Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anyone else weirded out by cremation?

I'd take cremation over the alternative. The alternative is to have someone drain all your fluids, pack your ass with cotton, along with all the other opeings, glue your mouth shut and tie your dick in a knot.

Cremate me, load my ashes into shotshells and let my buds take me hunting! I hope I leave my kids a better legacy than a stone marker that marks my withered bones.

You're entitled to whatever choice you make. OTOH, I had a friend that flew for a charter service some years ago and oddly enough one of their common endeavors was to help folks dispose of their dearly beloved's cremains by air. One scenario involved taking them way out in the Gulf of Mexico before opening a window, sticking the urn out the window and then popping the lid in that order. One time a preacher did it backwards in haste and they returned wearing most of the dust.

It required careful preparation for such a seemingly benign task. On another occasion they were to fly down a beach a few hundred feet up and drop the ashes before the bereaved as they stood gathered in mourning on the beach. The son forgot to undo the wire wrap on the plastic bag inside the urn and thus the departed arrived with a thud at the feet of the bereaved. It was an inauspicious end to an otherwise unremarkable life.

If you don't think that's funny you're sicker than me.

My son-in-laws Grandfather's ashes are scattered above an old line cabin he and friends found in a National Forest in Colorado. They used it as an elk camp for years and their offsprings still do today. He was the last of the 8 originals who had their ashes scattered on that ridge. I cannot think of anything more fitting than being with those good friends and overlooking their offsprings elk hunts today.

My first tour in Germany I realized how precious a commodity land was and with growing population would be here someday. Knowing that being buried was only for as long as someone cared to maintain your grave or it needed moving for a highway, or a lake or... I decided I did not wish to permantely hold land. I thought of skipping embalming, use a wood box and a creosote marker burying me in a pasture. By the time that rotted no one would care anymore. Turns out it is either illegal or a hassle to get all the approvals.

My family knows I do not want a traditional memorial service. Instead let them share a catered dinner and a slide show, take turns telling their favorite story of our experiences and let that be goodbye. Then my wife and kids know which valley of the national forest I hunt to spread my ashes. My wife who gave up hunting due to health problems knows the valley well having killed her first deer there and will join me later.

A bit of a contradiction there...unless you're talking about your ashes fertilizing the foliage.

yup cremation is cheaper but not environment friendly....you can use body liquefaction .....better way of memorial urns ....

Once I'm gone, I couldn't care less what happens. As a rule, I don't like folks making a big fuss over me. When I'm not feeling well, I'd rather just be left alone, but that's just me-to each his own. I'm for whatever's cheapest. I don't want my wife and kids saddled with an expensive funeral. I'd rather see them spend that money doing something fun that we never got a chance to do as a family. To that end, burn me up and just dump me in the woods somewhere and be done with it.

Just had my sister's remains cremated last week. Before that happened, we had to endure the emotional torture of the "showing" of her body for two days. Everybody stood around staring at her and crying but, once we had the casket closed up on the second day, the mood in the room improved and people started doing what she wanted by not wallowing in grief. You could tell that our friends and family were able to start recovering from the shock of her sudden death and my 84 year old mother even commented that she was relieved it was closed. My mother is happy that she can take my sister's urn home with her and making mom comfortable and happy is what my job is now. It was also about $2000 cheaper than a burial. So, cremation is good and that's what I'm going to have done.

People visiting graves only lasts for one generation or less. how many graves have you visited lately?

I hope that my time alive was testament to my life.

Once I'm gone, use my ashes in the garden.



(Holy crap. I sound like Gus)

second biggest waste of property.. cemetaries
right behind golf courses.
I've always thought they should be together.
Maybe hold players off the 16th until the funeral service is over.
Then let them play through!

Now that is something I have never heard of, points for originality...

Wow, I was the OP on this thread a year and two months ago. Never thought I'd see it come back like this!

A buddy and I want to set up a retirement business. We'll buy lots/houses along the shore, here on the east coast.
We want to set up a 5 inch gun aimed out to sea and have people pay us to launch their loved one's ashes several miles out to sea.
We've not got all the costs in yet so those who are interested we'll send business cards so you can pay deposit and reserve a launch date.

Jim

How did this get resurrected from Feb/11????

Ill take the fire, wife too, save money and have my ashs put in the woods someplace! if Im to be shown, Id rather not be, Flanel shirt, and Jeans, instead of a dam suit!

From the internet Flame Warriors page.

IMO there's nothing in the world sadder than an unvisited grave.

YMMV

Creamate me. Send my ashes to Massingill, run me through one more time

Other than a family telling a funeral home, "We know mom had all her funeral plans laid out and pre-paid. Let's scrap those plans, cremate her or whatever is cheapest, and give us the cash back.".

It happens...



And to those planning on scattering or mixing ashes in the garden, it isn't ashes like from the fireplace, it is simply coarsly ground bone. After the oven, the bigger bones don't burn up so they are crushed (basically run through a industrial garbage diposal). You get back what's left.