question about burying a gun with its owner?

" I'd hate for it to be stolen/dug up and later used in a crime?"

Do you really think this is realistic?? Digging a hole 6' down and then opening a coffin. Thats a lot of energy to expend. It would be a lot less effort to just steal one!!
 
Ya don't have to dig down 6' to get to a coffin...

I really believe that the dead guy's family is just giving the good folks down at the funeral home a nice gift.
I (being a true skeptic) even wonder if they actually bury that high $$$ casket that they sold the dearly departed's family. I've told my wife and some good friends that if I go first I want someone to take a ball-peen hammer to my new home! Resell that~!~
 
"Ya don't have to dig down 6' to get to a coffin..."


I grew up living next to a graveyard in the N.E. Maybe its different in other parts of the country but where I grew up the holes were in excess of 6'.
 
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In my somewhat distant past I had a very good friend, you might say, a brother, die because he was coughing and busted a vein in his neck or throat, and bled to death.
He was a pot smoker and beer drinking machine. He was around 45 years old at the time.
His wife asked the funeral home director if it would be ok to bury him with a joint and a beer. He was also dressed like he always dressed, with a Harley T shirt an blue jeans with suspenders, and of course the ever present handkerchief head band.
At viewing he just looked like normal, a joint in one hand and a can of bush in the other, kicked back asleep........forever.
This isn't meant to be a joke or make fun of my dear friend, "Hippie John", because I think about him nearly every day and miss hell outta him.
Peace,
gordon
 
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There was a gentleman that died a couple years ago in one of the southwestern states. He had an old Plymouths I believe and he wanted to be buried in the car he had for years and wanted his guns in the car with him. Arrangements were made and it went as he wanted.

The tires were removed from the car and it was lowered in a vault at the cemetary. His guns were placed in the car at the grave site and his body was placed upright in the drivers seat. A cement truck began filling the grave with cement to permanently seal the car into the grave site.

I am sure the info can be googled but he was buried with his guns and in his car.

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=78135
 
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I've watched the OP and his most curious posts and queries for a while now. Sir or madame, why all these specific/bizarre questions? Writing a book? Hope you'll give credit for all the info gleaned here. Seriously, nobody else is curious?

Maybe it's just me but I feel my leg being pulled on sometimes.
 
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Why would someone want to do that? Why just throw a good gun away like that? A favorite family member or close friend would be a better option.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but a good gun can go on forever...

If I thought the kiddos would sell the family guns after I died, I'd rather be buried with them. My personal guns, I don't care, but if they're just going to sell their great-great-grandfather's Colts', I'd rather take them to the happy hunting ground in the sky. He and I can go shootin'. ;)
 
