General Discussion

I don't want to judge her daughter, but I think it was scripted and I know these ads are scripted because I was behind the scenes once and was shown that most companies hand you a script and request you stick to the script with zero deviation, it's why all the sponsor ads sound the exact same. It's the same script being passed around like the tithing plate at Church.

I feel like if her mom was angry with her over the choice of cremation without consulting her first which makes the most sense as her mom did tell them that she expected they'd figure it out, so her mother may have expected a traditional burial, this makes me uncomfortable...

It makes me feel weird. It feels like the company specializes in cremation, knows many people aren't gonna want it because of the risks I list in the video + religious reasons they might have, and thus made this ad to encourage family to plan the funeral as fast as possible -- even without the family's consent -- to have them cremated without speaking to anyone while that relative whose death they're planning for is still alive.

The real issue is how her daughter handled her mom's anger. Instead of asking her mom how she felt, or saying "So, you don't want to be cremated? We can pick another option." She dismisses her mother. She's overall extremely dismissive of her mom, and shows a sort of dislike and animosity toward her mom. Can you sense it? I feel... Animosity.

I looked it up and After is a cremation company, but the message would have come across much better without the casual dismissiveness of the mother, even if the mother is fictional, the disrespect to her discomfort with potentially being cremated without her consent and with her express rejection is... Discomforting.

She's talking about planning her mom's death, but her mom doesn't want to. So, she plans her mom's cremation without her mom's consent. She did this because when her grandma died, the family was arguing over the cost of cremation because they didn't plan for her funeral I think. She said the logistics can steal your grief, which I agreed with and understood.

However, I feel this ad is scripted as I've been behind the scenes on these types of things and ads have scripts given to you and most companies tell you to stick to the script. So, I'm wondering why the company wrote this script for the ad?

She also says "And When the time comes and I pray it's not for a very long time???" That's weird. I didn't want to judge her, I said some awkward things in my video, I may not always do the right thing, but since this ad is most likely scripted, I would like to know what this company thought a line like that would convey? Not only that, but her and her mother seem to have a bad relationship -- her saying her mom has been angry with her since 1997. Is that her birth year?

I'm not saying cremation is a bad thing in my posts, sort of... I'm saying that it's risky and shouldn't be made without person in question's consent with their body.

And if you're gonna say "Well, the UK makes everyone an auto organ donor." It's not like the UK deciding everyone is an organ donor though I'm not sure if this is that particular country where you can opt out, but some countries allow for opting out.

That's not the same thing at all in my opinion. One is done because people would die without the necessary organs, and the government wanted to save more lives + possibly prevent people from feeling the need to create an organ harvesting black market.

With situations like that one time a real life mother threw another woman's baby's ashes out the window to spite the girlfriend of her baby daddy out of jealousy, if your family member is against you planning cremation for them, and they were alive while you planned it so they voiced their opinion while alive LIVIDLY, you should respect that choice because when the body is cremated, their body is so lightweight that anyone can just pick up the body and just do anything awful with the ash remains of your loved one.