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Depends.

What kind of roofing sealant was used on that urn?

I plan on being scattered out at the deer lease, wifey wants to be scattered at a beach.

I was made sole beneficiary of a substantial estate, but told them to get me off that, the trouble I had
with being only part beneficiary & executor of a previous estate was unpleasant enough.

but we didn't argue over the washing machine, he just took it without asking and I didn't raise
the petty matter.

my attorney said I should be grateful for the problems I had, for some of the other family estate conflicts
they have been required to handle, made mine pale into relative insignificance.

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I dated a girl once who kept a flannel shirt laying across her bed after it was made. I didnt think anything of it, but she finally told me that it had belonged to her father who had passed a couple of years before I met her. She told me that it still had the fragrance of his cologne and it comforted it her in a way. She asked me if it was strange, and I told her no not at all.

My stepdad is in a brown plastic box, inside a green fleece bag. It rides In the back of the Truck his estate bought for me. He go's on every fishing or hunting trip the truck is used for.

Doesn't seem at all strange to me. I want to be set out in the woods where i use to hunt and let the coyotes have a good meal. I have been told that is weird.

Now that's a great idea, every rut, you'll be chasing cows, riding along on the bulls.

People buried their dead in the "family plot" out back of the farmhouse for many years. Really seem to have stopped only a few decades ago. Other than his desire to exhume and take it with him when he moves, I really don't see how this is much different.

I'm going to do the exact same thing he did when my wife dies, in the exact same way.

Had some family friends do that with a baby that died....
When the wife died, the husband did the same thing with her...

Funny thing, was the wife was an alcoholic, and died from cirrhosis.
But she had a Pug dog, and when he died, she had him stuffed,
in a position like he was begging...

then she, he was put in a glass display case...
and was put in a concrete box, with a removable lid...
she use to pull him out when she was drinking...
She wanted her ashes buried with the glass display case of her Pug...

We never questioned it, but it didn't have to be said, that it was weird....

We still see some of those little family cemeteries out in the Western states when you get away from the cities out into the ranch and farm country. A few of them out on the reservation too. Still in active use too.

I know some people down the road a few miles. They bought an old farm house with 2 graves in the middle of the back yard. The wood markers are there but the writing has long since weathered off and no one knows who they are.

i have a cemetary in my yard. a guy and his family all died in aug 1855. i've met his descendants. i have my shooting bench set up right beside old isaacs head stone.

I imagine old Isaac would appreciate that. Hell, he might even spot for you if he was still kicking.

Someone told me Colorado allows private cemetaries if you have a certain number of acres. I didn't find anything in a quick search. I am pretty sure cities will not allow. A bunch of rules about scattering ashes. What we did was simply go, say a prayer, and spread my brothers.

There is a meadow where we hunt elk that brings memories of a companion that is there now.

At times I think we should go back to wakes, digging our own graves, posting a wreath for a time. There can be too much ritual, but now too many people try to ignore things too much.

One thing; make your wishes known while you can. I do not want a lot of money wasted on me, use it to better the living. My ashes can be kept on a shelf or whatever, but I would prefer they be spread in a favotite hunting spot, or some place pleasant memories for trhe family

My dad proly won't make it five more years.
Blew a chunk on a future funeral.
Not religious, doesn't handle death well.
Maybe being stupid with his cash somehow makes the passage easier?
I dunno, don't care either.............it's his money.

Freakin foreigners are strange LOL.

My grandma (mom's side)............had a funeral.
People came from some distance.
Lots of people.
Good Christian woman she was.
The funeral was quite respectful.
Considering the guest of honor, it was proper.

Cremation makes a lot of people squeamish. Personally, I think it's the best way and it leaves the family a lot more money. When my wife died 11 years ago, cremation cost $1300. The cheapest steel casket I saw was over $2000. I saw wood ones cheaper but with those, most cemeteries require a vault. The reason is that wood caskets will eventually collapse leaving them with a large divot to fill in. Steel or vaults won't collapse.
Then, with cremation, you don't have to hire a hearse. Just pick up the ashes from the crematorium and do what you want with them. I have a nephew who's a potter and he made us a very nice urn. You can have a complete DIY funeral. That's what we did. It cost virtually nothing which is what my wife wanted. There's a small cemetery near Boise on land that was homesteaded by my great grandfather. He sold a couple acres to the county for a cemetery over 100 years ago. Most of my relatives on Mom's side are buried there. If you bury an urn, you can dig your own hole as it only has to be the size of a 5 gal bucket. We did get a nice headstone which is in a row with my father and brother.

funny side note: This cemetery allows up to 4 urns in a single plot so you can almost have a mass grave if you want to keep everyone together. My dad died 10 months before my wife who had terminal cancer at the time. We were at the cemetery for Dad's burial and knew that in due time my wife would be in the next plot. We'd buried Dad's urn and were standing there talking. My wife, who kept up a pretty good humor about it all, looked at her plot and said "You're young enough that you'll probably remarry. There's room for 3 in there."

speaking of family plots, if anyone has ever traveled down through eastern NC on the way to the outer banks, it looks like every other yard has a cemetery in the back.

my parents ashes are buried at my camp. we had a couple of nice rocks engraved for headstones and put their urns in a water proof splice case about a foot under ground. i rebuilt an old bench my dad made and put it over there and have cultivated the rhododendron around it to be a nice little sitting area. my boys and i do a full honor guard flag ceremony there every memorial day since my dad was a WW2 vet. thats where i'll end up one of these days.