I love New Zealand. All the more reason for me to move there one day.

Today I learned that New Zealand apparently still has hangmen.

@@wasd____ 😂😂😂

That was beautiful. Exactly what I would want my children to do. Spend that money on something that makes them happy.

Prepaid my cremation, 20 years ago. I'm sure when my corpse is ready to go, the funeral home will be sorry the 2002- rate money is all they will get.

But what is honestly scarier then a corporation.... Just think about Nestle.....

I really don’t understand what’s so scary about dead folk anyway. They’re just that……dead people. They can be a little disconcerting at first cos it’s pretty self evident that whatever made them, “them” is gone, but if they’re family, theyre family.

@@catzkeet4860 it’s like that saying goes “dead people don’t bother me, the living does”

@@catzkeet4860 I think some of it is because so many americans have never really seen dead people. Once you've spent time alongside your dead loved one during a wake, or been in the room when people are very ill and dying, dead people stop being so scary and more just part of life. The reason for that is so long and --capitalismed-- complicated. I like that--if they're family, they're family. Although when the bodies get oozy it does start to get a little icky.

You got that right!

And that by far is the most important thing. Often times we hear the stories of the big bad this or that, but rarely hear the good. I worked for SCI for 6 years and I've worked for small family funeral homes as well. They both have good and bad within. Thank you for sharing your experience.

So sorry for your loss But grateful you found a Real Person to help you through the worst of days!!

😂 UBER STORY AND 🫵👍 EXCELLENT TELLING. SADLY " LAMB FUNERAL HOMES HAD HAD A GREEDY SON-INLAW DISGRACED A FINE FAMILY VERY INTRESTING STORY 😮

I used to do customer service for a variety of huge megacorporations. It was always nice to find out you were working with an outfit that would let you treat their customers like people, instead of wallets with legs. Nice, but not typical.

I had the opposite when my Father died and I needed a viewing and then a cremation. They were pushing a fancy expensive coffin on me while I wanted to rent one. So I ended buying the cheap one and getting a lot of flowers. Still mad about it. I think renting coffins would be a ok thing for a viewing as what contamination can occur to a already dead person?

He has a page on Wikipedia. I just looked him up. He really was a war hero, had all those children, took down the funeral industry, and did so much more before passing away in 2016 at the age of 93. A life well lived!

both of them work together its not one or the other. the wife handled a lot of the business and the father did a lot around the house. don't be so brainwashed that makes you think a healthy marriage is being a slave to a man JFC feminism has done a number on young women!

I’m going to be singing Revenue Enhancement for the rest of the weekend. 😩😖😡

@@soliloquylove2115 Caitlin nearly did ...

For sure! 3 minutes of that "song" at the end was the cherry in the weird sundae.

If it's not the theme for the movie, we've all been robbed.

It on a constant play list in my head now with benthams head

A lot of respect to your minister. It breaks my heart to hear these businesses taking advantage over people who are going through one of the hardest times of their lives. Thank you so much for sharing this. I hope you and your mother are doing well.

I'm glad to know there are clergymen who help folks.

My dad did not want to be embalmed but he wanted a viewing. Funeral director here in North Carolina said we are Not supposed to have a public viewing without embalming...so we had a private viewing "family" only. The people who wanted/needed to see him could come.

A lot of people don’t realize that embalming isn’t required by law it is just a tactic used to make an extra buck and of course the grieving family is going to get it because there not thinking straight.

You know, it's pretty ballsy to claim that embalming is a legal requirement. Are Jews and Muslims all being buried illegally then?

Wtf, did they not get fined or anything? How's that happening?

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If you have a prepaid arrangement with a local funeral home and they get bought out, your contract is not with the new owners. They do not have to honor it. Not sure how they can do this, but that’s why burial insurance may be a better option.

That’s so messed up 🤬

The families should get a full refund.

Wait, loewen or okeffe?

So you were glad for the Aunt? LOL

Everyone going to make plans for a loved one's funeral should take a nosey aunt along too. The more hard-boiled the better. Or arrange it all via a pre-need form, where you can check the cheapest category in the comfort of your own home. My church has a form for members to put their choices in writing. If you don't have a nosey aunt, look for alternatives.

