once all that's left is bones, no reason not to move to an ossuary. Or however it's called, since my spellcheck is complaining.

[@STho205]

In New Orleans, Bay St Louis and Biloxi many family graves were "oven" graves. The body is places on a slab above ground in a little mausoleum with a door. After a year (or when next needed) the door is opened and the remains are pushed back off the ledge into a mass pit to mingle with the ancestors.

[@PatrickKniesler]

@@STho205 This is the best way to do things, IMO. Oven crypts probably only cost the same as a single "typical" burial to build and can be maintained easily. Finding a place to let you do this that doesn't already... I don't know.

[@STho205]

@@PatrickKniesler you could do it on your own land if your county doesn't prevent you. I won't try it in a suburban yard as that would be rude to nrighbors and future owners, but way out in the country on family land maybe. However if that, burial space for one family isn't a real issue

[@keishamariedouglas]

After doing all the work for my grandfather when he passed, all of this is so true! I just saw recently here in Tampa that a burial ground was sold by a real estate investor and the families are so pissed! Its a cold cold world.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Why not like skeletons mind

[@ProfessorJayTee]

1:58 "...Rushing the banks of the River Styx like it's Normandy on D-Day..." Your writer deserves a bonus for that line.

[@Spicy007]

"Death is like tax evasion, we all do it" 😂

[@Zebra_3]

Roger also has a tax service.

[@BioSoldier53]

"currently rushing the banks of the River Styx like it's Normandy on D-Day" That line was amazing lol!

[@pamelamays4186]

Roger's evil laugh. Loved it! Even got to hear Roger sing a little. Well played Roger, well played! "Don't Fear The Reaper" also would have been a good song.

[@rabbijoe316]

No way they could afford to play that song. Would've been perfect, though.

[@avvn9331]

There's a Roger for every situation 😀

[@blaze556922]

When I say it... "Too harsh." When Roger says it... "Man this guy really gets it."

[@DeciviousDan]

Looks like Halloween came early and I love it.

[@whitehorsept]

I feel this video would have been perfect for Halloween season 😂 🎃

[@crunchytoast6007]

Wdym, it is Halloween season! Pumpkin spice time bitches!

[@whitehorsept]

@@crunchytoast6007 2 months before it's still not the season. 3 weeks fine. 😅

[@TheFictionMan]

"You never know when death might come for you." "Is that a threat?" Nope, it's a promise.

[@ItalianStallionTV]

Do if "Vacations were honest" every vacation ive been on was more stressful than being at work 🤡

[@wankertanker1813]

That's why they say you need a vacation to recover from your vacation. Or...arrive home a day or two before work resumes. Heck. Let us just get rid of work. 😉

[@ItalianStallionTV]

@@wankertanker1813 absolutely agree!

[@jabber1990]

because you let it happen

[@DirranProductions]

Hence why my every vacation consists of locking the door behind me and maybe a few hikes.

[@crystalclear5397]

Dude you so freaking Nailed It !!! I f in knew this my whole life! And as always, no one believed me. My own family pulled this on my twin sister who killed herself. Years ago our Grandmother had everything set and ready for Her (burial plot and all) yet we were in a different state. The family there played endless games believing in all that materialistic money hungry CRAP! That money hungry family just wanted the pre payed for burial for Themselves so they don't have to pay (even though they were already loaded vs me scraping by) and me and my sister were the Only real family that truly Loved the Grandmother vs her damn money in which they truly wanted. I got her ashes in the same box the cremation people put her in originally and decorated it Myself with my sisters own fabric and things that were dear to her. Others may laugh but whatever, I'm a spiritual person and actually glad I got her safe with me vs that materialistic nonsense.

[@WhiteApeMA]

Ha! Love it. Love how you literally can't even die to escape this s**tshow existence. Roger never ceases show us how terrible it really is. 😅

[@elveganocordobes6708]

Cremation is the way to go these days. My mother passed away 12 hours ago so this video suits me like a jacket.

[@TimHunold]

Prepaid cremation and buried at sea cost me 2k with Neptune Society. I die and I'm covered.

[@veravera2535]

Good evening sir, I hope you're fine. Please I need financial help

[@richdespiseus6243]

Dude, if 2 grand means so little to you, I've got some magic beans ...

