There's been a death in my family and I'm involved in the planning process. Looking at mortuary price lists, I want to know why the memorial thumb drive is several hundred dollars. I mean this must be an incredible thumb drive right. Does it have 5000 TB or transform into a cappuccino machine - ThreadSky

shrewshrew.bsky.social • 17 days ago

There's been a death in my family and I'm involved in the planning process. Looking at mortuary price lists, I want to know why the memorial thumb drive is several hundred dollars. I mean this must be an incredible thumb drive right. Does it have 5000 TB or transform into a cappuccino machine

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shadylink.lol•17 days ago

The thumb drive is filled with memes that are sure to pay Charon for crossing the river.

captainsidecar.bsky.social•17 days ago

Is it made from an actual thumb?

mraulston.bsky.social•16 days ago

It's like going to the Funeral Walmart, with predatory sales people trying to gaslight you in your darkest hour into buying the most overpriced, ridiculous bullshit because "your loved one".

Also, you are NOT required to embalm, though they make you think you are.

chollyv.bsky.social•17 days ago

Also, sorry for your loss.

chollyv.bsky.social•17 days ago

There are two types of funeral service customers: At Need and Pre-Need.

They take you to the cleaners when At Need, because you are in a terrible emotional state.

Also, a lot of these "mom and pop" shops are actually owned by private equity (veterinarians too!) so the gouging is coming from above

shrewshrew.bsky.social•16 days ago

Jokes on them, I'm always in a terrible emotional state

chollyv.bsky.social•16 days ago

I work in IT. If you want to passive-aggressively fuck with them, ask for the SKU of the device before purchasing so you can check if it will work with your anitivirus program.

That is straight bullshit, but if it's a $20 drive, they will let you use your own rather than give you that info.

shrewshrew.bsky.social•16 days ago

It's ok. I'm not trying to create drama. Just having a laugh in an unavoidable situation

jlkaufmann.bsky.social•17 days ago

... a memorial THUMB DRIVE?

...

OK yes I want the cappuccino version.

Many condolences to you and your family. Thinking of you.

reasonalble.bsky.social•16 days ago

Heartfelt condolences to you and family. May the departed RIP.

mysteryshopper.bsky.social•17 days ago

But it would be cool to be able to drive with just a thumb.

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

Now we're cooking with induction

mysteryshopper.bsky.social•17 days ago

Vaping!

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

This whole experience has been sad and dumb, as is much of life right now, and fixating on what could possibly make a thumb drive worth so much (wrong answers only) has been such a gift to my dissociation I just wanted to share it

vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social•17 days ago

Sorry to hear that, Shrew... best wishes for you and your family.

By any chance does the thumb drive capable of a Max Headroom-style projection?

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

Only one way to find out, and only one time and place to find out (during the memorial in a particularly quiet moment)

vrboombatzmdphd.bsky.social•16 days ago

Yes!

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

What an exciting opportunity to mute m*n who are informing me that 'mortuary services are a rip off' this has become. Their breathtaking confidence that not only is this the first death in my family, but that in my sheltered existence I've only seen edits of The Big Lebowski where Donny lives

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

Now roughing out a short story in which a family of immortal beings has the first death in their family and becomes outraged at the ambiguous pricing of the dove releasing ceremony

marypcbuk.bsky.social•17 days ago

I would read this! especially when they price up the green burial in hand woven wicker against digging a plot in their own wood (I did one of those woodland burials for my mum before they were quite so trendy and Etsy-like)

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

Look they're immortal but they're not made of money. No one's quite sure what they're made of but it's not money

shrewshrew.bsky.social•16 days ago

I choose to believe Departed would be darkly amused to know that this post making light of a small foible in a challenging time drew so many weird tone deaf responses that I had to change the interaction settings 😎

sciencebanshee.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm so sorry for your loss. At very least, it should be able to slice, dice, and make *great* julienne fries

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm talking spiralizer MINIMUM

deborahbuddingphd.bsky.social•17 days ago

Condolences shrew
I can only hope that thumb drive has holodeck capabilities

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

Ooh [departed] would have been incredibly into this. Only if it has a Moriarty who is constantly attempting to escape and become a real boy tho

alysondecker.bsky.social•17 days ago

It is gold plated and displayed on a plaque. You can’t actually use it to look at anything on the thumb drive- but they give you a download link for that.

mckaylaf.bsky.social•16 days ago

Vape?

crow202.com•17 days ago

The whole funeral industry is based on the idea that most people will just pay the money and not look at the price tags because it's upsetting and they want to get it over with quickly.

censored4truth.bsky.social•16 days ago

It is probably an $8 drive from Alibaba. Says 1TB, but it is really 16GB.

ja.meswebber.com•17 days ago

it's a special new kind of USB that even Apple doesn't know about

ja.meswebber.com•17 days ago

it does not work with any of your existing devices, in fact it makes them worse somehow

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

Thats a standard thumb drive feature ime

lexie1179.bsky.social•16 days ago

Question everything.

mickeylane.bsky.social•17 days ago

At some point, you'll be asked how many death certificates @ some ridiculous $$$$ you want. Take the minimum and file one with the county clerk. Unlimited certified copies @ $. Or whoever can get their own copy

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is useful info ty

jadedragon.bsky.social•17 days ago

This is probably gonna vary by your location. I work at a county clerk and we don't hold any vital records. Copies of birth/death/marriage records can be obtained from the individual towns in our county.

shrewshrew.bsky.social•17 days ago

Also useful info. Ok a new research frontier

mickeylane.bsky.social•17 days ago

So the same process would work with the town clerk instead of the county clerk? I did not know there were town clerks holding vital records. As you say, varies by location

jadedragon.bsky.social•17 days ago

I've never personally had to deal with a death certificate, but if I had to guess whoever signs off on the death is the one that files it with the town.

jadedragon.bsky.social•17 days ago

For marriages it's whatever town you applied for your marriage license, for births it's where you were born (so the towns with hospitals in them have most of the birth records for the county).

mickeylane.bsky.social•16 days ago

It's been my experience that whoever is handling the deceased prepares the certificate, some doctor signs it and then it winds up in the hands of the family. No one files it anywhere.

I'm sure it's different elsewhere

pistisspirit.bsky.social•17 days ago

Mortuaries serve a purpose by are also a racket (IMO). My mother did not want a funeral and wanted her remains handled in the most efficient and cost effective way possible. We arranged cremation. The funeral director asked me if I wanted a box (at considerable cost)

pistisspirit.bsky.social•17 days ago

surrounding my mother for the cremation. I looked at him with no small amount of incredulity. He was trying to play on my emotions and I thought it was unconscionable.

buglas.bsky.social•17 days ago

Like their consciousness has been buried within your laptop and it's sticking out the side like a little tombstone.

jackphantom.bsky.social•17 days ago

The mortuary business is a ripoff. I've given my family instructions to donate my corpse to a medical school and they will dispose of what's left.

vctr.ninja•16 days ago

I'm donating my body to feed the homeless.

geauxblue.bsky.social•16 days ago

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