Toronto Will Pay For Corey Haim's Funeral
Corey Haim didn't have much money in the bank at the time of his death, so his mother Judy asked for help to cover his funeral expenses. The city of Toronto heard her cry and has agreed to cover the costs of Corey's funeral. Judy tells Access Hollywood that a memoribilia site named Starifacts also agreed to chip in $20,000 to pay for Corey's tombstone, but she hasn't received a check from them yet. They do know Western Union is open on Sundays, right?
The Haim family is also trying to raise money for Corey's funeral by selling all of his belonging on eBay through family friend Scott Schwartz.
Corey's funeral will be held on Tuesday in his hometown of Toronto.
You know who should really pay for Corey's funeral? That troublemaking tramp Mercedes from License to Drive! She's the one who got Corey in trouble, because she dented up the hood of his father's car by getting drunk and passing out on it. Mercedes owes him!
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If you die indigent here and your remaining family can't afford to bury you, they can apply to the Provincial goverment to have the cost of a basic funeral covered which gets you a minimal service, a pine box and a plaque in the ground - no headstone.
Anyway, to date, the Haim family hasn't made such an application with the City of Toronto and apparently their funeral home is paying for it.
And no, Toronto is not "frozen," we've had hardly any snow either. A backhoe will dig a deep hole in the ground - Toronto isn't the frikkin Arctic tundra you know. The only thing that doesn't go up in winter is the headstone.
Heather Grahm = Mercedes.
*off to youtube to watch License to Drive*
feldman's website song is horrible!
http://www.coreyfeldman.net/index2.html
as far as that little TRAMP mercedes goes!- it was Les Andersons GRANPAS cadillac hood that she caved in a passed out in the trunk, AND i think she threw up in it! bah! I'M OFF TO WATCH LICENSE TO DRIVE.
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It's great to read some input questioning what Corey Haim did in his life to merit a $20K tombstone. Look, he was a druggie, a bum, a nothing. His mom may want to immortalize him with some ritzy marker, but other than that, most people are questioning the logic of such action. Then again, she does not have the moolah to purchase such a stone!
Just plant him in the ground, toss a handful of salt over his remains, fill in the hole, and move on. Really, he was not much of a human being when you really look at it.
Corey Feldman does not have to contribute a dime to such a farce. I wish him well. He did his best to help an ungrateful, envious childhood pal. Haim was a lost cause. Feldman did his best while Haim was alive. Now Haim is gone. Don't waste time on money to immortalize him. Learn the lessons and go forward with life.
I thought I read that he died in the same apartment complex as Rick James. I figured it was some off Hollywood place for broken past stars. Toronto makes that a strange coincidence.
Number 2 : Peter Graves died.
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=487915>1=28103
yet they're still trying to raise cash? how much money does that family need to give him the low-budget funeral he deserves?
he didn't exactly earn the Perpetual Flame option during his lifetime.
btw, if I were from Toronto, I'd be furious right now.
If I am not cremated, I want one of those environmentally-safe Cardboard Caskets.
You know Walmart isn't selling those caskets!
Submitted by Tigerlilly on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:46pm.
My parents years ago bought an estate-like storage unit where the person didn't pay the rent etc... They resell them to a third party and rarely see the contents. Anyway, for this one, my mom wanted to look. She found an urn with a lady's name on it. They couldn't locate the family so my mom kept her! Fuckin' weird! She brings her urn out at Christmas and shit. They bought a house here, when they move here I'm finding that lady's family. It's an amazing urn that was handmade, someone loved her.
@bunny rabbit
are you muslim?
@tigerlily
OMG, that's exactly how i want to be buried.funerals are so fucking wasteful.save the mooney for the living. my uncle died last yr and he had no money and my family paid $8000 (USD5000) for a dead basic hindu funeral. either that or chop me up into bits and throw me into the sea.
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Wow that's sad! So many Hollywood "friends" and romantic partners and not one could be bothered to chip in at least $1,000 to get this man buried?
Times like these is when you discover who are your real friends.
i don't discount the possibility that the orca ate the car.
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Submitted by TITS on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 12:30am.
Gobbler - islands of vancouver island. low tide a deer was caught swimming and *nab*.
license plates have also been found in orcas.
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Ah, it's disgusting how we humans treat the ocean...
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I cannot believe that nobody has yet to bring up that Mercedes was played Heather Graham...my all-time favorite Roller-Girl.
The first time I saw Boogie Nights, I thought to myself..."Oh my, that is the same girl from the Corey Haim movie when I was in high school!"
Gobbler - islands of vancouver island. low tide a deer was caught swimming and *nab*.
license plates have also been found in orcas.
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On topic, I would never let one of my children become a child actor. And that is not just because none of them are talented enough or good looking enough either!!
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Submitted by ScarfnBarf on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 12:14am.
did you hear about the orca that died and when opened up they found a deer and other assorted oddities?
