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I've always said I would rather be buried in a cheap shitty, unnasuming casket, with a false back panel holding several powerful springs, so that in thousands of years when some historian digs up my grave, they'll get the worst fright of their career...
+jackson edwards In a thousand years, your body and the wood of the casket would have decomposed away, and the springs would have rusted into place and probably moved away from each other. Also, historians don't usually dig up stuff, they mainly study and analyze historical events.
I tell people that I want a natural burial. I don't want to be preserved; I'm not an Egyptian pharaoh. I find the whole embalming process a bit creepy and unsettling. I just want to be absorbed into the ground as quickly as possible. There are cemeteries that allow for natural burials. I plan to go to one of them. Just stick me in the ground. Of course, that's just me.
+Rashotcake by this understanding, your soul is contained in every part of your body? The muscle, the gut etc. let's say it is that way, would not you loose great deal of your soul when loosing, let's say you arm or legs?
+walkingonwater I think you're overthinking it. I just thought it'd be cool to know what you're remains helped to create and then if you have a whole forest of trees like these, it can like a sacred forest or a forest of life
+walkingonwater honestly, I think you're soul is all your memories put together. Your memories make you who you are. If someone woke up and only had all your memories, they would think they're you but somehow switched bodies
I'll never forget when I was in high school, one of the deans told us that he told his wife to NOT waste money on a funeral. He literally said "I don't care if I get buried in a garbage bag. I won't know anyways because I'm dead."
Yeah, your body is just a shell, the essence of what is "you" is already long gone and will have moved onto another demension or plane of existence anyways. Or simply complete blackness and end of consciousness if you prefer.
Having worked for a funeral home *cough cough the cash cow one* I can tell you that he's right. Other advice is this: no matter how young you are, take out a life insurance policy and submit a will. One of the cheapest ways to be disposed of is cremation. Just FYI. That is if your mother doesn't decide to spend the bank on your wake. If you don't want that to happen, put it in the will, and legally they have to honor it.
Also, get a life insurance policy that is just large enough to cover the funeral, and then sign the life insurance over to the funeral home. It will lock in the cost, and remove any burden from the family. It will also cost next to nothing if you are getting cremated. Anything left over after burial costs will go to your next of kin.
They don't have to legally follow your final wishes. The will has to registered with the state to make it active and a family can ignore the wish. I had a family do a cremation even though they knew their mom wanted a burial because it was cheaper. Also if the funeral home only shows you expensive caskets than leave, I am happy to show a family a 1,000 casket just as happy as I am to show one a 6,000 one.
My late dad paid each month for decades towards a policy with the funeral home that guaranteed his funeral would be fully covered. After his funeral, we got a bill from the funeral home for extra services "not covered" by this policy, including a $200.00 charge for coffee! There was a little break room with a coffee pot, but we assumed this was provided as a courtesy of the funeral home. Funeral homes are a total ripoff!
I always wondered why funerals are a big deal at all. You'll be fucking dead, you won't know what happens to you. For all I care my loved ones can roll me up in a carpet and then push me off a cliff, hell that might even be funny.
@@rainwitchansy If there's no way you're going to recover anyway, that's actually ideal. You have to collect organs while they still have blood flow to ensure they'll make for the best transplant. That's how organ donation works -- that's why family members are advised about organ donation before they pull the plug. 🙃
+Edawglemons No. It's when you have wifi but it's so god damned slow that it takes a year to do anything. No wifi > Terrible wifi because at least you don't have to keep trying to do things with no wifi.
+Nicholas Thompson Except you have, quite literally, forever. That's why you run a command to download the entire internet, ignore it for few hundred thousand years, and then use the offline copy that doesn't require the wifi anymore.
Animex - Kun Adam: that is what people want you think, scientists have been working on immortality technology for years, there're actually tons of theoretical ideas that might help you live forever and even better, we are pretty close to achieving them.
Even as a transhumanist we have to face the prospect of death; even if its the result of the heat death of the universe in billions upon billions of years time. My solution is to upload my mind into an infinate powerful computor made out of a singularity and live out an infinite amount of subjective time in one final glourious instant.
I noticed when watching this video, that Adam has ruined basically every stage of her life. He ruined the engagement and the wedding and the funeral to name a few.
I've questioned this even before I saw this video. Why waste so much money on a coffin they're never going to see or appreciate? My parents ignored me, saying it'd make since when I'm an adult. Welp I'm 24 and it still doesn't make sense, even less now with bills to pay. When I die I want to be buried in a patch of dirt and have an apple seed planted above. This way if 50-60 years from now if I messed up in life, then in death I can actually be useful.
It won't make any sense, and guess what. When your parents die, who will be stuck with paying the bill for their funeral ? Exactly, YOU !!! It sounds like your parents don't want to face their own mortality, which I guess is a pretty difficult thing to do for a vast majority of people. Having a lavish funeral is actually an extremely egotistic and individualistic thing to do: you do it so you feel better, not the dead. The dead don't care about their shells, would be a lot more meaningful if you remember them and talk about them. Your idea for burial is actually a very nice one. I myself would prefer something along those lines too, or if is not possible, just put me in a simple wood box, naked and hugging a time capsule (for archaeologists of the future), then just put me in the damn ground. I would come back as a zombie and eat your brains kids if you are stupid enough to bankrupt yourselves by giving your daddy a flashy funeral !
Apple seeds are actually not good for much. No matter what apple you take it from they only grow an early kind of crab apple, which is only good for making cider. Apples were diversified by taking cuttings from trees, not by planting seeds so the seeds themselves haven't evolved or changed for thousands of years.
Well at least this is just a american problem. (For example in germany only allows coffins made of wood and the use of chemicals is forbidden as well.)
It's worth noting that in the US there's more options than presented in the video. Cremation is an option in all parts of the US and unless a person is a member of a religion that forbids cremation, that's an option. Here in Washington, we also have the option of having the body composted. It's still not common, but as they build more of the equipment to do it, there's probably going to be a time where rather than scattering ashes, people will be able to use their loved ones as fertilizer. For example, my Dad wants to be cremated in a cardboard box. No casket or coffin, no graveyard plot, the main expense being gas at the crematorium.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade "Cremation is an option in all parts of the US” Even that is a scam for example you are forced to purchase an urn (you cannot take the remains in anything else by law) so the funeral home can scam $100-1000 or more bucks from you on that... Again they have their ways and or have made laws to ensure that they can scam and or wring as much money as they can from you and or your estate even after you’re dead.
@@mckenzie.latham91 actually you can just use the cremationcapsule wich usually is hidden inside the urn. Looks like a giant black tictac. Most ppl just dont like the look without a urn. At least thats how Germany handles it but in the other hand you arent allowed to take the ashes with you even if you got a urn.
To be honest free wifi is great on a coffin so when you drag your kids to the cemetery to see graves of people they've never met like random people their mother new from church in childhood or great uncles or whatever, they have something to do
It's important to teach children how to respect those who have passed including people they have never met. They shouldn't be on a tablet or phone. Cmon.
+Lyoko104 Go back to the first episode where he points out that even knowing how horrible diamond rings are...people still want them. For starters only a small percentage of the population will watch this episode, an even smaller percentage will do anything about this. And in such small numbers, little risk of impact happens.
***** Or maybe there are some who don't want a ridiculous TV Show personality with no knowledge about diplomacy, foreign politics or institutionalized economics as prez ? Sure he's a billionnaire, but I don't really think a country is run like a beauty pageant.
***** Well not everyone obviously or he wouldn't be spending millions on a campaign since he already won. You seem a little paranoid though, the world isn't black or white. There are only stupid and even more stupid people, it's just a matter of choosing whoever you consider is the less stupid for the job. And I'm sorry but even though I'd give my whole gardening company to Trump for him to manage I wouldn't even consider voting for him as a president, just not the right fit.
Here in England almost no-one embalms a corpse, and almost no-one has open caskets. We don't usually view the body either before the funeral. (Also we call caskets coffins most of the time).
Andy JS fun fact: caskets are rectangular while coffins are hexagonal or octagonal. And do you know why people in England prefer not to embalm? Is it a secular thing or a cost thing? (Asking as a mortuary science student in America. Just curious.)
Caskets and coffins are different, a coffin has six sides and is hexagonal, and a casket has four sides and is rectangular. Coffins are more widely used in England vs. caskets in the US.
@@_Kyprioth_ LOL, WHY do people put things in the comments without looking to see if they are true? 69% SIXTY NINE PERCENT of Australia's population is cremated! How is that "pretty uncommon"?
if anyone pays 50 bucks ill show up to their funeral in a black suit with a black umbrella no matter the weather, but stand far away so everyone there'll think you had a dark but interesting secret.
There was a meme on internet of this guy that you can pay to: 100$ be at you funeral 200$ cry at your funeral 300$ cry more at your funeral and treat to jump in the grave 500$ jump in the grave
I'll be honest, silly and expensive as it might be? If I'm cremated, I want my ashes turned into a diamond. It's silly, it's expensive, and it's probably spotty, as far as my religion goes, but c'mon. Diamond.