Some of you guys need to get real. At a funneral you can or should watch the casket lowered into the cement vault at the grave site. Not saying it was never done, actualy there has been at least a case or two of the casket being reused, but I think its pretty remote if you watch the casket buried in the vault. I have seen a lot of these comments elsewhere, you know, the chest beating and braze talk about how you dont care what happens to remains after ya croke etc, just as long as its done cheap as possible. Usualy that talk comes from young people. The older and more mature you get the less you hear it from your contemperarys. Respect usualy comes more with age. Think about this. We have the grave of the unknown solider, where the taxpayers pay for a group of soliders to guard the tomb around the clock in the elements even if a hurricane is going on! Why? Its called respect. And that is for someone nobody knows, much less a loved father or brother. Personaly, I dont care if they put me in a cardboard box, however I dont want to be creamated, and I do want a fair headstone describeing at least my name, age and christian belief.
Years ago I have seen a couple graves with the peoples photograph under thick glass or plastic. I think that is a nice touch. I just thought of a war story I want to tell. I had a uncle that was a batchlor all his life. He also was probley the highest decorated solider from our area. I have wrote of him before. 82nd AB, and assigned to the gliders. He and I were very close as I was all he had. We lived together various times, he stayed with me the winter before he died. (Really he committed suicide). He had medical problems and wasnt thinking right. Anyway my dad had told me this story, and finaly my uncle told me the same story shortly before he died.
My uncle and a close friend that was from the same village both went to training when the war broke out. The other guy actualy had already been in and out of the navy before the war and reuped. Uncle was drafted early. They both came home and partyied together before going OS. The other guy was already married. He left 1st and uncle had a little time left. Uncle got to playing with the guys wife. Uncle jilited a GF. She knew what happened and out of spite wrote the other guy, and same time wrote uncle what she done. Uncles outfit was pushed back into the ocean same time of that volcanno went off in italy. Guess who helped uncle over the net as he boarded the ship!
They had words etc. The other guy and wife also was a close friend to my folks. Sometimes their paths crossed at my folks house. I was young but still noticed some awkardness on my uncles part.
I went home when I got word of uncles death. The other guy came up to my mother and me and offered to do the military part of the funneral as he was a past vfw commander. Uncle had a very rough repitation in the area. He always fueded with many people. I didnt expect many at his funeral, but was amazed as it turned out to be one of the most attended that I ever been to. I got a real knott in my throat when the other guy lead the military part and then handed me the flag! That night he asked me did I ever hear about him and uncle meeting OS. I played dumb and said yeah, I thought I heard something about it. He proceeded to tell me the same story my dad and uncle told me, of course leaveing his wife out of it.
My reason for telling this again is to try to show or illistrate to some of you there is more to life and death and the respect of the body than just beating our chests and makeing light of it! The other man was probley the best example of a christian as I ever knew!
 
Won't need a gun where I'm goin'. My son has instructions to mix my wife's ashes, those of 5 or 6 dogs and mine in a bucket and scatter them to the winds on the ranch.

I spent my life in the wind out there on the "High Lonesome" and I don't see any reason to go out any different.

Iggy's Last Ride:

http://home.bresnan.net/~buflerchip/iggyslastride.htm
 
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If he really wanted to be literally buried with it, then maybe you could at least disable it? I'd hate for it to be stolen/dug up and later used in a crime?
DISABLE it?!?!?!

I should think you would want it fully functional, and LOADED.
What good is a disabled, empty gun going to be to the poor guy? :rolleyes:
 
Here in Ohio Ive buried a few firearms with individuals. Dont know about other states however.
 
For centuries cultures have laid their dead to rest with symbolic provisions for the afterlife. Ancient Egyptians did it, American Indians did it and the tradition continue today. An old friend known as "Cadillac Dave" went sporting his favorite silk shirt with a bottle of Brandy in one arm and a carton of Marlboro 100's in the other...

If you think it's fitting to bury your friend with his favorite gun, by all means do it. Just don't tell anyone until he's in the ground.
 
Why not just take a nice 8" x 10" glossy photo of the gun. Place that in the coffin to honor his request to be buried with his gun.
It will do him just as much good and honor the request.
Sell the gun and donate the money to a worthy cause such as the NRA or a charity that he may have been partial too.
At least that way someone gets the gun, a charity gets a donation and no one steals anything.

Bruce
 
I've watched the OP and his most curious posts and queries for a while now. Sir or madame, why all these specific/bizarre questions? Writing a book? Hope you'll give credit for all the info gleaned here. Seriously, nobody else is curious?

Maybe it's just me but I feel my leg being pulled on sometimes.
Oh yeah......
 
A while back a local newspaper reported that a recently departed avid trap shooter's request was carried out thus: his family held a service at his favorite trap range ended by firing his ashes out of a reloaded shell through his favorite trap gun.

I think he would have wanted his kids to keep returning to fire his favorite gun and remember him, but the paper didn't report what became of his gun.

That makes more sense than burying a gun in a grave that will rarely be visited, if ever.

Incidentally, speaking of the recently departed, was the gorilla buried with his favorite gun?

Gil
 
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