Aunts Anonymoys or #0800-RENT-AN-AUNT

@@nollnollett If you don't have a nosey aunt, ask your neighbors. One is bound to have one they can lend you.

I second that emotion! Honestly, I’ve learned more of my own culture history in the few years I’ve followed YOUR KZfaq channel than in ALL my years in education (and I’ve been teaching since the 90s!)👊🏾✊🏾😍

What did I learn? I learned this is another example of black Americans making WP wealthy …yet again and by choice this time. It’s an interesting story but not one I’m proud of.

@@Chaos-Retribution Mr. Gary gets a percentage of that money....thats how he became so wealthy to begin with. Usually if you get a judgement over 1 million the lawyer gets 33% which is a super nice chunk of change. It was not a matter of Mr. Gary making some random white person rich....it was a matter of him adding a cool extra 50 million dollars to his own estate.

At the end of the of the day it is about respect - for those gone and those that remain. Peace. I have done in AUS a 'BARE" funeral for me when I go - cremated my Parents and the waste of money is extraordinary.

@@Chaos-Retribution While this is true, I do feel like the nuance of the fact that the Loewen Group was actively preying on and denying black communities services and the O'Keeffe funeral homes were willing to serve black families is a factor that turns it into a bit of a minority "rights" landmark. There's obviously no way to tell what the demographics of who the O'Keeffe served or even that O'Keefe himself wasn't rascist (realistically, it's possible for the time frame he grew up in, though the fact that he sought out a black lawyer and *didn't* deny services to minority families in a notoriously segregated industry are both very possible points to him not being) just because he did allow and help black families with that dignity, but the fact that he could have, and no one would have batted an eye because it would have been not just culturally acceptable, but also actively culturally normal means that he likely was genuinely providing a service to black families. This point frames it as the very mixed jury fighting back against people still trying to oppress them in their most vulnerable moments, as *they* were ultimately the ones to knock Loewen flat on his ass and destroy a corporate conglomerate trying to fleece them at their most vulnerable. While it may not have been a perfect scenario for blacks winning, perfect should not be an impediment to progress, which I personally think lets this stick as a landmark case for minority rights, because it specifically let black voices be heard and have an impact on their very real futures. It's the kind of affirmatory case for the long passed civil rights movement that needs to happen for said movement to stick where black people can start using their voices without being impeded by the law, in this case to say "We want services that give us the option to choose them of our own free will that will treat us with human decency, regardless of whether or not an individual may choose to use." That doesn't sound like much, but it's just a reality that that wasn't a luxury afforded to many PoC barely even a generation ago in the time frame of when this happened. Not being perfect doesn't mean that it wasn't progress to be happy with.

I have a feeling that in the (hopefully) distant future when my dad passes away my family is going to do the same thing. He's always shopping around for the best quality at the lowest cost especially when it comes to big purchases. Wouldn't be right do not do the same for him 😅

My parents have explicitly told me 'no no, cheapest option'. And I've told my husband that too.

WHAT A POWER MOVE!!!!!!

Cheapest funeral for my dad was $5000. No embalming no makeup. They didn't even trim his nails his beard. They combed his hair clothed him ..closed his mouth. We had a private viewing...graveside service my cousin the reverend officiated. The plot was also $5000. But he pre-purchase this about 3 months prior to his death.

I am using bunker crude for my cremation. They won't let me use buffalo chips, so that is the best I can do.

The word on the street is that Jamie Foxx will be singing his own version at the end of his movie...

Currently listening and it is way funnier than I was expecting 😂

Better than anything either Ke$ha or Rhianna ever put out. BOOM!

Sounds like Kate Bush 😅

Now if she could stop making literally everything about race.

Such a great song.

So inspirational

Why did I listen to the whole thing!? 😂

@@kimc4832 it is honestly so incredibly bad.... lol someone is tone deaf

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Now I'm crying. I am so sorry for your loss, but blown away at how wonderful and caring that family is towards their community. I am so happy your family was able to benefit from it, and hope you're all doing better now.

wow! that's actually amazing 💜💜💜

@@ladygrndr9424 Are we sure, I mean really sure, that it wasn't a helpful female who hoped to be the future wife?