I want to be buried in a cheap pinewood box. The money that would go to a lavish casket is to be spent on prizes such as TVs that will be raffled off and catering from chick Fil a
I'm with you all the way on this one. I have seen someone I loved turned into some kind of effigy of themselves and it is really weird. What's more it doesn't make you feel any better.
DeathRaw phantom THANK FUCKING GOD SOMEONE SAID IT Literally i work in a funeral home and it’s never about “what would the dead guy want” it’s always “what do we need in order to properly grieve and move on?”
@@thedoctor401 how should people move on? Most I imagine they'll be alright (myself included) but what about those that it wouldn't be easy to move along?
I mean, sure funerals give the living closure and all that. But I don't actually benefit in any way knowing that Nana had a beautiful funeral. Funerals don't help me like other people so it's kinda pointless.
@@evanweaver1060 I think you will be better moving on with the money you saved instead of spending it on a party celebrating the death of someone you love
Go higher make up a story “Back when I was younger I was treasure hunting and we discovered a chest millions of pounds in pure gold! But to avoid the taxes on it we hid it Go out and find it it’s hidden under the………..” Now you been a real annoyance and people think you had a cool past!
@@howdidyougethere2889 Brilliant! "My dearest beloved, I never told you, but you have a great destiny tied to your fate. There's a secret, that is tied to both your wealth and your bloodline. It's only right for you to hear it now, because I don't have much time. You are meant to be.... *dies* "
I've worked for two different funeral homes picking up bodies and once worked for a removal service. It's fucking sad to say, but funerals are a luxury.
Kevin Hodge not necessarily. You could have an immediate burial. A small get-together with family at the graveside, maybe a service there. That kind of thing would probably cost you less than $1000.
+Jessica Rene Pessimist tend to be dumber than optimists, actual studies done in field of neuroscience, optimism the clear way to go overall and keeping brain in shape.
When my grandma died it was surprisingly a great comfort to be able to view her as she was one last time. She was all dolled up and posed like she was sleeping. Granted, she always slept with her mouth wide open and snoring. But it was comforting to see her not on her deathbed and obviously dead. That's when i changed my mind about funerals. They're for relatives, not the dead themselves
As true as that is, the fundamental thought process behind that brings issues. After all, it really _should_ be about the dead person, not everyone else. When you start trying to please everybody, that's when you're left open to family politics, plus obliging you and others to put aside money to make some grand event that'll satisfy everyone. It's bad enough that's exactly what we already do with weddings, to have to do it with funerals too just seems excessive. Plus if it's not even what you want, because you don't think it reflects your personality or your values, you will live and die knowing even your final act of trying to please people makes you unhappy. The way I think of it, any relatives I like enough to want to have at my funeral will know a typical funeral is not my thing and they'd respect that.
Which they literally address with the refrigeration bit. Imagine going 10s of thousands of dollars in debt so that your loved one's corpse can be absolutely desecrated then dolled up. It's only "for the families" if they're ignorant to how the process works and don't know that there are cheaper alternatives to do the exact same thing.
I hate to break it to you, but we've got all the oil we'll ever get. Bacteria evolved in such a way that it won't be a byproduct no matter how many millions of years you wait. But, you can be legally composted in some parts of the country, so you could at least be used as fertilizer.
Enigma I always thought it was dumb. You pay thousands of dollars for a casket people will see for a few hours at most, and then it's shoved under ground forever. I'd rather buy a cheap raft and have a Viking funeral tbh
I used to work for SCI.. They own Dignity Memorial. I was helpdesk there.. They outsourced tech support and laid us all off, so they could improve the bottom line by about 30K. You can tell if the funeral home and/or flower shop is owned by SCI, just look for the little sprawling tree or trees logo on their sign, or the words "Dignity" or "Dignity Memorial" on anything.
In truth, by breathing we are oxidizing aka burning most of our cells. By doing so, we need more cells, and by making more cells we hurt the chromosomes bit by bit until you start to get weaker and die. So oxygen kills you, give or take 60 to 90 years.
Did you know that cremation often does involve embalming...they do it that so you can have an open casket for the funeral before the cremation direct cremation is where they don’t do that, it’s also the most cost effective
So instead she was put in a plastic bag, placed in a cardboard box and burned under a 1,800 degree flame. Then she cooled down and was swept into a large metal tray. From there she had a huge magnet smashed all over her chunks of bone (it does not turn into "ash" by just burning) to make sure all metal that was possibly in her body was removed. From there she was dumped into a machine that resembled a huge soup stock pot that had large, sharp blades lining the bottom. The lid was put on and a button was pressed and Grandmas large bone fragments were then pulverized, blended up like ice cream, chocolate syrup and milk in a blender at your local Dairy Queen. This was done because when Grandma was under that 1,800 degree flame for two to three hours she didn't just automatically turn into ash, the big blender just ground her up to look like she did. From there the Crementionist dumped Grandma through a funnel and into a plastic bag that was inside a plastic box. While this transfer was happening the Cremationist most likely was not wearing a respirator or a mask and some of your Grandma went up his nose. It's ok, I bet he blew her out and either flushed her down the toilet or tossed her in the trash at the end of his shift.
@@MissterX "There is no requirement that a body needs to be embalmed to be viewed,” I never said it was i believe i said "they do it that so you can have an open casket for the funeral before the cremation” i never aid it was a requirement, and instead implied it’s a custom or something they do and why but i could have been a bit more tact in making that clear.
+Arturo Casab You mean you want your own son to pull your life support mask off your face so you can look him in the eye for a brief second before you die?
My father is a mortician and i found it hilarious when my dad saw the part with the SCI my dad said "yep, that is who owns our funeral home" and he showed me the SCI symbol on the top right of his paper work. He thought the video was accurate and funny.
This is THE BEST “Adam Ruins Everything”...it says what I’ve said practically my entire life. I didn’t know all of these facts, but the entire funeral process has always seemed so needlessly maudlin, gruesome, goofy, and melodramatic. And the funeral home makes BANK. When you die, they instantly make $10-20 THOUSAND dollars. And YOU helped them get rich. It’s STUPID AF.
Hate to rain on your parade here, but that is grossly overdramatic. As someone who works in the industry its sad that this happens as is, it puts honest people in a bad light and ruins someone's livelihood in the process. I just want to clarify some of what you said. 1: The funeral process is only needlessly overdrawn because you let it, any self-respecting firm will let you do things your way, but there are laws we have to work around too so be conscious of that. 2: We do not "make bank", while 40K a year is the average, after taxes and expenses its not that much. Items are high because we get charged high, we have to pay our bills and also fees and taxes you'll never have to deal with because of us. I am sorry that you have had bad experiences but to say we are all one way like they are really is insulting a whole industry because 14% of them are bad, and on that note that's 14% out of 100% that's basically a fly in a 5-gallon bucket. I don't mean disrespect but its hard to not say something when you get this every day and it's your job.
Sterling O'Deaghaidh - My family OWNS a funeral home in our hometown and we’ve been doing it for over 60 years. I know exactly what the process is, and it’s a complete sham. Most things are. It’s a BILLION DOLLAR industry. It is built solely on capitalizing on people’s grief...and guilts them into purchasing thousands of dollars in “frills” that are entirely unnecessary and superfluous. Almost none of what they do is necessary. Of course this is our culture and we’ll never stop doing it, and I damn well know that it’s jobs for thousands of people...but I’m not going to sit here and pretend it’s something that it isn’t. If we shut down fake psychics, we are also putting thousands of people out of work...and while I don’t think we should just shut everything down, I will still call it as I know it is. Your feelings do not change facts.
sign543 just because that is how it is where you live doesn’t mean that’s the same all throughout. Where I live you’d be ran out of town if you did any of those tactics
Sterling O'Deaghaidh - Uh huh. A funeral home is a FOR PROFIT business, and it’s big money. It’s no better than selling used cars. Sure, people need them, but they are designed to pile on crap that’s not necessary, has a mark-up of 300-500%, and if you deny this, you’re a liar...charge for the most ridiculous “services”. The average cost of a funeral is $7-9,000. All to stick a friggin dead body in the ground. Most people are too grieved and naive to understand how the whole sham works, and they railroad all of this on you while you are freshly grieving, because that’s when you’re most vulnerable and less likely to say no. They teach seminars on this kind of thing...and if you are in the business YOU KNOW this. There is an entire industry that’s dedicated JUST TO teaching you how to get the most money from a grieving family. And YOU KNOW it. I know this because my father taught this stuff to me, since I was just a teenager. He used to sit and tell friends about it. My father worked with my uncle while he was in college, and he can tell you how it works, and our family’s funeral business is the largest in the closest two counties. My great uncle started and owned it before he died (and left it to his kids), and my father used to tell me how all of the language they use is designed to part loved ones with money. They TEACH you exactly how to word phrases, how to use inflection, what to show first, second, what not to ever say, and how to use phrasing to get a YES answer, instead of a NO. And if you are in the business...you know all of this is TRUE as gravity. Stop pretending.
sign543 dude, I don’t care how you run your business. The way I run things I charge a base charge for services then they buy what they want. I don’t do packages that’s why I’m saying not all firms are that way, I charge no more than it costs for me to make a living and that’s it. Out here where I live SCI tried to do that shit and it planned out badly for them they closed their firms faster than it took them to buy em. I am not denying what you say but I’m saying to call the WHOLE industry that is to lie in it’s self, not everyone is dishonest.
i already decided i'd give my dead body to science / doctor trainees it's free and it could potentially save someone's life and i had this mindset for years and i'm now 17 people are way too sensitive about dead people
+Just a WARLORD I want to do this too , i just can't figure out the details , whats the legal procedure to do that , how old do you have to be for it to be legal , what do you have to sign ?
