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Closed casket.

Who wants to be wallered around by some weirdo mortician and makeup caked on your face and set out on display for people to gawk at?

I’ve already made it clear to my family. No embalming(which you don’t have to do if you have a closed casket) just put me in my dress uniform from the Army close the lid and be done with it. I’ve always thought a nice picture of the deceased in happier times set on the coffin was a lot better than a creepy stuffed carcass that only slightly resembles the dead person displayed like a carnival attraction. I’d rather my last remembrance of the person be them alive not dead.

Besides put some research into what goes in when embalming a person and tell me that’s what you want.

As for the cremation folks. What can I say people are freakin stupid in life why would their death be any different lol

I'm a vote for open or to at least be seen by people that matter. My grandpa was killed in an accident at 59; I was 9. I spent years hoping/wishing/dreaming it wasn't true and that he was coming back.

My wife was cremated as per her wishes. Prior to that off she went for organ and tissue harvesting. Well that took nearly a whole week. I just wanted to get it over with and deal with the aftermath. Becausof delays and the macabre, to me, harvesting Ive removed organ donor from my DL.

Why write it down?

Go somewhere, prepay and save them the time and headache.

If my organs can help someone live after I'm dead they're welcome to them, I sure won't be needing them anymore! The idea of being able to save another's life even as you die has great appeal. I agree about the embalming and open casket deal, I really don't like the idea of a bunch of people coming by gawking at my corpse. I will leave it up to family though l8ke I said as I feel that should be their choice as it's their feelings to salve at the time, not mine; but preferably cremation, a family remembrance meeting, plant the urn in the cemetery and done. If I could legally be buried here on the old family homeplace that would fine, I've spent much of my life here anyways but that's likely not legal.

I'll be burned with no service. Ashes are to be mixed with bear bait.

My Wife and I plan to be cremated and mixed together along with our elderly Cat and strewn out where ever the boys want.

That’s it. I referenced it on the previous page.

You in a rush to be somewhere after you die?

Sky burial for me. Kinda like open casket, but with vultures and ravens.

Laying out in the woods for the bugs and critters to feast on will suit me just fine. Screw all the hooplah

A”green” burial. My friend who owns our local funeral home wants the same…..go figure

I’ve only ever been to two closed casket funerals.
One was a friend of the family who was horribly killed in a car versus truck accident.
The other was the son of a friend who had taken his own life with a shotgun to
The head.
I’ve had friends and relatives who chose cremation. A three were open caskets .I was told by a family member of the deceased that the casket is a rental and the body was placed in a cardboard box before the cremation service.
Many now have videos of the deceased doing what they loved to do, boards filled with pictures of them enjoying themselves, but they were still open casket.
I’ve only seen a couple that didn’t look themselves. Most of the funeral directors or morticians I e seen have done a good job.
I told Ben to do whatever he thinks is best, but to cremate me and put me in a mason jar to be thrown off The Big Rock that I have described in previous posts about The Old Man.
His last words to Dave and I was I’ll see you boys on The. Big Rock.
Every year in deer season I go up
They’re with two bears and some ciggarettes one for me, and one to be left for The Old Man.
Reon

Cremation. Embalming is not for me.

If things work out right, I’m taking a few [bleep] with me.

if I remember correctly one of the members here who owns property out west was going to have a deep hole dug out in the forest and just be buried there with no marker or anything.

I WANT A CLOSED CASKET FUNERAL AND AT THE END OF THE SERVICE PLEASE HAVE THE ORGANIST PLAY POP GOES THE WEASEL OVER AND OVER UNTIL EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE IS STARING AT MY COFFIN WITH SILENT HORRIFIED ANTICIPATION

THAT, is how the funeral 'business' survives.....

IMHO...

What if my decision placed an unwanted or untimely burden on the family at a time when they could least afford it? And for all anybody here knows they might throw a party when it comes time for me to kick the bucket. Jumping to conclusions based on very little evidence does seem standard procedure for the fire though.

Closure?? I knew ALL of my grandparents, never saw any of them lying in the box, and yet I fully understand that they are dead!!! YMMV.

Come January, Mom will have been gone 2 years, All her children were in the room with her when she passed. She was cremated, ashes picked up in the cardboard box,we have yet to have a funeral, service, whatever.... none seem too concerned about it.

Had a family member that absolutely wished to be cremated, he was, but AFTER the wife had him embalmed, put in a casket, full open door service, and THEN cremated!?!?!?

Friend, cremated and scattered under his number one deer stand pine tree. His mom is still not happy about that..

I've seen lots of live people that looked dead, I've never seen a dead one that looked alive, or sleeping peacefully..........

Bottom line it's all so very personal, and after you are gone you have no control over what the remaining do with your carcas.

My plan?? the wife and I will be cremated, the girls can dump us somewhere, we've suggested a cruise to Alaska and leave 'US" there..... It'll be paid for.

Just a box in the dirt is fine with me though, worms gotta eat too.


just remembered a discussion with mom: discussing her 'requests'

Do you want to be buried?

Oh NO, I couldn't stand to be in the cold damp ground, could I?? (think typically British)

Well then, cremated??

Golly no! Burned up like that???

OK Ma, what's left? Burial at Sea?????

Don't be daft, I can't swim can I????????

Well, I don't know what's left, I could call NASA and see if we can get you sent to the moon!!!!!!

Well.......... I don't know........... I guess cremation would be alright!