That awesome they did that and so valuable. Truly ahead of it's time too, that shows a real awareness of the importance of mental health.

It's great to hear that good people in society occasionally win against exploitative corporate profiteers. But hearing from the people those heroes have helped makes such stories even better. Thanks for your comment.

Thank you for sharing your perspective on this event. It sounds like a great scene for a funny cartoon haha xD :) 😁

Thats very cool!

That is amazing.

It's stories like that that remind me of the days before corporate greed. Awesome. There are places out there. It's our jobs as customers to give our money toward those who don't always put the all mighty dollar first. I'm not against capitalism because just like the attorney proves anyone with the drive, ambition and determination can make it up from any beginning environment. I do however think there should be a cap of some sort and that some of the funds of a large corporation like the Canadian company should go to providing great benefits to the employees and maybe even employee buy in.

@@whopiddledonyourposttoasti175the days before corporate greed? Corporate greed has existed since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution

That's good she wrote something. No one in my family wants to talk about anything, leaving it to the kids which has been ok but...ugh. I'm making my mom write something when she gets older I ain't dealin with my crazy family

This was an incredibly thoughtful thing for your mother to do, like a last protective gesture to make sure you weren't taken advantage of, she sounds like a card

i think your mom was one sharp cookie. good on her for leaving you solid help for what was to come. one last "i'm the mom, i take care of things" for you to remember her by.

I have talked to my adult son about my wishes for after I die, and have written them out, since I subscribed to Caitlin’s channel.

I honestly think I would absolutely LOSE it on someone with the audacity to ask "What would your Mother think about you asking for the cheaper caskets?" as I was trying to plan her funeral arrangements.

I love that so much, so cool!

Actually it's "Scottish"..."Scotch" is an alcoholic beverage!! I love the idea of becoming a part of a reef...but I'd rather my ashes not be in an urn...just toss me into the air and wherever my ashes land...that'll be my last, forever home....

@@superpredator4096Scotch-Irish is what they call descendants of Northern Irish Protestants in America (who in turn originated in Northumbria and are just as likely to be of English heritage as lowland Scottish 🤣). We don’t use the term “Scotch-Irish” in Ireland or the UK to describe that ethnicity so we’re not very familiar with it but it is correct.

@@superpredator4096 as an explainer, Scotch is a Scots word, Scots being a Germanic language related to English spoken by people in the lowlands of Scotland. Not to be confused with Scottish/Scottish-Gaelic which is a Gaelic language native to the Scottish highlands, which originated in Ireland and is similar to the Irish language.

I'm scotch Irish and I'll drink to it

@@superpredator4096 not you trying to actually someone and was wrong. 😂

Yaaaas! Inclusivity!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ironically O’Keefe probably bought all the funeral homes in his town and created another Monopoly.

@@HumbleWordsmith there are 3-4 (if not more) independently owned funeral homes on the MS gulf coast

Yes! Thank you and your community for taking care of people and their loved ones 💗

And charge a fortune.

"This is Netflix, you're green-lit!"

I'd like to nominate the Tri-State Crematorium in Georgia. Granted, they weren't selling organs... just dumping all the bodies in the woods to save money on the electric bill. Years and years of just tossing bodies in piles. 🤢

I agree!

​@@nobody8328 yes I agree with both ....but I'm from GA this would be awesome

Hot damn, I agree. Or just a good ol' docuseries on alllllll of these funeral industry scandals.

Yes, predatory. The expenses have become unreal. We know that those that died during covid in NY who had no family to claim them, were buried a more natural way. As it was before President Lincoln preservation for travel knocked on the money train of greed. Money has taken over the minds of the people, whether you have much, or none at all, the suffering remains alive in one form or another.

My grandfather was buried in a veterans cemetery, my gram although not a veteran was buried with him. Why did this woman not know that? >> Tom's Ukrainian/American wife Pam

Why wasn’t she buried next to her husband?

I got in a bit of trouble for something similar before as well. I told a pre-need appointment that assuming she met the criteria (not remarried, not convicted of a capital offense, etc.), she could also be interred with her husband. She signed with us for a service, but I was pseudo-reprimanded for not giving the cemetery sales team a crack at selling her a plot at the cemetery we were associated with. Yeah, no. I'm giving options. If they want a zillion dollar funeral with all the bells and whistles, great. If they want a direct cremation, that's ok too.