+Just a WARLORD I am donating my body to science for a couple of different reasons: #1 I have an obscenely large brain. Like, seriously, my family is prone to dysfunction purely due to the sheer size of our brains squeezed into our tiny head cavities. I'm sure it will be useful to some one's research if it ever makes it that far. #2 I don't want to be alone when I'm dead, so I hope they store me in the pool with the other corpses. I am only partially joking here.
The first time I went to a funeral was my grandpa (tata), everyone cried in the room where his body was, but just outside everyone was joking and pretty much being a party without music. The funerals besides us asked us to lower the volume... It didn't happen.
I do computer repair and tech support. One of my clients was a very old retired funeral director who spent his time doing pro bono work for traditional jewish funerals. The reason he still does them even though he was retired? Every funeral home in my area refused, REFUSED, to perform a traditional jewish funeral because they're considered unprofitable. Traditional jewish funerals require the body to not be embalmed, to be buried very quickly (especially if it was almost saturday) and that the burial and funeral itself was a fairly simple affair, usually involving a simple pine box. Since every home "required" embalming, and they involved a lengthy "consultation" (sales pitch), it meant they refused to do business with clients seeking a traditional jewish burial.
I work in the funeral industry, and Jewish burials are very profitable to the funeral homes that do them. I interact with several such places almost daily, and I hear no complaints about the profit margins. That pine box may have only cost $70 to make, but the funeral home certainly isn't selling it for that much. They may not embalm, but their funerals (and the planning that goes into it, from digging the hole, to the ceremony in the Temple, to the graveside service) are executed within hours of the plans being made. (Most Jewish burials are required to happen within 24 hours of the person's death, according to the Torah.) The families aren't just paying for a burial ceremony, they're paying for convenience.
I've been to Jewish funerals my grandparents to be specific. They were buried in basically plain wooden boxes about a day after they died (they were old WWII was their heyday so they lived long lives.) and I have to say that's they way I want to be buried or not even in a coffin if it's possible.
I was very eager to watch this video when it popped up in my recommended. My grandma was so stressed from the amount of money she spent on my grandfathers funeral and how little it left her with, that she even broke down in the car and told us that the main reason she was so stressed was the financial burdens. (Of course she was devastated by her husbands death, but she was left with pretty much nothing afterwards as well, so you can’t blame her.) I’m just glad that the show addressed this issue.
As someone who is scared shitless of the inevitability of death, this episode fucked me right up. Fuck you Collegehumor, you promised me a Christmas episode ;_;
+Victor Viridian Don't let it scare you buddy. Being I imagine that the billions of years you'll spend being dead is going to feel very similar to the billions of years you spent not having been born yet. Those weren't so bad were they?
+Zach Miles Depending on your view non-existence isn't even the worst thing to fear for from death since we have no idea what happens after death or doesn't. It's the unknown.
I have been reading that memories can be passed down genetically, which I guess where instinct comes from. So in an abstract way reincarnation exists. Which is why to deal with mortality you should have kids lol
Zach Miles God I hate it when people say this. When I say I fear death, I mean I fear DEATH, not the black void of nothingness or whatever, I fear the actual act of dying. The fact that my life is going to end is what scares me. I like living, dammit.
When we talked about funerals, my step dad told me not to give him one when he dies. His words were “Just cremate me, and mix my ashes with marijuana.” His plan was that to give everyone, who comes to mourn, marijuana, and smoke together, and then tell them what/who they were smoking. I knew he was just joking on that, but I agree with cremation. We’re losing a lot of space, and I believe cemeteries are taking a lot of space.
My father used to tell everyone how he wanted to be cremated if he ever died, it's almost like he knew other members of our family and church wanted to put up a fuss over him not being buried like everyone else. My mom managed to save a ton that might have gone to a casket.
I want to be buried in aa casket, not a super nice one, just a simple wooden box. And i want everyone at my funeral to be wearing bright pink. Guys, girls, old people, children.. everyone wearing Bright pink.
I worked for SCI back in the mid 90's selling cemetery property. One of the things we offered with sales presentation was a funeral planner to each possible client. So you could make those decisions ahead of time.
I come from a cheap family so I think I’ll stick with: Cheap casket Fake flowers Closed casket with a picture on top Basically stuff for a funeral that isn’t to expensive
@@Schattenhall I've been in the business for ten years, laws vary state to state. Embalming is not necessary or required in the state I live in. What are YOU taking about??
I like the point trying to be made, but it's not quite as black-and-white. As someone who works in funeral service and is currently studying to be a licensed mortician, the majority of funeral directors aren't trying to be malicious money-drainers. Things are expensive for the consumer because they're expensive for the funeral home. Caskets are expensive, the machinery for embalming and cremation is expensive, the salaries for the directors, assistants, students, attendants, and other employees gets expensive. There's a lot of emotional labor in these jobs, and a good funeral home won't be giving any of those people just minimum wage. You need caskets to be buried in almost any cemetery, and it's a legal issue to be buried in other spaces. The funeral home also handles a lot of the background work with the government, the cemetery, the venue, etc. Directors and students also have to be on call and ready 24/7 to go out for a removal (picking up a body) and any preparation needed (embalming, direct cremation, etc.). No holidays. A body before any embalming and prep looks, and smells, very different from a body that one would see in a casket at a visitation. Death doesn't look like sleep. There's a lot of discoloration, leakage from all orifices, and the face needs a lot of restorative work. We try to be as respectful as possible, but some things just need to be done. Even without the embalming itself. Bodies cannot just sit in the cooler forever. Decisions need to be made quickly, paperwork needs to be done, and there's a lot of work between a death and the final resting place. It's not easy, and we try our best to streamline the process as much as possible for the family. We really do care, and a lot of places try to keep the expenses low, but there's only so much a funeral home can do. A lot of it is out of our hands. TL;DR-- Are funerals expensive and stressful for the family of the deceased? Yes. But it's not necessarily the funeral home's fault, either.
Bodies just don't immediately start to smell and decompose. You can leave them in your house to say good-bye for a day or two and then put them in a cheaper casket.
When my grandpa passed away instead of having a funeral we had a “celebration of life” which was just a little party we had at our grandma’s house in which we talked about him
Videos like this are why I'm thankful for channels like Ask a Mortician exist (which I recommend people check out, there's a lot of great info and tips on there)! Also interesting fact about embalming: it got it's popularity in the US back when the Civil War ended to help carry the fallen back to their families and homelands without decomposing, and it was also popularized by Abraham Lincoln (who was embalmed before going on a long funeral procession after his assassination). In other countries there's most likely different reasons for embalming, but for the more modern popularity of embalming in the US, it's more relatively recent, by just one century or so.
I love Islam's take on funerals We literally just gather pray wash the body and wrap it in a white cloth as big as a bed sheet and just bury it into the ground The most expensive thing if you wanna go all out is food, money for the shekhs and probably equipment and car
I already told my parents and sister to just donate my body. Not because I want to help medical students or anything, but because I don't want my inherits to pay a lot of money for something unnecessary like a funeral.
Adam is telling the truth. We bought my mom’s casket at Costco. They didn’t have blue and my mom wanted blue. We were told because she wasn’t embalmed, we could only get a 30 minute viewing before the 1/8 of a mile to her grave. They also want you in their office as quickly as possible so they can get you on the emotional roll coaster. There are laws, having an idea of what you want is a really good idea. Ask a mortician is another great podcast. Get informed!
X K I heard ( I don't have 100 percent proof on this) that if you're in a fatal accident, doctors are more likely to let you die to preserve your organs then to try and keep you alive
Just let your family know your wishes. Then if you are in an accident there is more likely more effort to save you. heaven forbid something happens and the can't save you your family can donate your organs.
Augusto Vasconcellos no, being burried with cash or burried with a bunch of shit are the same thing for you when you die. actually burried with 10k will make people ruin your grave to get that cash
I love how some people are like "Oh I don't want to donate my body to science when I die I don't like the idea of being cut open." but they LOVE the idea of a funeral
Fortunately I already knew funerals were a rip off. That's y I wanna be cremated, have local preacher give service at my relatives house and have a BBQ. Pretty much an average party. Im Mexican so get togethers like that won't b tough to manage
I told my family that the second I die, skip the funeral. Just plant my body in the backyard and water me once a week.
