Buried or cremated?

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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    We already own our spots, I'm going in a drawer next to Cap, my husbands father, at WI Memorial Park. Most people in drawers I don't think get cremated but I'd like to be. I'm honored to be there beside him. We will go out for coffee together ;) shiver.....
    All his grandkids made a horrid mess with McD's one afternoon when he was down for lunch. I snapped my fingers for our Brittany and she came and cleaned the floor under the kitchen table clean as a whistle. He got a kick out of that and had a big belly laugh, I can still hear his laugh. It's also my husbands laugh.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    polaris_x wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    funny, all us dog owners have similar ideas. i've promised mr. dream to mix up his ashes with all our dogs and kitty before tossing out to sea. as of right now, we already have 2 dogs and a kitty. :( all earlier pets was before the option of individual pet cremation was available.

    and you bet, plain pine box will do me just fine. so much surrounding death is so wasteful imo.....if i'm gone, i'm gone. sure, be respectful, but yea, no need to spend mega-bucks to do so!

    my gf took a course in conducting in-home funerals ... so, people can be in their homes when they die ... part of it was learning how to build a coffin! ... ;)


    eh well, THAT is not for me.
    i've told hubby to just get me cremated ASAP and then sure, take friends and family to my fave italian place and eat & drink up! :mrgreen:
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    decides2dream wrote:
    cremated!
    ashes tossed out to sea. no embalming, just take my useful organs and burn baby, burn.
    +1
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  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Organs donated
    Arse given to bicycle park.
    Pecker made into golf bag.
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    All useful bits donated. Then cremated with ashes scattered with ashes of our dogs. Site to be Boston Harbor outer islands. See the waves on distant shores awaiting your arrival? (although I'll be pissed if I wash up on the beach near my house.)

    Big party at bar at local marina where friends & family will be forced to listen to my playlist and watch an endlessly looping presentation of photos and videos of my dogs. Open bar, of course.

    Absolutely no wake, I don't want people standing around staring at my remains.
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    unlost dogs wrote:
    All useful bits donated. Then cremated with ashes scattered with ashes of our dogs. Site to be Boston Harbor outer islands. See the waves on distant shores awaiting your arrival? (although I'll be pissed if I wash up on the beach near my house.)

    Big party at bar at local marina where friends & family will be forced to listen to my playlist and watch an endlessly looping presentation of photos and videos of my dogs. Open bar, of course.

    Absolutely no wake, I don't want people standing around staring at my remains.


    :thumbup:
    sounds like a damn fine send-off, and quite similar to what i have in mind too. celebrate the life!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    I'm taking notes... everyone has good ideas.
    I guess i haven't thought of it much...

    Def. love the dog idea.
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • pickupyourwill
    pickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    I want to be cremated--don't want a bunch of people looking at me.
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Cremate me. I don't want my lifeless corpse taking up land.
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  • tinkerbell
    tinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    I'm listed as a donor on my drivers licence - every part of me that is useful I want to go to someone who needs it. Then cremated. Ashes taken up to the range of mountains near here where you can see both coasts and scattered in the wind (down wind!!!!) I don't need some memorial for people to never visit.
    all you need is love, love is all you need
  • Franny
    Franny Posts: 2,054
    Listed as an organ donor..they're of no use to me when I am gone. I have always had it on my license, but it really was concreted in my mind in the last 2years as a friends daughter is on the critical list awaiting a dual transplant of kidneys and pancreas, she has also lost her vision. She is 27yo and was diagnosed type 1 diabetic when she was just 2yo, and it is so sad to see her body failing her and she was so independant.

    And cremate me....less space needed. Then take my ashes to Mon Repos beach and let them fly!

    I admire my mum, she is donating her body to the Queensland Uni for research!!! YEAH!! Then she said whatever is left to cremate it.

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