capncnut
16-Jan-2009, 07:17 PM
Okay, I sat on this for a couple of days now so I'm gonna spill.
Two days ago I popped into mum's house for breakfast to find her on the phone talking to medics. I'm like "WTF is going on?" She replies weirdly, "Nana died sometime last night. I just found her. This twat on the phone is telling me to give CPR."
So I take a look and yeah, Nana (my grandmother) is dead; eyes glassy, mouth agape (strange blissful look on her face), cold as ice and stiff as a board. In shock, I said to my mother, "CPR? You are having a f**king laugh. She's dead."
"But they wanna make sure. They are asking me to put her on the floor."
After some swearing from me, I picked up my little Nana's corpse (which had been dead for quite some hours) and carried her to the floor, which wasn't fun let me tell you. Fortunately, the paramedics arrived on cue so I didn't have to do anything. She was pronounced dead on the scene, the cause being bronchial pneumonia, and was taken away after a couple of hours.
There were no tears and, as it was expected, we've all dealt with it fine...
...until today when my mother learned that the cremation is going to cost between £2000-2500 ($4000-5000). Now I don't mean to sound insensitive to my poor Nana's death but two grand to slide a tiny old lady into a furnace? You have got to be f**king kidding!
Talk about 'dealers in death'. :rolleyes:
Two days ago I popped into mum's house for breakfast to find her on the phone talking to medics. I'm like "WTF is going on?" She replies weirdly, "Nana died sometime last night. I just found her. This twat on the phone is telling me to give CPR."
So I take a look and yeah, Nana (my grandmother) is dead; eyes glassy, mouth agape (strange blissful look on her face), cold as ice and stiff as a board. In shock, I said to my mother, "CPR? You are having a f**king laugh. She's dead."
"But they wanna make sure. They are asking me to put her on the floor."
After some swearing from me, I picked up my little Nana's corpse (which had been dead for quite some hours) and carried her to the floor, which wasn't fun let me tell you. Fortunately, the paramedics arrived on cue so I didn't have to do anything. She was pronounced dead on the scene, the cause being bronchial pneumonia, and was taken away after a couple of hours.
There were no tears and, as it was expected, we've all dealt with it fine...
...until today when my mother learned that the cremation is going to cost between £2000-2500 ($4000-5000). Now I don't mean to sound insensitive to my poor Nana's death but two grand to slide a tiny old lady into a furnace? You have got to be f**king kidding!
Talk about 'dealers in death'. :rolleyes: