Neptune Society.....or what?

[+ azdr0710]

sorry to start a new thread on what we'll do when we die , but the Neptune Society was mentioned in the https://m4m-forum.org/threads/whats-to-become-of-you.134246/ thread by @Topseed and then promptly lost.....

 

have heard of it for years, but wondering if anybody has a strong pro- or con-opinion of the Neptune Society?.....recently received a mailing from them soliciting business....they seem to be "publicly traded" and so I wonder if they are strongly for-profit......do they have a generally good rep?......are there other similar options?.....my personal desire is to be cremated as cheaply as possible (without having my cremains mixed up with somebody else) and then have some friend take me up in the mountains or out on the desert and pour me out in a remote location......no desire for funeral, services, memorial at all.......

 

thanks for any comments on cremation options

Edited March 29, 2018 by azdr0710

[LaffingBear]

Have a favorable opinion.

 

Theres a similar Trident Society in my region, and Ive requested info.

[Kevin Slater]

I'm rather suspicious. You never hear any firsthand accounts from any other their customers.

 

Kevin Slater

[+ Keith30309]

I’ve looked into them and they’ve been around for a while. I didn’t get any sense of anything being at all shady. They even have an office near my home (I suppose this makes drop-off and pick-up convenient.)

 

I’d like to be mixed in with concrete to make a form for an artificial reef, supporting all sorts of new life forever.

 

[+ azdr0710]

They even have an office near my home (I suppose this makes drop-off and pick-up convenient.)

 

any strange smells wafting near your house?!.....late at night??!!

 

(I suppose the crematorium is elsewhere)

[Kevin Slater]

any strange smells wafting near your house?!.....late at night??!!

 

(I suppose the crematorium is elsewhere)

 

 

Kevin Slater

[+ azdr0710]

 

Kevin Slater

 

thanks for that!.....prompted my periodic viewing of that final scene!

 

[bigvalboy]

sorry to start a new thread on what we'll do when we die , but the Neptune Society was mentioned in the https://m4m-forum.org/threads/whats-to-become-of-you.134246/ thread by @Topseed and then promptly lost.....

 

have heard of it for years, but wondering if anybody has a strong pro- or con-opinion of the Neptune Society?.....recently received a mailing from them soliciting business....they seem to be "publicly traded" and so I wonder if they are strongly for-profit......do they have a generally good rep?......are there other similar options?.....my personal desire is to be cremated as cheaply as possible (without having my cremains mixed up with somebody else) and then have some friend take me up in the mountains or out on the desert and pour me out in a remote location......no desire for funeral, services, memorial at all.......

 

thanks for any comments on cremation options

 

My family has used them twice. Once in San Francisco and once off the coast of Southern California. Both times the attendants were very respectful of the family and the situation. We spread my uncles ashes beyond the Golden Gate Bridge in a wonderful ceremony on the back of one of their boats..They provided everything.

 

Another friend had his ashes spread off of Santa Barbara. He belonged to a boating club, so several boats accompanied us out. Everyone from the Neptune Society were very nice and helpful.

http://www.neptune-society.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/naiad-4-900x600.jpeg

[+ honcho]

My family has used them twice. Once in San Francisco and once off the coast of Southern California. Both times the attendants were very respectful of the family and the situation. We spread my uncles ashes beyond the Golden Gate Bridge in a wonderful ceremony on the back of one of their boats..They provided everything.

 

Another friend had his ashes spread off of Santa Barbara. He belonged to a boating club, so several boats accompanied us out. Everyone from the Neptune Society were very nice and helpful.

http://www.neptune-society.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/naiad-4-900x600.jpeg

 

The neptune society also provided the service of spreading the ashes of my best friend, who died of the plague back in 1989. I agree with everything Bigvalboy said about them.

[rvwnsd]

 

Kevin Slater

 

thanks for that!.....prompted my periodic viewing of that final scene!

 

 

They have since stepped up their marketing.

[Rudynate]

I volunteered in an AIDS hospice run by a Zen Center. Many of the patients had nobody, no family or estranged. When these guys died, the hospice took care of everything. The Neptune Society drove over to pick them up. They would come back in a day or two in the form of a box of ashes. I never heard any complaints.

[+ Just Sayin]

@azdr0710 you might try Science Care:

 

http://www.sciencecare.com

 

it takes what parts of your body are usable for medical research and then cremates the remainder; it delivers your ashes as requested; there is no cost.

 

I've had very positive experiences with the firm; compassionate, dignified and did what was promised when promised.