[@TimHunold]

@@richdespiseus6243 average budget burial costs are over 10k. You leave that on your family. 2k is a responsible thing to do as an adult.

[@TimHunold]

@robertnope1993 glad I read the forms, plus I'm dead. I also spent 300 at legalzoom on all my will, trust and directives. I actually worked for Legalzoom when the package was created which included forms for my cremation

[@richdespiseus6243]

First day on the internet?

[@BrieyaSilverweb]

And this is why we cremate and keep at the house in a wood box we decorated before their death. And no, going natural with death care isn't more expensive. Under $3k, especially if you take the time to invest making your own cremation container, and not bother with a casket for cremation.

[@mundocpc]

Grandma was worried about this, so she paid quite a lot for a permanent place to store the ashes of all family members. It is in a crypt of a nearby huge temple. I always found it quite irrelevant, in the sense that when I die they could well compost my body, or make protein bars with it, who cares. Funnily, because I don't really care at all, I guess that when I die I will go for the default option and spend the eternity with my family, all our ashes packed together in tiny boxes. Charming, we will all wait for our resurrection in ZIP format.

[@SanBrunoBeacon]

Cradle to grave; there's always some ghoul lurking in the proverbial shadows, licking their chops in anticipation, ready to profit from other people's misery.

[@pauldehayes1898]

A wood-chipper in the backyard is beginning to sound like a better proposition more and more.............🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@achievecollege]

This is by far the best Honest Ad you've done yet. Bravo!

[@gamingnerdgirlz]

My mom has a spot in this “filing” cabinet, but it cremated remains, and their is flowers. It is nice. ❤ my grandma has out lived my entire family and we all are like “impressed”. My mom passed in 2014, brain cancer flakes came back but she when peacefully. She had the cancer removed in the 90s. Glad she is at rest in heaven BBQing and partying 🎉. 😊

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

flakes?

[@traveller23e]

Wall graves when done well are actually really nice.

[@SYH653]

@@StrangeScaryNewEngland I'm still agog at the grandmother outliving the OP.

[@MartianAmbassador69]

Laughed way too much at Dick Pyss 😂

[@michaelharris8598]

This makes me appreciate my grandmother's option. She had her ashes spread at sea.

[@yellowshirtfellow]

You could also place your corpse in a tree or donate it to science, but I don’t know if there are down sides to it though. Great video as always, keep up the great work!

[@marielanomade]

I intend to donate my body to my provincial police's bodyfarm. I never got to work in science or for the law, but it's never too late!

[@becky2235]

I don't think you can be out in a tree

[@MorningAndEveningStar]

Thank you, Roger, for reminding me that I cannot escape the ruling class, even in death.

[@LoLCoachGabi]

Can confirm i was buried last week

[@seekthevisceral]

Roger looking dapper as usual. :)

[@Pigmedog]

the automatic chapters on this are hilarious

[@xcw4934]

This vid literally dropped hours before my partner's grandmother died. Timing *chef's kiss

[@juanatenco453]

In México dying is a bureaucratic hell, most cemeteries are so crowded that most of the time you can't even set walk on one without steping on someone's grave. Not to mention that there are crazy people who call themselves witches or wizards and if your relative's grave is not well protected they'll perform all kinds of crazy rituals on them, bury some magical crap with him/her or they'll just steal some bones to sell them as materials for rituals.

[@DanaTheInsane]

No crazier than the person who is there for the burial who claims to be the representative for the creator of the universe and communicates with them telepathically, or as you call them a "priest". Same crazy, different hat.

[@LadyAxe13]

@@DanaTheInsane Dana, that comment deserves a goddamn MEDAL!

[@pamelamays4186]

My older brother passed away a little before this originally aired. It gave me a much needed good laugh.

[@CarsYouCanFix]

Come on Roger! Do if Mechanics were Honest!!

[@CarsYouCanFix]

@trixareforgoats6962 Oh man I feel your pain! That's why I made this channel to help out people like you to fix your own car!

[@gregeoryl]

One of the problems is honest mechanics don't get repeat business. People would rather pay 1500 for a shopping cart of part and regular return trips, than 700 for labor and finding a bad connection, that fixes it for good.

[@Seki1987]

I've been an avid watcher of these for years! I want to thank you for changing my viewpoint of the world!

