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I was just going to respond to this thread and then realised I have already done so 3 years ago. My how times fly!

gordon2007 said:
I'm going to be creamated and my ashes put into a chili pot plant along with an empty bottle of a lovely red. I've instructed my partner to eat the chilis. Upon consumption and following discharge, I'd like her to put it back into the pot plant and use for fertiliser.

Repeat process, over, and over and over again.
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What I find incredible in this advertising is how they tout that you do not have to pass any medical examinations to qualify to buy their product!!! Duh! I suppose not.
 
Julia said:
What I find incredible in this advertising is how they tout that you do not have to pass any medical examinations to qualify to buy their product!!! Duh! I suppose not.
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Very many of the relatives of the poor sods who pay through the nose for the life ins touted on tv ads will find that far from ensuring their funeral costs are covered, but that the ins co will refuse to payout due to non-disclosure of pre-existing ailments or some other detail hidden in fine print.
 
They don't bother me that much.. there are worse offensive ads out there - online betting for eg.

It must be one of the easiest businesses, scare old people into giving you money then invest it for a few years until you have to pay out, all you have to do is make some cheap ads and pay a call centre.
 
Tightwad said:
They don't bother me that much.. there are worse offensive ads out there - online betting for eg.

It must be one of the easiest businesses, scare old people into giving you money then invest it for a few years until you have to pay out, all you have to do is make some cheap ads and pay a call centre.
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I'm not bothered as such, but I find the scripts sufficiently annoying to reach for the "Mute" button.

But online betting ads should be banned, as should the ones for Crown Casino, where that good-looking sheila drags the bloke away from his friends, so he can have a feed and afterwards rake in piles of chips at the table. There should be a requirement mandating balanced advertising, i.e. show the poor sod that lost it all and has to front up to the Missus and kids, explaining why they'll be living in a tent after car and home have been repossessed.
If glorifying stupidity isn't a criminal offense, it should be.
 
pixel said:
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I'm not bothered as such, but I find the scripts sufficiently annoying to reach for the "Mute" button.

But online betting ads should be banned, as should the ones for Crown Casino, where that good-looking sheila drags the bloke away from his friends, so he can have a feed and afterwards rake in piles of chips at the table. There should be a requirement mandating balanced advertising, i.e. show the poor sod that lost it all and has to front up to the Missus and kids, explaining why they'll be living in a tent after car and home have been repossessed.
If glorifying stupidity isn't a criminal offense, it should be.
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I intensely dislike hearing what the sports betting odds are before or during a netball broadcast - the majority of viewers would be young and teenage girls and promoting gambling on sport to this audience is just plain wrong imo. Bad enough that you can't watch any sport on tv these days without seeing or hearing ads for one of the many online betting sites, they're now inserting discussion around the "odds" etc into the commentary.
 
You are right GG, what a rip off. Somebody pays into a fund for 32 years, gets a certificate stating that they are entitled to a funeral service and then that doesn't happen. I hope the courts force the Funeral Company or the Trust that it was paid into to pay.

More to the story here.

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Beryl May Turner had agreed to what she thought was a pre-paid funeral plan in 1948 when she was only 16 years old.

After making her final contribution in 1980, she was presented with a certificate stating she was entitled to a funeral service "without further payment".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-05/company-sues-couple-for-refusing-to-pay-bill-for-prepaid-funeral/5869254
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I'm not much of a TV watcher, but spent a few days watching whilst lying flat on my back in hospital recently.

So, I've got various tubes and wires hooked up to me, mouth not working, in a fair bit of pain, mind messed up by the (medical) drugs and overall quite miserable.

Suffice to say that seeing all those funeral advertisements started to really get to me psychologically after a while. Very irritating in that situation, not nice. Had to remind myself that I was going to come out of there alive.... :)
 
The funeral companies are at their worst when dealing with aboriginal people. Whilst volunteering at a community agency I saw some appalling examples of vulnerable, naive people being preyed upon.
Most of them bought policies sold door to door where the seller focused on their strong desire not to leave their family any problem when they die.

Most actually, believe it or not, bought open ended policies, ie simply signed up to pay around $1000 p.a. or more from age in their 30s, no actual funeral price quoted or date when the payments would be completed.

This meant that if they lived until, say, 75, they'd have paid around $40,000.
Trying to explain this to them was completely unproductive.
 
I still cannot see how it can cost more than $1500 to transport a deceased, dig a hole, and lower them in, and fill it up again.

All this palaver with po-faced "funeral directors" has me beat.

And those silly old bastards in the ads should be jailed. They prey on the old people watching some TV like Sunrise, Home and Away or Dancing with the Stars, or some other obscenity that passes for entertainment in Australia these days.

The exploitation of the Indigenous is further proof of the venality of this business. thanks for the info Julia.

gg
 
My dad did a couple of signage works for this funeral operator. One of his shops was just around the corner of a Nursing/Retirement home. Literally two doors away. And its front door is next to a restaurant... I think that guy went out of business soon after.

Then he later did another couple signs, this time right on the entry door, both walls, of a seniors association club.

I don't know if that's good business sense or not. It's pretty sick to me.
 
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