on โ22-04-2013 09:57 PM
Following recent deaths of two of our dogs and the associated decisions, I was discussing with my mother how converse my thinking was; I couldn't bear to think of the dogs buried, outside and alone in the cold, dark and rain. Yet I would like to be buried; in life I struggle constantly with tiredness, I enjoy sleep and so I think of a lovely big long sleep I will eventually have in a cosy comfy casket.I want to be buried on our property (apparently you can do that on land over a certain size), but the casket has to be rectangular, not tapering in at the leg part - I want to be able to starfish a little in my long sleep.
My preference would actually be a sea-burial as I love being underwater, but I have a vague idea that that option is not available to ordinary people, so will have to be buried on land.
Mum can't bear to think of being worm food and insists on being cremated. I wanted to turn her into a diamond so she could be with me forever, but as I am an only child with no children of my own, she is worried about what would happen to "her" when I die. I told her I would swallow her on my deathbed :^O, but she wasn't convinced; I am to scatter her in the ocean, so she can visit all the exotic places she didn't get to in life.
The conversation was tongue-in-cheek, not morbid, but I was interested in seeing what other people want done with their mortal remains when they finally shuffle off this mortal coil, and why.
on โ23-04-2013 08:05 PM
I like the idea of the open air or above ground "burial", but it would not be a pretty sight for the living! I want a cardboard casket; you can get them with pretty pictures on them and they are very cheap compared to a traditional casket.
If your body is donated to medical science, is there any cost to the family for disposal of the body?
on โ23-04-2013 08:37 PM
I plan on being cremated.
But it has become a bit of a family joke that I am still going to need a headstone to put everything on it that I want.
But I disagree.............I think a sign post will do just fine.
We plan or being put in our family cemetery..........so the sign post will say.......over there is her grandfather..................this way for her great great grandfather...........over that way is the first property....................to the left is the cousins...............to the far right in the back corner is .............
I promise none of my ancestors will have any trouble tracing me 100's of years after I have moved on.
on โ29-04-2013 07:53 PM
A body farm sounds good to me
Isn't that a cemetery?
on โ29-04-2013 09:45 PM
cremated definitely, I am claustrophobic so couldn't stand being in the coffin, yes I know I'm dead so i wouldn't know but what if I wasn't 100% dead and I woke up??? LOL, but seriously anybody seen that movie with Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock called the Vanishing, watch that and you will want to be cremated. Ashers scattered into the sea for me. My father used to say he had to be buried because he was a catholic and it was against their beliefs to be cremated but apparently that's now changed so we can cremate him when it's his time.
Some cemetaries are terrible not maintaned at all, very sad to see.
on โ29-04-2013 09:49 PM
Cremated cause it takes less land.
on โ30-04-2013 07:05 AM
cremated definitely, I am claustrophobic so couldn't stand being in the coffin, yes I know I'm dead so i wouldn't know but what if I wasn't 100% dead and I woke up???
Same.
on โ30-04-2013 02:36 PM
you could be cremated and add to your carbon foot print
or you could be buried and give back to the earth......fertiliser:^O
on โ30-04-2013 02:40 PM
Cremated.
on โ30-04-2013 02:59 PM
I'll be cremated so I get a head start on being hot in hell :^O
on โ30-04-2013 03:03 PM
you could be cremated and add to your carbon foot print
or you could be buried and give back to the earth......fertiliser:^O
Just think of all the trees I could kill off and the underground water sources I can pollute as I rot away if I get buried :^O
Has some kind of appeal don't it ๐