SCIs trash

Wish my job would enhance my revenue

Hey uncle ! Yes Caitlin reach out to my uncle he’s the new owner of the funeral home

Looking up videos of the glory days. Haha.

If you want to get in contact with her, the best way is through her website! I believe you’ll interact with her publicist first, but considering she made a video about you, I’m sure her publicist would quickly pass you along to her!

Yeah. It lists your username with your comment, but hey I'm Josh Gibson.

Hi, Jeff!

I’m so sorry you had to go through that.

Good.

Caitlyn really needs to figure out how to add Revenue Enhancement to Spotify so we can favorite it and make sweet love to it sometimes.

I think she struggles with it - I mean who doesn't want to make money but she does so within her moral boundaries.

Epic.

She committed to that. You have to admire it.

It was so annoying but I had to listen to the whole thing. Kind of like when a parent has to sit and listen when their 8 year old has a "consert" at school.

@@SpookiCooki It could have been *MUCH, MUCH* worse! My little brothers 'favourite' song when he was two was 'It's A Small World After All'. *BUT* he would only sing the first bit, "It's A Small Word" *ENDLESSLY*. Repeating it until he was ordered by my parents to stop singing & shut up!

So happy for you! Death education is so important!

Revenue De-Enhancement

I had to pay $2,400+ for direct cremation for my dad. He wasn't even put into an urn. (He passed in Richmond, Virginia). My heart dropped as I was still a college student with two small children to raise. I am EXTREMELY embarrassed to admit this, but I had to use my student loan money to pay for it.😞

😡 Most of us have long been angered by the actions of big oil, while being completely oblivious to the greed of "big funeral"! 😁 Seriously though, I haven't yet had to go "funeral shopping", but I don't look forward to it...

@@a.j.9797 Don't be embarrassed, the loan money is there to give you something to live off of while you go to school. That's a completely normal expense to have and a valid use of your loan.

I never thought I’d encounter another Calgarian on this channel, I double checked your comment to make sure I didn’t read it wrong! I’m sorry you had a shitty experience with them, they sound vile.

Hello fellow Calgarian! I didn't realize MaCinnis and Holloway was a chain funeral home. Learn something new every day, and now I know to stay clear of them, that's so gross.

@@tinymittensdesign there is a few in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge….and their name is connected with another funeral home. I can’t remember who right now….

When we explained to a local provider what we wanted when our time, he was so shocked he gave our wishes he let slip a industry name, you want a "Shake and Bake" . Ask for a cardboard box for a urn. Good luck, best wishes.

My husband spent 35 years as a well known, very well respected Funeral Director. He even owned his own removal & embalming service for quite some time servicing 18 funeral homes in a huge Fl County. He managed a couple different funeral homes as well during his years. He was managing a funeral home at one time when out of the blue a man came in (later learned he was from SCI). Without prior notice, without time or ANYTHING, he said to my husband, "gather your things and leave." Can you imagine the shock, the embarrassment, the hell he went through? Crude, rude, nasty operational strategies. I heard so much from so many after that about how SCI cruely treated people in the funeral industry. Thank you for sharing this informative and very interesting story. My husband has sadly since passed on. And was not yet my husband during those times but I knew him and of his incredible integrity.

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YIKES !!!😮

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Messy.

Dignity is SCI. Everything she’s saying applies to the independent “family owned” mortuary I’m at. They were bought by a smaller investment group and I’m leaving and going to SCI/Dignity.

As an aircraft mechanic who has worked on both aircraft types I was going to point that out. Nevertheless a very well done episode.

Think offshore

A 737 didnt sound right - that's a BIG chunk of change, not that a Gulfstream is a Cherokee either though.

Yup, that photo ain't no 737.

It's so weird that companies are allowed to overextend themselves like that. It's basically a corporate Ponzi scheme, thinking if they get big enough, make enough acquisitions, that they'll make it all right in the end. In the meantime, the CEOs and board are paying themselves the big bucks and leaving the company itself struggling.

