Burial, cremation or other?
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Both my wife and I have decided on cremation, we figure we have paid all our lives to stay somewhere, whether it's rent, or buying a house, we don't want to pay for a cemetery plot.....our ashes will be spread in the woods of northern Ontario..........
Matters not to me at all. I do not view the physical body as important after death. I know most cultures do out of respect for the person. I can't quite go there for me. Stick me in a plastic bad and ditch me, couldn't care less. What ever is best for whoever may be left behind, suits me.
My great grandma made my dad promise that he'd check twice that she was really truly certainly dead before they cremated her.
Yeah, my mum told me to make sure she was dead before they buried her. Funny thing is, you actually think about it with humour at the time because of their request. Kinda lightens things a bit.
Lol.
I was wondering if I could have my body shrunk to the size of a single sperm and cryopreserved. If someday scientists can separate half of my chromosomes (un-meiosis me) they could then refertilize it with the ova of Paris Hilton. (I need to update my will).
Stuffed...proped up to a computer screen with CC on.......just in case someone mentions Dave....ya just never know:roll:
Any usable organs donated--I've signed the donor card and made sure my next of kin understand my wishes--whatever's left cremated and scattered to return all the atoms to the earth they came from. Somebody else might be able to use them, no sense locking them up in a casket for however long it takes for nature to break it down and do it anyway. And everybody should have a party--on me, from the proceeds of the estate--to celebrate my life, not mourn my death. I want there to be a party, like the ones we had for my parents when they left us, that I'd want to be at. And maybe I will be in some form, who knows. I sure don't, and I don't believe anyone else does either.
if ya want tpo spread it round try a Tibetan sky burial....
the monks chop you up into morsels and feed you to the vultures....that way you really do enter the food chain and nature!!!!
And here's wishing ya the best at that party.....
Great tradition Dex....the whole mourning the loss thing is not my cuppa either....
Nice idea. One way or another we're all going to end up back in the food chain anyway, might as well give Mother Nature a hand...
Agreed. Grief, while a certain amount of it is unavoidable, seems essentially selfish to me, because it's about ourselves, what we have lost. You have to work your way through it--and it *is* work--but it shouldn't last a long time. I grieved the death of my parents, but not for a long time, it was inevitable and natural and necessary, and when it finally happened, it was time. Past time, actually, their final few years were pretty miserable for them. A few days after my father died one of my brothers and I got together, he brought a bottle of fine old Irish whisky, I had a 12 year old single malt scotch, we sat up all night, drank both bottles, dredged up every nasty rotten thing, every mistake, we could ever remember dad doing, and completely purged ourselves of all the negatives. After that we were free to mourn our loss and remember him with great love for all the good things he was and did, and now, only the positives remain. He was a good but imperfect man, as are we, and he loved us without reservation, as we do our children. That's all that matters.
It was an excellent catharsis, I recommend it.
Ashes spread on a certain mountain top here in BC in the middle of winter .Of course said ashes have to be transported there by snowmobile ;-)