Memorial Urns and Jewellery
Posted by: Nusia
31st Mar 2012 01:42am
Unfortunately, there is no category for my subject, so here goes. My wonderful husband died recently and we had him cremated. I wanted to get him a nice urn, but found them to be quite expensive, overseas and even in Australia. Luckily, I happened to go to my pharmecy to pick up a prescription, when I came across this beautiful blue/black glass bowl and my immediate thought was, "Dave would look great in this". When the girls at the pharmacy heard what I had said, where overwhelmed and sold me this beautiful piece for $15 from the regular price of $39.95. What a wonderful gesture, as they all new my husband and they new that I needed to give up my work to care for my husband, which meant that we were both on pensions. On top of that, our daughter was to be married in April and though the day will be 'bitter sweet' to say the least, he would have wanted her to proceed with their 'Special Day'. My topic to discuss, is that I cannot understand why companies prey on the vulnerability of the families of the deceased. I searched high and low for a decent and inexpensive urn for my husbands remains and the starting price of these where in the hundreds. The same was with the Memorial Jewellery, which I am trying to purchase for myself, son, daughter and future son in law, so as they may have a piece of their father close to them. They too were a ridiculous amount of money. How can anybody afford these prices, especially when they have little money behind them. There should be somewhere people like me could go and purchase decent and inexpensive urns and jewellery for our dearly departed, instead of having the extra stress of not only the loss, but searching for such items.
If anyone has been in the same predicament as I, please let me know on how you got around your situation please. Thank you.
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888shelley
I agree with you 100%, I had taken cuttings of the gardenias on my dad's coffin and they were growing well until a neighbour came into our yard while we were away for a few weeks and cut down a lot of our trees and destroyed many of my pot plants the gardenias among them, so I lost what was to be a memento of my dad.
Slightly off topic but related, the real estate agents who started hounding me about dad's house which I had listed with an agent and sold through them, but I now receive mail from the OTHERS giving me advice on renting out the property and financial advice....I think this is over the top. I had spent 3 years coping with my dad's Alzheimers/Dementia and tidying up his estate was a nightmare as he had destroyed much of the paperwork, then getting the place ready for sale (dad had let it get a bit run down) and finally selling...another 2 years.
Nusia
Hi Shelly
That's disgusting! Ironically, I am in Real Estate and there is no way the Company I work for would do anything like that! What country do you live in? I am in Adelaide, South Australia. And why did your neighbour come into your yard and cut down your trees and plants? Did you give them permission to do so? I can't believe how these Real Estate Agents can be hounding you like this, especially at this time of you're grieving, you never get over it! It's supposed to get easier, but still, you never get over it. These Agents who are hounding you, are they doing this via mail or telephone. If it's via mail, they usually have their Company logo on the front of the envelope, then just ignore it! If it's via phone, then I would get an answering machine and screen your calls, that way you don't need to pick up each time someone rings, unless you want to. Anyway, hope this helps in any way and I hope that life is good to you.