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Shouldn't be a problem for folks like Andrew and Kyle with their wagons. RB On 02/03/2017 4:31 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote: Gerry wrote: I like the option of having your funeral before you die. Send out a death notice to your friends and enemies. Next OkieQ will be our death notice -

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> Gerry wrote: > > I like the option of having your funeral before you die. Send out a death > > notice to your friends and enemies. > > Next OkieQ will be our death notice - fun, fun. > I'll bring my kasket if you bring yers. > tin-man ~ Good

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Gerry wrote: > I like the option of having your funeral before you die. Send out a death > notice to your friends and enemies. Next OkieQ will be our death noice - fun, fun. I'll bring my kasket if you bring yers. tin-man ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

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~ Good idea! I like the option of having your funeral before you die. Send out a death notice to your friends and enemies. Everybody comes. You're lying in the casket with the lid slightly open for air. The preacher talks about all your good

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Heavy too. I'm guessing the last one I carried must have been 400 lb (the occupant was less than 100 lb by then). > -Original Message- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of > Max Dillon via Mercedes > > Those caskets are expensive! ... > > > Max Dillon

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actually, there are a whole bunch of scams. Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes March 1, 2017 at 6:26 PM The funeral business is a big money making scam. It's unbelievable. Most people don't know any better especially while in a time of need.

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Rick wrote: > Drift Away Dobie Gray youtube... Nice!! Old tight music is always fine to hear. tin-man ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

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The funeral lobby here has pushed hard to make it where you have to buy the casket from them. There is a push to get that changed to where we can buy them whenever we want, such as costco Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes >

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The funeral business is a big money making scam. It's unbelievable. Most people don't know any better especially while in a time of need. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > When my mom died in 06 they had funeral

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Well, Ja. But why not take yer own measurements and design yer own? I've never paid for plans for anything! I have an Ames Draft-Pak, will travel. Designed my own house, garage, trusses, stairs, spiral/combo stairs, commercial building, 70 gal/squeeze cider press and a bunch of other

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Or at Costco: https://www.costco.com/funeral.html Buddy I grew up with dad was a Lutheran minister. He was also a woodworker, so we got along great and were often swapping info and tools. He built his own casket and fashioned it like a low table, so it could be of use in their home until

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Those caskets are expensive! I think a good set of plans is about $80 - $100, that would be the ultimate DIY. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On March 1, 2017 6:56:47 PM EST, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: >ayup! Right there with shysters. > >One way

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ayup! Right there with shysters. One way to keep em from cheating you is to BYOC. (BYO casket) Buy one here, and the local FD can't rip you off. http://trappistcaskets.com And, the $$$ goes to a good cause, not buying a bigger boat or plane for the FD. Floyd Thursby via Mercedes

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When my mom died in 06 they had funeral insurance with the local funeral home. You buy a policy for an amount like $10k or so then all the funeral stuff is done with that, casket, the service, embalming, transport, whatever. So a few months later I am sorting through all the estate stuff,

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Indiana University has a whole program ( https://medicine.iu.edu/give/body-donation/ ) dedicated to the donation and handling of human bodies for medical research. We had a guy assigned to us that was in contact with us through the whole process. He even got to wail on the funeral director

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My wife and son did these ceremonies for the people in the cadaver lab, they are treated very seriously and very considerately, and the students learn to appreciate them too, having carved up the bodies. It is kind of a humbling experience and makes the bodies more "human" after they are

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in most states if you stay under 5 or 6 "residents" you don't need a license. Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes March 1, 2017 at 4:03 PM Yes there are people around here that do that. In fact there was one person running a deal like that without a license and was

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and the wolfman too... Rick Knoble via Mercedes March 1, 2017 at 4:01 PM https://youtu.be/URw11Td8Zy0 Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

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Yes there are people around here that do that. In fact there was one person running a deal like that without a license and was told to shut down but did not, ended up getting charged for abuse or something. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes >

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Dan sez: >when you get old they put you on an ice floe and let you drift away... https://youtu.be/URw11Td8Zy0 Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

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I came into this world kicking and screaming, unable to speak or walk, nearly blind, pooping myself, without a penny to my name, hungry, and covered in someone Else's blood. I plan to leave the same way. Any questions? ;)) Served as guardian for my Aunt from age 82 when she could no longer