[@paineoftheworld]

It's spoopy Roger a month early! Added: Dog Green is contested!

[@gearheadgregwi]

Rushing the River Styx like it's Normandy on D-Day. Gen-X snickered a tiny bit.

[@Relaxedplaythroughs]

I think we need to change all cemeteries to look like the one in cyberpunk 2077 its small but well laid out and looks like a memorial. Would literally take up as much space as two houses depending on the layout chosen

[@jabber1990]

I do honestly believe that's going to happen regardless

[@Rickt2445]

Roger is absolutely amazing. You can tell he has a lot of fun making these videos.

[@DragonFae16]

I don't know how Roger manages to make learning the truth about industries both fun and terrifying at the same time. It's quite a skill. Schools should hire him to teach high schoolers sex ed. Teen pregnancy rates would nosedive.

[@MorningRose370]

"Hello, class. I'm Roger. And I'm here to explain the facts of life to all you hormone-crazed newly pubescent students whose sex education has until now consisted of prime time TV sitcoms and Pornhub."

[@scotia_man_steve7145]

Roger, I find myself thoroughly entertained by your videos, but I also find myself thoroughly and righteously angary form the things you expose

[@afwr209]

That's sealed it. Next hint of an illness I'll be on a one way trip up a volcano 😅

[@RatedRMario21]

Roger is really making the "Pay a dude with a pickup truck 20 bucks to dump the body in the woods" option really appealing

[@pamelamays4186]

Suggestion: If the childcare industry was honest.

[@janeentumbao8690]

Oooooo. That's gonna be a good one! Like how most of the staff hates kids, smoke weed out back, let kids go hungry and not change them if they wet themselves. Or if two kids fight, the staff place bets, grab some popcorn and hand them brass knuckles. Or if a kid gets bullied, they tell the kid to suck it up and never tell their parents. Yup. Good stuff!

[@princessmarlena1359]

🌞 “Rule breaker! Rule breaker! You are BANNED from the daycare!”

[@dimoslaros724]

This was ironical and dark but true, good job folks/team. And as always, keep creativity and content going.

[@CamaroAmx]

That was hilarious. The person who was buying body parts on Facebook marketplace may have been Jeremy Pauley. He got arrested a little over a year ago for buying and selling body parts on Facebook. He usually bought unique and deformed parts for his museum. Apparently one of the people he was buying from worked at morgue. I actually went to high school with him (he was a year behind me).

[@Barbara-lu7ch]

It happens a lot Check out the book BODY BROKERS by Annie Cheney Even US military gets bodies for crash dummies under suspicious circumstances.

[@snakefang1123]

Wasn't he proven to be innocent? I remember multiple articles covering him and I remember him agreeing to do interviews. I actually have him on Facebook and he's a pretty nice guy all things considered when I've spoken to him.

[@CamaroAmx]

@@snakefang1123 I’m not sure. I haven’t really looked into it since the story broke. I knew him a little back in high school and he seemed nice, but was over 20 years ago now.

[@CamaroAmx]

@@snakefang1123 apparently he is entering a plea deal in order to get reduced charges. He is naming names of his supply chain in order to get the charges reduced to “transportation of stolen property across state lines”.

[@snakefang1123]

@@CamaroAmx Oh that's interesting. I also saw he's opening a new store soon, that will be really interesting

[@Godric_71]

The "Open House" sign pointing to the hole was hilarious.

[@bou222]

Great Episode! Love your work! Keep it up Crew!

[@FrecklePower]

💗🎀 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 🌸 🤍𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓵 🤍🌸𝓿𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓼!🎀💗

[@JeremyLeePotocki]

Actually there are some states were if land is zoned as a cemetery it can not be rezoned for residential nor commercial. However double and triple stacking & relocating at that same zone could be okay to a degree (like if it's too full). Also if it was never zoned prior then there could be a loophole to that rule. Check your state & local laws if your worried. In my hometown we have a large piece of land in a very busy/profitable part of town. There are a lot of people that want it however it's a poppers/executed criminal graveyard (there is no sign or even tombstones) so no one can buy it nor rezoned it. The State & Local Government will not allow it.

