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Title: A morbid subject
Post by: Sara on October 22, 2006, 06:55:29 AM

It is almost Halloween after all.   ;)  Do you want to be buried or cremated (or something else) after you die?

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Sara on October 22, 2006, 06:57:47 AM

Me personally, I want to be buried in a plain wood box.  I don't want to be embalmed or anything - it creeps me out to think about that.  I don't want an open casket viewing.  I want a religious service, then put me in the ground.  I want my family to celebrate my life and remember how much I loved them.

Joe has told me he wants to be cremated and for his ashes to be put over my bed until I die.   :lol;  I told him I'm going to stick him in an old coffee can in the tool shed.   >:D

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Sluff on October 22, 2006, 07:15:37 AM

I will be cremated and my son will take my ashes on the motorcycle to Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: paris on October 22, 2006, 07:53:24 AM

Cremated, no viewing, memorial at my church. I want invitations sent for my "going away" party--I would like to make cd's of my favorite songs for party favors, balloons,lots of food, champayne toast, prizes for the person who can tell the funniest story about me----maybe I have been thinking about this too much!   Also, my church has a booklet that one can fill out with all your requests --type of service, musical choices, funeral home, creamation, pallbearer,where the service will be. Kind of morbid, but really made me think and by writing it down, it takes that stress off my family.  So, when the times comes, but on your party hat and join in the fun :clap;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: goofynina on October 22, 2006, 12:59:29 PM

When i die i want to be stuffed and propped up on my couch so everyone can come and see me, lol, ew, that sounds gross huh?  lol,  Nah, the more i think about it, the more i want to be cremated.  I've tried to discuss this with my hubby but he wont listen  :banghead;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Sluff on October 22, 2006, 01:44:30 PM

I've always wanted to learn taxidermy Goofynina..are you game?  Boy that is sick aint it? >:D

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Epoman on October 22, 2006, 02:42:42 PM

I want a PARTY, since my suffering is OVER.  :thumbup;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Bajanne on October 22, 2006, 02:54:40 PM

Honestly, I don't care what they do with my body.  However, I would like them to have a really lively celebration of my life.  No mournful songs, but happy rejoicing.
Given our situation, it is not really morbid, but proactive for us to think about what we would like when our beginning comes.   It would help our loved ones if they knew exactly what we wanted.  I must start writing down what I would like.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: vandie on October 22, 2006, 02:58:31 PM

I want to be cremated.  My wishes are all in my will.  The less stress for everyone left when I'm gone, the better.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Black on October 22, 2006, 05:03:14 PM

I will donate any usefull organs and the rest will be cremated and shipped to FL for burial in the same plot with my younger brother, in the Red Level Cemetery.  It is very small and is the burial site for several generations of my fathers extended family.  I am distantly related to most of the people buried there.  My only funeral request is that the following be played:

Artist/Band: Paisley Brad
Lyrics for Song: When I Get Where I'm Going
Lyrics for Album: Time Well Wasted
(Feat. Dolly Parton)

When I get where I'm going
On the far side of the sky
The first thing that I'm gonna do
Is spread my wings and fly

I'm gonna land beside a lion
And run my fingers through his mane
Or I might find out what it's like
To ride a drop of rain

(Chorus:)
Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
I will shed the sins and struggles
I have carried all these years
And I'll leave my heart wide open
I will love and have no fear
Yeah when I get where I'm going
Don't cry for me down here

I'm gonna walk with my grand daddy
And he'll match me step for step
And I'll tell him how I missed him
Every minute since he left
Then I'll hug his neck

(Chorus)

So much pain and so much darkness
In this world we stumble through
All these questions I can't answer
So much work to do

But when I get where I'm going
And I see my maker's face
I'll stand forever in the light
Of his amazing grace
Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
Hallelujah
I will love and have no fear
When I get where I'm going
Yeah when I get where I'm going

Everything else is up to my nephew as he is the executor of my will and will dispose of my personal belongings.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Ohio Buckeye on October 22, 2006, 05:15:26 PM