Omg what a great story to share! Made me giggle too. 😂🤣

I think she should add to her bio that she has trans species fans because either way seems like the ferret is a fan!

Hugs to you and to the O’Keefe family. May your friend Rest In Peace.

Loved Adam. Miss him terribly. His family is making a tribute video on him if you have pics or videos.

@@sokeefe001 Hugs to you. That is very nice that you are making a tribute. Your family member from this story is a badass and rocks 🙏

Why refer to a Mortuary a 'Home' -- The dead do not need a home as they are MORTO Which is where the correct word MORTUARY comes from. As does MORTGAGE----Because one is paying it off until 'one' is DEAD - CORPUS .. The reason why Latin is no longer taught ate school is to keep people in a dumbed down state of mind so they do not have a full and comprehensive knowledge of the language and where the words they use originate from. .. When I was a young student and started school at age 4 Latin was taught along-side of English -- and later another language was compulsory. I was already speaking 4 languages before I started school and by age 5 I was speaking 5 language - Latin being the fifth - So I took the fifth at age 5. Then added other languages over the latter years. One one knows two or three languages - the others are easier to learn as languages share words as they all have a common source - particularly Indo-European languages - that can be traced back to India - Persia and Latin - with some arabic ovelap. I would recommend that you and everyone purchase a Latin Dictionary and study the words - and your English will 'vastly improve - as will the knowledge of what the words you use actually mean. -- Most people today have no clue at all - They were programmed to be ZOMBIES. Good luck and goodbye. Regrettably I do not have time to read replies so better that everyone study any subject rather than waste time replying -- I have better things to do.

This is what I do, now. I specialize in the exact same thing. God bless your dad, may he rest in peace.

That’s how corporate funeral homes sell funerals though. Like beanie babies. “Don’t you want mom to have this beanie baby? Doesn’t she deserve it after a life of 90 years” so you buy it out of guilt lol

Funeral home aren't Beanie Babies. Hah the more you know. I always seem to learn some thing new when I watch Caitlin's videos. ❤

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I totally snorted over that line... 😂

A classic Caitlin line if I ever heard one. 😆

As a minister for 35 years, I've dealt with numerous funeral homes in four states. In every case but one, funeral directors are kind, compassionate, highly ethical people who are deeply entrenched in their communities and definitely want to be a comfort and not an added grief to families. If I had another life to live and couldn't (for some reason) preach the gospel, I would train to be a funeral director.

@@chrisstinnett8183 Hi Chris, Yes, funeral directors are as a rule, kind, moral, ethical, and compassionate. It is so easy to be predatory toward grieving people. That's why I admire them so much. By the way, the LORD called you to be a preacher of the GOOD (GREAT?) News. Please don't stop.

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I am sorry. 💔 Please take care of yourself. 🌍💚🌼

You sound like a good son, I’m sure your mother would be grateful

That kind of sentimental “my mother would have been pleased” is what this industry’s monetizers/profiteers count on. How you treated your mother in life is what matters.

@@dolinaj1 I guess there always has to be one.

@LegalEagle

This made me giggle. Thank you. 😂

Might as well call the funeral home ahead of time if u attempt that drinking game 😂 pre need huh?

Hahaha I had the same thought, made even better by you beating me to it.

Oh my goodness... I am so glad she treated you better! I hope that previous business gets new management or goes out of business!

States cremate bodies for free. I have no intention of spending a fortune to have a body I'm done with treated better than it was when I was living in it.

@@do9138 Ohio only does free cremations for indigents after their body has remained unclaimed for 6 months or more depending on how long each county coroner wants to hold them. FWIW My wife and I plan on being cremated. Many funeral homes have some sort of "rental casket" that can be used for viewings before the body is taken to the crematorium.

Dunno how you expect to get repeat business with an attitude like that.

Excellent....just excellent.

A "smack right in the middle" Laura!

Big same, here! xD

Same!

You are a brave person!!!

Your parents are awesome. I’d love to go to the Body Farm myself.

Yep, donating mine to science. No coffins….. just a free cremation when they are done with you!

