Pre-planning your funeral arrangements.

[mckenney99]

I spent the better part of an hour today sitting down with the funeral home and pre-arranging my final plans. I also sat down and laid out an outline for what I wanted for my memorial service and disposition of my cremains. Copies of everything will be made for distribution to the folks that I expect will have to deal with the details at some point.

I guess this all came to the front of my to do list when I was notified, just before Christmas, that my older brother passed away while living all alone near the end of October from Covid. I hadn't seen or heard from him in almost 25 years (his choice). A couple of his friends had to deal with the final arrangements (which he had pre-paid for, thank god).

I am single/divorced, never had any kids and my only blood relatives are an older sister and my niece's that live quite a distance away and I didn't want there to be any issues when something happens. Over the years I have seen some terrible squabbles when family and friends have had to sort these plans out after the fact.

Please let your family know your wishes before hand, it will make their choices so much easier and can prevent issues and financial hardship when the time comes.

It feels like a load has been lifted from my shoulders.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Ruthie knows that for my wake she is to rent a hall with an open bar and dump a pile of kazoos on each table.

After that I will be in a box on the mantel.

 

[jeffsmith]

There is an Option called "Direct Cremation"
No Embalming No Casket No Viewing No Services
That's my choice and my family is Aware

If they want a Service of some type later they can do that

This Body has Failed me since I was born over 60 years ago
and I feel no Allegiance to it that would require any "Fuss"
I Expect to be Somewhere else

 

[Rustyt1953]

Plan "B".

 

[RobertJ.]

I told my wife I want "Spirit in the Sky" played loudly.

My friend Kip made me promise to help his wife shoot him out of a cannon over the Columbia River.

 

[crazyphil]

We, my wife and I, paid for our funerals over twenty years ago. She passed away February 11, 2020, ironically on my 85th birthday. My
wishes are all written out. Hope they try to follow them. I would like a recording of Myrel Streep singing I'm Checking Out Of This Heartbreak
Hotel played. If you haven't heard it, check it out. It's in Postcards From The Edge movie.

 

[Tom S.]

My local funeral home is having a hard time finding a Viking ship and getting a burning permit.

 

[twodog max]

The kids know what we want and i have someone to handle the scattering but the financial part needs to be handled yet. A good New Years project for me.

 

[waffles]

I'm requesting a viking funeral or sky burial. Either that or use me weekend at bernies style to abuse the HOV lane.

 

[arjay]

I ain't goin!!

 

[Onomea]

We, my wife and I, paid for our funerals over twenty years ago. She passed away February 11, 2020, ironically on my 85th birthday. My
wishes are all written out. Hope they try to follow them. I would like a recording of Myrel Streep singing I'm Checking Out Of This Heartbreak
Hotel played. If you haven't heard it, check it out. It's in Postcards From The Edge movie.

Phil, I was not aware of the movie or the song. Good stuff, and, I think, highly appropriate: Postcards from the Edge - Meryl Streep Singing "I'm Checkin' Out" - YouTube

 

[SMSgt]

I'm gonna die?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Plan "C".

 

[Badger Matt]

Talked with my 85-year-old father while were quail hunting this Fall. He gave me permission to hand out mini bottles of Jack Daniels at the memorial ceremony...hopefully 15+ years from now. I'll have a glass of the same with me when I toast his legacy and say a few words. We'll end with a drink to the man; 33 years USAF, Silver Star, teacher, husband, father...

 

[jimmyj]

Talked with my 85-year-old father while were quail hunting this Fall. He gave me permission to hand out mini bottles of Jack Daniels at the memorial ceremony...hopefully 15+ years from now. I'll have a glass of the same with me when I toast his legacy and say a few words. We'll end with a drink to the man; 33 years USAF, Silver Star, teacher, husband, father...

A LIFE WELL LIVED

 

[Xfuzz]

Rusty beat me to it....

 

[31FordA]

Everyone who attends my funeral gets a free t-shirt with "I Went to Frank's Funeral and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" on it.

In keeping with how I've lived I have also requested that I be wheeled in 15 minutes after the announced starting time for the service. Everyone says I'll be late for my own funeral, I don't want to disappoint them.

 

[ameridaddy]

Plan "C".

That option is available only in Fargo.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I just paid mine off. I've already got the plot and the stone as my wife predeceased me 37 years ago. I've got two children and didn't want to leave either with my burial expense. I told them they can still have me cremated and get some money back from the Burial insurance if they want, but to get a post hole digger or something and put what's left next to their Mom. I'm still thinking about financing a celebration of life party, maybe with a New Orleans style band but I'm afraid there won't be enough folks left to enjoy it. Most of my friends have already died or are on the way out. I'll be sure to leave a final message to my friends here unless I'm hit with something sudden. I'm thinking "By-Pass Girls for pall bearers but I don't have any crack to pay them with. Maybe I still have a little time to figure something out.

 

[Absalom]

My local funeral home is having a hard time finding a Viking ship and getting a burning permit.

A friend of mine who is passionate about fishing was talking about the modern fisherman's version of that: Have his corpse and some weights put in a cheap inflatable, tow it to his favorite fishing spot off-shore, and have his friends shoot holes in the boat until it sinks.

I'm gonna die?

As Woody Allen once said regarding death, many people want to live on through their accomplishments, good works, and fame, but I really want to live on in my appartment.