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Remember that scene in Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman when the Old Chief decided it was his day to die, so he traipsed out into the plains and lay down, awaiting The Moment. Then it started raining and he had second thoughts... On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <

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Just remember what DBV says: It’s all in your genes. My Mom lived into her mid 80s but the last 3-4 years she was in an assisted living facility, which is just a fancy name for a nursing home where you can still pretty much care for yourself. She didn’t have dime to her name, but most

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- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2017 10:26 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Kaleb C. Striplin Subject: Re: [MBZ] Senior living So how do people pay for that? Does insurance pay for it? Does the state

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a way to print money around small towns is to find a 4-5 BR ranch house, find team of nurses married to each other then find 4-5 old ladies who need communal living. rent the rooms in the big house for a thou a month less than the big places, give the nurses free housing and 50k a year, pay

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Well my grandmother was healthy as a horse and would still be out push mowing and weed eating her yard into her early 80's. Her mind was still slipping at that point though and the last couple of years she could not remember to eat, take meds and such. She died in 03. Now my grandfather who

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--FT wrote: > Not quite my idea of living life, but his choice. What is a good "idea of living life"? Buying cheep cars, fix, sell? ...just curious... Sometimes rason d'etre ceases, hence... tin-man ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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Yeah that is how it usually works, docs want to do some procedure, or there is some injury, and it goes downhill fast. My mom had gall bladder surgery, she lasted about a week after that. My dad had that done too, which is what ended up landing him in the NH as he decided he wasn't going to

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okiebenz.com> Date: 2017-03-01 12:39 PM (GMT-06:00) To: > Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Andrew Strasfogel < > astrasfo...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Senior living > I wonder if those millions of yankee expats who retired to Mexico will > sudde

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l <astrasfo...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Senior living I wonder if those millions of yankee expats who retired to Mexico will suddenly become non-grata when Trump boots out the dreamers et al.  Their return to the USA will be a boon to the retirement home industry. On Wed, Mar 1, 2017

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God I can't even imagine what it must be like to have to live in a nursing home or alc. That is what sucks is owning property and building assets all your life to have it go to a nursing home in the end. I know when my grandmother was still alive they had to get the house out of her name and it

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Yabut do they have assisted living and nursing homes for Americans? Gerry Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > Guadalajara has more Americans than Mexicans, if I may exaggerate slightly. > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > I was

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uot;Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Senior living So how do people pay for that? Does insurance pay for it? Does the state? If people are paying that much themselves I would think they would run out of money pretty quickly. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2017

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No they won't kick them out as long as they are spending Coin of the Realm. Greenbacks trump a lot of issues, US dinero levels all sorts of concerns. --FT On 3/1/17 1:39 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: I wonder if those millions of yankee expats who retired to Mexico will suddenly become

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In my dad's case I sold the farm when my mother died (it was in her name for estate reasons) and the money went into a trust for his needs, medical and whatever. He gets SS and a pension too, so that is some monthly income. He had a stroke in 99 or so and that has limited his mobility and

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I wonder if those millions of yankee expats who retired to Mexico will suddenly become non-grata when Trump boots out the dreamers et al. Their return to the USA will be a boon to the retirement home industry. On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com>

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You must be wunnathem trump xenophobes not to know that Mexicans are Americans too, they live in America. Are you a racist bigot homophobe misogynist too? You need to travel a bit outside the Beltway, see ALL of Merka! [s/o] --FT On 3/1/17 1:22 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:

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So how do people pay for that? Does insurance pay for it? Does the state? If people are paying that much themselves I would think they would run out of money pretty quickly. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 1, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > The

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You mean like this afternoon? On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The nut on those places probably starts at $4k a month or so and goes up > depending on how many changes of your Depends you need every day. My dad > was in one for several

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The nut on those places probably starts at $4k a month or so and goes up depending on how many changes of your Depends you need every day. My dad was in one for several years, in a nursing home now, you don't even want to know about that... There are a lot of places down in Mexico now that

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Guadalajara has more Americans than Mexicans, if I may exaggerate slightly. On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I was driving down the road today and there was a commercial on the radio > talking about some new assisted living place

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I was driving down the road today and there was a commercial on the radio talking about some new assisted living place opening soon and how they were fixing $3000 off the first months rent. Holy hell I would hate to see how much the rent is. If I'm old I will just stay at a Mexican resort or go