[@mitcharendt2253]

I once heard about 'air burial' it means being fed to vultures after being tossed off a mountain

[@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield]

Yeah I think some sort of religious order has a ritual of putting practioners corpses on a tall tower a ways from everything else ( I think it's sort type of monks?) Specifically for the benefit of sort of easily "circle of life"-ing it cheap and cleanly (except when suddenly a body part falls, crashing wettly from the sky.... awkward) specifically for the vultures that may have some kind of spiritual significance to them. Learned about that from interest in a band called Twenty One Pilots. Fun facts am I right?😅

[@charlescook5542]

In sky burial they don’t just put the corpse out, it’s usually in some mountainous or rocky area, so you have to pay someone to chop up the body so that nothing remains to start some disease issue.

[@theelaconic]

"After Grandma's gummed her final Werthers" was the most underrated joke I've ever fucking heard.

[@rf159a]

Roger could sell snow to an Eskimo.

[@KCCardCo]

I used to work at a cemetery. I dug graves, worked in the crematorium and in the mausoleum. I was always honest about the inner workings of our organization. When digging a new grave you had to be careful to not break the vault in an existing grave and yes it happens and guess what? If a vault breaks on an existing burial, most of us do nothing about it. It only becomes a problem if that particular grave ever becomes a removal or as you people call it an exhumation. And guess what? chances are it will never become a removal as after many burials the families never come back.

[@zlpatriot11]

If roger is doing my eulogy, I'd put in my will to have him rant for hours on how we need Rodger and how capitalism's greed to get money even when in death. Rodger knows what we need.

[@mousermind]

How the hell do you spell Roger's name correctly the first time, but screw it up twice after???

[@richardcranium3579]

Greed is human based. It’s not the result of capitalism. Socialism is the ultimate example of greed…”you have more than I do so I’ll get the government to take it from you and spread that wealth around to make life more ‘equitable’ “…….. that’s to the bone greed.

[@milcahreyes5287]

Everything is Greedy

[@petersarubbi]

"That was a long time ago right?" (Maniacal laugh)... We're so innocent...😳😱😆

[@megancharland5269]

Ask a Mortician is an awesome channel, she does lots of lovely videos on the inflation of the funeral industry.

[@Drew-bc7zj]

One of my favorite KZbin channels, but I noticed she hasn't put anything new in 4 months! 😿

[@KCCardCo]

As a former gravedigger, asking a mortician isn't the same as asking a gravedigger. The funeral home and the cemetery are two different concepts and businesses. I never met a mortician who dug a grave or opened a crypt. When the mortician is dead and gone and the funeral home is closed, the cemetery will always be there in perpetuity.

[@davidalearmonth]

I love how integrated Roger's businesses are! He's a modern Robber Baron!

[@animn7386]

Roger could definitely part time as Grim Reaper😜

[@Shicksalblume]

Good thing we're figuring out alternatives like human composting and alkaline hydrolysis.

[@epa316]

At least THESE roommates and neighbors will be quiet.

[@blazinvenus3914]

Dam with all that exciting info sure makes me EXCITED for my time sounds brilliant!❤

[@LostPeopleOfEarth158]

My husband worked as a grounds keeper and grave digger in a small local cemetery when he was in high school. His fun factoid was that the grounds owner can resell your plot to another family if they can't get ahold of any living family to re-rent it. They do give it like 120+ years to let your descendants die off. This is fairly uncommon but they can do it if they're running out of room. Who's going to be mad about it? People born nearly half a century after your death? From what he told me they don't actively do this but they can do it. Which means bigger, more busy graveyards probably are doing it. I also know they lose track of graves because they were digging a hole in a family plot and dug up a baby that died nearly a century ago. They knew it was in there somewhere but not exactly where as her marker had fallen some time ago. They did not tell the family. Just reburied it in the same hole.

[@LostPeopleOfEarth158]

@@ConontheBinarian fair enough.

[@Drew-bc7zj]

@ConontheBinarian I'd want to have a peek. 💀

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

He forgot to cover the biggest risk of all: Having your loved one's corpse rise up for the zombie apocalypse. Cemeteries are a waste of land.

[@Meghnaaad]

WTF

[@tarlankasra]

*ancestors*

[@charlespittsjr604]

Roger can sell everything cant he ? I was so happy to get new episodes of these . They keep me laughing.