Be careful donating body to science. You never know where it will end up. I just watched a video of a vet who donated his body to science and his body ended up in a hotel in Portland, Oregon the subject of an autopsy in front of people who were non in the medical field paying to watch them cutting into him.

@@mossyoakmom8880 I'd be fine with that as long as I wasn't embalmed. Heck, I'd prefer being grilled at a barbecue for people willing to pay to try human flesh and then have my skeleton wired together and displayed in someone's home rather than be embalmed. There's nothing I hate more when it comes to the treatment of my corpse than the thought of being embalmed. Ideally I'd like to be buried with a tree or some other plants over me, no casket. But I'm not sure how much that would cost or if I'll have any relatives who'd be willing to pay for it. I'd settle for being cremated and my ashes buried with a young tree, but I'm fat enough that cremating me might be problematic for the crematorium involved.

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Hey, Mustbe, I know of at least 10 huge takeovers of companies here in the USA that Canadians came here and took over. It happens on both sides and has been growing since the early 2000's, basically it's now common practice. I see it as a melding of both our countries with businesses. I support having Canadian companies here. Also, I love Canada and Canadian people :-)

The canadians have bought most of the paper and lumber mills and are half the reason why lumber prices are so dang high.

Personally I find the scariest thing about Canada is how your government has become so huge, that people always vote in favor of the government to protect their pensions. It's insane how many people work for the government. And then when Canada you guys have the nationalization of stuff like maple syrup, what, is that true? And all sorts of other stuff, and it really has hurt Canada

@@claudeyaz Canada is a crony capital extractive wealth empire with a socialist policy overlay. Bread and Circuses to keep the folks from revolting.

​@@theq4602 Good ol American protectionism and tariffs have a great deal more to do with it. Plus since y'all keep buying you're driving up our prices locally.

my condolece to you ma'am.

Hi, David. My name is Christina and I'm commenting from my husband's account. I'm so sorry that your mother is ill. My family and I will pray for her tonight. God bless you both.

David, I had the same experience. everyone around me didn't, but I had the benefit of her making death normal. Be hugged, you aren't alone.

I second that!

I'm glad you've helped out your mom and the rest of your family by preparing for what's soon to come. Planning gives many of us solace and I'm certain that no matter the strength of her illness, your mom feels the same way. I wish you peace and good luck.

It helped me too! Hugs for you and everyone else going through this 💙

It reminded me of "it was rats":)

Yes! she is a HOOT! very Clever.

That final song started playing while I was asleep. I almost destroyed my phone trying to make it stop.

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So glad The funeral industry these days…..doesn’t take advantage of those who are grieving! Just buried my mom a few months ago after two years battling cancer, the night before she died she pulled me close to her hospital bed and told me she wanted a “simple quiet funeral and not very expensive”…. We had just buried my grandmother two years before and she saw how big of a nightmare that was, and instead wanted a little bit of money she had left to go to a few different charities. Two hours after she died my stepdad was at the funeral home…. And a few hours later he’d racked up a $27,000 bill, and it wasn’t anything extravagant or fancy. So glad the industry isn’t predatory and is totally wholesome these days. 😑😬😥

@@hullinstruments it's definitely not, that's not what I was implying. It's a shame that they take advantage of people while they are grieving. A close friend of mine died unexpectedly and when we tried to have him buried it was like 15,000 and his mom couldn't afford that much out of no where he had to be cremated and that was 5,000 and we had a small family viewing where they left blood on his hands and he was purple it was horrible. So I understand

@@hullinstruments ​ it’s terrible. And the law is set up to prevent alternatives. My dad passed unexpectedly with no insurance in 2018. I literally had nightmares about his body laying abandoned in the hospital morgue until I could come up with $3k to give the crematorium. My mom basically decided to die & passed in 2019 & she literally wanted me to just dig a hole next to her favorite tree & drop her in with a few sentimental items. I’d rather stay out of jail. So I’d prearranged & paid a plan for cremation. We’re just not a family that could afford a burial even if it were important to the deceased. Fortunately, my mom liked cremation & my dad didn’t care as long as it didn’t stress the family. I actually have a meeting with the crematorium on Monday to prepay for myself & my partner. I don’t want anyone to have to go through that stress when I pass.