I love that song.
I'm surprised how many people want to be cremated.
I love sitting around a fire but can't bear the thought of being in one
so I guess I want to be buried.
I'm thinking 1 viewing, a small or graveside service, a big feast with Elvis, religious
and some favorites playing.  I have a will and living will, Best friend is executor.
Don't want sons to make hard decisions and they probably would not let me go.
Hope I just leave peacefully, quietly and quickly to avoid hard decisions.
Need to think about funeral more and write it down. Got to make a list of old
friends, etc. to call. 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Sluff on October 22, 2006, 06:42:10 PM

Quote from: Epoman on October 22, 2006, 02:42:42 PM

I want a PARTY, since my suffering is OVER.  :thumbup;

And I'm sure you'll go to heaven after all the hell you've been through on earth.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: goofynina on October 22, 2006, 07:02:32 PM

Quote from: sluff on October 22, 2006, 01:44:30 PM

I've always wanted to learn taxidermy Goofynina..are you game?  Boy that is sick aint it? >:D

I'd let you practice on me only if you promise to use REAL stuffing and not Stove Top  ::)  ew, what an awful thought huh? lol, 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Ohio Buckeye on October 22, 2006, 07:13:15 PM

wow, that is just too funny.
Morbid thread is turning unmorbid. 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Epoman on October 22, 2006, 07:49:18 PM

Quote from: goofynina on October 22, 2006, 07:02:32 PM

Quote from: sluff on October 22, 2006, 01:44:30 PM

I've always wanted to learn taxidermy Goofynina..are you game?  Boy that is sick aint it? >:D

I'd let you practice on me only if you promise to use REAL stuffing and not Stove Top  ::)  ew, what an awful thought huh? lol, 

I will mount goofyninas head like a moosehead and hang it on the wall.  >:D

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Sara on October 22, 2006, 07:55:12 PM

I love that Brad Paisley song too.  Great message.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: goofynina on October 22, 2006, 08:12:23 PM

Quote from: Epoman on October 22, 2006, 07:49:18 PM

Quote from: goofynina on October 22, 2006, 07:02:32 PM

Quote from: sluff on October 22, 2006, 01:44:30 PM

I've always wanted to learn taxidermy Goofynina..are you game?  Boy that is sick aint it? >:D

I'd let you practice on me only if you promise to use REAL stuffing and not Stove Top  ::)  ew, what an awful thought huh? lol, 

I will mount goofyninas head like a moosehead and hang it on the wall.  >:D

The only thing your going to be mounting is my MIDDLE FINGER,  lol

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: jedimaster on October 22, 2006, 08:51:08 PM

Don't know yet. What I know for sure is that I'll be donating my two defective kidneys to the Government people who doesn't support more resources for kidney research . >:D

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: kitkatz on October 22, 2006, 10:13:50 PM

I love that Brad Paisley song.  It has gotten me through some tough times this past year or so. Also "When you're walking through hell keep on walking..."

Cremation or burial.... hmmmm.... I have not decided yet.  I would like to be buried in the cemetery out near Beaumont, CA if I am to be buried.

My daughters say I should be made into a diamond, yes they really do this, I looked it up.  Then they can hock me with the rest of the family jewels.  LOL.   Burned into a diamond.  Maybe that is what I will do with this old decrepit body when I am done with it.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Rerun on October 23, 2006, 02:42:53 AM

I want this defective, diseased body burned!  Then my ashes buried with my sister in Garfield, WA.  I'm going to start taking pictures of things I think are beautiful and put them on a PowerPoint presentation.  (I too think about this too much)  I need to pick some songs.  I like the Brad Paisley song except it is being sung by a Man.  I guess there is nothing wrong with that.  I like the Judd's "I know where I'm going....do you want to come to".  For religious songs:  As a Deer,  There is a Redeemer, Our God is an Awesome God.  Nice celebration of my life.  Food afterward. 