[@MartinQuinteroBelman]

I hope Roger is doing fine and dandy but if this was his last video, clap them. Hands, clap them hands clap them hands. What a way to go out! Peace!

[@apatsa_basiteni]

🤣🤣😂😂 That ending was perfect, reminds me of the coroner in Final Destination.

[@diosoth]

Even a basic cremation without service, where they stick the body in a cardboard box & the ashes in a plastic storage box, can be over $2000 to run an oven for a few minutes. But you forgot to mention the death certificates- theoretically cheap per copy, but you'll need loads of copies to notify banks, utility companies, Social Security, credit card companies, the credit reporting bureaus(which you have to do to prevent someone from stealing the identity of the deceased!)...and they have special printing on them that makes it impossible for 99% of photocopiers to copy them without giant VOID markings all over the copies, so you're likely adding a few hundred extra onto the cost just for sheets of paper. I know someone who died here last year. $2400 for the cremation + certificates(no service) & an extra over $200 for the ambulance to transport the body from the house to the coroner. And I think an extra $200 for an urn from Amazon after the fact because that 2K only got a plastic box with a snap-shut lid.

[@tow.JanWinnicki]

What a business this industry is! I’m dying to know more! Serwus!

[@Support_Ad_Blocker]

"Crapitalist hellscape." That sums it all up.

[@thenamesianna]

This reminds me of a cemetery business in my homecountry where they put billboards on the roads with puns about death like "a gift to die for" or "it's so hot it's deadly" .

[@MzShonuff123]

“You can evict my grandfather?” Girl, that’s the whole basis for “Poltergeist” 😂😂😂😊

[@Phlegethon]

My great uncle who was a surgeon dug up recently deceased corpses in China, he contributed a lot to the understanding of surgery in modern China today and saved countless lives, and no one was hurt in the process. Well emotionally maybe.

[@fcm3d]

We just turned grandma into a diamond.

[@Honest_Ads]

The ultimate family heirloom

[@aoedelunarei329]

Roger do Nursing homes next !! Lots of things you could tear apart

[@millersam07]

I normally love these videos but this one was SO inaccurate. I work at a funeral home. 1. Yes you don't technically "own" the dirt. You have a legal right to be placed there upon your death. The cemetery is responsible for maintenance, and accepts liability if someone fall and hurts themselves on your family's plot. Bc of this you also aren't responsible for continuously paying taxes on that plot. Moving a cemetery is EXTREMELY difficult to do, and involves more legal paperwork than anyone realizes. Graves in the US actually have a huge amount of protection. No you won't have "roommates" unless you choose them eg: husband and wife in a double depth cemetery plot (not in the same casket, geez). You will have "neighbors" people buried in plots next to you, unless you pay big bucks for something private, or your family buys multiple spaces so people can all be together. Cremation is typically cheaper than burial, and you can choose to keep the remains, scatter them, or place in a cemetery (or Buddhist temple if Buddhist). You can preplan and prepay for everything, and depending on the company you can take your funeral plan and even cemetery plot with you if you move. Many funeral homes and cemeteries are in the same"network" so if you move from CA to TX you just switch your plan to there, and choose a new plot at the TX cemetery (only paying more if you upgrade). These are just some of the innacuracies in this video. I encourage everyone to do their own research, and talk with their local funeral home. Legally they have to give you a general price list, which shows plainly EVERY potential charge.

[@millersam07]

@robertnope1993 quiet possibly, but honestly there is a lot of little details people don't know/think about. When I sit down with a person to do an arrangement it can take apx 2hrs. Even if they know what they want, bc we need to go through a lot of details, and people have a lot of questions. Each funeral is unique and personal to the family, and unfortunately "shocking" things are more click baity. I acknowledge that terrible things can happen, just like in any industry, and I certainly don't deny that things can get expensive (you didn't think the 1 ton giant granite statue carved in your image was going to be free did you? Lol. Yeah it looks cool to you, but it's not required, just something you chose to have and chose to pay for.) I just wish this particular episode was more accurate as most of the reason my meetings are 2hrs vs 30min is bc people aren't informed and don't really want to talk about death until someone has actually died.

