I apologize if it’s the wrong flair.
So basically I live with my grandmother. To put it lightly, this woman has put me through hell for the (almost: I turn next month) 18 years of my life.
Her health is deteriorating rapidly. Doctors are running more tests, but it’s not looking good for her.
I’m to be soon getting a job once I come of age. She’s already making demands on what she wants her funeral to look like, how many people to be there, etc. Mind you she doesn’t have a dime to her name nor life insurance. She expects me to pay for it somehow.
They could throw her body in the trash for all I care. Is it possible I can donate her body to science?
I have no contact with her side of the family. Not my mother either. My uncle lives in the same town, but she barely talks to him on the phone. So basically I’m next of kin right? All my other family lives in the southern states or in Chicago. That’s all I know about them.
sadhandjobs on September 10th, 2018 at 14:32 UTC »
OP on learning that evil grandma will be buried in a mass grave: “Good enough for me.”
Damn, that’s cold! But I’m glad it will work out for them.
Edit: that comment from OP was deleted by the mods. Why?
USUNFK on September 10th, 2018 at 14:16 UTC »
This is interesting to me. In Canada if you're on social assistance, the government covers a basic funeral. My aunt-in-law was on social assistance and they did an open casket service with food service and those little memorial cards, then cremated the body and provided an urn, all on the budget the government provides. I dealt with the paperwork: I paid a bit extra to get a few of those charms, and the family pooled money for a plot to inter the ashes, but none of that was required, really.
If you're not on social assistance your benefactor get $2500 from the federal government (Canada Pension Plan) to go towards funeral fees/services, though they don't actually check: you could do whatever you want with it. The $2500 was enough to pay for my dad's cremation and obituary, and do a rudimentary memorial service at home (flowers, food from Costco, local church ladies brought over a huge coffee pot and folding chairs).
Is there nothing provided in the United States?
michapman2 on September 10th, 2018 at 11:12 UTC »
As a human being, you should never ever EVER let your relationship deteriorate to the point where your grandkids are cool with you being dumped in a mass grave when you die.