This was a good post Sara.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Bette on October 23, 2006, 05:20:40 PM

I have told my husband to do whatever brings him the most comfort.  It does not matter to me weather he buries me or has me cremated, because I will be gone.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Bajanne on October 24, 2006, 04:32:24 PM

Quote from: goofynina on October 22, 2006, 08:12:23 PM

Quote from: Epoman on October 22, 2006, 07:49:18 PM

Quote from: goofynina on October 22, 2006, 07:02:32 PM

Quote from: sluff on October 22, 2006, 01:44:30 PM

I've always wanted to learn taxidermy Goofynina..are you game?  Boy that is sick aint it? >:D

I'd let you practice on me only if you promise to use REAL stuffing and not Stove Top  ::)  ew, what an awful thought huh? lol, 

I will mount goofyninas head like a moosehead and hang it on the wall.  >:D

The only thing your going to be mounting is my MIDDLE FINGER,  lol

"Now, now, now!!" says Aunty Bajanne, disapprovingly........

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Ohio Buckeye on October 26, 2006, 06:05:37 PM

I was thinking about songs and I like an oldtime favorite
"What A Day That Will be".  There is neat lively song I've heard
Jessy Dixon sing "Wait Til You See My Brand New Home".  It is on
a Gaither Homecoming show.  There are so many good songs.
At my husband's we sang his favorite "Victory in Jesus" and 4 other of
his favorite newer songs and the choir sang a beautiful praise song "Worthy
is the Lamb" at my request.  He had a beautiful funeral. Some of us
wrote special memories. I think at the feast afterwards for me I want people to
share funny and good memories.

 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: okarol on October 26, 2006, 06:29:50 PM

My dad died when I was 7 years old - he was 28 (amazingly he had been married 10 years and
had 3 and 3/4 kids in his short life) so all my life I thought I would probably die young. Now
I am well past 28 so I don't think about it so much. I say recycle as much of me as is feasible,
use the rest for catfood. I recently went to a funeral of a friend. They had all the cousins playing
instruments (violins, cellos, a very musical family) and a few people got up to talk about her. It
was an upbeat sort of event, not too sad. But at the end they had us all stand and said a prayer,
and through the side door of the church came a mariachi band playing the most beautiful song,
while a young man sang. That's when I lost it. Mimi would have loved it, and her family knew that.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Ohio Buckeye on October 26, 2006, 07:31:30 PM

wow, only 28 and you were only 7.  how sad.
my sons were 19 and 23 when their Dad died.  I think the 19 yr old still struggles
as he is a very quiet private person.
I know what you mean.  My oldest brother passed at 53 and the other one had a
cardiac arrest at 46 but they worked on him til they revived him and he lived in a
vegetative state 13 more yrs and passed at 59.  could not talk, walk, feed himself
and didn't appear to recognize us. He continued to live after taken off of life support.
and it's caused me to be grateful for every day I can still get out of bed and
walk, talk, etc.  he had it much worse than I do.
That's when my husband and I made a living will.
Needless to say when I hit 60 last year it was a real milestone and will be
61 in Dec. I've lived longer than any of the siblings.  I have a sister 6 yrs younger but
she is like from a different family as far as health problems and has none.
she probably has our Dad's genes and others have Mom's.
 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: livecam on October 26, 2006, 07:49:24 PM

Whichever is cheapest and that probably means cremation.  I wouldn't want to be prepped for a box by some expensive ghoul when the same money would buy the remainder of my family a couple of nice cruises.  I would donate organs for transplantation but I don't believe in tissue donation under any circumstances.  The tissue trade as opposed to organ donation is an unregulated, sleazy, for profit business that I want no part of living or dead.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Joe Paul on October 27, 2006, 09:50:24 AM

I said it before, I want to be in my coffin, with my ass straight up in the air. That way, everyone can come by and kiss it one last time. FAMILY first of course. **** side note= if my language offends anyone, I'm me.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Hawkeye on October 27, 2006, 01:51:07 PM

Doesn't bother me if I'm buried or burned, but I know I'll end up burnt (My wife has a things about bugs and worms eating her once shes dead).  It wont matter either way I'll be back to haunt her soon enough.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: goofynina on October 27, 2006, 02:28:38 PM

Quote from: Ohio Buckeye on October 26, 2006, 06:05:37 PM

I was thinking about songs and I like an oldtime favorite
"What A Day That Will be".  There is neat lively song I've heard
Jessy Dixon sing "Wait Til You See My Brand New Home".  It is on
a Gaither Homecoming show.  There are so many good songs.
At my husband's we sang his favorite "Victory in Jesus" and 4 other of
his favorite newer songs and the choir sang a beautiful praise song "Worthy
is the Lamb" at my request.  He had a beautiful funeral. Some of us
wrote special memories. I think at the feast afterwards for me I want people to
share funny and good memories.

