Cremated. Spread on top of the mountain at my cabin. Written into my will. The thought of rotting in a box is unsettling to me. Plus, why take up valuable real estate with my sorry carcass.
Cremated for sure. That’s the cheapest way to go about it. Funerals and burials, to me, are a huge financial ripoff. I don’t want my kids to be burdened with any financial expenses to dispose of my body that aren’t absolutely necessary.
Cremated for sure. That’s the cheapest way to go about it. Funerals and burials, to me, are a huge financial ripoff. I don’t want my kids to be burdened with any financial expenses that aren’t absolutely necessary to dispose of my body.
Wife and I are going to be cremated. She wanted to be buried next to her parents and that was the only way to make it work. I personally don’t care one way or the other.
I've requested my remains to be deposited at a spot I call "hog heaven", and let the hogs recycle me. Lord knows how many I have recycled. It will be cheap and good Karma!
Cremated for sure. That’s the cheapest way to go about it. Funerals and burials, to me, are a huge financial ripoff. I don’t want my kids to be burdened with any financial expenses to dispose of my body that aren’t absolutely necessary.
Agree. My wife's ashes and mine to be buried together in her family cemetery.
Cremated. Spread on top of the mountain at my cabin. Written into my will. The thought of rotting in a box is unsettling to me. Plus, why take up valuable real estate with my sorry carcass.
Drove through the cemetery where my grandparents and all of the greats are buried 2 nights ago. Made a comment to my wife that there was a good waste of real estate right there.
Already paid for....Crypt. But have no objections to Cremation if that's what a person wants. I personally believe a Person's Cremains are more worthy of honor/respect than a big turd to be flushed...but that's just me! ha
Cremated...ashes will probably be spread on the big river back home (in defiance of the EPA and the NYSDEC.) I have, however, considered this: https://beyondburials.com/
Cremated. I'll be dead so it doesn't really matter. I don't want a service but the wife will probably do something. I told her to go down the local pub and open a tab.
Cremated for sure. That’s the cheapest way to go about it. Funerals and burials, to me, are a huge financial ripoff. I don’t want my kids to be burdened with any financial expenses that aren’t absolutely necessary to dispose of my body.
^^^^ THIS ^^^^
Yep. I have the money for my cremation so no burden on the family, but I don't see wasting it on a funeral and burial.
Cremated for sure. That’s the cheapest way to go about it. Funerals and burials, to me, are a huge financial ripoff. I don’t want my kids to be burdened with any financial expenses that aren’t absolutely necessary to dispose of my body.
^^^^ THIS ^^^^
Yep. I have the money for my cremation so no burden on the family, but I don't see wasting it on a funeral and burial.
I'd like to go in the ground behind the house under the deer feeder. If that doesn't happen I'd like my ashes to be spread out on sailfish alley off Stuart FL with the rest of my family.
Donate my body to science, let the new want to be doctors slice and dice on me so they can learn something. Body will be cremated after they’re done with a bunch of other bodies that got donated. Don’t cost [bleep] and helps someone learn
Cremated and my ashes discretely scattered in the Road Hole Bunker at St. Andrews. When my grandkids watch a future British Open they can all say…”Look there’s Grandpa”!
What are you guys gonna do if they just yard your ashes into the landfill?
Come back and haunt your family?
My Girl and I talked about this several times She will not bring it up any more. I told her that when I die just throw me in the trash that I am finished with this body and do not need it anymore. She gets a bit pissed off when I tell her that for some strange reason.
I tell her do not waist any money on me she can keep it for herself.
What are you guys gonna do if they just yard your ashes into the landfill?
Come back and haunt your family?
My Girl and I talked about this several times She will not bring it up any more. I told her that when I die just throw me in the trash that I am finished with this body and do not need it anymore. She gets a bit pissed off when I tell her that for some strange reason.
I tell her do not waist any money on me she can keep it for herself.
My wife and I talk about that too.
I am of the same opinion. Cheap as possible.
I don't like the idea of being spread on my land. What if it's someone else's land some day?
Why be a pain in the ass when dead too?
Funerals are for the surviving family and friends. If they want to spend some money to help with the grieving process...so be it.
