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Kim Teevan's avatar

My favoite line, "In this part of the country.... - Shrugging your shoulders is considered an extreme emotion."

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Candice Crossley's avatar

“…Completely stripped down, bare bones, which is in a few months what you will have.” 👍

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Allyson Gierke's avatar

Oh Jack, I laughed out loud at this. I can just see it. We’ve been there.

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Jack Boulware's avatar

You know it!

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Matthew Crowley's avatar

Yes, the Montana funeral home. In 2014 I went through this process, but with cremation. You still need to visit the home if even to be handed the plastic box containing the zip-tied plastic bag containing the ashes. I waited in a showroom on a couch. Indeed, the outdoor themes apply even to upscale urns and boxes for containing ashes.

My own tactical failure was not possessing a diagonal cutter when it came time to open the plastic bag to disperse the ashes. Though I had a Leatherman tool, the wire cutters won't reach to the neck of a bag that's been zip-tied. I had to crudely open the bag with the knife. Thankfully it didn't turn into a Big Lebowski thing, and even if it did I was alone. When done with that exercise you are left with a plastic bag and plastic box. Being that I was near a public campground near town I discarded the plastic ignominiously in a bear-resistant dumpster.

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Jack Boulware's avatar

Oh Man!!

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