9mmPatriot
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Debating cremation vs. human composting.
I have no desire to be buried in an oversized sea trunk.
I have no desire to be buried in an oversized sea trunk.
Your final arrangements ..
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Cremation and both of us will wind up in Riverside CA, Veteran's Cemetery.
Which ever one of goes first will take of everything. Due to my service I have a reservation at that cemetery.
Which ever one of goes first will take of everything. Due to my service I have a reservation at that cemetery.
keith44spl
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I'm standing on the Rock and my name is on the Roll.
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You've reminded me of the story of John and Mary, who were married for many years and who used to discuss what happens when you die...do you go to heaven or are you reincarnated? They agreed that whichever one of them passed on first, would find a way to let the survivor know what happened.
Eventually, John passed away, and after a couple of months, Mary attended a séance to try to make contact with him. She calls out "John...John..." and to her shock he answers! "Mary, I'm here!"
"Oh, John, it's great to hear your voice! What's it like being dead?"
"Well, Mary, I'll tell you what...it's great! Every morning, I wake up and I make love. I eat a little breakfast, then I make love until lunchtime. I take a little nap after lunch, then I make love until it's time to eat dinner. After dinner, I make love until bedtime, then I get a great night's sleep, wake up in the morning, and do it all over again!"
"Oh John, John...heaven sounds wonderful!"
"Heaven? I'm not in heaven, Mary! I'm a rabbit in Montana!"
usmc2427765
US Veteran
Cremation followed by burial in a National Cemetery. Get those veteran bennies
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Tom and Willie were the best of friends and grew up in the same town. Their first love was baseball. They played baseball together in Little League, Pony League, American Legion Baseball and ended up on the same college baseball team. Tom was a pitcher and Willie was an outfielder. Both of them got drafted by the Chicago Cubs and were sent to the Cubs' AA farm team. While there, they swore to each other that whoever died first would contact the other one to let the other one know whether or not there was baseball in Heaven.
One night Willie had a fabulous game. He went 4 for 5 with 2 home runs and 6 RBIs. He celebrated at the local watering hole, and he missed the curve on the road back to their apartment and was killed. Tom was just inconsolable over the death of the childhood friend.
So about a week after Willie's funeral Tom was laying in bed at night at their apartment when he thinks he hears a voice calling his name.
Tom: "Is that you, Willie?"
Willie: "Yeah, Tom, it's me. I'm in Heaven."
Tom: "Willie, I'm so glad you went to heaven. But remember what we promised to tell each other? Is there baseball in Heaven?"
Willie: "Yeah, we have baseball here in Heaven. We have all the great players we used to read about and collect baseball cards for. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Feller, Warren Spahn and Willie Stargell are all up here. We play baseball all the time. But I have some bad news."
Tom: "What bad news?"
Willie: "You're pitching tomorrow."
One night Willie had a fabulous game. He went 4 for 5 with 2 home runs and 6 RBIs. He celebrated at the local watering hole, and he missed the curve on the road back to their apartment and was killed. Tom was just inconsolable over the death of the childhood friend.
So about a week after Willie's funeral Tom was laying in bed at night at their apartment when he thinks he hears a voice calling his name.
Tom: "Is that you, Willie?"
Willie: "Yeah, Tom, it's me. I'm in Heaven."
Tom: "Willie, I'm so glad you went to heaven. But remember what we promised to tell each other? Is there baseball in Heaven?"
Willie: "Yeah, we have baseball here in Heaven. We have all the great players we used to read about and collect baseball cards for. Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Feller, Warren Spahn and Willie Stargell are all up here. We play baseball all the time. But I have some bad news."
Tom: "What bad news?"
Willie: "You're pitching tomorrow."
Frank46
US Veteran
There is a grave site as you enter the rifle and pistol range in Eunice,Louisiana. The deceased must have loved shooting at that range.
I had a friend who said when he goes he wants his ashes fired out of a cannon. Since he belongs to a renactor's from the Civil War and they have a 12 pounder Napoleon cannon I guess he'll get his wish. The wife and I both have a fully paid up 2 holer 4 grave site (one on top of the other) and most likely we we'll end up. Her dad and one of her sisters are buried nearby. Frank
I had a friend who said when he goes he wants his ashes fired out of a cannon. Since he belongs to a renactor's from the Civil War and they have a 12 pounder Napoleon cannon I guess he'll get his wish. The wife and I both have a fully paid up 2 holer 4 grave site (one on top of the other) and most likely we we'll end up. Her dad and one of her sisters are buried nearby. Frank
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We both have our arrangements set, cremation, mix our ashes with our Beloved Greys and Dalmatian then off to Linville, NC.