I won't need or require it....I guess they can do what they want.
This whole "I don't want to burden them" is absurd. Maybe they need a funeral to help cope.
What are you guys gonna do if they just yard your ashes into the landfill?
Come back and haunt your family?
My Girl and I talked about this several times She will not bring it up any more. I told her that when I die just throw me in the trash that I am finished with this body and do not need it anymore. She gets a bit pissed off when I tell her that for some strange reason.
I tell her do not waist any money on me she can keep it for herself.
My wife and I talk about that too.
I am of the same opinion. Cheap as possible.
I don't like the idea of being spread on my land. What if it's someone else's land some day?
Why be a pain in the ass when dead too?
Funerals are for the surviving family and friends. If they want to spend some money to help with the grieving process...so be it.
I won't need or require it....I guess they can do what they want.
This whole "I don't want to burden them" is absurd. Maybe they need a funeral to help cope.
My dad had paid for everything for my mom and he went threw Hell with the funeral home. So He made sure that everything was set when it was his turn. My sister went threw Hell. Dad had paid up front for everything and the Funeral home told my sister that she had to pay more right in the middle of his viewing with family and friends walking past him.
Screw all of them money hungry thieves feeding off of grieving people.
My Brother wants to be buried the Indian way on a Res. in Montana up on a rack. My Sister In-law will not let him do it. He was also very upset at the way these Mortuary's feed off of the Grieving.
Have friends donating to science. Free and they give back whatever is left. I see the smoke at times. That reminds me; never d I d hear I f they found that box full of cadaver heads that was stolen.
I've told my wife to just have the boys bury me out back, keep her mouth shut...keep the pension and social security flowing into my account (which she has access to) every month. She doesn't think it's funny...accountant, you know, they're funny about that stuff.
Donating to science isn't free here. Maybe cheaper, but not free.
A mortician picks up the stiff and they get hauled to Baltimore, They do nothing for free and they dam sure don't put 300 miles on the meat wagon for fun. A friend hauls them.
Wife has wanted cremated since I've known her. Can't stand the idea of bring in a box, haunted at the idea of waking, buried. Claustrophobic.
Never liked that, opposed actually. But have come around to it over time. The funeral business has become so crooked and overpriced, its not worth the cost.
It only cost a few hundred dollars in 1969 for Mom and I at the hospital to get me here. Why spend $10k+ to dispose of the used up junk.
I’ve looked, and people much more bible scholarly than me have looked. Pretty surenthere is nothing in the bible banning cremation. My wife and I are leaning that way. We don’t want the kids to have to worry about visiting or putting flowers on our graves.
My 95 year old mother will get cremation. Had to be at least 20 years ago she read a book that describes what morticians do to prepare folks for burial with all the embalming stuff and what-not. She decided right then on cremation. The ashes can go into her burial plot next to my dad's grave.
I plan on a Military burial at the National Cemetery after cremation. But, with only half of my ashes. My wife and I have a spot picked out to have our ashes scattered with a great view of the Beartooths. If that won't work with the military, all of my ashes will go with my wifes.. If I go first, she will probably forget about the military burial.
I watched a video about that cryonics place. The strange thing I noticed was all of the security locks, latches and codes on the door to exit the body storage area to the offices. You'd think it would be reversed.
I watched a video about that cryonics place. The strange thing I noticed was all of the security locks, latches and codes on the door to exit the body storage area to the offices. You'd think it would be reversed.
This is why the doors are locked from the inside. Anybody remember when this movie came out, it scared the hell out of me.
There's a small rural cemetery near Boise on land that was homesteaded by my great grandfather. He sold an acre to the county about 1903 for a cemetery. It's a public cemetery but I'm related to half the people in it. They allow up to 4 urns to be put in each plot so we've all agreed to be cremated and buried there to get in as many as possible. I have a nephew who's a potter. He's made a bunch of urns for the family over the years.
Cremated for sure. That’s the cheapest way to go about it. Funerals and burials, to me, are a huge financial ripoff. I don’t want my kids to be burdened with any financial expenses that aren’t absolutely necessary to dispose of my body.
