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What are your plans on what to do with your remains after your dead? Do you base your plan on religion, do what others did, environment, or what ever?

I'm just curious I find it odd that so many folks want to get buried in a sealed room/coffin. In this day and age with more and more humans needing more room what is going to happen to certain types of burials? Should we be laid to rest because of a religion or because that is what or ancesters did? Or should we look for new ways to help those that are going to follow? I am going to be fried on a grill and served up to PETA :D{sorry that was naughty} I am going to be cremated, unless of course I fall off a boat and get eatin by sharks or maybe Ole roy{walmarts brand} will chop me up and feed me to the pets of America.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Well, first I'd like everyone to make sure I'm really dead.

Then, a nice but simple ceremony ( read that, cheap) because why should the kinfolk go broke to an already-rich funeral home director. Would like Mozart played at the funeral. Don't want to look too cheap lest people think we're white trash.

Then, burial at the family plot where the kin have been buried for generations. A nice tombstone, with angels and cherubs on it, and a poem, so people would say, what a wonderful person I must have been......either that, or they'd think that my family felt guilty about something and that's why I have a nice tombstone.

If there's no plots left they can just put me out in the trash. Why should I care? I'll be dead and beyond caring:o

I've always said that I wanted my body to be fed to sharks and a party to be broken out over the feeding frenzy. I want people to celebrate my life, not mourn it.

Why should I care? I'll be dead and beyond caring

That's what I always say!

Rendova, I'm with you about the whole cost thing. I was watching a special awhile back about how these caring{HA} funeral homes are. While they're caring so much the loved ones bank book is going dry.

After I pass, my body will be useless to me...I could care less what happens to it. But I would care if there was to be an elaborate and expensive ceremony in my honor that my family must "foot the bill for". I would prefer my corpulent mass be donated to "science"...in other words, for research purposes. Perhaps if any of my organs are worth anything for someone else's transplant, by all means--take them. But if my body is so decrepit and nugatory, throw it in the woods.
If the forest animals don't want to feast on me, then my remains will just be there for the maggots and the soil.

If I am dead, it is not my body; I do not have claim nor care for it. Do what you wish with it, if I join Napster in that bucket of chum for the sharks, so be it.

Who cares? You can bury me then dig my corpse up and assrape it; I won't exactly be around to care. You can dance on my grave, piss on my grave, donate my corpse to science, or to Necrophiliacs Anonymous, I won't care. Just make sure I'm dead before you do any of it!

In all truth, I would prefer to be dropped off in some woods somewhere and eaten by animals.
BUT
I doubt my family would like that so I wanna be cremated and have my ashes spread over somewhere. I'm not sure where yet. Maybe Scotland or Poland in order to honor my heritage.

Originally posted by Evakian
I would prefer my corpulent mass be donated to "science"...in other words, for research purposes.
Im with Evak on this one.

Cremation. No funeral.
Very small gathering at the spreading of the ashes. This part is only for the living to have closure.

The last funeral I attended I heard words to the effect that the vault the casket would be in was guaranteed not to leak in water for 100 years. The best money could buy.

So I am thinking....who would know?.... and why put it off 100 years.

I will probably wind up being buried in Pinelawn Cemetery where my parents, younger brother, aunts and uncles are buried, but I would prefer being cremated and having the urn with my ashes given to one of my children, probably my daughter. It would be kind of nice to know I would still bepart of family gatherings and that one day my great-grandkids could point and say, there's great-grandpa's ashes.

Since I believe in heaven I think I will be able to see all that in the future.

I have another question, why is it against the law to scatter ashes on your own property? I had an uncle that died and wanted his ashes spread over his back 40. The law said his family could not do this, why? I don't know much about this so I was just wondering if anyone else does. Is this the governments way of squeasing that last penny out of us, or is there something else to the story?

I can't believe how decided you all are. I've been thinking about myself and found I couldn't care less what's done with my body. Presumably when I get older I'll start to think about it.

Well, blob, it's a cheerful, heartwarming topic that we love to obsess about. God knows us old folk have little else to occupy our time.......:)

Originally posted by Blob
I can't believe how decided you all are. I've been thinking about myself and found I couldn't care less what's done with my body. Presumably when I get older I'll start to think about it.
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Since people die at all ages, it would probably be a good idea to have a plan and not burden someone else with the decisions.

Good to have a living will also.

Originally posted by mad dog
I have another question, why is it against the law to scatter ashes on your own property? I had an uncle that died and wanted his ashes spread over his back 40. The law said his family could not do this, why? I don't know much about this so I was just wondering if anyone else does. Is this the governments way of squeasing that last penny out of us, or is there something else to the story?
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Mad dog, it may vary from state to state. I bid and got the contents of one of those storage buildings in Panama City Beach that someone had not paid the rental fee on.
Along with the contents was his mothers ashes that he had abandoned.
I called the police and they told me to do what I wished because there was no law governing the disposal of such.
I was going to pour them in the commode and the secretary said that she would pour them in the ocean so I gave the urn to her.

I was going to pour them in the commode

That's pretty cold dude, but hella funny!

I would like to be burned & have a tree planted over my ashes in my yard

Originally posted by Dan Fussell
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Since people die at all ages, it would probably be a good idea to have a plan and not burden someone else with the decisions.

Good to have a living will also. I guess you're right, but so long as my parents are fit and well I guess they'd take care of it. I don't see any need to freak them out my giving them my funeral arrangements.

Cook me, barbecue me, and feed me to the haterz, along with some fried green tomatoes. :D

The sheer COST of dyin' is enuff ta keep ya alive...



I say diss at the cost of makin' an ash of myself...




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