Add seeds. Grows one man-garden.
+Nathan Boody No fertilizer required!
+Sheepifier it makes its own fertilizer
Lol xD
Tip to make infinite zombieplant people to takeover the world
I've always said I would rather be buried in a cheap shitty, unnasuming casket, with a false back panel holding several powerful springs, so that in thousands of years when some historian digs up my grave, they'll get the worst fright of their career...
Qwerty Bastard My thoughts exactly friend~
+jackson edwards
In a thousand years, your body and the wood of the casket would have decomposed away, and the springs would have rusted into place and probably moved away from each other. Also, historians don't usually dig up stuff, they mainly study and analyze historical events.
Cristian Hernandez Welp... of all the things you could have ruined for me, you ruined death...
+jackson edwards
To be fair death already kinda sucked.
Xqwzts God damn it I guess so :p
One time a funeral home coupon was delivered to my home. It said: get your first one for free!
"Well worth it, you only get one opputunity, so use this coupon now!"
It means. That if you have another funeral
That’s funny
WHAT
(wheeze) I...can't...even...
LMFAO
From the words of the great Danny de Vito,
“When I’m dead, just throw me in da trash!”
Modern Diogenes.
@@bleedingmasque.6193 didn't diogenes get thrown in a foemrest
@@zxyAprte124 I'm going to pretend you meant "forest" and I don't fucking know, he just said to leave his body to the dogs.
Exactly. I would have preferred to get my (future) corpse burnt. The dead body is no longer me anyway.
I tell people that I want a natural burial. I don't want to be preserved; I'm not an Egyptian pharaoh. I find the whole embalming process a bit creepy and unsettling. I just want to be absorbed into the ground as quickly as possible. There are cemeteries that allow for natural burials. I plan to go to one of them. Just stick me in the ground. Of course, that's just me.
I want to be buried so my corpse or ashes bring nutrients to a growing tree. It'll be like my spirit is in the tree
+Rashotcake by this understanding, your soul is contained in every part of your body? The muscle, the gut etc. let's say it is that way, would not you loose great deal of your soul when loosing, let's say you arm or legs?
+walkingonwater I think you're overthinking it. I just thought it'd be cool to know what you're remains helped to create and then if you have a whole forest of trees like these, it can like a sacred forest or a forest of life
Rashotcake Yes I thought that you mean it like that. I find it interesting though to think a little more about it. That's why my question ;)
+walkingonwater honestly, I think you're soul is all your memories put together. Your memories make you who you are. If someone woke up and only had all your memories, they would think they're you but somehow switched bodies
i asked my grandfather why he spent his funeral money. he responded with "it's not my problem"
You're grandpa is so savage! XD
Bury him in a cheap cardboard box, with the words: from Earth, to God, don't return to sender.
Epix Cole mood
Your*, pls correct u domb very domb omg
@Black Hail
Dont be be thet guy
I don't even have enough money to die
Austin C lol
Austin C, the government also taxes you when you die.
Joshua Street Girl: Yes daddy!
*hare gives him a shovel*
Have fun it's cheep
Do a direct cremation it is at most 2000 4000
Someone: *Is literally dying*
Adam: LET ME TELL YOU WHY DYING IS SUCH A RIPOFF!
Next up: Adam ruins cancer
he's not wrong.
Corporations:LET'S SCAM PEOPLES FOR DYING!!!
And the worst part is that hes right
Me: Oh ok I won’t die then
I'll never forget when I was in high school, one of the deans told us that he told his wife to NOT waste money on a funeral. He literally said "I don't care if I get buried in a garbage bag. I won't know anyways because I'm dead."
that's the spirit
@@drdesten yeah he is
I just want my body burned or something…..also I want my ashes to be mixed with cocaine and snorted by my friends
It’s for this reason I see funerals for the living. I’d rather let the living decide what to do with me.
Yeah, your body is just a shell, the essence of what is "you" is already long gone and will have moved onto another demension or plane of existence anyways. Or simply complete blackness and end of consciousness if you prefer.
before i die,i want to say to my family....
tell my kids,i love them and that i changed the wifi password...
I bet they would just buy a new modem and router
Those are some mixed signals
@@cameron6683 They wouldnt need to as evry modem has an password that get be changed
Emci Wishqq EVIL!!!!!!!
Damn it dad you always do this
be as smart as my grandfather - he built his own coffin.
rest in peace pop. rest in peace.
Damn
Did it have wifi?
he predicted the future shit surprised the FBI didn't get him
I was gonna ask this question in the comments! Is it legal and will funeral homes/hospitals accept it?
backwoodsjunkie08 It's legal
ALL adam ruins everything episodes are "corporations want money", why aren't we learning anything from this greed?
Because noticing patterns and solving problems is communist.
Daniel Mikhalchuk Is this a joke?
..Are you not watching the episodes?
@@ironicpuppet1747 Woooosh.
Bleeding Masque. All I did was ask a question I wasn’t sure if he was serious no need to woosh me yet
Having worked for a funeral home *cough cough the cash cow one* I can tell you that he's right.
Other advice is this: no matter how young you are, take out a life insurance policy and submit a will.
One of the cheapest ways to be disposed of is cremation. Just FYI. That is if your mother doesn't decide to spend the bank on your wake. If you don't want that to happen, put it in the will, and legally they have to honor it.
Thanks for the advice dude.
Thanks for the heads up
or a natural burial where they wrap you in a cloth and put you in the ground. how much does a fancy cloth cost? A lot less than a casket.
Also, get a life insurance policy that is just large enough to cover the funeral, and then sign the life insurance over to the funeral home. It will lock in the cost, and remove any burden from the family. It will also cost next to nothing if you are getting cremated. Anything left over after burial costs will go to your next of kin.
They don't have to legally follow your final wishes. The will has to registered with the state to make it active and a family can ignore the wish. I had a family do a cremation even though they knew their mom wanted a burial because it was cheaper. Also if the funeral home only shows you expensive caskets than leave, I am happy to show a family a 1,000 casket just as happy as I am to show one a 6,000 one.
My late dad paid each month for decades towards a policy with the funeral home that guaranteed his funeral would be fully covered. After his funeral, we got a bill from the funeral home for extra services "not covered" by this policy, including a $200.00 charge for coffee! There was a little break room with a coffee pot, but we assumed this was provided as a courtesy of the funeral home. Funeral homes are a total ripoff!
I always wondered why funerals are a big deal at all. You'll be fucking dead, you won't know what happens to you. For all I care my loved ones can roll me up in a carpet and then push me off a cliff, hell that might even be funny.
+Rowan J Coleman because funerals are for the living, not for the dead
+Rowan J Coleman m8 if I had to go anyway I'd go that way!
suprised no die hard christians found this yet...
Here I am...what's your question? :-p
+Gosia Hoot 😂😂 me too I'm ready also
Becoming an Organ donator is the best bet, you get to save lives when you're dead.
Even better, donate your entire body to science.
Except they can collect on that donation before you’re actually pronounced dead. 🙃
@@rainwitchansy If there's no way you're going to recover anyway, that's actually ideal. You have to collect organs while they still have blood flow to ensure they'll make for the best transplant. That's how organ donation works -- that's why family members are advised about organ donation before they pull the plug. 🙃
@@fwpghxs4047 and turn into a bomb tester
That doesn't change the funeral costs
i dont care what my funeral is like as long as they make sure i dont rise from the dead...so put some free wifi in my coffin it'll keep me there
Some power outlets with a PC.
Bury me with access to Steam and a tub that pumps $25 steam cards once a month and my corpse will be fine (for a while)
+UlteriorMaple Don't forget the lotion.
+Ishmel Smith and a toilet
Kenneth Chou Meh a toilet doesn't matter ;)
I think Hell is just when they put wifi in your coffin but don't give you the password.
+Edawglemons At least you have eternity to figure it out. And then you find out it's AOL.
+Edawglemons No. It's when you have wifi but it's so god damned slow that it takes a year to do anything. No wifi > Terrible wifi because at least you don't have to keep trying to do things with no wifi.
+Nicholas Thompson Except you have, quite literally, forever. That's why you run a command to download the entire internet, ignore it for few hundred thousand years, and then use the offline copy that doesn't require the wifi anymore.
Yesterday(yes, yesterday), we went on a field trip and tons of people brought wifi but no one gave me the password :(
a coffin with WiFi thats what a vampire need
Dying? Too rich for my blood, I think I'll go with painful immortality thanks
Crimson assassin Death is inevitable. So good luck. ._.
Animex - Kun
Adam: that is what people want you think, scientists have been working on immortality technology for years, there're actually tons of theoretical ideas that might help you live forever and even better, we are pretty close to achieving them.
redstone craft guy
Lmao.
