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Pet cemeteries and crematoriums are sprouting up all over the country as grieving owners lavish untold money on the process of letting go. Pet passing is such a growth industry even Costco has jumped on the funeral wagon. Costco customers can find a selection of pet urns at costco.com
Costco magazine did an article on the groundswell of post pet practices. They quoted Doyle Shubart, who has a funeral home in Atlanta. He charges $375 for burying body or cremains directly in the ground. "Directly" is billed as a "green burial." No word whether Shubart has a compost worm business on the side.
He also offers deluxe burials with fancy caskets and granite markers for a mere $3000. “It's not extravagant,” he says, "pet owners want to know where their pet is and what happens to their pet." Other than it being dead of course.
As a member of the IAOPCC, the International Association of Pet Cemeteries and Creamatories, he also supplies grief counseling services and resources.
In case you're sad that $3000 could have provided two meals each for 300 starving children at the food bank.
Other options exist. For the eco-conscious there's Eternal Reefs in Decatur, Georgia, which offers sea burials and combines pet cremains with concrete to form artificial reefs. They also offer biodegradable urns that dissolve in water in four hours.
"Eco-conscious" means your puppy can feed a guppy.
The circle of life.
To those who want to break the circle, there's a really cool alternative. Starting at $1000, you can have your pet freeze-dried, like hunters do with big game trophies. Pet mortician Shubart says the pet "looks like he did when he left home."
1000 bucks? Not bad. Good for the Great Dane, sure…
And at that price, maybe Granny too.
America, ya gotta love it.