My parents are in their 80s and my exchanges with are starting to get weird.  Yesterday my mother, who has been sick for a couple of years, was worried that if my father dies, she won't have the money to take car of his body.  My father is far healthier and likely to out live her.  I told her not to worry about it I would pay to cremate him.  She says isn't that very expensive. I replied only if he's still alive when we do it.