Hi Kenny McCormick
Even as a transhumanist we have to face the prospect of death; even if its the result of the heat death of the universe in billions upon billions of years time. My solution is to upload my mind into an infinate powerful computor made out of a singularity and live out an infinite amount of subjective time in one final glourious instant.
First adam ruined her wedding so then
Emily ruined glasses so in revenge
Adam ruined the funeral
I noticed when watching this video, that Adam has ruined basically every stage of her life. He ruined the engagement and the wedding and the funeral to name a few.
And jail
I like the Klingon's view of dead bodies. "It is an empty shell, treat it as such".
anonymous
anonymous Love ir!!!!
anonymous what is kilingon?
Seal McSealerson Star Trek
anonymous what if was an empty shell before it died?
Papa would've wanted the WiFi.
Rammy Martin 10v3 Here is the attention you wanted.
So dumb and cheesy
But he can not use it
420 likes... Should I like or not?
lol...
I've questioned this even before I saw this video. Why waste so much money on a coffin they're never going to see or appreciate? My parents ignored me, saying it'd make since when I'm an adult. Welp I'm 24 and it still doesn't make sense, even less now with bills to pay.
When I die I want to be buried in a patch of dirt and have an apple seed planted above.
This way if 50-60 years from now if I messed up in life, then in death I can actually be useful.
well it won't make any sense whatsoever. your parents are just dumb i guess
It won't make any sense, and guess what. When your parents die, who will be stuck with paying the bill for their funeral ? Exactly, YOU !!!
It sounds like your parents don't want to face their own mortality, which I guess is a pretty difficult thing to do for a vast majority of people.
Having a lavish funeral is actually an extremely egotistic and individualistic thing to do: you do it so you feel better, not the dead. The dead don't care about their shells, would be a lot more meaningful if you remember them and talk about them.
Your idea for burial is actually a very nice one. I myself would prefer something along those lines too, or if is not possible, just put me in a simple wood box, naked and hugging a time capsule (for archaeologists of the future), then just put me in the damn ground. I would come back as a zombie and eat your brains kids if you are stupid enough to bankrupt yourselves by giving your daddy a flashy funeral !
Apple seeds are actually not good for much. No matter what apple you take it from they only grow an early kind of crab apple, which is only good for making cider. Apples were diversified by taking cuttings from trees, not by planting seeds so the seeds themselves haven't evolved or changed for thousands of years.
ikr
Well at least this is just a american problem.
(For example in germany only allows coffins made of wood and the use of chemicals is forbidden as well.)
If only Germany forbid the usage of chemicals in the 1940's
It's worth noting that in the US there's more options than presented in the video. Cremation is an option in all parts of the US and unless a person is a member of a religion that forbids cremation, that's an option. Here in Washington, we also have the option of having the body composted. It's still not common, but as they build more of the equipment to do it, there's probably going to be a time where rather than scattering ashes, people will be able to use their loved ones as fertilizer.
For example, my Dad wants to be cremated in a cardboard box. No casket or coffin, no graveyard plot, the main expense being gas at the crematorium.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade "Cremation is an option in all parts of the US”
Even that is a scam
for example you are forced to purchase an urn (you cannot take the remains in anything else by law)
so the funeral home can scam $100-1000 or more bucks from you on that...
Again they have their ways and or have made laws to ensure that they can scam and or wring as much money as they can from you and or your estate even after you’re dead.
@@mckenzie.latham91 Just use a coffee can like in The Big Lebowski!
@@mckenzie.latham91 actually you can just use the cremationcapsule wich usually is hidden inside the urn.
Looks like a giant black tictac.
Most ppl just dont like the look without a urn.
At least thats how Germany handles it but in the other hand you arent allowed to take the ashes with you even if you got a urn.
To be honest free wifi is great on a coffin so when you drag your kids to the cemetery to see graves of people they've never met like random people their mother new from church in childhood or great uncles or whatever, they have something to do
It's important to teach children how to respect those who have passed including people they have never met. They shouldn't be on a tablet or phone. Cmon.
@@LisaLee__ its a joke, stupid
@@Star-nl5id definitely don't think it was buddy
Luna Wooosh
Lol true
How has Adam not attracted the attention of large corporations
Probably just ignores them like John oliver
+Lyoko104 Go back to the first episode where he points out that even knowing how horrible diamond rings are...people still want them. For starters only a small percentage of the population will watch this episode, an even smaller percentage will do anything about this. And in such small numbers, little risk of impact happens.
+Richard Schrader Bashing Trump is edgy ? I thought it was only survival instinct ...
***** Or maybe there are some who don't want a ridiculous TV Show personality with no knowledge about diplomacy, foreign politics or institutionalized economics as prez ? Sure he's a billionnaire, but I don't really think a country is run like a beauty pageant.
***** Well not everyone obviously or he wouldn't be spending millions on a campaign since he already won. You seem a little paranoid though, the world isn't black or white. There are only stupid and even more stupid people, it's just a matter of choosing whoever you consider is the less stupid for the job. And I'm sorry but even though I'd give my whole gardening company to Trump for him to manage I wouldn't even consider voting for him as a president, just not the right fit.
Here in England almost no-one embalms a corpse, and almost no-one has open caskets. We don't usually view the body either before the funeral. (Also we call caskets coffins most of the time).
Andy JS fun fact: caskets are rectangular while coffins are hexagonal or octagonal.
And do you know why people in England prefer not to embalm? Is it a secular thing or a cost thing? (Asking as a mortuary science student in America. Just curious.)
Quite a few are cremated (50% I think) it’s expensive and most people don’t assume it’s the only option (like the US)
Caskets and coffins are different, a coffin has six sides and is hexagonal, and a casket has four sides and is rectangular. Coffins are more widely used in England vs. caskets in the US.
Very, very few people in Australia are embalmed or viewed at all after death.
It is also pretty uncommon to be cremated.
@@_Kyprioth_ LOL, WHY do people put things in the comments without looking to see if they are true? 69% SIXTY NINE PERCENT of Australia's population is cremated! How is that "pretty uncommon"?
if anyone pays 50 bucks ill show up to their funeral in a black suit with a black umbrella no matter the weather, but stand far away so everyone there'll think you had a dark but interesting secret.
reminds me of the opening from GTA V.
There was a meme on internet of this guy that you can pay to:
100$ be at you funeral
200$ cry at your funeral
300$ cry more at your funeral and treat to jump in the grave
500$ jump in the grave
How about I throw in another $500 to bury him alongside with him/her?
@@waffless1389 😳
@@vitanera4032 $10000 literally revive you
There is a program where you can grow a plant from your ashes.I'm definetely doing that.A beautiful appletree.
What is it called?
Google BioUrn
A HAUNTED beautiful appletree.
What a great way to get inside people!
I'll be honest, silly and expensive as it might be?
If I'm cremated, I want my ashes turned into a diamond.
It's silly, it's expensive, and it's probably spotty, as far as my religion goes, but c'mon.
Diamond.
Lmao I got an ad for Adam ruins everything on this
+Denis Lara And don't support your favorite creator's?
+ARareOrangeman im pretty sure collegehumor has way bigger revenue sources than just ad sense you know.
Same, lol
It obviously worked. You watched his video right after.
but not all people who run websites do or have youtube channels
I want to be buried in a cheap pinewood box. The money that would go to a lavish casket is to be spent on prizes such as TVs that will be raffled off and catering from chick Fil a
Foxtrot 4 Real there’s no need for a box even
bruh you arent the real foxtrot
I don’t care what you to my body just don’t have sex with it
@@mrpenguin1324 necrophilia :/
@@mrpenguin1324 i don't mind that either
“ They can charge upward to 10 grand”
My car: Laughs in horn
When I'm dead just throw me in the trash.
No legit I don't care about funerals
Frank Reynolds may be unhinged, but every once in a while he accidentally says something insightful
I’d rather be composted. Much greener.
whamborgini plays dumb shit same it's all very impractical
Like Aristotle...nice
just throw my corpse into the ocean. the fish need to eat too.
I remember the last thing my grandfather said before he kicked the bucket...
"Hey, how far do you think i can kick this bucket?"
Or no, it was "don't pull that plug, it's my life su-" What the fuck is wrong with me?
Rikhil Singh h
"Stop shaking the fucking ladder, kid"
I asked to be left to the vultures and they said it was "unsanitary" and "unethical" and other words that start with "un"
Unicycle?
😂😂😂
+quiroz923 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence
+Mr. ROFL I think he meant unicorn. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+quiroz923 tell them to go fuck themselves
I'm with you all the way on this one. I have seen someone I loved turned into some kind of effigy of themselves and it is really weird. What's more it doesn't make you feel any better.
I already knew that Adam, They charge me $1,000 to bury my imaginary friend!
wow what a great deal!
LOL hi Text :)
+THEY CALL ME TEXT way to cheap out on your friend. i bet you didnt even get him wifi
+Infinite Scratch lmfao
+THEY CALL ME TEXT Well, God is dead.
