Got dibs on where you're going to spend eternity?

One of my late (ex) wife's greatest ambitions was always to visit Loch Ness. Something she was never able to do. But during her last few weeks, when we were discussing things, one of her specific instructions to us when she had gone was "chuck me at Nessie". So on what would have been her next birthday, we took her ashes and sprinkled some into the loch.

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I really like the tree idea. I was just going to have myself scattered randomly through the woods. But to have your ashes nourish a tree that could grow for centuries is a beautiful concept. Of course they way they overdevelop around here they don't leave too many trees alone. Maybe if they try to cut down your tree your spirit can swoop down there and drop branches on people until the builders get scared?
 
fureverywhere said:
I really like the tree idea. I was just going to have myself scattered randomly through the woods. But to have your ashes nourish a tree that could grow for centuries is a beautiful concept. Of course they way they overdevelop around here they don't leave too many trees alone. Maybe if they try to cut down your tree your spirit can swoop down there and drop branches on people until the builders get scared?
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Why not give it a try and see what happens.
 
I saw on "Law & Order" that you can have the ashes made into gem quality diamonds. It's true. So as you look in the eyes of your loved one, just how many carats do you think they'd make?
 
I've got it! Remember the speaking trees in The Wizard of Oz? They come to cut down the memorial trees and all of them start screaming. That'll teach those guys to respect nature...
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Shalimar said:
What are Johnny jump ups? I think I might like pink bleeding hearts.
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A johnny jump up is a small delicate yellow flower that looks a lot like a wild violet. I like bleeding hearts too. All three of them were growing in my parents yard where I grew up.

Fur, I'd like you to come to the area where I live and teach that to the loggers. They are clear cutting everywhere here. The wildlife is losing its habitat all over the place, which is why they end up in peoples yards. They have no where else to go. It's plantation farming of Douglas fir trees. They replant them so close that nothing else has a chance to live there.
 
I will be buried in the family plot. My Grandfather and Dad bought plots years ago to accommodate quite a few. After traveling to the west coast a couple of years ago I fell in love with the Redwoods and Sequoia's. I thought if I were to be cremated that certainly would be a beautiful place to have my remains scattered.
 
I will be buried in the family plot. My Grandfather and Dad bought plots years ago to accommodate quite a few. After traveling to the west coast a couple of years ago I fell in love with the Redwoods and Sequoia's. I thought if I were to be cremated that certainly would be a beautiful place to have my remains scattered.

So very much more peaceful than having our cremains and a bunch of screaming trees...
 
I'm surprised at the number of people who want cremation. As an ex-Catholic, I know cremation was a no-no. I don't know if they changed on that. I don't know about other Christian sects as to their preference for burial or cremation.????
 
The body is dead. It doesn't care what you do with it. Storing bodies in caskets takes up space. The living need the space, especially since population growth is such a problem in most of the world.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I'm surprised at the number of people who want cremation. As an ex-Catholic, I know cremation was a no-no. I don't know if they changed on that. I don't know about other Christian sects as to their preference for burial or cremation.????
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The Catholic Church forbade cremation except during times of mass disaster, epidemics, etc. In 1963, the Catholic Church started to allow cremation as long as it wasn't for the purposes of being a "statement against the Church" (whatever that means). Cremains weren't allowed to be brought into the church for the funeral mass until 1987. There you go.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I'm surprised at the number of people who want cremation. As an ex-Catholic, I know cremation was a no-no. I don't know if they changed on that. I don't know about other Christian sects as to their preference for burial or cremation.????
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I am laughing my buns off that you call them Christian "sects"! ;)

I am an ex-Catholic myself. I did it officially and I have a paper to prove that I "denounced" (such a strong word) the church in 1978 with the signature of both the Bishop and the Burgermeister of Berlin - where I was living at the time. I was forced to meet them in order to make it official. I guess the church figured the Bishop could convince me that I was making a big mistake and change my mind.

Anyway, when I was a child, eating meat on Friday was a mortal sin and St. Christopher was a saint. That was all changed, so I suppose cremation might also be given the green light. I must have been on holiday abroad somewhere, because I honestly don't remember when God came down and decreed Friday meat OK. It just couldn't be the Pope who decided who goes to Hell and who doesn't? :confused:
 
I just feel cremation is so much...I dunno...less messy. If someone's faith or personal feelings lead them to believe in burial I say go for it. It's like having a viewing, if it's important to the survivors or the deceased yes, do it certainly. But from a biological perspective...for the squeamish read no further...not getting too graphic but you have a tomato. You put the tomato in a box and bury it. Maybe you inject a bunch of preservatives then bury it. In any case it's ultimately icky. But reduced to ash, bones reduced to nourish the soil...seems more serene to me.
 

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