Pure Cremation

[grumpy01]

I know that it’s inevitable for us all but do this company have to keep ramming it down our throats.

[barry1010]

They are taking advantage of the cheaper tv advertising, grumpy. TV companies are struggling to sell their advert slots because of Covid.

[Mozz71]

I clearly watch different channels, as I've no idea what you're talking about!

[grumpy01]

Mozz it’s on various channels in the afternoon.

[gingejbee]

I've never seen a Pure Cremation ad (TV not on til 7pm-ish), but I did use them a few years ago for a "direct cremation" and they were excellent.

[Mozz71]

Fair enough Grumps, I don't really watch daytime tv.

[Canary42]

///do this company have to keep ramming it down our throats.///


Only if you let them. I've had no contact with/from them whatsoever and nothing's been rammed down my throat (although a nurse did ram a needle into my arm a couple of hours ago - the Covid vaccine that is)

[Tyrion44]

I feel that they are playing on the elderly who don’t wish to be a burden to anyone. A funeral helps in the grieving process and this firm seem to be trying to erase this.

[emmie]

i have only seen them on day time tv and not lately...

[woofgang]

Tyrion that "funeral helps in the grieving process" is a load of toot. It helps some and not others. Its like that other load of toot "you'll feel better if you have a good cry"

[davebro]

There's a cartoon one with a grandad walking on the beach & the same grandad talking to another old man.

And there's one with a black guy saying " I hate funerals, that' why I'm not going to mine."

Adverts can be annoying but I think it's good to be made aware of alternatives. Not one size fits all.

[Cloverjo]

You might just as well complain about the company that keeps ramming lifts for elderly people down our throats.

[Sqad]

Pure Cremation.
Very important as the alternative is an impure cremation where only half of you is cremated and the rest buried.
The latter is much cheaper though.

[emmie]

day time tv aimed purely at the elderly it would seem. Pension companies, Life Insurance, funeral directors, cremation ads as you say.
all telling us our time is almost up, or will be some time in the near future.

[emmie]

sqad that's some macabre joke you got going there...

[davebro]

A new one that bugs the heck out of me is Parsley Box ready meals. Some old biddy whimpering "And there's always room for some sticky toffee pudding."

Course you is you dope because the main meal portions are tiny and taste so awful you probably threw it down the bog!

[emmie]

lol ^^

[JimF]

The first time I saw this I was sure that the voiceover said "They *dig* you up" rather than "They *pick* you up".

[AuntPollyGrey]

// I feel that they are playing on the elderly who don’t wish to be a burden to anyone. //

If these 'elderly' folk want a simple no fuss funeral, then that's their choice. If they feel so strongly that they want one, and have it stated in their Will, then they should have one. I, for one, do not want my family to fork out £5K to some fawning Undertakers with posh cars -I'm down for a simple cremation and the money saved is set aside for a big party/wake/call it what you like at a later date.

[MallyJ]

I am after a pure cremation because I don't want any fuss and I have no desire for relatives to come to a do that will have to be paid for when actually they have never shown any interest in me and what I am doing...oh unless they want something from me!!!

[rowanwitch]

It's what Dave wanted, although I used the CoOp version I knew the time it would take place so on the day/time I say quietly with my thoughts. The old folk in the sheltered housing block were really p'd off, no funeral meant no funeral spread afterwards. Got a few nasty remarks along the line of not caring about him etc.