When I die, just remove my brain and use it as the CPU of a self driving car.
PeyoteIguana but your a bad driver
Brad No, you would be dead, and if he wasn't dead he wouldn't be mentally tortured, he would just have a lot of pain and then death.
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffery?
but then the car would crash
Stuart Zandonadi-Hatherley jr - but you don't know grammar.
Funerals are for the living not for the dead.
DeathRaw phantom THANK FUCKING GOD SOMEONE SAID IT
Literally i work in a funeral home and it’s never about “what would the dead guy want” it’s always “what do we need in order to properly grieve and move on?”
It's said at the beginning of the video too, "This is how people grief". I just points out how unnecessary expensive is
@@thedoctor401 how should people move on? Most I imagine they'll be alright (myself included) but what about those that it wouldn't be easy to move along?
I mean, sure funerals give the living closure and all that. But I don't actually benefit in any way knowing that Nana had a beautiful funeral. Funerals don't help me like other people so it's kinda pointless.
@@evanweaver1060 I think you will be better moving on with the money you saved instead of spending it on a party celebrating the death of someone you love
I know how I want to die.
Me: lying on my deathbed:
Me: There's 10,000 dollars stached under the-
*flatlines*
Go higher make up a story
“Back when I was younger I was treasure hunting and we discovered a chest millions of pounds in pure gold!
But to avoid the taxes on it we hid it
Go out and find it it’s hidden under the………..”
Now you been a real annoyance and people think you had a cool past!
@@howdidyougethere2889 Brilliant! "My dearest beloved, I never told you, but you have a great destiny tied to your fate. There's a secret, that is tied to both your wealth and your bloodline. It's only right for you to hear it now, because I don't have much time. You are meant to be.... *dies* "
The only thing I'd put in a coffin is a button that alerts authorities that I'm still alive and six feet under.
But embalming will make sure you're really dead before burying. I'm counting on it 😂
Well, they used to...(it was a bell with a string)
they drain your blood now a days so no worries there
I've worked for two different funeral homes picking up bodies and once worked for a removal service. It's fucking sad to say, but funerals are a luxury.
Kevin Hodge not necessarily. You could have an immediate burial. A small get-together with family at the graveside, maybe a service there. That kind of thing would probably cost you less than $1000.
@@evanweaver1060 Except gravesites themselves usually cost tens of thousands of dollars
Welp, donating my body to science now.
Probably more helpful to the world anyway.
Yeah I totally think it's the best thing to do. Why take up space.
Yeah better to let med school students have fun by throwing your organs in each other's face, how else are they going to find a cure for cancer....
cannabis
Maybe I should do that.
Next video: Why life is a ripoff.
Life *is* a rip-off
Thats just capitalism
You only live to produce and spend money for economy!
That’s what this whole series is, it’s just that life sucks and is a rip off
@@alpharius3661 Version 1.0.0 was way better. I remember the times when we freely killed each other. It was fun.
I'm such a pessimist and I LOVE these videos!!
+Jessica Rene i know, way to ruin pessimism Adam!!
chill
Han solo dies
+Jessica Rene Pessimist tend to be dumber than optimists, actual studies done in field of neuroscience, optimism the clear way to go overall and keeping brain in shape.
lol I have a friend called Jessica who's also pessimistic x3
When my grandma died it was surprisingly a great comfort to be able to view her as she was one last time. She was all dolled up and posed like she was sleeping. Granted, she always slept with her mouth wide open and snoring. But it was comforting to see her not on her deathbed and obviously dead. That's when i changed my mind about funerals. They're for relatives, not the dead themselves
Exactly, the prices are still bad though
As true as that is, the fundamental thought process behind that brings issues. After all, it really _should_ be about the dead person, not everyone else. When you start trying to please everybody, that's when you're left open to family politics, plus obliging you and others to put aside money to make some grand event that'll satisfy everyone. It's bad enough that's exactly what we already do with weddings, to have to do it with funerals too just seems excessive. Plus if it's not even what you want, because you don't think it reflects your personality or your values, you will live and die knowing even your final act of trying to please people makes you unhappy. The way I think of it, any relatives I like enough to want to have at my funeral will know a typical funeral is not my thing and they'd respect that.
Which they literally address with the refrigeration bit. Imagine going 10s of thousands of dollars in debt so that your loved one's corpse can be absolutely desecrated then dolled up. It's only "for the families" if they're ignorant to how the process works and don't know that there are cheaper alternatives to do the exact same thing.
I take it you weren't the one paying for the funeral...
On my death bed I’ll say
*”Family I left my 1 million under the”*
Then die leave them to find the money that never existed
Random Assassin You're evil 😂
Lol
Dick.
... i love it. Can’t lie.
More like "[insert the person you hate the most] pardon me for being a fool, I left my 1 million under the"
Evan Weaver Did you just say that you love dick?
Just burry me in a swamp or something so i can turn into oil over time so i can charge people from heaven to use me as fuel
I hate to break it to you, but we've got all the oil we'll ever get. Bacteria evolved in such a way that it won't be a byproduct no matter how many millions of years you wait.
But, you can be legally composted in some parts of the country, so you could at least be used as fertilizer.
Chris L
You must be fun at parties
So they gonna use me when I'm dead like they did when I was alive
Hate to break it to you, even if that was possible america would have already sent troops to your burial site
That takes to long. Just have someone chuck you in a hole and grow some plants
Adam ruins funerals sounds like the name for quite the prank series...
Randomhurblurblur Or a band.
*social experiment
Bradley Irving yes, very good
Adam: Wakey wakey eggs and bakey!
Widow: Please stop.
Adam: *Starts hitting the body with his own hand Don't get so salty smh chill
Thought this since I was 10.
Enigma same
Enigma same
same
I with you on this one. They are a ripoff
Enigma I always thought it was dumb. You pay thousands of dollars for a casket people will see for a few hours at most, and then it's shoved under ground forever. I'd rather buy a cheap raft and have a Viking funeral tbh
It is best to have Jedi funeral.
Mark Chajev wait luke dies in episode 8?
Mark Chajev so essentially a funeral pyre.
Hello there.
Goddamn it you're wrong!
Federation jettison funerals are the best!!
Well who has not seen clone wars
I used to work for SCI.. They own Dignity Memorial. I was helpdesk there.. They outsourced tech support and laid us all off, so they could improve the bottom line by about 30K. You can tell if the funeral home and/or flower shop is owned by SCI, just look for the little sprawling tree or trees logo on their sign, or the words "Dignity" or "Dignity Memorial" on anything.
Dang
Next, Adam ruins breathing
Fireb0ar07 definitely have not heard that one before
If he does that, you're dead by now.
In truth, by breathing we are oxidizing aka burning most of our cells. By doing so, we need more cells, and by making more cells we hurt the chromosomes bit by bit until you start to get weaker and die. So oxygen kills you, give or take 60 to 90 years.
David Zammit
Holy crap. Chill.
@@Aulumos42 🤣🤣🤣 good one
my great grandfather was burned when he died and then we threw the ashes on the coast next to our family's house
ok.
I want my ashes be launched on a rocket and released into the air.
+CPLCraft Mine to be planted underneath a peach tree. And the peaches eaten.
+The Amazing Pyro why are you called the amazing pyro when your profile picture is clearly the scout?
He's a Spy in actuality?
When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash
Broadway JR don't invade my home
My late husband used to say "Just put my hat on my head and stand me out with the rest of the trash".
Well, you can't be thrown in the trash If you already are trash. I'm referring to myself
We cremated my mom. She wanted it, because she didn’t want bugs to crawl through her body. My great grandparents were both cremated too
Did you know that cremation often does involve embalming...they do it that so you can have an open casket for the funeral before the cremation
direct cremation is where they don’t do that,
it’s also the most cost effective
Seriously good thing we dont do that here
So instead she was put in a plastic bag, placed in a cardboard box and burned under a 1,800 degree flame. Then she cooled down and was swept into a large metal tray. From there she had a huge magnet smashed all over her chunks of bone (it does not turn into "ash" by just burning) to make sure all metal that was possibly in her body was removed. From there she was dumped into a machine that resembled a huge soup stock pot that had large, sharp blades lining the bottom. The lid was put on and a button was pressed and Grandmas large bone fragments were then pulverized, blended up like ice cream, chocolate syrup and milk in a blender at your local Dairy Queen. This was done because when Grandma was under that 1,800 degree flame for two to three hours she didn't just automatically turn into ash, the big blender just ground her up to look like she did. From there the Crementionist dumped Grandma through a funnel and into a plastic bag that was inside a plastic box. While this transfer was happening the Cremationist most likely was not wearing a respirator or a mask and some of your Grandma went up his nose. It's ok, I bet he blew her out and either flushed her down the toilet or tossed her in the trash at the end of his shift.
@@mckenzie.latham91 There is no requirement that a body needs to be embalmed to be viewed, consumers need to educate themselves more.
