Thread: How would you like your body to be disposed?

I have had many different thoughts over the years on what I would like to have happen depending mainly on my age and circumstances at the time. I have come to the conclusion and what I hope happens is whatever makes my family left alive feel the best. Funerals are for the living not the dead. I will return to nature whether it is more immediate with cremation or if they embalm and stick me in a triple layer cement etc. box and it takes a thousand years.

Whatever makes my kids and wife happy. The cheaper the better.

Originally Posted by Redcane

Whatever makes my kids and wife happy. The cheaper the better.

That was my dad's thinking/the less money the better; He was dying of cancer and made arraignments with an outfit for Cremation. It wasn't through a funeral home but a business that advertised that 'Burial is like pouring money down the rat hole'. They knew that dad would die at home and would be available 24/7.

Dad died at 5:15pm, all of us kids were there along with mom. We waited until any grandchild that wanted to say goodbye had done so and made the call.

The 'guy' showed up at 9:30pm that same night in a pickup truck with a canape. He opened it up and brought out the folding wheeler and a body bag. My brothers and I had to help him pick up 250+lbs and place dad in the body bag.

Mom had been crying for hours and came to see dad one more time. After the guy had taken dad away mom said about the 'man' who had been there; "He's not a very nice man". My wife consoled her and said "Mom for a little more money dad would have had a nicer man".

I can't say for certain, but I do believe that if dad would have known the impact on the family that he would have spent more money.

Well here's one for the American's, from an American Company.

Have your cremated ashes turned into shotgun shells or rifle shells...blast off for the next world in style!

Company is called:

Holy Smoke

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Originally Posted by Phrank

Well here's one for the American's, from an American Company.

Have your cremated ashes turned into shotgun shells or rifle shells...blast off for the next world in style!

Company is called:

Holy Smoke

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Why not? Beats the plastic box dad's remains came in

Originally Posted by 32t

I have had many different thoughts over the years on what I would like to have happen depending mainly on my age and circumstances at the time. I have come to the conclusion and what I hope happens is whatever makes my family left alive feel the best. Funerals are for the living not the dead. I will return to nature whether it is more immediate with cremation or if they embalm and stick me in a triple layer cement etc. box and it takes a thousand years.

If your put in a coffin,Than put is a conreate box,Anericobic bacteria will consuume you withiin 12mos.
your better off just buried in the dirt.

Cremation produces quite a bit of air pollution.

The "greenest" ways I have seen are the new "liquification" process or a cemetery in California that does "natural" burials. No embalming, no caskets, no vault, no headstones. It is on a mountainside and left to nature. If someone wants to visit your grave the admin office loans them a GPS and gives the coordinates for your grave.

Cremation was my choice made when I was in the military in the 60's and remains my choice today. My wife will let my ashes go on the California coast near Big Sur and into the ocean. Strikes me as return to where life may have originated on our planet. No services and a simple obit. Minimal costs. Cremation has been a longstanding family choice going way back.

Well since burial at sea is no longer legal I will have to be cremated first. I will be taking one of my best friends out for that in May. He is hanging out on our other friends mantle until then. I have a friend that carries his friend around with him every he travels. We have taken him out fishing a couple of times. Don't know who he was when he was alive but he continues to travel in a coffee can with his friend. That's a bit of dedication.

Long ago I bought an "Anywhere" Cremation from a long established Society. That means, anywhere in the USA my remains are, they will be processed at no extra cost. Some Societies have a per mile charge that is really exorbitant.
Cremains may be picked up, or not. A chapel is available and, if a Vet, they will set up interment in a National Cemetery at low cost.
Fair price at the time and considering inflation a huge savings over now.
Just my way of passing with the fewest hassles for the kids.
~Richard