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When You Are Dead and Gone
When you depart from this mortal world, (and Gayles second life perhaps:D ) do you feel strongly about what happens to your redundant body?
Traditionally, you can be interred. If this is your preference, would you care to be alone or would you prefer to be buried near a loved one or family? Perhaps you may prefer a cremation! In that case, are you bothered where your ashes are scattered? On a previous family grave perhaps or maybe on top of copse? (thats NOT corpse!) Is it important that your family comply with your wishes? Do you have any strange or weird ideas of your own such as: Welcome to the LifeGem Home - Memorial Diamonds created from a lock of hair or cremated remains / ashes / cremation process or Custom Large Glasses (about 4 pictures down) My eldest daughter confided to her husband just before she was killed in a road traffic accident that she would want to be buried in the Highlands of Scotland. After her death, he complied and she was buried in a beautiful spot overlooking the Isle of Skye. The sad thing is that I am her nearest family 400 miles south in Accy – and the rest of her family including her husband are over 600 miles south. I have few qualms over this, I believe that the physical body is discarded at death and so I would hope that when I pass over, my family go for the cheapest possible option:cool: The poll is multiple answers but please choose with care :) |
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Have you seen the "LifeGem" price list?
The LifeGem diamond Prices - www.LifeGem.com Memorial Diamond :eek: |
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When I saw those featured in an ad on the telly I thought it was a spoof.
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My Dad wanted his cremated ashes scattered in the sea in Pembrokeshire.
Three weeks after he'd died off the family went in his boat, to carry out his final wish. Unfortunately we got stuck on some rocks, and all the ashes were blown in our eyes, when we were eventually free from danger. My Dad would have laughed, after telling us off for not learning anything from him about tides and stuff. I'm going to be blowing down over Ossy from the moors, and causing more havoc than acid rain, when I pop my clogs.:D |
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I'll be leaving it up to the family whats left when i go. The only stipulation i have is im not cremated. I have this feeling i'd come round as i was going into the oven no thank you!!!
By the way Busman do you know my brother? We were talking the other night and he said to me have you made a will? That got me thinking - im single, have no kids, no parents, just my brothers & sisters and their families and cousins. What do you do with the house etc. |
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I have a friend who lives on a farm in Cornwall. Her father-in-law requested that his ashes were scattered around the farmyard where he'd lived all his life.
This was done...........but no-one thought about the chickens.........they ate him all up!! |
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My family if they are lucky might be able to sell my bits if it would make some money. If I am young enough then they can only do it after the removal of any transplantable bits.
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Am a great believer of organ transplantation. Remove all that they can.
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Yep , same here, the soul lives on in everyones memory of you, the body is just a temporary home. use what you want, burn the rest
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I don’t care what happens to my body when the grim reaper comes-a-calling. They can feed me to the lions or chuck me on a bonfire for all I care. After all I won’t actually know, will I?
However taking into account those that I leave behind I opt for removing anything that is transplantable, not that a 70 years old body will have anything worth transplanting. After that it is the fire for me and scattering my ashes on the Coppice. But I will not know if that happens or not because I will be DEAD! |
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I don't really care what happens to me when I'm dead. I am planning on being around for a while yet, but if I shuffle off this mortal coil prematurely, then feel free to help yourselves to any useable parts. I would prefer to be cremated and do not want to be a financial burden on my family. I would rather have a cheap send off, be scattered somewhere nice and the money be spent on a celebration for my family and friends because so far.........life's not been bad.:D
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When I'm gone I want to be burnt and have my ashes spread in rindys underwear draw, the thought that I can still be irritatating and a pain in the a*se for someone would be.....
Heaven! :) |
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Ever since I saw The Fall of The House of Usher I've had a morbid fear of being buried alive so I'd like to be cremated and ideally scatterd off the Donegal coast. The kids and Busman know where.
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i think i would have to be cremated as i hate the cold! but pleeesse make sur im really am dead just make sure i smell terrible before you chuck me in the oven.
Then i want my ashes to be kept in a nice urn on the mantle so i can keep my eye on all thats going on. |
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humm not thought of that they can take what they want but not my eyes. i really need them.
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when im long gone i want to be cremated, dont want to be buried, dont like the idea of been eaten by bugs! after that?......couldnt care less!!
