Do you want a big traditional funeral?

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fuzzybuddy

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Pakerjohn brought up the idea that funerals real getting really expensive. Do any of you want to do the big funeral thing? You know, embalming, a shiny casket, "showings' for three day, church service, grave side service, all those sign in books, cards, replies, and of course, the big price tag.
I just want to be cremated. I wanted my ashes throw down my septic tank. But, my brother won't do it. If you knew all the grief I went through to get the lousy permits and stuff, you'd want that, too.
Plus I have a pet peeve. I have been so sick as to cause death. So. I've been dead for three days, and been embalmed; if at my viewing ,someone says, "Doesn't he look good". I'm coming out of that coffin, and strangling the SOB.
 

Nope. When Rick died, I had him cremated and had a Memorial at Funeral Home. I have already talked with my niece, who will be handling my affairs after I shuffle off. Told her I want cremation, NO memorial service, and to scatter my ashes somewhere she thinks I would like. Meaning in a lake, in a field, or something.
 

No very simple, my husband and I will be buried at the Veterans Cemetery, I want my family to gather together and have some laughs and a big meal and have a toast to life, I will encourage them to be joyful and not go into the full blown grief mode as I believe death is a gateway to life.
 
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burial for me -- in a wicker casket' pink roses on top -just very close family only'
no get togethers for small talk and upsets after .
 
Pepper said:
My husband would say he wanted a Viking funeral,
so the best I could do was cremation. The same for me, and my son knows I want our ashes mixed, and what comes next is up to him.
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My dad always wanted a Viking funeral but the Coast Guard and the State of Florida looked askance at setting a perfectly good boat on fire and pushing it out to sea. We even had the boat, but they said NO! So we had to settle for a service on the beach with a bonfire and skyrockets and a scattering on the outgoing tide.

My late husband wanted to be fish bait, so we had a memorial service at his favorite fish camp and a flotilla of boats that scattered ashes over his favorite fishing spot.

My late sister wanted a water scattering, so we had a boat ride and a scattering at her favorite spot to spend the weekend on the boat.

Me, I want to be scattered at a waterfall, which is my happiest place on earth.

The Spousal Equivalent, however, wants the full nine yards, as is the custom in his family. They go for drawn-out affairs with open caskets and everything. Huge expense and everyone is strung out like a violin string before it's over. I told him to start making his arrangements 'cause if it's left up to me, I'll scatter him on Main Street during Daytona Bike Week. That would be most appropriate.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I just want to be cremated. I wanted my ashes throw down my septic tank.
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Fuzzybuddy great minds think alike... IF we had any real willpower we would do like the old native Alaskans and hop on an iceberg and head out to sea. I told my kids and wrote down in the will to be cremated and they are to dump my ashes in the Yukon river near my old home in Alaska.
 
I paid for my cremation last year so I am set to go. There will be no service, no viewing of the body, no lunch for people who never came to see me when I was living. However, I still have some life left so I'm far from wanting to go. I think those $20,000 funerals are about the biggest rip off that you can get today.
 
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