 

Another song that brings me to tears other than Mr. Louis Armstrongs "What a Wonderful World"  is a song i heard for the first time sung by Wynona Judd,  she cried while she performed it and i totally lost it.  It is called,  "I Can Only Imagine"  BE-AU-TI-FUL!!!

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Ohio Buckeye on October 27, 2006, 06:30:07 PM

Yes, I've thought about that song also.
I love music so lots of that.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: jbeany on October 31, 2006, 04:56:38 PM

I requested cremation, no funeral, and an unconventional wake.  That's tons of food, too much booze, and no preacher, please.  I've been to far too many funerals for people who were not church goers, and in some cases rather adamantly non-believers, whose family members had some preacher who had never met the deceased shouting hellfire and brimstone next to the coffin.  If they do that to me, I'm going to haunt them all.  (I can handle a little bit of "The Lord is my Sheppard" to comfort those in my family who want to hear it, but spare me the lecture.)

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: kitkatz on October 31, 2006, 11:31:43 PM

I agree. If my family has hell and brimstone preachers at my funeral I will get up out of the coffin and leave!  I want music that I love for the service.I want a few people who know me to speak about my life. Then party hardy!  Food, booze and dancing.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: okarol on October 16, 2007, 06:07:33 PM

 :bump; getting close to Halloween again...

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Meinuk on October 16, 2007, 06:24:21 PM

Thanks for the bump Okarol - I'll jump in....

When we first discussed my funeral plans a few years ago, I said that I wanted to be made into a diamond www.lifegem.com (http://www.lifegem.com) , and then put on a necklace for Lucie to wear every once in a while.  Well, at the time, she was only 19, and she freaked out. (she, her brother & sister are the closest I'll ever come to having children)

Now, my plans are for a simple cremation - no service, and my ashes can be brought back to London and dumped into the boating pond at Kensington Palace.  Because, as of this moment in my life - The story of me falling in the boating pond on Christmas Eve brings joy to the people I love and I want them to always remember the joy - and the irony that the pond will be my final resting place...

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Patton on October 16, 2007, 06:36:33 PM

Quote from: okarol on October 16, 2007, 06:07:33 PM

:bump; getting close to Halloween again...

You bet it is!!!!

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: glitter on October 16, 2007, 06:38:07 PM

that lifegem is awesome- too bad its so expensive..

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: skyedogrocks on October 16, 2007, 08:07:43 PM

I want to be cremated.  I despise bugs and worms, the thought of my body in the ground with them freaks me out.  I do not want a morbid service, I want a party.  Rob wants to be cremated also.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Patton on October 17, 2007, 07:50:31 AM

I would like to be KIA and buried in Arlington National Cemetery.  :usaflag; 8)  :usaflag;  Something about my patriotism....

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: okarol on October 17, 2007, 08:15:57 AM

Quote from: Patton on October 17, 2007, 07:50:31 AM

I would like to be KIA and buried in Arlington National Cemetery.  :usaflag; 8)  :usaflag;  Something about my patriotism....

:(

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Patton on October 17, 2007, 08:53:59 AM

Quote from: okarol on October 17, 2007, 08:15:57 AM

Quote from: Patton on October 17, 2007, 07:50:31 AM

I would like to be KIA and buried in Arlington National Cemetery.  :usaflag; 8)  :usaflag;  Something about my patriotism....

:(

I don't find it sad at all, I would like to die for my country.    :usaflag;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: okarol on October 17, 2007, 08:56:59 AM

Well, I would rather see you serve and survive!
I love vets!  :cuddle;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Patton on October 17, 2007, 10:47:05 AM

Quote from: okarol on October 17, 2007, 08:56:59 AM

Well, I would rather see you serve and survive!
I love vets!  :cuddle;

Well yeah, of course :rofl;, but everyone has to die and when I do thats what I want. I don't look forward to death but it has to happen. 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: BobT1939 on October 17, 2007, 12:23:51 PM

