This question is not meant to be morbid. I'm just wondering, when you die, what do you want to be done with your remains?
I don't really know about mine. I haven't really thought about it. I guess I'm wondering if you have...
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I've thought about this a lot. If any of my organs are useful to someone else I'd like them to be donated. The rest is to be cremated. If someone buries me I'm coming back to haunt them until they dig me up and cremate me.
ReplyDeleteI'm just like sudabaki -- donate what can be used and burn the rest. But no plans for haunting at this time :)
ReplyDeleteDonate bits if possible, burn me, and then whatever. I'll let my family decide. If they want to throw me to the wind, so be it.
ReplyDeleteI'd really like to have a bench in my name placed in a beautiful garden, park, or trail. To give people a place to pause and contemplate the world around them.
I've thought of this. Perhaps I am a morbid person. But I would want to be cremated and ashes spread over the oceans or mountains or something. But I don't want to be buried. I know that.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I am weird for thinking of these things!
My mom told me about this movie called "Rocket Gilbraltar." I haven't seen it, but the story stuck with me. When I think about death, and what I want done to my remains, this movie always pops in my head. It's about a dying man whose family gets together for his birthday. He doesn't get along great with his children, but he's really connects with his grandchildren. He tells his family that his wish is to be set out to sea in a Viking funeral ritual. He dies. His kids start planning the traditional funeral, but his grandkids build a boat, steal his body, and set him to sea, boat afire in Viking tradition. I think that would be an awesome way to go.
ReplyDeleteHey H, that story reminds me of Polly's dad. His wish was for his body to be burned in the desert. When he died, his body was shipped back to LA to be buried by family, but then his buddies showed up at the airport, jacked the coffin and fulfilled his desert wish.
ReplyDeleteUseful parts donated.(if any left!) The rest burned..... Ashes in the woods. I think :)
ReplyDeleteDonate my body to the earth with no casket - send me back to where I am from!
ReplyDeleteYup. Donate then cremate. My husband insist that the Catholic church says you need to be buried and not burned. This gets in the way of my plan. He is ultra strict in following the rules. Drives me a bit nutty. Anyway, does anyone know if this is true? I suppose I should ask a priest or something...
ReplyDeleteI'm with most of you - donate then cremate. My ashes will be scattered in the Atlantic (off the coast of RI), where I grew up and the Pacific (off the coast of Southern CA), where I feel at home.
ReplyDeleteYes LD your hubby is correct. No burning in the Catholic Church, just burial (unless you've been very naughty and then you're burning for eternity).
ReplyDeleteAs for me, I would want my organs donated and then a proper Irish Catholic burial preferably with an ocean view.
Cremate but I haven't thought of my organs yet. Got to register as a donor first!
ReplyDeleteBurn me and sprinkle my ashes over the ocean.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a preference. How sad is that.
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