@@MissterX "There is no requirement that a body needs to be embalmed to be viewed,”
I never said it was
i believe i said
"they do it that so you can have an open casket for the funeral before the cremation”
i never aid it was a requirement, and instead implied it’s a custom or something they do and why
but i could have been a bit more tact in making that clear.
I want a Jedi funeral, that's it.
Like what Obi Wan did to Anakin? Ba doom tss!
Yabba Dabba-Doo No, what Luke did to Vader.
I want my ashes to be tossed in the face of Donald trump ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
lol
+Arturo Casab
You mean you want your own son to pull your life support mask off your face so you can look him in the eye for a brief second before you die?
My dad said to buy him the cheapest coffin possible or else he'd haunt me, lol.
My father is a mortician and i found it hilarious when my dad saw the part with the SCI my dad said "yep, that is who owns our funeral home" and he showed me the SCI symbol on the top right of his paper work. He thought the video was accurate and funny.
This is THE BEST “Adam Ruins Everything”...it says what I’ve said practically my entire life. I didn’t know all of these facts, but the entire funeral process has always seemed so needlessly maudlin, gruesome, goofy, and melodramatic. And the funeral home makes BANK. When you die, they instantly make $10-20 THOUSAND dollars. And YOU helped them get rich. It’s STUPID AF.
Hate to rain on your parade here, but that is grossly overdramatic. As someone who works in the industry its sad that this happens as is, it puts honest people in a bad light and ruins someone's livelihood in the process. I just want to clarify some of what you said.
1: The funeral process is only needlessly overdrawn because you let it, any self-respecting firm will let you do things your way, but there are laws we have to work around too so be conscious of that.
2: We do not "make bank", while 40K a year is the average, after taxes and expenses its not that much. Items are high because we get charged high, we have to pay our bills and also fees and taxes you'll never have to deal with because of us.
I am sorry that you have had bad experiences but to say we are all one way like they are really is insulting a whole industry because 14% of them are bad, and on that note that's 14% out of 100% that's basically a fly in a 5-gallon bucket. I don't mean disrespect but its hard to not say something when you get this every day and it's your job.
Sterling O'Deaghaidh - My family OWNS a funeral home in our hometown and we’ve been doing it for over 60 years. I know exactly what the process is, and it’s a complete sham. Most things are. It’s a BILLION DOLLAR industry. It is built solely on capitalizing on people’s grief...and guilts them into purchasing thousands of dollars in “frills” that are entirely unnecessary and superfluous. Almost none of what they do is necessary. Of course this is our culture and we’ll never stop doing it, and I damn well know that it’s jobs for thousands of people...but I’m not going to sit here and pretend it’s something that it isn’t. If we shut down fake psychics, we are also putting thousands of people out of work...and while I don’t think we should just shut everything down, I will still call it as I know it is. Your feelings do not change facts.
sign543 just because that is how it is where you live doesn’t mean that’s the same all throughout. Where I live you’d be ran out of town if you did any of those tactics
Sterling O'Deaghaidh - Uh huh. A funeral home is a FOR PROFIT business, and it’s big money. It’s no better than selling used cars. Sure, people need them, but they are designed to pile on crap that’s not necessary, has a mark-up of 300-500%, and if you deny this, you’re a liar...charge for the most ridiculous “services”. The average cost of a funeral is $7-9,000. All to stick a friggin dead body in the ground. Most people are too grieved and naive to understand how the whole sham works, and they railroad all of this on you while you are freshly grieving, because that’s when you’re most vulnerable and less likely to say no. They teach seminars on this kind of thing...and if you are in the business YOU KNOW this. There is an entire industry that’s dedicated JUST TO teaching you how to get the most money from a grieving family. And YOU KNOW it. I know this because my father taught this stuff to me, since I was just a teenager. He used to sit and tell friends about it. My father worked with my uncle while he was in college, and he can tell you how it works, and our family’s funeral business is the largest in the closest two counties. My great uncle started and owned it before he died (and left it to his kids), and my father used to tell me how all of the language they use is designed to part loved ones with money. They TEACH you exactly how to word phrases, how to use inflection, what to show first, second, what not to ever say, and how to use phrasing to get a YES answer, instead of a NO. And if you are in the business...you know all of this is TRUE as gravity. Stop pretending.
sign543 dude, I don’t care how you run your business. The way I run things I charge a base charge for services then they buy what they want. I don’t do packages that’s why I’m saying not all firms are that way, I charge no more than it costs for me to make a living and that’s it. Out here where I live SCI tried to do that shit and it planned out badly for them they closed their firms faster than it took them to buy em.
I am not denying what you say but I’m saying to call the WHOLE industry that is to lie in it’s self, not everyone is dishonest.
i already decided i'd give my dead body to science / doctor trainees it's free and it could potentially save someone's life
and i had this mindset for years and i'm now 17
people are way too sensitive about dead people
+Just a WARLORD Dude, you're living on the edge. Don't fall off.
+Just a WARLORD I want to do this too , i just can't figure out the details , whats the legal procedure to do that , how old do you have to be for it to be legal , what do you have to sign ?
SirJamesStark hope not it would ruin not only my body
but also my life
+SirJamesStark you are a hero I was about to comment something similar. god bless special snowflakes with opinions
+Just a WARLORD I am donating my body to science for a couple of different reasons:
#1 I have an obscenely large brain. Like, seriously, my family is prone to dysfunction purely due to the sheer size of our brains squeezed into our tiny head cavities. I'm sure it will be useful to some one's research if it ever makes it that far.
#2 I don't want to be alone when I'm dead, so I hope they store me in the pool with the other corpses. I am only partially joking here.
Where's Caitlin Doughty?? Ask a Mortician mentioned ALL these exact points in her videos!!!!
Somewhere else. Where she belongs... Can't stand her.
I started watching this video and the first thing that came to my mind was Ask a mortician.
When they do the little "Just Ask [insert name here]" I really thought she'd come up on the screen
Jackie Kennedy Admirer I knowww
kitten lover723 omg she’s the bestttt
And human taxidermy is illegal yet this is legal
holy shit good point
I'm concerned by your profile picture.
+wow guy im scared whats that luario doing
Vsauce got a video on that
I think this more or less *IS* human taxidermy...
The first time I went to a funeral was my grandpa (tata), everyone cried in the room where his body was, but just outside everyone was joking and pretty much being a party without music. The funerals besides us asked us to lower the volume... It didn't happen.
I do computer repair and tech support. One of my clients was a very old retired funeral director who spent his time doing pro bono work for traditional jewish funerals.
The reason he still does them even though he was retired? Every funeral home in my area refused, REFUSED, to perform a traditional jewish funeral because they're considered unprofitable. Traditional jewish funerals require the body to not be embalmed, to be buried very quickly (especially if it was almost saturday) and that the burial and funeral itself was a fairly simple affair, usually involving a simple pine box.
Since every home "required" embalming, and they involved a lengthy "consultation" (sales pitch), it meant they refused to do business with clients seeking a traditional jewish burial.
I work in the funeral industry, and Jewish burials are very profitable to the funeral homes that do them. I interact with several such places almost daily, and I hear no complaints about the profit margins.
That pine box may have only cost $70 to make, but the funeral home certainly isn't selling it for that much. They may not embalm, but their funerals (and the planning that goes into it, from digging the hole, to the ceremony in the Temple, to the graveside service) are executed within hours of the plans being made. (Most Jewish burials are required to happen within 24 hours of the person's death, according to the Torah.)
The families aren't just paying for a burial ceremony, they're paying for convenience.
I've been to Jewish funerals my grandparents to be specific. They were buried in basically plain wooden boxes about a day after they died (they were old WWII was their heyday so they lived long lives.) and I have to say that's they way I want to be buried or not even in a coffin if it's possible.
933 funeral directors watched this video
its 934 now.
937 now
+Candice Cookies 949*
959
You don't understand how wrong and messed up this video is
I was very eager to watch this video when it popped up in my recommended. My grandma was so stressed from the amount of money she spent on my grandfathers funeral and how little it left her with, that she even broke down in the car and told us that the main reason she was so stressed was the financial burdens. (Of course she was devastated by her husbands death, but she was left with pretty much nothing afterwards as well, so you can’t blame her.) I’m just glad that the show addressed this issue.
As someone who is scared shitless of the inevitability of death, this episode fucked me right up.
Fuck you Collegehumor, you promised me a Christmas episode ;_;
+Victor Viridian Don't let it scare you buddy. Being I imagine that the billions of years you'll spend being dead is going to feel very similar to the billions of years you spent not having been born yet. Those weren't so bad were they?
+Zach Miles Depending on your view non-existence isn't even the worst thing to fear for from death since we have no idea what happens after death or doesn't. It's the unknown.
I have been reading that memories can be passed down genetically, which I guess where instinct comes from. So in an abstract way reincarnation exists. Which is why to deal with mortality you should have kids lol
Zach Miles God I hate it when people say this.