Cremated, half of ashes dropped off beach here in North Carolina, half off beach in Half Moon Bay, California where we used to live. Have written my obit, told a friend where to find it, to get one thing out of the way when the time comes (which I do not imagine will be any time soon)./bobt

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: brenda on October 17, 2007, 08:54:24 PM

What about pre-planned funerals? I have been thinking about doing that. Making sure it is payed for now so my kids won't have to worry about that. I want to be cremated, I'd like my ashes spread at Emerald Lake. I have some very special memories there.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: angela515 on October 17, 2007, 11:59:20 PM

I do not know where I want to be buried yet... I want to stay by my parents, but I know there is not many plots left and I also want my children to be able to be by me if they so choose. So, I might be cremated... I don't know yet.. I have been thinking about this since I almost died at the age of 13.. and I know I need to get it in order because anything can happen at any time... but yah, I just don't wanna think about it half the time.

So, to make a long story short, I don't really know what I shall be doing yet...

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: glitter on October 18, 2007, 07:22:51 AM

My husband and I both want to be cremated- and whichever one of us is still alive will keep the others ashes until we are both dead- then we want to be spread in the Indian River here in Florida, together, by our kids.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: paddbear0000 on October 18, 2007, 11:58:49 AM

I guess my husband and I aren't very sentimental. We both agree that we'll be cremated and dumped wherever. Whatever will save the other one the most most money! Neither one of us wants anyone to have to go bankrupt because we die.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: lola on October 18, 2007, 12:20:17 PM

My dad just did pre-pay he'll be cremated and ashes dumped on his favorite hunting hill. I could care less what they do with me as long as my organs were donated, Otto says he's stuffing me. I told Otto he'll be cremated sealed in a coffee can and then we are gonna play kick the can so i finally can really kick his ass around >:D >:D

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: paddbear0000 on October 18, 2007, 12:45:04 PM

Quote from: lola on October 18, 2007, 12:20:17 PM

I told Otto he'll be cremated sealed in a coffee can and then we are gonna play kick the can so i finally can really kick his ass around >:D >:D

 :rofl;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Patton on October 18, 2007, 02:25:00 PM

Quote from: lola on October 18, 2007, 12:20:17 PM

I told Otto he'll be cremated sealed in a coffee can and then we are gonna play kick the can so i finally can really kick his ass around >:D >:D

 :rofl; :lol; Now thats just plain hilarious...can I play??  :rofl; :beer1;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Kitty Cat on October 19, 2007, 06:58:39 AM

My hunny and I are going to be cremated. Who ever goes first will hold the ashes until they pass. Our daughter and son in law know that we want to be dropped into the ocean. That's always been our place. But, for both of us, whatever can be donated, goes first before the barbecue 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Sluff on October 19, 2007, 07:04:45 AM

I thought about cremation because it is cheaper than burial, but we already have a hole in the ground for me and Christy that my Mother-in-law gave us.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: angela515 on October 19, 2007, 07:06:43 AM

My mom will come back and haunt me if I have her cremated, she will be buried by her parents and siblings. She also will be buried in her Jeff Gordon t-shirt and blue jeans.. anything else, and she will come back and haunt your ass.  :lol;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: okarol on October 19, 2007, 08:24:19 AM

Quote from: Sluff on October 19, 2007, 07:04:45 AM

I thought about cremation because it is cheaper than burial, but we already have a hole in the ground for me and Christy that my Mother-in-law gave us.

You can resell burial plots, if you don't want to use them.
My husband's grandmother passed away at 92, she wanted her ashes interred on top of her own mother's burial plot in NJ, so I flew there, they dug a little hole in the middle of the plot and we said a few prayers. It was a nice solution as she really didn't want a burial but wanted to be by her mom.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Jannie on October 19, 2007, 07:26:47 PM

When I was a kid I was taken to several wakes . I got creeped out looking at the corpses. I don't want anyone looking at me after I'm dead. I told my family I want a one day wake, closed coffin and cremation.  I found an organization that does cremation and then spreads your ashes in the ocean. Sounds like fun. I do like the beach.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: paddbear0000 on October 20, 2007, 10:27:58 AM

Quote from: Jannie on October 19, 2007, 07:26:47 PM

When I was a kid I was taken to several wakes . I got creeped out looking at the corpses. I don't want anyone looking at me after I'm dead. I told my family I want a one day wake, closed coffin and cremation.  I found an organization that does cremation and then spreads your ashes in the ocean. Sounds like fun. I do like the beach.