Embalming got popular when long distance travel became practical. They no longer had to have a funeral and get them buried in 2 or 3 days. It enabled them to hold the bodies until relatives could arrive for the funeral. It got so popular that most people think embalming is required but in most cases it's not. It's just an added expense and a big money maker for morticians. Steel caskets and vaults aren't required either. They push them on the family so the body will keep longer but that's not the real purpose of them. Many cemeteries require one or the other because they don't rot and collapse, leaving them with a hole to fill up. Wood caskets rot apart and collapse leaving a hole that needs filling later. Cremation is FAR cheaper. We cremated my mother last month for $800. Sometimes you can find a crematorium cheaper than that. Urns are optional. If you want one, you can go as cheap or expensive as you like.
...Many cemeteries require one or the other because they don't rot and collapse, leaving them with a hole to fill up. Wood caskets rot apart and collapse leaving a hole that needs filling later...
If you mound the dirt that came out of the hole on top...?
It will eventually be flat again.
Think the law here is 3-4 days before embalming is required.
And you are correct, avoid commercial operations... as they are, indeed, a rip-off.
My instructions are for any useful organs to be harvested for use or research. When the remains are no longer wanted for any research, they are to be cremated. I do want my ashes to be buried. I have a plot reserved in a rural cemetery where I have family buried since the mid 1800s. I have recently ordered my gravestone to my specifications. Nothing elaborate. It is to be ready for installation by November. I told my wife and daughters to place the ashes in either one of my Dutch ovens or buy a new one, their choice, but that is what I want to be buried in. No need to hire a grave to be dug, just someone with a shovel, it is good sandy loam soil. It is close by my father's and grandparents' gravesites, a very peaceful place five miles from the nearest small town in west central Alabama. As a small boy, I remember various relatives being buried there, behind a country church that dates back to 1835. My father used to take me there and we would walk the cemetery and he would tell me how we were related to many buried there and a few stories about them. Those many years ago I decided that was where I wanted to eventually be as well. It is very likely that I will be the last one of any of my relations to be buried there. I see no practical point to being embalmed. For what? Maybe for someone to dig up 5,000 years from now to study? I don't want to waste my heirs' meager inheritance on that, but I do want a stone. The plot was free as I have family buried there. I liked very much seeing the stones of those that passed long before me and learning a few things about them. In my situation, it is unlikely that anyone will ever visit my grave more than once or so. Most all of my relatives and past friends in that area have either died out or have moved away. My children were not born or raised in that area and would probably have no particular reason to travel through there. My wife was not from there, being a native of Texas. She does have a spot reserved next to mine if she wants it, but may want to be buried in either of the Texas cemeteries where her mother or father is buried. Or, as I tell her, maybe next to her next husband as she is 10 years younger than I. She denies that possibility, but I remind her that she well may outlive me by 15 or 20 years and a lot can happen in that time. She has my blessings after I am gone. Just because my life will have ended, hers should not.
I don't know the current situation, but for a long time in many states, you were required by law to buy a commercial casket from a mortician. No homemade or store bought caskets were allowed. The morticians said that was to protect families from 'low quality' caskets. Instead, they paid $2000 or more for their 'high' quality. What changed some minds was when, during a funeral, the pall bearers carrying one of those 'quality' caskets were going down a church steps and the bottom fell out, dumping the body on the steps. I saw the video of that escapade. For a homemade casket, it doesn't take much of a woodworker to build one with a sturdy enough bottom to hold a body.
Told the wife to go the cheapest rt possible, not to let Funeral Home talk her into spending a bunch of $$'s. Cremation via the state hospital is fine with me.
Put me in the ground, don't burn me. If the good Lord doesn't have a wealth of understanding, patience, and forgiveness, I may burn for a lllooooonnnnggggg time anyway. No need in rushing it! Ive got a small family cemetery smack dab in the middle of 800 acres or so that I or my immediate family owns, my best dog is already buried just outside the fence, put me there, Im among good company.
Interesting question. About six months ago I received a letter from Arlington National Cemetery, asking me what my "plans" were. Jeez, I didn't think I was THAT old bu apparently, I "rate" being buried there with the "full enchilada" of honors, so they'll save me a spot, but they also want to know if I'm going elsewhere. I'm thinking Pensacola where a lot of my Aviator buddies are. And yes, probably cremated.