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Submitted by thegobbler on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 12:10am.
Submitted by TITS on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 11:41pm.
Submitted by thegobbler on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:57pm.
did you hear about the orca that died and when opened up they found a deer and other assorted oddities?
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Get out! Where was this?
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Submitted by Tigerlilly on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:46pm.
Yep, that makes perfect sense to me...Actually I have told my family CREMATION and nothing else but burial at sea will do. I said to them if it were legal I'd have you put my body deep in a forrest uncovered where it would nourish animals and plants and I'm dead serious about that. I find how we treat our dead so very wasteful.
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I'm really sickened by the whole funeral industry here. What a huge waste of money. In my parents' motherland, funerals are free. Yes, free. You can give a small donation to the graveyard keeper if you want. Basically, once a person dies, their remains are washed down, maybe dabbed with a bit of eucalyptus or camphor, completely wrapped in a clean, white shroud, and buried without a coffin into a grave. Truth be told, the body decomposes better into the ground that way and it's truly an organic funeral. You can pay someone (very minimal) to wash the body down, but there's a LOT of honor and blessings in doing it yourself for a family member. There's never any worry for cost and funerals are all the same, whether you are rich or poor. Small prayer, go home and eat what your extended family brings. Yeah, some of the dignitaries or kings may get a fancier tomb or something, but there's no pride lost at having the simplest grave possible.
Submitted by ImpertinentVixen on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 7:40pm.
$20,000 for a tombstone is scandalous. If you HAVE the money, great. But chipping in for a broke, sick, junkie? No thanks.
The whole shebang shouldn't cost more than a few thousaand, tops.
Somebody needs bill-payin' money.
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I'm glad someone had the cojones to say this. Why on earth would anyone want a $20,000 tombstone?WTF, is it made out of gold or something? Don't have money? Have a simple burial. There's nothing wrong with that. The mother sounds positively vile.
Submitted by TITS on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 11:41pm.
Submitted by thegobbler on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:57pm.
did you hear about the orca that died and when opened up they found a deer and other assorted oddities?
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Get out! Where was this?
ETA: Just read that resident orcas eat fish, and transient orcas eat mammals, as a general rule, so it make sense that an orca would eat a deer if the deer was swimming, say, from island to island.
Very interesting!
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you're welcome, cappy
g'nite
Submitted by speakit on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 11:57pm.
cappy, honey, you sprung ahead too much. It's almost 1.
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lol! dang, that is how exhausted i am. Speaks, sweets, if it wasn't for you, my dumb ass would have set the cell phone time/alarm wonky (i don't have auto updt of time set on my cell - cause i always have it 7 minutes faster cause i'm always late to everything). thx
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i hope everyone remembered we jumped ahead one hour due to the daylights time savings.
cappy, honey, you sprung ahead too much. It's almost 1.
Submitted by But.Seriously.Folks on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:52pm.
Everybody needs life insurance. Yeah, nobody wants to really think about the big dirt nap, but we're all gonna take it eventually. How awful to add financial stress on top of grief. That has happened in my family in the past and it sucks. Be a grown-up and get life insurance. A year's salary worth of coverage is free through my employer and only a few bucks extra to double or triple it.
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But Seriously, do you work for Vicki Gunvalson?
alright, im out. almost 2am on the EC. still damn raining. shout outs to the night crew. *hugs*
(edited...RIP Corey)
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Submitted by BabyJane on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:53pm.
How much is "good friend", "best friend" Corey Feldman chipping in for the funeral? Yeaaaah, that's what I thought.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Submitted by thegobbler on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:57pm.
did you hear about the orca that died and when opened up they found a deer and other assorted oddities?
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Who the heck is Corey Haim?
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Submitted by Soultonic on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 11:04pm.
Submitted by thegobbler on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:57pm.
I believe you're right...it seems I got caught up in the heat of the moment. I apologize to anyone I may offended. bitches. :)
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Sad to think, though, that there ARE actually ppl who have those misconceptions about Canada...
Not our well-educated, worldly d-listers, though!
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Oh Can-a-da...you'll always be Nikki to our Paris. A little more low-key and slightly less douchey. We know we're a trainwreck. Don't leave us! We like having you on top. But if you do leave us, know that we'll move Brazil up there and make a sex tape with them. You've been warned!
Ok, enough pontificating, I need some liquor.
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Submitted by thegobbler on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:57pm.
I believe you're right...it seems I got caught up in the heat of the moment. I apologize to anyone I may offended. bitches. :)
poor dude doesn't even have a plot to piss in.
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Submitted by Manimal5 on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 11:06pm.
Fat, drunk and speeding is no way to go through life!!
Submitted by Soultonic on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:58pm.
I love how ignorant people are...asking stupid questions about Canada. Last time I checked Canada is a modernized country. They would bury someone the same way they would bury them in the U.S. States like Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois can be just as cold as places like Toronto. Common sense!