It's not my problem. But I hope that it will be done as cheaply as possible.
Personally, for various reasons, I've always found it amusing that so many make detailed post departure plans. When push comes to shove, the wishes of the living will trump those of the dead every time.
My wife knows that I want to be cremated and my ashes dumped in the headwaters of my favorite hunting grounds. But she will do as she wants. Funerals services are held for the benefit of the living, not the dead.
Both of my parents were cremated, without a viewing. Dad was rather well know to a lot of the locals so we had a "celebration of life"service. The flag draped coffin was empty, though nobody but the immediate family was told. Apparently, in Pennsylvania you can't rent a coffin just to use for a viewing. He died in December. We interred him the following June when the weather was nicer and more family was able to attend. I recited Robert Lewis Stevenson's requiem as it was very fitting for him, having been both in the navy and an avid hunter:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Mother wanted no formal service. But we had a private gathering at the grave site when we interred her ashes along side dads. I also read an eulogy for her of my own writing.
My wife's mothers ashes went out with the tide in coastal Georgia as per her instructions. IIRC the total cost for her cremation came to a little under $1800. A simple family gathering at the private dock was officiated by a nephew who was a lay preacher.
Her father was buried earlier in a traditional manner in a small nearby cemetery. He used to mow hay in the field, for a local farmer, before it became a cemetery. This was when he was dating his future wife while he was stationed at a nearby naval base.
Funerals don't need to be expensive to be nice, Though our local funeral directors may disagree. I think that too often, many families get railroaded into paying too much to get the job done.
John
Personally, for various reasons, I've always found it amusing that so many make detailed post departure plans. When push comes to shove, the wishes of the living will trump those of the dead every time.
My wife knows that I want to be cremated and my ashes dumped in the headwaters of my favorite hunting grounds. But she will do as she wants. Funerals services are held for the benefit of the living, not the dead.
Both of my parents were cremated, without a viewing. Dad was rather well know to a lot of the locals so we had a "celebration of life"service. The flag draped coffin was empty, though nobody but the immediate family was told. Apparently, in Pennsylvania you can't rent a coffin just to use for a viewing. He died in December. We interred him the following June when the weather was nicer and more family was able to attend. I recited Robert Lewis Stevenson's requiem as it was very fitting for him, having been both in the navy and an avid hunter:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Mother wanted no formal service. But we had a private gathering at the grave site when we interred her ashes along side dads. I also read an eulogy for her of my own writing.
My wife's mothers ashes went out with the tide in coastal Georgia as per her instructions. IIRC the total cost for her cremation came to a little under $1800. A simple family gathering at the private dock was officiated by a nephew who was a lay preacher.
Her father was buried earlier in a traditional manner in a small nearby cemetery. He used to mow hay in the field, for a local farmer, before it became a cemetery. This was when he was dating his future wife while he was stationed at a nearby naval base.
Funerals don't need to be expensive to be nice, Though our local funeral directors may disagree. I think that too often, many families get railroaded into paying too much to get the job done.
John
akoda
Member
Understood, I had a friend pass in the last 6 months and this was his chosen route. Certainly an interesting process, had a video of a farm animal going into a mobile unit
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Shootingfish
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Pebble Beach
I've instructed hubby to put my ashes in every sand trap at Pebble Beach since he will already be in the trap.
I've instructed hubby to put my ashes in every sand trap at Pebble Beach since he will already be in the trap.
we both wish to be cremated... she likes the cemetery down the road because it is pretty... and I just want to be with her... I do have song requests that are a little off, but that is too bad lol...
My Way by S. Pistols
Who wants to live forever by The Tenors
Amazing Grace on bagpipes
Sounds of Silence by the Disturbed
open to suggestions that make people laugh too
their coming to take me away perhaps?
My Way by S. Pistols
Who wants to live forever by The Tenors
Amazing Grace on bagpipes
Sounds of Silence by the Disturbed
open to suggestions that make people laugh too
their coming to take me away perhaps?
akoda
Member
To quote from the local undertaker.........." A cremation takes about $20.00 worth of natural gas."..............Imagine the profits!
Shootingfish
Member
Give Heaven Some Hell
I'd pick REM's "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)".