When I say I fear death, I mean I fear DEATH, not the black void of nothingness or whatever, I fear the actual act of dying. The fact that my life is going to end is what scares me.
I like living, dammit.
+RS Omniscient Yeah it's human instincts to be afraid of death.
When we talked about funerals, my step dad told me not to give him one when he dies. His words were “Just cremate me, and mix my ashes with marijuana.” His plan was that to give everyone, who comes to mourn, marijuana, and smoke together, and then tell them what/who they were smoking.
I knew he was just joking on that, but I agree with cremation. We’re losing a lot of space, and I believe cemeteries are taking a lot of space.
Use my body to grow weed.
"Davis Kush"
omg you win
best comment 2016
I'm pretty sure it's out there somewhere. Not even kidding.
Christopher Davis lol. I'm 420 to give you a tumbs up.
As a funeral service student.... Yep!!! All very true and horribly upsetting.
Not horrible enough to not be in that industry though lol
My father used to tell everyone how he wanted to be cremated if he ever died, it's almost like he knew other members of our family and church wanted to put up a fuss over him not being buried like everyone else. My mom managed to save a ton that might have gone to a casket.
"IF he ever died"
Cremation also costs thousands of dollars. It's a racket
Doesn't expensive funerals cause thieves to steal caskets
Salahu-Din Hajir normally but some cement coffins shut
I want to be buried in aa casket, not a super nice one, just a simple wooden box. And i want everyone at my funeral to be wearing bright pink. Guys, girls, old people, children.. everyone wearing Bright pink.
*Me about to go to a funeral*
"Yea this seems like a good thing to watch"
Watch and learn
Don't make the same mistake they did.
I worked for SCI back in the mid 90's selling cemetery property. One of the things we offered with sales presentation was a funeral planner to each possible client. So you could make those decisions ahead of time.
I come from a cheap family so I think I’ll stick with:
Cheap casket
Fake flowers
Closed casket with a picture on top
Basically stuff for a funeral that isn’t to expensive
Embalming is not necessary for an open casket, that part of the video is simply not true. So, go for it!
@@MissterX What? What are you talking about?
@@Schattenhall I've been in the business for ten years, laws vary state to state. Embalming is not necessary or required in the state I live in. What are YOU taking about??
props to that actor playing the dead guy for being so unresponsive to Adam's shenanigans
He died for the video! Such dedication
"I know I'm literally dying but you are the worst part of my day" he'll annoy you in heaven too
Adam ruins the afterlife
I like the point trying to be made, but it's not quite as black-and-white. As someone who works in funeral service and is currently studying to be a licensed mortician, the majority of funeral directors aren't trying to be malicious money-drainers. Things are expensive for the consumer because they're expensive for the funeral home. Caskets are expensive, the machinery for embalming and cremation is expensive, the salaries for the directors, assistants, students, attendants, and other employees gets expensive. There's a lot of emotional labor in these jobs, and a good funeral home won't be giving any of those people just minimum wage.
You need caskets to be buried in almost any cemetery, and it's a legal issue to be buried in other spaces. The funeral home also handles a lot of the background work with the government, the cemetery, the venue, etc. Directors and students also have to be on call and ready 24/7 to go out for a removal (picking up a body) and any preparation needed (embalming, direct cremation, etc.). No holidays.
A body before any embalming and prep looks, and smells, very different from a body that one would see in a casket at a visitation. Death doesn't look like sleep. There's a lot of discoloration, leakage from all orifices, and the face needs a lot of restorative work. We try to be as respectful as possible, but some things just need to be done. Even without the embalming itself.
Bodies cannot just sit in the cooler forever. Decisions need to be made quickly, paperwork needs to be done, and there's a lot of work between a death and the final resting place. It's not easy, and we try our best to streamline the process as much as possible for the family. We really do care, and a lot of places try to keep the expenses low, but there's only so much a funeral home can do. A lot of it is out of our hands.
TL;DR-- Are funerals expensive and stressful for the family of the deceased? Yes. But it's not necessarily the funeral home's fault, either.
Well said.
Yes but if you are not having an open casket you dont need to worry so much about restorative work. I imagine leaking could be an issue though.
Bodies just don't immediately start to smell and decompose. You can leave them in your house to say good-bye for a day or two and then put them in a cheaper casket.
Not your fault individually that things are the way they are. It’s the industry’s fault lol
As a mortuary student and someone who works in the business, thank you very much for this comment.
Next episode: Adam Ruins Collegehumor.
"and it comes with free wifi" I LOST MY SHIT THERE XDXDXD
When my grandpa passed away instead of having a funeral we had a “celebration of life” which was just a little party we had at our grandma’s house in which we talked about him
"When im dead just throw me in the trash"- A great man
Funerals are a rip. Why on earth would I go to your funeral if your not going to attend mine????
WHOA BRO, that's not PC bruh
That's super interesting. Never thought of it from that angle lol
You don't go for the dead, you go for the living.
Yeah Th A TS NOT PCCCCNEJEEBRUEE
REEEEEEEEEEEE
Bro when i die just like send my shit up to space instead of buying like a funeral or whatever
+quillife
You are not worth the money it would take to do that.
nah man just smuggle my corpse onto a nasa rocket
+quillife We could convert most of your body mass into hydrogen fuel for the rocket.
+TheCorruptedWolf ahhahaahahaahah you're so funny
+quillife The thing is... There's a funeral service for that. You can even have you ashes orbiting the Earth. Google it.
Videos like this are why I'm thankful for channels like Ask a Mortician exist (which I recommend people check out, there's a lot of great info and tips on there)!
Also interesting fact about embalming: it got it's popularity in the US back when the Civil War ended to help carry the fallen back to their families and homelands without decomposing, and it was also popularized by Abraham Lincoln (who was embalmed before going on a long funeral procession after his assassination). In other countries there's most likely different reasons for embalming, but for the more modern popularity of embalming in the US, it's more relatively recent, by just one century or so.
“It doesn’t matter that it’s weird because it’s perfectly safe”
I love Islam's take on funerals
We literally just gather pray wash the body and wrap it in a white cloth as big as a bed sheet and just bury it into the ground
The most expensive thing if you wanna go all out is food, money for the shekhs and probably equipment and car
The Grave and food is the only expensive things
Makes sense
I already told my parents and sister to just donate my body.
Not because I want to help medical students or anything, but because I don't want my inherits to pay a lot of money for something unnecessary like a funeral.
Adam is telling the truth. We bought my mom’s casket at Costco. They didn’t have blue and my mom wanted blue. We were told because she wasn’t embalmed, we could only get a 30 minute viewing before the 1/8 of a mile to her grave. They also want you in their office as quickly as possible so they can get you on the emotional roll coaster. There are laws, having an idea of what you want is a really good idea. Ask a mortician is another great podcast. Get informed!
I didn’t know you can buy caskets at Costco
went and signed up to be an organ donor after I found out what happens during the embalming process from this video
X K I heard ( I don't have 100 percent proof on this) that if you're in a fatal accident, doctors are more likely to let you die to preserve your organs then to try and keep you alive
Just let your family know your wishes. Then if you are in an accident there is more likely more effort to save you. heaven forbid something happens and the can't save you your family can donate your organs.
I threw up a little in my mouth when I heard what the embalming process. Just burn my corpse and, like, throw the ashes everywhere or something.
"Throw the ashes everywhere" I got you, some in the toilet, some in your enemies' faces, and a bit in the pope's hat. Anywhere else?
Ra-Nd -Om
Before or after the cyanide capsule?
Justin Jones Before, please.
+Justin Jones Kim Kardashian's butt?
Even I have standards m8.KSound Kaiju
Actually, being buried with ten thousand in cash sounds kinda cool.
Augusto Vasconcellos no, being burried with cash or burried with a bunch of shit are the same thing for you when you die. actually burried with 10k will make people ruin your grave to get that cash
Going out like the Eygptians, huh?
When adam went "BROBORORBRORBRORBROR"
I was *DONE* 💀💀💀💀💀💀
I love how some people are like "Oh I don't want to donate my body to science when I die I don't like the idea of being cut open." but they LOVE the idea of a funeral
It's such a evil way he says "I'm so sorry for your loss."
He says it like he killed it
Yeah I felt those acting skills haha
Fortunately I already knew funerals were a rip off. That's y I wanna be cremated, have local preacher give service at my relatives house and have a BBQ. Pretty much an average party. Im Mexican so get togethers like that won't b tough to manage
Eric Pichardo
I don't think ur family wants that.
better still they can bbq you
What type of entity is Adam. Even if you pass on, he is still omni present
Before graphic design guy! Oh wait, it's college humor. Oh
OMG I GET SOMEONES JOKE
+Chloe Flynn If you are happy just because of that you must be pretty dumb...
+Filip Selmer I'm pretty sure he was joking.............
+Filip Selmer stfu
+Filip Selmer If your going to put down someone else's happiness you must be miserable