"Afterlife" real estate is expensive I have just looked into the high cost of dying, even when you are not being scammed by undertakers. (This site also mentions other scams including the lottery scam I almost fell for the other day). According to Working Carers a burial plot can set you back anywhere from $1,000 to $13,000, grave digging $500, a basic pine coffin $ 2000, a headstone $1000 to $3,000 plus not less than $3,000 for the undertaker’s services, so I simply can’t afford to die any time soon. Nor is cremation the clean green way to go I thought it was, since it is very polluting and produces lots of greenhouse gases. As Brownedoc s at Wordpress reports: "I n the UK, 16% of the mercury emissions and around 11% of dioxin emissions are the result of cremation. You could drive the distance of the moon and back 163,273 times on the energy from all cremations in one year from the countries, China, Japan, India, U.K, Canada, U.S.A, ...
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