Which do you want?

[anna_66]

Ok, maybe noone will want to talk about this, it's kind of morbid but I was just wondering.
After the last few funerals I've went to I can definately say I want to be cremated. I don't want people walking around saying, "That doesn't look like her at all".
I want people to remember me for what I looked like when I was alive.

[binka_nugget]

I didn't vote. I'm really not sure about this. I'd love to be buried with Kai's ashes (as spooky as that sounds) but..I'm not positive.

[Logan]

Cremation is my choice too. But even if that happens, I want the casket to be closed. I cannot bear, even this late in life, to see an open casket, even when it is one of my loved ones. I would much rather remember and be remembered as I was when I was alive.

Logan

[mugsy]

I am the same way Logan. Mike and I are both going to be cremated and the dogs' ashes will be with us. I, too, would rather be remembered for who I was alive, not have the last memory be of me dead.

[RICHARD]

are you all crazy????


why not just live to be 200????


that's what i'm gonna do..

pessimists, one and all!!!

[ChrisH]

Cremated, definitely. Both my Mum and Fred, my husband, were cremated, following their wishes. When the time comes that is what I would like to happen too.
Chris

[2kitties]

I voted for cremation, if it were up to me. But, I really don't care. I want my loved ones to do what will make them feel best. If they feel an open casket will help them say goodbye and deal, then that's okay with me. I mean, I'm dead, so it really doesn't matter to me. I just want my loved ones to do what will make them feel best. But I don't want them to spend a bunch of money whatever they decide.

[robinh]

I do plan to live as long as possible, but I'm not so sure I get to choose.

I really don't care, but I would probably go for burial. Funerals are not for the dead, they are for the living. I'll go along with what 2kitties said, if they need an open casket it's fine with me.

I will tell you my mom and step-dad donated their bodies to the medical university here for research. The university uses the remains for a year or more, then cremates them and you can have the ashes or they will bury in a common grave with all the other remains. Both Mom and Ted wanted to be buried with the others, which we did but I will tell you it was very tough for us not having a place to go visit for a while.

This is a very important thing to talk over with your family. I know I'm in good health and have a good life expectancy, but I have talked to my son about what I'd like if something should happen. I trust he'll take care of it.

[mugsy]

Originally posted by RICHARD
are you all crazy????


why not just live to be 200????


that's what i'm gonna do..

pessimists, one and all!!!

Leave it to Richard!! Psychic AND near immortal!! lol

[Edwina's Secretary]

I prefer cremation. Too much of the earth is taken up with cemeteries and then you hear big fusses about.....can't use that land because it is a cemetery. "From dust ye come and to dust ye shall return."

I want a park bench engraved with my name and "Sit a while, I've got no place else to go!"

Cremated! We all return to ashes, so why not make that happen as your own choice?

[RICHARD]

lol,
i just remembered the story of 'Ski' Demski..

this gent wanted to be "buried" in flag pole, in front of his home, cremated of course!!!

when he passed away last year, the powers that be in Long Beach, California fought to keep him off the pole.........needless to say.......



Last Wishes!
In life and in death, the super patriot "Ski" Demski is making sure no one forgets Old Glory. Every day, the American flag continues to fly in front of his Long Beach, CA house.

His chest and back are tattooed with elaborate Stars and Stripes, and he owns what the Guinness Book of World Records ® regards as the "World's Largest Flag," one that covers 2.8 football fields. That huge American flag, manufactured in Pennsylvania in 1990, cost Demski $45,000. He rents it for special events for $10,000.

"It stands for freedom, and I love it," said Demski, who also wore the Stars and Stripes in a band around his head. When he died, he wanted his friends to hold a wake in his garage, where his casket was surrounded by American flags. Then, afterwards he was cremated, and his remains where placed in a vault inside the huge flag pole in his front yard. He arranged for friends to live in his house and preserve his flag collection. "It's so nice to see it waving," Demski said. "I want that to continue."

[Uabassoon]

I'd prefer to be buried, I think maybe because that what all of my family has done. Then a few years ago I had a friend ask me why I wouldn't want to be creamted and I realized in my mind I'd never even thought of that as an option. But I still think I would rather be buried next to the rest of my family.

[gini]

This subject, even though serious, made me chuckle.

I would prefer to be cremated. So I have included this information in my will. I have also requested that my ashes be scattered in the ocean on my favorite beach on Maui.


Why do I chuckle? My friends ask me "how are you feeling." Also if I decide to buy something they suggest I shouldn't because they want to be sure there is enough money left in my estate for them all to fly to Maui, stay in the Hyatt and oh yeah, if they remember - scatter my ashes.

[babolaypo65]

My family believes in cremation. Me too. Its a family thing to pick out one's own urn early in life as well from among the family pottery collection.. (hey, you're gonna be in it!) We have a collection of native american pots that seem appropriate as urns. Oh, we bury the urn by the way.

I chose mine about five years ago.