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Posted: 10/21/2004 12:08:50 PM EDT
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My mom requested that she be cremated and the ashes dispersed at sea. That's exactly what we did.
My only regret about the whole thing is not having a lace where I can go visit her. Going to the oceanside isn't the same. Call me weird...... 
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Posted: 10/21/2004 12:11:05 PM EDT
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I've been around exhumed bodies. Do your loved one a favor, don't put a flower or a can of beer in the coffin to be buried with them. All the bacteria does real nasty stuff to the body. Some bodies get dug up and look, well uhhh, like the day they died! 
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Posted: 10/21/2004 12:12:49 PM EDT
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Once my spirit has left my body, I don't really care what happens to my body. Whether it becomes ashes or worm food, what's it really matter at that point? We will no longer be in it.
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Posted: 10/21/2004 12:26:52 PM EDT
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The owner of the local Funeral Home and I are good friends and always joking.
Last we spoke when Granny passed, I told him what I wanted done to me. I want my favorite AR with a full magazine and one in the chamber in there with me and my finger on the trigger. This will ensure I get handled well and not bumped around during transportation to being planted. And, a 10 pound fire extinguisher mounted in the box, in case I make a wrong turn.  He still laughs about that. When I asked about Cremation, he said that he had been in on one in his career and it was the most gruesome thing that he had ever experienced. I'll be planted. Danny |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 12:41:35 PM EDT
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I've been a rambler, all my life
Been a bet it all gambler Yeah I let it all ride Never been afraid of losin Yeah there's been times I've lost it all But it wont really matter Someday when I'm gone You can bury me on Deadwood Mountain By my brother wild Bill and sister calamity Jane Don't bring me no flowers Just a Put me eight feet down When you bury me Put me eight feet down When you bury me When your heart runs deeper Then a ghost town gold mine You just know your bound to find that motherload You'll spend your last heartbeat chasing after rainbows No there's no place you won't go To win one more time You can bury me on Deadwood Mountain By my brother wild Bill and sister calamity Jane Don't bring me no flowers Just a six gun smokin Put me eight feet down When you bury me Put me eight feet down When you bury me And cover me a little extra deep Cause that's the only way I'm gonna rest in peace You can bury me on Deadwood Mountain By my brother wild Bill and sister calamity Jane Don't bring me no flowers Just a six gun smokin Put me eight feet down When you bury me Put me eight feet down When you bury me 
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Posted: 10/21/2004 12:49:37 PM EDT
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When the last light goes out you will be past caring. That's why they call it 'past caring.' At least I hope so!
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Posted: 10/21/2004 1:05:39 PM EDT
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Send my body to the soylent green factory when I am dead, because I am done using it. I don't really care because I will be dead. If my relatives need a place to remember me, they can plant a tree in my honor and visit that.
Besides, if you do the math there is not enough suitable land to bury everbody. If you need a 8'x4' hole for each body (casket + a border), times a billion people, that is alot of land. At some point, we would have to start stacking. |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 1:08:09 PM EDT
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funny story....one of my instructors had parents that did the cremating and junk. Well, you had to put the ashes outside to cool and he had to watch over them. Turned out he somehow got locked out of the place, and had to warm his hands with a person's hot ashes for awhile
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Posted: 10/21/2004 1:33:24 PM EDT
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It was good enough for Darth Vader
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Posted: 10/21/2004 2:05:40 PM EDT
[#10]
Oh, oh but but they did!!!! I saw it on TV so it has to be true 
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Posted: 10/21/2004 2:14:27 PM EDT
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I can't see why it would be, we will all be cremated in about 5 billion years when the sun dies.
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Posted: 10/21/2004 2:37:56 PM EDT
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FRED! Yea! I THINK WE'VE GOT AN EATER! I'll get the oven on! Um, er...excuse me, um, are you... are you suggesting we should eat my mother? Yeah. Not raw, not raw. We cook her. She'd be delicious with a few french fries, a bit of stuffing. Delicious! (smacks his lips) What! (he stammers) Actually, I do feel a bit peckish - No! NO, I can't! Look, we'll eat your mum. Then, if you feel a bit guilty about it afterwards, we can dig a grave and you can throw up into it. All right. |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 2:40:42 PM EDT
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Tannerite!!!! (well, someone had to say it  )No, really, being Jewish I want to be buried. Organ donation is fine as long as the people who get my organs themselves request to be buried. Not only is that Jewish law, but the whole cremation thing freaks me out a bit, with Aushwitz and the other death camps and all. I also think it is important for my family have a place to go. |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 2:43:59 PM EDT
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I'm an organ donor (and motorcycle rider, fitting ain't it?) and have requested of my family that I be put in a giant oven for a trial by fire.
I don't want them wasting a lot of money on a time capsul box and land I can't enjoy. Wasted money in my mind. Haven't decided on what I want done with my ashes. I guess I'd leave that up to them but the idea of them having my ashes up on somebody's mantle kindof weirds me out. I also don't really want anybody to have to go through some elaborate chore to get rid of my carbon leftovers, so no hiking up Everest and spreading me in the wind or anything like that. I guess the only answer is....TANNERITE!  For those who do want their ashes spread, do your buddies a favor and don't ask to be spread at the coast. The Dude would appreciate it.  ETA: It also seems to me that it's not going to matter if I get fried now or later. Depending on your view of things either the earth will be tried by fire after the Millenial Reign on Earth or the Sun will eat up our planet anyway...so it's not really gonna matter. I'm dead anyway, what do I care? |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 2:51:26 PM EDT
[#16]
Me too! |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 5:57:57 PM EDT
[#17]
If you have a nice coffin you won't have a insect problem.
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Posted: 10/21/2004 6:09:00 PM EDT
[#18]
He also should have told you he makes a hell of a lot more money on a burial over a cremation. |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 6:12:46 PM EDT
[#19]
Yes, they did. 
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Posted: 10/21/2004 6:15:47 PM EDT
[#20]
Yeah, but being buried and know it would also suck.. I guess you just dont die, thatll solve it! 
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Posted: 10/21/2004 6:17:05 PM EDT
[#21]
I'm all for Cremation, I think it's rather selfish to wanna be buried, it's a waste of real estate.
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Posted: 10/21/2004 6:33:36 PM EDT
[#22]
cremate me and shoot my ashes out of a cannon
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Posted: 10/21/2004 6:48:38 PM EDT
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When my time comes, I want to be cremated. Why should I take up 18 cubic feet or so of earth, inside a sealed box, inside a concrete vault, under another 42 cubic feet or so of dirt, with an expensive granite/stone marker, that after a few years no one will come visit.
I would much rather have my ashes scattered to the winds and sea from a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, off Treasure Island Florida (place I grew up). That way every night as people watch the sunset into the gulf they are also looking at my resting place and I can look back. Of course this after my friends walk around with my urn and go up to all the people I disliked in life and flick a pinch of ash into their face/eyes and tell the "Smoky say goodbye". |
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Posted: 10/21/2004 7:02:41 PM EDT
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This whole waste of realestate thing is a joke,
It would take another 1,000 years for us to be worried with the dead taking up too much space, I don't feel a grave site should be any were near a city, I think it should be a nice quiet peacful place. And cost wise, you waste more money on junk food. I have respected my body long enough that when my time comes I am not just going to flush it down the toilet after all I spent my life in it. I am going to give it a monument, I don't see a problem spending $200,000 on a tomb stone. It would be pretty kick ass to have a nice statue at my grave. And some type of torch. After all you only die once
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