[@graysonwagner1855]

Every potential charge, yes. Overly priced, sold normally during a grieving period. I laughed once for a delivery fee to cremation facility, $150. The facility was less than 20 feet from.where the deceased was currently being viewed.

[@arokh72]

"Rushing the banks of the River Styx like it's Normandy on D Day". I'll be using that one myself :)

[@shekool18]

This is morbid AF! Halloween is in two months. Too soon Roger. Lol

[@Widespread-Panic]

This makes me feel so much better about the fact that my father's ashes have been sitting in a box next to my bookshelf for the past 11 years.

[@Sojoboscribe]

I'd REALLY like to go with something like a Tibetan Sky Burial (where they feed your body to vultures to get it back into the food chain) but I think those are illegal in the US (too much risk of spreading diseases to the wildlife.) Those mushroom suits sound like a nice idea, but I have to imagine some of the bones will stay around a long time, potentially upsetting future people who dig there (In this day and age, I doubt anyone will just let those trees they plant over them stay in place very long, in a few years, they'll want to yank them up and either put someone else in there or convert the land into some other purpose.) I've heard of a sort of cremation alternative where they actually freeze dry you and then pulverize you into something like instant coffee, which sounds a bit more environmentally friendly than cremation (no wasted fuel or smoke, plus the body must lose quite a few useful nutrients in the burning.) Donating one's body to science is always an option, provided the medical school has some eco-efficient way of dealing with whatever's left over after donatable organs are removed and/or medical dissection has been done (from what I have heard, relatively few medical schools still like to use real skeletons for anatomy lessons so they'll be rather more left over at the end to dispose of than there used to be). I basically just want something that leaves NOTHING left, no body, no ashes, no memorial stone nothing. I'd actually prefer it if I didn't even live on in the MEMORY of anyone, if my leaving left no impact whatsoever and it was as if I had never existed.

[@halsneed6136]

To fade into oblivion is such a grim concept for most people, but I actually share your dream when it comes to death.

[@Nisa4444-h1v]

You can donate your body to a vulture farm in Texas to be eaten there.

[@jamescaron6465]

After my wife died, the chaplin from the Hospital came to me for words of comfort. He was a good man and although I was inconsolable, he did his best. I thanked him and when he got ready to leave he said "This might sounds harsh, but please shop around for the cremation and arrangements. Some of these places will try to pull the fillings out of your teeth". I thanked him again and that is what I did. $2000 for cremation urn and arraignments versus one place charging $8000 for the same thing. My wife was very practical and hated waste and if I spent $8K I think she would have blown the top of that urn off. So yes, get a friend to help if you are unable, but spending more doesn't mean you honor them more, it means the funeral home just got another caddy.

[@DownWithBureaucracy]

If I get old and think I'm close to dying, I'm just going to wander deep into the woods to die. They won't find my body in time to charge anyone for it, it'll just get eaten. Possibly while I'm still in it, but that's a good trade to save $30k

[@HO-bndk]

What if, by then, there are no woods with secret places? What if you end up so decrepit you can't even get out of bed?

[@DownWithBureaucracy]

@@HO-bndk I'll go out on one of those ridiculous cruises and jump off the front of the boat

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

You forgot to cover the biggest risk of all: Having your loved one's corpse rise up for the zombie apocalypse. Cemeteries waste land, and turned it into a cursed thing of spookiness and horror. I don't want to contribute to that.

[@DarknetDude]

In someways, death is a release and a relief. To be free from life and all these annoying, earthly burdens. The thing that fucking sucks is the transition.

[@extropiantranshuman]

that alice in wonderland outro made me laugh so hard - I started coughing. Roger's not even alive and he's still kicking it - profiteering in eternity!

[@lotsaspaghetticodejr.6488]

My plans are to have my body donated to "science". A few corpses go toward universities for students to learn from. In extremely rare medical cases their skeletons or tumors might be put on display. If someone has an unfathomably rare genetic disorder it might be put on ice forever as it is studied (ice of course being metaphorical as that would destroy the body). MOST........ Go to military ballistics testing.

[@loriki8766]

😮

[@mcawesome4150]

”death is like tax evasion, we all do it” 😂

[@reanimationeas342]

If Homeowners Associations Were Honest

[@MultiTomcat67]

This sorta shit is why Caitlin Doughty of "Ask a Mortician" is so great.