After our bodies pass…

jim_slim said:
I’m headed to a free seminar and meal on smart cremation. What are your opinions on cremation?
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We chose cremation, dead is dead. Unlike body in a casket the preparation to be viewed, the transportation cost to be buried in a large hole & other expenses. Cremation offers a variety of choices. No prep for viewing, choice of urn for your ashes. You can buy a small burial plot & opt for your ashes to be put in a small container that will decompose & blend into the earth, or a container that will never decompose.

You can opt for a remaining person you trust or loved one to scatter your ashes into the winds. You can opt for a remaining person you trust or loved one to scatter your ashes in the ocean, a lake or a river. I suppose there are people that want to be taken to some place special for their ashes to be handled the way they would like. The cost of travel is only for the person carrying your ashes. <----- imagine the cost for permits for a casket & dead body.
 
jim_slim said:
I’m headed to a free seminar and meal on smart cremation. What are your opinions on cremation?
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I'll be fast-tracking my remains to ashes and dust.

About 40,000 people die annually in Calif alone, and even though one average person isn't really all that big, if all 40,000 were buried horizontally year after year, that would take up quite a bit of real estate over time. Personally, I think that's unfair.

I think our society should at least practice vertical burials; heads up, nose-to-nose with their neighbors, and wrapped instead of boxed. And we should totally phase out mausoleums and massive headstones.
 
smiley said:
I attended a funeral recently - the coffin was brought in the audiotorium - service conducted then coffin taken out for cremation?
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A casket is a huge funeral expense. With an average cost of $2,000 to $5,000,

You can find a cardboard coffin to be cremated in online or in a funeral home. Cardboard coffins are readily available and affordable. They can cost less than $100.Dec 12, 2022

I guess it's all in what is affordable.

Either way the body is turned into ashes.
 
Murrmurr said:
I'll be fast-tracking my remains to ashes and dust.

About 40,000 people die annually in Calif alone, and even though one average person isn't really all that big, if all 40,000 were buried horizontally year after year, that would take up quite a bit of real estate over time. Personally, I think that's unfair.

I think our society should at least practice vertical burials; heads up, nose-to-nose with their neighbors, and wrapped instead of boxed. And we should totally phase out mausoleums and massive headstones.
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I was just thinking about you this morning Frank, wondering how you are. I'm always happy to see you around.. 🤗

Places in parts of the UK are starting to allow only 50 years grave slots.. ..so then someone else get it....

Cremation is pushed heavily in the UK.. just for the reasons you state...
 
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I do hear some complaints directed at Ministers/Vicars etc about not keeping grave yards in a clean and tidy many in the Uk - not so many volunteers I expect these days as numbers have dwindled and hiring help can be costly?
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I already signed up and paid for cremation. Mainly bc I have a morbid fear of waking up in a coffin--I am claustrophobic. I saw The House of Usher as a kid and that did it for me.
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I've considered pre paying for my cremation but worry the crematorium would go out of business before I die. Or what happens if I decide to move to another area of the world, would my kids have to pay to have my body shipped back to be cremated.

Those are serious considerations in my opinion.
 
C50 said:
I've considered pre paying for my cremation but worry the crematorium would go out of business before I die. Or what happens if I decide to move to another area of the world, would my kids have to pay to have my body shipped back to be cremated.

Those are serious considerations in my opinion.
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My thoughts precisely... instead I have an insurance policy just for funerl costs which will cover wherever my DD want's to put me...
 
I've already made arrangements for my cremation over 20 years ago, shortly after my mother passed away. My younger brother was cremated in 2020. Neither of my sisters have made up their minds. Both of my parents had a funeral and a burial. My mother was scared of cremation. I don't know why. My brother hated the idea of being buried in the ground. I think I share my brother's feelings.
 
Me and my wife signed up for cremation. The selling point for us if we are anywhere in the world that has a US Embassy they will travel and pick up the body and have it cremated. My wife is from the Philippines, so in the future if we move there we are still covered.
P.S. the meal was good too …
 
hollydolly said:
Frank, wondering how you are. ...
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tbh, I'm in terrible pain. I'm still keeping my pain medication pretty low...it doesn't help much anyway. Even when I took a few extra a couple times, literally 5 instead of 2, it just took the edge off a bit more and lasted for about 2 hours longer. Made for a great day, relatively speaking, but I'm comparing intolerable pain to pain that's on the cusp of intolerable.

As you well know, people who's pain is chronic and relentless actually kind of get accustomed to being in pain every minute of the day, and so the tolerance level is way up there. Like some random person's level 10 is my 4. Like, if Michelle had to spend a day with my "normal" pain, not even one of my "bad days", I'm sure she'd go to bed and cry a lot.

Then, on top of the pain, my legs don't work most of the time, so I just sit around here eating chocolate bars and cookies, and you'd think I'd get fat, but no, I'm probly just getting diabetes, but I don't even care because I'm in pissyarsehole mode most of the time, and that's why I don't post much.

Anyway, that's how I are.

I saw my back specialist a week or so ago, and he wants to do major surgery again, and I mean the man is just itchin' to get in there and fix a couple things, like it's freaking urgent. But I opted for image-guided trigger-point injections instead, so I could think it over for a while. But then I read the findings of my recent MRIs and a lumbar scan that was done in their new machine, and I think I'd better go with the surgery. These findings are not good at all, and I'm convinced surgery is urgent. It's no wonder he was pushing it.

I'll keep an appointment I have on the 9th with my guy who does the injections, but I'll go over these findings with him first (he's a PhD, sports medicine/orthopedics). If he agrees surgery is urgent, or at least a better decision right now, he'll probly want to cancel the injections, because I think surgery would have to be delayed until all the chemicals wear off, in about 6 months or so, and my back guy would like to get it done asap.

A lumbar vertebra is threatening to sever my spinal cord. This wheelchair would def be a permanent thing.
 

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