Part of my reason for cremation, besides cost, is due to seeing the way my father looked at his open-casket funeral. It was devastating. He looked nothing like himself. And it's not like he was disfigured from an accident either. He died from Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS). I still picture it 7 years later and it sickens me.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: JBLadyB on October 20, 2007, 12:17:30 PM

When we buried our second son at 32, he wore a baseball cap, Harley Davidson sweatshirt, and it was a family service at the funeral home.  Except for the service the background music was Guns and Roses, Pink Floyd etc.  His casket left the funeral home while Motely Crue's song " Home Sweet Home" in the background.  I am propbably the only person that gets teary over that song.  he was on dialysis 23 days.   Diabetic since age 2.  Now it is my turn for dialysis for a different reason.  Oh, he had long hair, his plan was to die as a grey long haired man.  Half of his plan came true.  His elementry school pricipal who had become a minister did the service.  It was him.Mel >:D

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Patton on October 20, 2007, 02:16:19 PM

Quote from: okarol on October 19, 2007, 08:24:19 AM

Quote from: Sluff on October 19, 2007, 07:04:45 AM

I thought about cremation because it is cheaper than burial, but we already have a hole in the ground for me and Christy that my Mother-in-law gave us.

You can resell burial plots, if you don't want to use them.

Maybe they should just charge rent.... :sarcasm;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Falkenbach on October 20, 2007, 08:31:19 PM

Quote from: Sara on October 22, 2006, 06:55:29 AM

It is almost Halloween after all.   ;)  Do you want to be buried or cremated (or something else) after you die?

cremated.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: mcjane on October 20, 2007, 09:24:37 PM

First I'm going to donate any usable organs & then what's left of me to science.

Will do the same with my husband's body if he goes first.

And it's free.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Falkenbach on October 21, 2007, 12:04:04 AM

Quote from: mcjane on October 20, 2007, 09:24:37 PM

First I'm going to donate any usable organs

Same! Naturally.

Didn't think about science - that would be the other option I would consider, if not cremation. No burial for me, is all.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: okarol on July 28, 2008, 10:47:03 AM

It's not Halloween but here's a bump anyway  :bump;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: monrein on July 28, 2008, 02:25:07 PM

I'd like anything that can be donated, donated and if a medical school wants me for research, I'm theirs.  If not, cremation and burial of ashes in husband's family plot.  Whatever kind of service my family wants to do or feel they need is great with me and if nothing that's fine too. 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Romona on July 28, 2008, 05:21:51 PM

I have a wonderful supervisor. He is going through some scary health problems. He is facing heart surgery for an aneurysm and has a spot on his lung. He is looking into burial plans,it is so expensive. I just want to cry. He was so supportive from the time he started working with me. He won't let me lose faith when I was down. He is a retired Air Force dentist that eats healthy, doesn't smoke and has an occasional drink once in a blue moon. :'(

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: pelagia on July 28, 2008, 06:55:46 PM

I want to get back into the cycle of life asap. I rest assured that my spirit will know where to go when the time comes.  As for my ashes, I am planning to have them spread over the Chesapeake Bay, preferably during a spring plankton bloom. 

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: G-Ma on July 28, 2008, 07:12:22 PM

Cremation...scattered in the mountains..don't need a service but if the family does, just a small one and no viewing.  I am comfortable with the circle of life that I know will happen, I'm just trying to get my kids comfortable with it.  Their father was murdered and the following two years my parents died, then their stepfather died so they want to wrap me in bubblewrap but life doesn't work that way.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: flip on July 28, 2008, 07:43:44 PM

I don't think about it...I'm far from ready to

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: KT0930 on July 29, 2008, 05:13:08 PM

Organ/tissue donation first and foremost. However, I saw part of some movie when I was a kid, and someone was being burned alive. Ever since then I've had an almost overwhelming fear of cremation. Burial for me, thanks!

