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People stop going to your gravesite eventually anyways.
Huge monetary cost for burial versus creamation.

Just hang out up on the mantel somewhere.
And when ya get spilled .
They can always vacumn you up and dump ya back in the urn.


Gramps still causing us to work 10 yrs after he died kinda stuff.

I think that is what the American majority now believes. I would rather have my friends show up and have some laughs at my expense. My father's celebration of life was all laughter and funny memories...far superior send off IMHO, then depression and tears.

Going to a service of a dear Friend Saturday, no funeral, just ashes to bury next to his Mama, as he ask, it's still gonna suck!

Thing is, when people are at your wedding they all know you are married.
When they go to your funeral, they all know you died.

Perhaps more so years back before papers, radio, and internet.

Roots run deep here. I am marking a grave today for an acquaintance that I have known most of my life. Knew His family, and know the ones left behind. He will be buried in the same cemetery as His family, and My family on my Fathers side dating back to 1874. The man being buried today's father took care of the cemetery several years before me. I have been in charge for the last six years. A board controls the goings on, I just oversee it, for free. Only paid person is the lady that mows for us. miles

I too have chosen direct cremation, my reason has nothing to do with viewing etc.. But rather the greedy underhanded practices along with inflated charges in the funeral industry. And in the case of both parents how they got important details wrong. I'm not comfortable signing a contract that states that student morticians (under the supervision of licensed morticians) may be involved in preparation of the body. I don't want anyone practicing on my body, in the case of my mother it looked as if this was the case. In the case of my dad the funeral director insisted that he needed an "oversize casket". My dad was 5'11" and weighed 190#, hardly a candidate for other than a standard size casket. Since my mom was in charge of making his arrangements she went along with that pitch and $3K upcharge. I have since been told by those in the industry that this was pure BS, part of the way unscrupulous operators get extra money out of grieving clients.

My dad had $ set aside for his. Wanted buried, next to his brother. Be about 15k.

Could burned and urned and put that next for way cheaper.

Not what he wanted.


I should have my headstone shaped like a urinal
Anybody visiting mine will proly just say " pizz on him ".
Accomodating, even though Ive passed.

Will say after my aunt's funeral.my sis wanted to see where some family was buried, and where dad would eventually lay.

And that can be of help to folks.

Bet I hadnt seen any of those graves for a couple of years.
Drive by that cemetery all the time. I know who is in there.
Think about it sometimes.

If i had a good woman that i was married to and she passed, i might want a service/ marker to honor her and have a more focused place to grieve. Or if I lost a child.

Outside of that....a waste of money IMHO

Before the War of Northern Aggression, when someone died, they buried them almost immediately. Because soldiers were getting killed and buried on the battlefield, many wanted them buried near their home by their family. So, embalming began, and they shipped the boys home for one last look by their parents or relatives. It stuck and funerals began.

When my older brother was killed in a car wreck in 1968, I HAD to see his body laying in a casket, just to make sure there hadn't been some kind of mistake.

I just couldn't believe he was dead until I saw his body. I needed that.

I can still see my dad lying in an ICU bed gasping for air, the day before he died. That's NOT a good memory either.

Virgil B.

Lost my mom on 1-18 from a short but nasty bout of stomach cancer. We will have her urn and pictures of her as we all want to remember her. I don't want to be put on display when I'm dead. I've come to see this as really morbid.

Yep.

Put the ashes in a douche bag and run’em through one more time for the last time.

That's a fairly disgusting thing to say.

If you say so.

RIP, Bristoe.