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Subject: Walmart selling coffins
Nanheyangrouchuan    10/30/2009 11:56:48 AM
Just to change the flavor of the US thread:

"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8333198.stm"
 
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YelliChink       10/30/2009 1:23:50 PM
www.peopleofwalmart.com/
 
I wonder how much Wal Mart paid BBC to put that informercial as "news." It's Halloween for the sake!
 
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sentinel28a       10/30/2009 3:37:50 PM
It was on MSNBC too. 
 
Who the heck would want to be buried in a casket from Wal-Mart?  Geez.  Might as well just roll the corpse in the river if you're that cheap.
 
 
 
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norden       10/30/2009 5:18:52 PM
Costco has been selling them for years. Cost effective and shipped upon death (I believe) to funeral parlor. It is a nice option and saves the akward funeral home sales guy trying to put Mom or G-ma in a gucci casket. It could make it easier for the bereaved but i would rather be dropped in a mass grave naked than be buried in a Wal-mart box.
 
I imagine we could start selling our departed to the tallow plant but i guess sentimental reasons prohibit. When i die I want to be cremated and have my ashes donated to Massengil.
 
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GLaw       10/30/2009 5:24:21 PM
Anything to lower the cost of dying.  Seriously.
 
Funerals are unreasonably expensive.  I would prefer being buried naked in a mass grave over burdening my relatives.
 
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buzzard       10/30/2009 5:36:08 PM
I remember seeing a show about how much of a rip off funeral parlors are. You definitely don't want to buy a coffin from them. The mark up is outrageous.
 
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Nanheyangrouchuan       10/30/2009 10:20:20 PM
I have no doubt that Wal-mart's next move is a creamatorium.  Imagine being the greeter at that department.
 
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Vulture       10/31/2009 10:29:26 AM
well look at it this way cradle to grave services and supplies the low price way form Walmart.  OR the government saying it can do it better.
 
/remember funerals are for the living.  the dead don't bother.

 
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Nanheyangrouchuan       10/31/2009 1:26:48 PM

well look at it this way cradle to grave services and supplies the low price way form Walmart.  OR the government saying it can do it better.


/remember funerals are for the living.  the dead don't bother.


If you live off of Wal-Mart products there is no doubt you'll be in the Wal-mart oven alot sooner.  It is unfortunate that Wal-mart's ahem, employee health plan would still bankrupt the family of a deceased employee.  The high price of a low cost funeral.

And seeing as how Wal-mart's coffins are made in China, the pall bearers are likely to suffer lead, mercury, asbestos, arsenic and melamin poisoning in the performance of their duties.  A Wal-mart creamatorium would be just as likely to incinerate the operator and witnesses instead of the dead. 
 
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CJH       10/31/2009 8:35:13 PM

It was on MSNBC too. 

 

Who the heck would want to be buried in a casket from Wal-Mart?  Geez.  Might as well just roll the corpse in the river if you're that cheap.

 

 

If you mean who would choose a Wal-Mart coffin, well maybe a burial plan.

 
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reefdiver       11/1/2009 3:57:13 PM
Driveby for the day: Maybe WalMart's just gearing up for Obama/Pelosi Care...
(or if you listen to Congressman Alan Grayson - RepubliCare).
 
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