After attending my husband's grandfather's funeral last week, we both agree there will NOT be a ten minute altar call at either of our funerals!

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: pelagia on July 31, 2008, 06:09:30 AM

I did forget to mention that I am planning to give away as many parts as anyone wants before I go to sea!

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: PD Wife on July 31, 2008, 08:21:23 AM

Cremation for both me and my husband.  (My father was cremated and my mother was told that they don't use fire, they use intense heat to disintegrate the body...if that's any consulation?)  We both want lots of our favorite music, food, drinks, laughter at an informal family only "service".    :beer1;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: meadowlandsnj on August 03, 2008, 03:11:47 PM

I want a closed casket.  I can't stand the thought of people looking at after I'm dead with the remarks and comments like at my uncles funeral....all the inane remarks and stupid observations like "he looks so thin, he lost all his weight" It's called the CANCER diet, you nitwit.  I didn't go up to his coffin when he died--I wanted to remember him as I knew him--6'4, 300 lbs, a big bear of a man.  I was critized for not going up there but tough, it was my decision and he knows how much I loved him.

Anyway, Instead of flowers I want everyone to plant a tree or a bush or a flower in my memory.  I have a list of songs I want played already, Elton John, Beatles, U2, Pink Floyd, Stones, things like that.  I want to exit the place with Hey Jude with everyone singing along!  :bandance; I'm thinking of making a pre recorded of it with me saying "You're not all singing" in the middle.  I dont want some melodramatic, drawn out morbid wake.  I want a party.

Donna

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: kitkatz on August 03, 2008, 06:17:12 PM

I want a party before I go and after I go!

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: okarol on August 04, 2008, 10:41:54 PM

(Maybe this should be in the thread about how we want to be remembered, but I am too tired to look for it now.)  :P

On the flight home from Chicago I met a woman who is 84 years old. She told me that in her brother's will it stipulated that funds were to be available to cover the cost of organizing a family reunion - room rental and catering - for all the family - for 20 years! He even added that family members who could not afford to travel to Detroit should be paid for. The woman said this year was the 20th reunion and there were 250 family members there. She said her brother had never married but loved his nieces and nephews and that family was very important to him. I thought that was a pretty cool gift he left his family.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Chris on August 04, 2008, 11:09:03 PM

Quote from: KT0930 on July 29, 2008, 05:13:08 PM

However, I saw part of some movie when I was a kid, and someone was being burned alive. Ever since then I've had an almost overwhelming fear of cremation. After attending my husband's grandfather's funeral last week, we both agree there will NOT be a ten minute altar call at either of our funerals!

The movie I saw that had it when I was a kid was a James Bond movie (Sean Connery one) and that freaked me out as a kid and still does a little today, but so does being buried alive. Better stick a fork in me and call me done before burying me.

What is an altar call?

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: kitkatz on August 05, 2008, 07:22:44 PM

If someone stands up and tries to save someone's soul at my funeral I will probably jump up and deck them.  None of that!  No, none, no!  If you feel your soul needs saving do not do it at my service.

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: ToddB on August 06, 2008, 08:15:57 PM

I want to be cremated.  But I have specific instructions for my ashes.

I have been a pilot since my parents gave me my first flying lesson for my 18th birthday (and proceeded to pay for most of my flying for the next several years!!) and I have been racing cars (legal sanctioned racing, none of that illegal street, Fast and the Furious stuff) for the past 10 years or so.

My instructions are as follows...after cremation, my ashes will be divided in half.  One half will be carried aloft in a 1942 Boeing Stearman (my favorite airplane to fly) and scattered from 5000 feet.  The other half will be carried on to a race track (Virginia International Raceway would be nice) and scattered while the car is going around a corner...then I want that corner renamed











wait for it











DEAD MAN'S CURVE!!!!!!!! :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :2thumbsup; :yahoo; :clap;

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: Zach on August 06, 2008, 08:34:03 PM

Burnt offerings.

8)

Title: Re: A morbid subject
Post by: MIbarra on August 06, 2008, 09:19:55 PM

If there's anything recyclable in this body, I want it used. Then I want to be a crispy critter and I want my ashes spread in the Franklin Mountains. No viewing, no way and whatever service my family thinks they need.