Comments on: GOOD Magazine Presents: The Business of Death http://laughingsquid.com/good-magazine-presents-the-business-of-death/ art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:36:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Tracy http://laughingsquid.com/good-magazine-presents-the-business-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-330452 Tracy Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:40:41 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/good-magazine-presents-the-business-of-death/#comment-330452 I am all about pre-need! I know this sounds weird, but I have been though this several times. 1) it locks down the price. 2) It takes away some surreal decisions from your upset and fragile survivors. I am all about pre-need! I know this sounds weird, but I have been though this several times. 1) it locks down the price. 2) It takes away some surreal decisions from your upset and fragile survivors.

]]> By: Brooke von Grouchosuavité http://laughingsquid.com/good-magazine-presents-the-business-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-328685 Brooke von Grouchosuavité Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:14:11 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/good-magazine-presents-the-business-of-death/#comment-328685 Tell me about it. Dad used to work commission sales as a "pre-need counselor" for Forest Lawn when we lived in southern California. Dad, not a salesman at heart at all, was trying hard to just make a living. Most salesman don't give a shit about the product really; they can and will sell anything. Most unsettling was the dopey selling points they would push like having a 1/2 scale Michelangelo's David or an "authentic replica of the gates of Buckingham palace:, the crazy euphemistic names of various "need plans" ("Oh we have a lovely eternity garden plan at "Heart' Level in the Mausoleum.") A good read on the subject from "the queen of the muckrakers", Jessica Mitford - "The American Way of Death" Tell me about it.
Dad used to work commission sales as a “pre-need counselor” for Forest Lawn when we lived in southern California.

Dad, not a salesman at heart at all, was trying hard to just make a living. Most salesman don’t give a shit about the product really; they can and will sell anything.

Most unsettling was the dopey selling points they would push like having a 1/2 scale Michelangelo’s David or an “authentic replica of the gates of Buckingham palace:, the crazy euphemistic names of various “need plans” (”Oh we have a lovely eternity garden plan at “Heart’ Level in the Mausoleum.”)

A good read on the subject from “the queen of the muckrakers”, Jessica Mitford – “The American Way of Death”

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