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As a Canadian, I assumed the questions were asked in a teasing, joking kind of way. If they weren't, y'all need to like, such as, learn some stuff about other countries! lol
Here on the west coast we just feed our dead to the orcas...
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i'm sorry that he died (not really) but why does the state have to chip in? thousands of poor people, not even vagrants are given paupers' funerals. what good has he contributed to the world that his death should be memorialized and mourned by anyone other than his family? at this rate there's be a nationwide moment of silence, flags at half mast and huge fucking monument for lindsey's funeral.
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Everybody needs life insurance. Yeah, nobody wants to really think about the big dirt nap, but we're all gonna take it eventually. How awful to add financial stress on top of grief. That has happened in my family in the past and it sucks. Be a grown-up and get life insurance. A year's salary worth of coverage is free through my employer and only a few bucks extra to double or triple it.
This may be my most boring post ever. Oh Corey, what have you done to me??
Ok, enough pontificating, I need some liquor.
-LOVE ANDERSON
I love how ignorant people are...asking stupid questions about Canada. Last time I checked Canada is a modernized country. They would bury someone the same way they would bury them in the U.S. States like Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois can be just as cold as places like Toronto. Common sense!
Submitted by buddhistgirl69 on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:20pm.
@Angel: I love Canadians because at one time I too was a Canadian...we immigrated to the U.S from Vancouver when I was 2.. my daughter was born when I lived in Vancouver in the 90's, I married a Canadian man who died unexpectedly and very young, so I am back in the States. No Offense meant... but isn't Toronto cold, cold, cold at this time of year?
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Umm...that was a such a good story for a short, short post. I rejoiced, I cried, I laughed....and now I get to answer a question!
Not this year. But other years, yeah. We're not even CLOSE to being the coldest or snowiest place in Canada. And we do enjoy warming our globe at every opportunity;p
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How much is "good friend", "best friend" Corey Feldman chipping in for the funeral? Yeaaaah, that's what I thought.
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Submitted by Ford_Prefect on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 7:25pm.
Insurance sales people, car dealers and funeral home folks are all nothing but GD jackals. They wait til you are weak and start pulling off limbs.
Thats American as Apple Pie & Chevrolet my friend.
why do you think the Bald Eagle is on our currency ?
A bird that swoops down on prey smaller than it is and at its weakest moment.
Corey Haim's story is a Faustian tale perfect to dying penniless.
and these Big Pharmaceutical Co's know that Anna Nicole and Heath Ledger & Dana Plato & Corey Haim & Michael Jackson (?) will all overdose and the kids will got shoot up the schools but HEY!
MONEY is MONEY!
Poor guy. Great actor. RIP Corey.
@Angel: I love Canadians because at one time I too was a Canadian...we immigrated to the U.S from Vancouver when I was 2.. my daughter was born when I lived in Vancouver in the 90's, I married a Canadian man who died unexpectedly and very young, so I am back in the States. No Offense meant... but isn't Toronto cold, cold, cold at this time of year?
Submitted by buddhistgirl69 on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:29pm.
How do they bury someone in Toronto at this time of year?
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Omygoodness - please forgive my compatriots. We DO have electricity. We store them in the freezers provided by the local composting centre. Jeesh!
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@Caprica: I am on antibiotics right now ( not what you think!) so I will be on Team Contact High for awhile...*weeping for lost good times*
Submitted by buddhistgirl69 on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:59pm.
"I will officially stake claim to the "contact high" comment... *cllinks glasses with caprica*"
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*kudos/clinks Buddhistgirl* STAKE THAT CLAIM!! TEAM CONTACT HIGH, HIP, HIP, HOOORRAYYY!!
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@Caprica: I will officially stake claim to the "contact high" comment... glad to bring you a chuckle. This site makes me laugh my ass off too... the posters here are by far the best of the best...*cllinks glasses with caprica*
Submitted by TITS on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:45pm.
Submitted by buddhistgirl69 on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:29pm.
"Throw him to the Polar Bears so they can get a contact high before heading out to the Polar Ice Caps for the season!"
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tits or buddhistgirl (i am officially drunk at 10pm Sunday and won't attempt to ascertain who specifically stated this), i am CRACKING UP AT "CONTACT HIGH" *due respect to Cory* THAT SHIT IS HILARIOUS.
i goddamn hope i go out drunk and high as hell when my number's up. i hope my ass passes w/ dolphins, wildebeasts and Oaks so that i can share my drunken highness w/ nature.
you all make me laugh - this shit is brilliant. sometimes, my logic/reason gets in the way of such brilliance. thanks all. serrriously bitches! TEAM CONTACT HIGH!!!
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Submitted by buddhistgirl69 on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:45pm.
@Zedrie: Excellent system... how do you stop your igloos from melting during the 2 week warm period?
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WTF how much does a fucking funeral cost? cremate me at put me out to sea....
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