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Burial or cremation and why
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What are you guys opinion on the subject?
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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Both I and my wife have decided on cremation and will be interred at local veterans cemetery.
We would rather see if there is any money left that it be put to a good use rather than buying a casket and vault that no one will probably see again.
Cremation: It'll be my last chance to have a smokin' hot body.
Please don't bury me down in the cold, cold ground.
I want to be cremated but my wife won't hear of it and says "you won't get a say". And we all know I am not going to outlive her. :(
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Cremated, and spread out somewhere. Came into this world w/o a trace, and plan to leave the same way.
I suggested to my bride to have me cremated and toss my ashes out in the patch of trees on our place where I love to hunt.
I know some folks get hung up on the 2nd coming and cremation... I personally do not have any concerns with that myself..
It does not make any difference to me. My parents and step-parents wanted to be cremated and they were. Dad and his wife wanted the cremains of their dog to be buried with them, so I made sure that happened.
After I'm gone I won't know what happens to me, so whatever does happen to my remains is fine with me.
Joe
After the Yellowstone eruption and the San Andreas fault shifts, it won't make any difference anyway.
I bought a cemetery plot about ten years ago, across the mountain from my cabin. Since then, I decided I want to be cremated, and my ashes put in the Gulf of Mexico, on Sanibel Island Florida. Donna requested to be buried in St. Bonaventure cemetery in Georgia, after she is cremated.
buried, I figure I might be burning for a long time, no need to start any sooner........
we have an old family cemetery out in the country and I told the wife if the kids can handle it to wrap me in one of moms quilts and drop me in, no laws against it and no cost but to dig the hole........
In the near future you will be composted and used in the production of food for others
Did you watch Soylent Green recently ??
Both. In Louisa County, Virginia. My ashes, Diane's ashes and little Willie's ashes in the casket beneath Old Glory. Why? Because I want my son to have my flag. Because I am not ashamed to admit that I am a Patriot, Because I am a native Son of Virginia, Because I love this country more than any words could ever explain. ------------------------Ray
After thought. Dad had military funeral and would not let me cremate him. Always said he did not want to be burned twice! ------Ray
Neither. I plan on being stuffed. That way they can keep me up in the attic and bring me down stairs for the holidays.
Buried like a cabbage!
As it stands now I will be cremated.
I have dug too many graves for friends and family and kept too may cemeteries.
I had a local casket builder make me a cedar casket a few years ago, knock out beautiful.
A good friend and pastor need it worse than I did at the time. I gave it to him.
Lost our Mans Best Friend a few months ago. He now resides in a very small box and still spends much of the day with my wife. Whoever goes next will be put in a nice plain vase along side him until all three of us have passed. Most likely will be spread over the farm. No muss, no fuss.
Not to get too biblical but the Word has nothing to say about the subject.
The way things are headed some of us may never see death.
waltermoe, sounds like my first landlord. We had two kids in his one bedroom apartment. Would invite his friends over in fire company for holiday and bring down decorated tree covered up with sheet from attic. He was a short Rollie Pollie guy who looked like Santa that smoked a big fat cigar. Sat down at the table next to tree with his friends and said" Merry Christmas, Let the games begin" Was one heck of a poka player. ---------------------------------Ray
I'm to be cremated. I have a plot and a stone where my late wife is buried. My current wife was married to my first wife's brother. They have a plot and stone in the same cemetery. I told my current wife to just pour half my ashes on both graves. That will save me from running back and forth to both graves.😎
Cremation. Simple, cost effective, and whoever takes possession of my ashes gets to travel to all the places and landmarks I've loved to fling some Kevin dust around.
Though I'd really like to be stuffed, if that's possible.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
I want to be buried in Clara's Orchard.
Kevin, planning on going to the Farmer's Daughter family style resturant in Chucky, TN tomorrow.
Stuffed it is, grin. Does that count?
Where's Ken?
Cremation. Ideally, I'd host a GunBroker old-timers picnic. There would be a raffle after lunch. The winner would receive a nice rifle from my collection as a door prize, and use it to shoot my urn of ashes (atop a HEFTY pile of tannerite) from a couple hundred meters and send me off in style!
Since the above is unlikely though, I could really not care less. Roll me down the hill and let the birds eat me. Whatever.
No sad funeral for me.
Hope for a celebration of life.
Bust out the BBQ and nanner puddin, play George Straight, Metallica, Patsy Cline, Toby Keith and finish it off the Stone's playing Highway to Heaven.
Oops, almost forgot the greatest, Stevie Nicks.
Wow I cant believe how many want cremation. Personally I don't believe in it but to each his own. I am going to be buried.
