caskets

Renting isn't just for apartments and cars anymore. Americans today are trying to save a few bucks by taking only temporary ownership (or, borrowership) of a whole new array of goods from designer handbags, rims to pimp their rides, iPhones, power tools and, yes, caskets.

Here's a way to have your casket and drink it too...Aaah, PBR! Let Budweiser claim to be the king of beers; Pabst Blue Ribbon doesn't aspire to such lofty heights. Pabst is the beer of the working man, the hard-core drinker, the one that I'd pick up at the bar when I'd already gotten drunk and...

A few weeks ago, I suggested some ways to save money on caskets or by using alternative burial methods. I was impressed by the response to these posts. Many people weren't too excited by the idea of being shot into space or buried at sea, but were very interested in finding ways to pay less for a...

When I was in high school, I took a class titled "Death and Dying." In addition to learning about the grieving process and reading afterlife narratives, my class studied the ins and outs of the funeral industry. We inspected coffins, read Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, hung out in...

We hope that you plan to spend the rest of your life joining us in our quest for bargains. But what about afterward? It's no secret that the cost of dying is rising with the rest of the economy. According to the National Funeral Director's Association (NFDA) the average cost of a funeral in 2004...