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poll/topic of the day, involves death
I'm reading two kisses for Mady. The mom (Liz) is cremated. DH have discussed this and will likely choose cremation as well. We will still have a plot however. Not sure if we would still have a "mock" casket for the funeral or not. Obviously that depends on the circumstances.
What are your thoughts on cremation?
Has anyone noticed the billboards around town about it? That kind of cracks me up.
Re: poll/topic of the day, involves death
It's what I prefer. I say, take every Organ you can harvest, and then cremate me. I wouldn't want a pretend casket, it's not like I'm in there. Scatter my ashes somewhere special. It's not like you need to visit a headstone to talk to me, I fully intend to haunt everyone I know anyway.
What do the billboards say?
I'm all for cremation and I made sure to put it in my will. But only after I'm for sure, really, super dead. Obviously. Oddly I haven't thought about a funeral or casket (and they can cremate you after the funeral so it wouldn't have to be fake, I'm sure they have loaners, right?) or what I want in that regards.
I haven't seen the billboards either.
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I told my husband to press me into a diamond to give to his new wife so I could keep an eye on them.
If he doesn't do that, I want to be disposed of in as cheap a way as possible. Probably cremation. I definitely don't want to be sealed in a casket to oooz all over myself for 100s of years.
ETA: And like Tiff, take as many organs and as much tissue as you can harvest first. What am I going to do with it?
Not sure how I feel about it...never really though about it I guess....
My grandma (my dads mom) was cremated and we put her ashes in a Marvin the Martian cookie jar and buried her....that's what she wanted...she picked it out herself years before she died. LOL!
The billboard I remember is near 72 and Dodge. I believe it is Nebraska Cremation.com I think it just says "have you thought about cremation" maybe mentions that it is cheaper. Can't rememeber right now.
I am also an organ donor. I think the casket is a loaner, and more for the benefit of those still alive to get some closure. So if I'm 79 I'll probably decline a casket, ect.
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We haven't talked about it but I've always thought of just a cheap burial. I'm not going to be there anyway.
If I am buried, it will be in a cheaper box. This is also how my dad wanted...actually the cheapest box my was offended he pointed it out to her before she died and he told her to do what she felt she needed to do. He always said, the funeral is for the living not for the dead.
I have a friend whose father was creamated and his ashes are still in the fed ex box it came in and under our mom's bed.
THIS. Why on earth would I care after I am dead. And at the most shallow level, I do not want people saying how 'good' or 'bad' 'she looks.' They did that at my mom's funeral and while i realize that's a pretty typical thing to say, to me, it's gross.
I told my husband I want to be cremated, then I want my ashes to be put in a nice urn and he has to keep me on the mantle, then his next wife better dust and polish my urn every day or I'm going to haunt them both until they die.
In all seriousness, I want to be cremated but I haven't thought about what I want done with my ashes. I would want the regular service with the "loaner casket" or whatever. I just think its gross to put someone in the ground, they get yucky over the years, and what if there is an earthquake or something or a flood and the cemetary where you are at gets messed up and they dont know which body is which? Weird.
I never thought of this. But good point.
Yeah, in New Orleans it was a HUUUUGE mess after Katrina.
Same with the flood of 1996 around here.
I'm okay with being cremated. I don't have a preference as to where I'm spread, so long as it isn't a landfill. LOL.
I half joke about this with my DH too. Or that I want to be made into more than one and given to the boys' wives... I might be an evil FMIL...
My wishes are to harvest what they want/can and donate the rest to science (which I need to look into, actually). Like others have said, my bod's no good to me after I die.
This is awesome, C!
I want to be cremated. DH does not. I told him that if he dies first, I am having his a*s cremated. He says he will haunt me forever.
I don't understand wanting to be buried in the ground. Plus, I am worried that in 200 years, someone will build a shopping mall or house on my grave. I mean come on, we have to run out of room sometime.
DH says he wants me to donate everything I can and then burn him in a tire fire.
I feel strongly about cremation. I want to donate everything I can and be cremated. I don't care about a funeral or burial.
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We've been talking about this lately. NPR had a story about a cemetery in Bellevue doing the natural burial. Kelly said he was interested in that but the thought of kicking dirt onto my husband's face is more than I would ever be able to handle. A simple wooden casket that would decompose would make me feel much better.
I used to be totally weirded out by cremation but I really think that's what I want. Why would I want my body all preserved and shoved in a cement vault in the ground? I've told Kelly to just harvest the siht out of my body and cremate whatever is left. Spread my ashes in the mountains of colorado or something. I don't care.
I hate looking at bodies in caskets. It's not really "them." I try not to look. When my uncle died he was cremated so there was no body on display. I have this odd, good feeling about it. I get to remember my Uncle Jim as Uncle Jim, not as a body in a casket. After being at his service I knew that's what I want.
I was surprised at what a small box the ashes fit into.
I want it, DH does not.
I do not see the point of my body taking up that much space in the earth. I think it is a wasteful use of space. DH is mortified by the thought of cremation.