The last funeral I took care of for a relative was $20,000.That makes no sense.I want the people I care about to use that money for something else.I saw advertisment for cremation for $1,000. and that makes sense.If we take the emotion out of it,after we die we are just a big bio-hazard that must be safely disposed of.
Cremated and scattered in a particular canyon in the Chirichahua Mtns. in SE Arizona.
Saratoga National Cemetery for me....in the ground. Walls full of urns can be moved😮
For years I was wanting to be buried as tradition and the expected ending
Bit I have thought it's vaintiy in a way people at least I way I seen it want to be remembered and have some even small monument to their life as such ad a headstone
To say yes I was once like you alive and enjoyed life and have a plot of ground forever to remind others
But over the last few years my wife and I have leaned more to be cremated our ashes at lest part spred with all our beloved pets buried in the back lot
Also watching countless YouTube videos of old cemeteries totally forgotten over grown and abandoned
After a couple generations most never get visited or even remembered
Same with mosaleams falling down coffins and bones spred out and neglected so much for eternal care
As for resarected we all turn into dirt undistinguished from the ground around us many other fates as buried at sea or eaten alive leave no body
If such a thing exist it has to be our soul is what would rise up not going any fathet into religion its a persol thing eveynone has a though about
Just saying ashes ,dirt even no trace of a body at all will not matter if that's your belief well beyond our cabilities to comprehend
Any way
I see at some point the goverment will rule to save space and use the land in a different way than a garden for dead people and cremation will be mandatory
When I was younger I told my about to be wife I wanted to be buried in my 69 camaro I have seen many do similar
But I had rather see my car go to a family member or some one who will take care of it that would be my legacy and marker I was here lol
I know a lot of reading but as I have said I do not sleep that well been up all night just laid down and trying to sleep and rambling on
Sorry
good night well good moring actualy lol all thanks for putting up with me
I suppose the family will decide regardless of what I want (cause I'll be dead, right?). I'll be interred in the cemetery my Great Great Grandfather donated to the community 125 years ago. My 'family plot' filled the center of this cemetery as it should be but we're running out of room.
My intention for Grouch Attack is to cremate ASAP so she can't come back and continue to haunt me.😐️
Very well said and that's my story as well. Thanks for the post.
My wife and I both have a plot next to all of our closest relatives. Cremation so we both can share the same plot.
I have also considered just donating my body to science. Still not through the thinking process about this.
I used to be stuck on earth burial, because every place in the Bible, where someone is being buried, they are being buried in the earth, or a tomb, or a cave. Cremation was a pagan practice.
Anymore, I don't really care. Cremation is much less expensive, and I believe that the Lord can resurrect ashes as well as He can decomposed bodies or those that went in the ocean to be eaten by fish.
Creamation
Brookwood heard it rumored that some have dotted line Tattooed down chest with message "Open Here."-----------Ray
My father asked me to bury his ashes, in his favorite hunting spot, on a particular mountain. I will do as he wished. His love for hunting and that mountain, are something I always admired about him.
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Hey, that was my joke.
A couple yrsback I was watching a medical show on youtube they were professional doctors and worked at a school using cadavers from donated bodys some had been in use for years some were just parts and pieces all were treated with some chemicals to allow Years of use
A lot of interesting content yes a bit strange maye creepy to some but they said no matter how much book or animation to teach people having a real body made a huge difference
Especialy one who had dled with some medical issue to make it easy to see the results
They always said all body's were treated with respect and depending on the request returned the ashes back to the family or just took care of them self
I have also heard from different sources it's more difficult To donate your body than most would think A lot of needs to meet the check list to do so
i Never looked into it so if thats your choice i would check into it orher than just saying to do it
but I guess it's a option and a worry one if they choose to take you
I can tell you first-hand.... for a student of human anatomy, there is NOTHING that can compare to study of a real body. My assigned cadaver was used for the entire semester. Learned more from that experience than anything else in college.
Cremation.....it just makes more sense to me than a plot with my remains in it.
My mother was the first to go and wanted her ashes put in the Locust Fork river. We held off putting her ashes there until after my father passed so we could put them together. For a bit we had both mom and dad's ashes at my brother's house. My husband was looking for something and asked "what is this" and we both said "Mom and Dad" at the same time. It freaked Larry out so bad he took a minute to gather himself. They are together....driving each other crazy, I'm sure.
Golfers will appreciate this.
I had it in mind to start a memorial service for golfers. At the golf course, on the deceased's favorite hole, I would put down a small bronze plaque with his name. The family could choose to spread ashes there or not.
I'd call the service "Buried Lies."