My wife and I will both be cremated. We’ve talked about some spots to be spread but need to define them. Our boys will get to see some of the globe fulfilling our wishes.
for those guys who don't want a funeral....do your family a favor and have one. It's not for you. It helps your family get closure and is part of the grieving process. It's good for them. You won't be there for it anyway. Your corpse might but you'll be long gone.
for those guys who don't want a funeral....do your family a favor and have one. It's not for you. It helps your family get closure and is part of the grieving process. It's good for them. You won't be there for it anyway. Your corpse might but you'll be long gone.
Maybe they will listen to you.
Double sheesh.
Tell them to do what they want. Explain that you are OK with the bare minimum of expense....but it's their show.
You should stop being a pain in the ass once you die.
for those guys who don't want a funeral....do your family a favor and have one. It's not for you. It helps your family get closure and is part of the grieving process. It's good for them. You won't be there for it anyway. Your corpse might but you'll be long gone.
That’s what we both are planning, have a service, then burn!!!
The wife and I will be cremated, I want my son or one of my grand kids to scatter me in the woods where I killed my first squirrel and have taken a lot of deer. The land is in a trust for the grandkids, currently a Century Farm.
Wife wants half her between her Mom and Dad, the rest scattered on the same site with me. Kids can have a service if they want, I have paid for it, or not, up to them.
I want a few tablespoons of my ashes scattered around the 300 yard target berm of the shooting range on my place- - - -by 5 pounds of Tannerite. The family can do whatever they want to with the rest.
I dont want to be a burden...but follow these extremely detailed and oppressive instructions in the event of my demise or I will have a independent third party cut you out of the will/trust.
You might be "burdening" them by not allowing a funeral.
That is a fact in my area. When my mother died at 98, she had told us all not to have a funeral. She meant it, so my brothers and sister and I had her cremated and we scattered her ashes where she was born and grew up on my grandfathers homestead. She was well liked and kind of a local historian and to this day, since 2015, the townspeople are still hurt that we didn't have a funeral. Some of course just missed the free chow!! Something to think about!
The Wife and I have discussed this. We plan to be cremated, have our ashes mixed together and to let the boys scatter them as they wish. We also plan to have our beloved Cat cremated and mixed with ours. They can have a memorial service if they wish. Or not.
Mt first suggestion was to call a tree trimming contractor that I likes and worked with to bring a chipper and point it at the woods behind the house. That suggestion fell on deaf ears!
I have the organ donor box on my drivers license checked but I don't know if the can do that with me having MS.
Edit to ad; For what its worth, One of my Brother-in-laws has a PHD in religion. He has been the Pastor of several churches and has taught at the university level. He sees no reason Biblically that Christians can't be cremated.
Mom & Dad are both buried up in the Pleasantville Cemetery. My Aunt thought is was terrible when I said I only go up there hunting rabbits. I told her that all that’s up there are two holes in the ground. Mom & Dad ain’t there. They live on in my heart and in my memories every day. Now here’s the kicker. The last thing The Old Man said before passing in 2010 was, “I’ll see you boys on the Big Rock”, spoken directly to me and my brother Dave. The “Big Rock” is a boulder the size of a house, that sticks outta the side of Pleasantville Mountain. It’s steep up there, and if you get out on that rock, you can see a helluva lotta territory. When I was young, that’s where we hunted, and one of us always went to “The Big Rock”. Between The Old Man, us boys, and a few cousins, we killed a pile of deer up there. This was in the early ‘70s, and now the deer have moved down into the valleys and farm land along the creek bottoms. It’s pretty hard to find tracks up there now. Probably been 10 or 12 years since I killed one up there. But every year in Deer Season l, I make a trip up to “ The Big Rock”, and leave a cold beer and a cigarette for “The Old Man”. I’ve told both Wifey and Ben, when I die, to cremate me and put my ashes in a mason jar, then take them up to “The Rock” and give me a Chuck. Hope somebody brings up 2 cold beers and 2 cigarettes after that! 7mm
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