Do you want to be Buried or Cremated?

[Kerfuffle]

So how do you want to go out someday?



1) Buried 6 feet under in a cemetery (traditional way)

2) Buried in masoleum (those above ground buildings)

3) Cremated



If option 3 do you want your ashes spread somewhere special?



Me - I want option #1, next to my wife.

 

[bri]

I don't care if they put me in a Glad bag and throw me out with the trash. I won't know the difference. And I certainly wouldn't want my family to spend a fortune on funeral costs just because they think it is expected of them. I don't even want a funeral.

 

[TSD]

I'll be dead, wtf would I care, throw me in the woods and let bears eat me, I dont give a crap.



But with the ass I am I might put in my will I demand to be cut into 50 pieces and buried in each state.

 

[dlrob315]

Whatever is the cheapest for my family...I echo Bri's statement!

 

[Bringmepie]

I don't care if they put me in a Glad bag and throw me out with the trash. I won't know the difference. And I certainly wouldn't want my family to spend a fortune on funeral costs just because they think it is expected of them. I don't even want a funeral.

I've told my family that if they think they can get away with a burlap sack and a ditch in the country then go for it, mom wasn't amused.

 

[supraman]

At this point in my life I dont give a rat's ass. If I was married maybe it'd be different but yeah right now, dont care, feed me to the sharks I like them I guess

 

[JOVE23]

I don't plan on dying.



But if I do, I prefer Dos Equis cremation.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

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The way I'd like to be remembered.

 

[phranchk]

I plan on donating my organs and also donating my body to science.

 

[Kerfuffle]

Traditional funeral these days is about $15K. That's how much we paid when my mom passed 4 years ago. Even dying is expensive.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwDP872IE5k[/media]

This more reflects my honest attitude to the question.

 

[bri]

I plan on donating my organs and also donating my body to science.

That is very admirable, Phranchk. I want to be an organ donor too if I have anything left worth having. I get a little creeped out about the donating your body thing. I know there is a need for that, but all I can think of is Christian in NIP/TUCK knocking that head on the floor and saying "I'm going to need another head."

 

[winos5]

If I go before the wife it will be a traditional casket, hopefully very simple. VA benifits are supposed to cover the cost of this. She feels like the family would like someplace to visit (or piss on my grave) after I leave. If she goes 1st I'll probably donate to science or be cremated.

 

[Kerfuffle]

If I go before the wife it will be a traditional casket, hopefully very simple. VA benifits are supposed to cover the cost of this. She feels like the family would like someplace to visit (or piss on my grave) after I leave. If she goes 1st I'll probably donate to science or be cremated.

It also depends on what your kids wishes are too (if you have kids). If wife goes first, kids may want you buried next to her someday which makes sense.

 

[winos5]

That will be difficult. She wants to be laid to rest in the family mausoleum in Panama. I'll just say this, burial/funeral preperations are vastly different there, most everything is done by the family, cleaning/dressing the body, without preservaton of body tissues or cosmetic reconstructions. Viewing is usually in the home of the deceased with a long procession to the grave/mausoleum. Coffins are wood, no seals. The family mausoleum is above ground, although sealed by heavy concrete slabs and mortared in place. When a person is laid to rest, they make room by removing the coffin/bones of those that have gone before you (I have no idea what they do with them). Something I don't intend for myself, but plan to make every effort to do for my wife as that is her wish.

 

[bri]

That will be difficult. She wants to be laid to rest in the family mausoleum in Panama. I'll just say this, burial/funeral preperations are vastly different there, most everything is done by the family, cleaning/dressing the body, without preservaton of body tissues or cosmetic reconstructions. Viewing is usually in the home of the deceased with a long procession to the grave/mausoleum. Coffins are wood, no seals. The family mausoleum is above ground, although sealed by heavy concrete slabs and mortared in place. When a person is laid to rest, they make room by removing the coffin/bones of those that have gone before you (I have no idea what they do with them). Something I don't intend for myself, but plan to make every effort to do for my wife as that is her wish.

Well, I am not trying to sound unkind, but that has to be a smelly depressing mess. I get sick from the smell of trash that has chicken wrappers in it that have sat for a day. I imagine decaying flesh being even worse. You must really love her a lot to honor her in that way.

 

[Bringmepie]

I plan on donating my organs and also donating my body to science fiction.

fixed

 

[winos5]

Well, I am not trying to sound unkind, but that has to be a smelly depressing mess. I get sick from the smell of trash that has chicken wrappers in it that have sat for a day. I imagine decaying flesh being even worse. You must really love her a lot to honor her in that way.

Not really. Since decay/putrefication is a big issue, time of death to burial is much quicker. Ussually within 24-36 hours. Body comes home, is washed, dressed, and some cosmetics may be applied (usually by female family members) while male relatives purchase a coffin and notify the cemetary of the pending burial. If there are not horrible gory wounds disfiguring the face, coffin is open, ussually in the fromt room/parlour. Family, friends, mouners come by for @ 24 hours to view the body. Family members stay with the body the entire time. After the viewing period the family members and perhaps very close friends carry the coffin to the cemetary, and mourners walk behind in a procession. When my mother in law passed (RIP Gloria) it basically followed that timeline.



I'll say this, it was a very educational experience of death. Not the sterile, clean, sanitised version we get in the US, were someone else is paid to care for the body of your loved one. You would think it would be harder on people, but I think the family caring for the body actually may be therapuetic is some charnel way. I know my kids did very well with the whole process. They still mourn their grandmother, but being part of that whole process (no they didn't do anything with the body) with the extended family I think helped.

 

[bubbleheadchief]

Bury me in my car.....I am taking it with me.

 

[mikita's helmet]

Cremation (after a televised state funeral).



EDIT: They can harvest my organs before the body is hoisted up on a crane and deposited on the official bonfire on the plaza, but I reckon my liver's shot, brain diseased, so burn them, too.