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It's All Souls' Day today. The Canarians have a lovely ritual where they go to the graveyards and have a picnic. They take the favourite foods of their dead and make a day of it.
I reckon that it I might appreciate a nice pork pie! |
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Take the bits they want. Get rid of the rest the cheapest way possible and if I'm cremated then I want scattering to the winds somewhere nice.
MUMMIBOO you wont need your eyes you will still be able to see all. I will most certainly be keeping a watchful eye on you all. |
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I might be blind by then anyway eh!!! look at my dad hes half way there he didnt used to wear glasses but he does now! lol Shhhhh dont tell him i said that.
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Is it me or have attitudes changed dramatically over the past 50 years or so? I seem to remember that the majority of adults when I was in my childhood had grand thoughts of how they would be treated on their deathbed.
Many would have paid for their funeral in advance thru the co-op and their weekly or monthly payment would have a higher priority than the house rent:eek: Didn't matter how you lived - as long as you got the best when you died! Yet, only two accyweb members have so far voted for "no expense spared":confused: Does anyone elase have similar recollections? |
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I would like to be fed into a wood chipper like the guy in Fargo, then I can be as messy in death as I have been in my life.
Sometimes I think that the only reason I hang around on this planet is to p**s off the people who want me dead. But sort of seriously: when Ontarians get a drivers licence they are allowed to opt for organ donation in the case of death, or to have their bodies used for research. I relish the thought of some medical student shaking his head in amazement as he views my liver. |
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i know asians prepare and many have an insurance system to pay for the funeral. but fancy burials are against Islam ie tombstones etc are not allowedalso i cant believepeople want to be cremated. it sounds horrible i woudnt even want to do that to a cat. also its appaling for the enviroment all those emissions being released from bodies. the overweight bodies will even be more lethal. it should be banned.
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And what exactly is your solution for all those "overweight" people who thoughtlessly go and die ? You can't really be sizeist to a dead person can you ?:eek::eek:
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they can be buried 'dust to dust' just like the rest of us
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i want to be cremated, not buried!!
theres not gonna be any room left if we were all buried, anyway does it matter , we wont know will we? |
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i'm being shoved under simple as that. its a promise i made.
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I voted something different,, I fancy being buried at sea, in the Mediteranian ,or The River Nile ,,,but i dont suppose that will ever happen...
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It's nice to see I'm consistent, as I gave the same answer in this old thread, as I gave the other week in a similar one.:D
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When my Dad died the undertaker (Birtwistles Gt.Harwood) asked what I would like to do with his ashes, I asked him if the Royal Navy did burial at sea for ex-sailors (he had allways said his days on Destroyers during WW2 were the best years of his life), he made a couple of phone calls and found out that it was possible , all I had to do was produce his Navy I.D. number , the undertaker had to make a wooden box of suitable size with holes drilled in it to aid sinking , the Navy asked for any preferance for place for the comitment , I said somewhere off Plymouth if possible since that was his home port for basic training. A few weeks later I got a letter from the Admiralty saying his remains had been sent out to sea and even sent me a map of the location and the name of the ship .
There was no charge and I believe its a service available to all ex members of the Royal Navy who had a good conduct discharge . Not sure if the Air Force or Army offer a similar service for their veterans but if anyone is interested it may be worth asking . |
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ideally i'd want to die in a HUGE accident where due to my sheer stupidity i'm carrying a tanker full of fuel and lots of fireworks - so needless to say nothing will survive...
but in case i do... burial... with my xbox 360 pad in hand.... and a copy of the latest x-men comic to b left at my graveside every month... |
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If and when the Surgeons have cut out everything possible to keep me alive, I would like the rest buried, in a new family plot. This is the next arrangement I will be making selecting a suitable location, not to wet not, to much sun and if possible inbetween two females as I would like a little company in the afterlife, and definitley not near a tree as I have no wish to be peed on by every dog that visits.:D.
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When my dad died, half of his ashes were scattered in a Memorial Garden in Accrington, the other half I took out to Arizona and scattered there. He was particularly fond of that state and his "headstone" often appears in movies and ads. For myself, I plan on being cremated. Dad always said it was the most sanitary way to go. My remains will be scattered on family owned property here. |
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