Way too many funeral homes are rip off artist. I would love to see funeral homes go back to locally owned mom and pop businesses.

@@harpintn I agree 100%

The monks make beautiful caskets.

This was a really important case, and a right people have in most parts of the US that they are rarely told about. Never buy your casket or monument from a big corporate funeral home or cemetery, at least without doing your research. They mark them up outrageously.

Interesting! I've researchers and found casket makers in Iowa. (I live in Illinois.) They are also monks. It's Trappist Caskets 16632 Monastery Road Peosta, IA 52068 I'd love to go there for a tour one of these days! I'm glad your aunt got such a nice, handmade casket!

Yep, all true. The Benedictine monks had to fight in court for years to overcome the Louisiana funeral directors monopoly on selling “funeral merchandise”. We bought my father-in-law‘s casket from them, beautiful, plain, and elegant. Far cheaper than what we would’ve been charged otherwise. I felt like Walter Sobchak with his Folgers can.

Great story. I love it when the people win.

Same here. My mother pre-paid for her and my dad and when she died the funeral home kept telling me "oh that wasn't covered in the pre paid services." Seriously, the casket wasn't covered.

@@firstname7470 I’m not American so my understanding is limited but isn’t casted is necessary for the ‘traditional burial’? How can the casket can’t be included? Wouldn’t that be fraud?

I think, if you get things written out clearly in advance for pre-need (this is, in full, what will be paid for, what's covered, there are no hidden additional services, the vendor agrees not to apply a cost-of-living increase), you can then hire a lawyer to make the mortician honour the contract. You have to be really savvy to know in advance to draw up that sort of contract though. And maybe some funeral services wouldn't agree to sign such a contract.

@@firstname7470 Sounds like 🐃 💩 to me I hope you contacted your State's Licensing

My grandparents both had prepaid funeral accounts and we owed nothing. 🤷‍♀️

I was looking for this comment, knew I couldn’t be the only one who knew this family and there had to be a fellow coastie somewhere in here. Greetings from OS!

Greetings from Diamondhead (currently - formerly of Biloxi)!

Hello, fellow MS Deathlings!!! 👋🏾

Mr O'Keefe's funeral home took care of my great grandmother's funeral in 1991. As well as many other of members of my family in Biloxi.

My husband might be pastoring at Four Mile Creek Baptist so I was so excited to see this video! 😃 (And comment!)

you is good people. i like you.

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... *cries in double jeopardy *

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Wow, i salute her! How is she doing today?

What you describe is, by far, the most sensible way to handle a funeral; at least, in my opinion. I realize there are situations where such might not be possible, but it's far more sane than the expense, the chemicals used, the land use, and sadly; the exploitation that can occur in our American system. I believe this attitude is changing - largely due to people like Caitlyn - and, I hope more people become comfortable with the idea of natural, home and family based funerals and burials.

Back in the day (like the 1800s) it was simpler, with folks passing at home and caring for the dead was taken care of by the family. Then the Civil War happened... I'm pretty sure Caitlin made video about that too lol

I think this is what Caitlins funeral company does because it's better for everyone involved and the environment ♡

As an American, what you've described is what I would want and I don't know how to make that happen

@@Gilliebeany Seems like we have a new viewer! Welcome! This channel talks a lot about how to do that as does Caitlyns website. The easiest way to find info is by searching a keyword like “natural burial”.

Blessings!

I'm not good at math but isn't that a lot pregnant?

Damit, we NEED to ban Funeral homes! Where are the democrats on this? they love to ban things! its killing people! don't they care?

I think they might require a shroud, but obviously you should be able to specify that a biodegradable shroud is all you want to be buried in.

Same! Lol

My family and I are in Scotland so we don’t do embalming or any of that nonsense, and we’re very into burials being as natural as possible so I agree with you on all the points… except being nude 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ If my dad/mum/sibling was like “please bury me naked” I’d be very resistant to that 😂😂😂 as much as we all love each other, I’m not dealing with my dad’s naked body 😂😂😂

@@ragnkja a shroud would be ok, if it could have something funny on it.

@@TallulahFoxxx if they have a problem with the naked part they can put me in a burlap sack to cover my naughty bits, I'm dead I don't care.