Cremation

[Lon]

For those folks that only want cremation of their remains and no funeral because of cost considerations please bear in mind that cremation its self is inexpensive, but unless you are fortunate enough to die at the Crematory, don't forget, your body must be removed from where ever you die and then taken to a Crematory and there is a cost for that transportation.

 

[jujube]

Cremation.....my last chance to have a hot bod.

 

[drifter]

I plan to be cremated. I am reading a new book out that I think is going to be an interested read about the business. The Book is "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," by Caitlin Doughty. If you're interested in cremation you might take a look at this book.

 

[pchrise]

Cremation.....my last chance to have a hot bod.

And you would not be in there to enjoy it Yikes !!!
We are sick , humor Or a last chanse for a hot flash

 

[Justme]

I think cremation is a good idea, as it disposes of the corpse entirely. Graveyards full of rotting human remains is YUCKY, imo! In the UK I think cremation should be mandatory as we are running out of burial space.

 

[Jackie22]

More and more are being cremated where I live, also I see more that opt out for all the hullabaloo of a funeral service, which IMO is good.

 

[Davey Jones]

Im being cremated and the ashes will be buried alongside with wife and daughter.To put my ashes (urn) in with theirs would cost $400.
Hell with that,my grandaughter will place the ashes in a small hole she will dig next to the grave marker.

I think thats against the law but $400 to bury ashes ?

 

[Bullie76]

Cremation would be fine with me. But my entire family is buried at a local cemetary. And I already have a plot waiting for me there, so I guess I will go that route.

 

[debodun]

Some people I knew were cremated, but they had a memorial service.

 

[oldaunt]

I wouldn't want a memorial service. Few people remember me alive,won't need their remembrance when I'm dead.

 

[jlhog]

My wish is to be cremated. No service and no grave site. Dump my ashes someplace warm, not that I will ever know.

 

[bowmore]

Davey, $400 is cheap. When my wife died, I called the cemetery where there was a family plot to ask the cost of burying her ashes there. By the time they quoted the urn, the vault, the digging up and the closing, it was close to $1000! And that did not include my airfare and lodging back there.
Instead, I paddled out to sea in a kayak near a place where we spent every anniversary, and scattered them there.

 

[Lara]

Cremated and maybe my ashes buried high on a remote mountaintop. Maybe in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC somewhere off the Appalachian Trail so as not to be buried on anyone's property as that's illegal. But ALL the land in our country is probably owned by someone.

It's not about me really, as I won't be there...but more about placing my ashes out of everyone's way
Bible says "Dust to dust and ashes to ashes" so cremation makes sense to me.
.

 

[rgp]

Cremation for me but .......... @ my age I need to get busy and make the arrangements, and pay for it all. No service, and I'm hoping for a small space at the local cemetery. Might buy myself a nice headstone ... no point to it but maybe, just for the hell of it.

 

[Manatee]

My late wife and I made arrangements some time ago. Her ashes are now in the gulf of Mexico. Mine are next.

My parents are buried 1200 miles away, have not been there in decades. It seems pointless.

 

[DebraMae]

I want to be cremated too. Just a little more dark humor on the subject. I had to sign the papers for my dad's cremation and at the top of the page in bold letters it said "Caution, Cremation is Irreversible".

 

[RobinWren]

My arrangements are made and when the time comes our children will throw both our ashes in the sea together, no need to bury them when in 100 years time the city digs it all up to make way for housing.

 

[DaveA]

Some people I knew were cremated, but they had a memorial service.

We will be cremated. We're to be buried in a family plot dating back into the 1800's. Our stone was just placed this past year and it's odd to see your own stone with only the dates of our passing missing. Our ashes will be mixed, a small amount buried and the rest spread at our daughter's lakeside cottage where we spent many months over the years.
A small memorial service for only our children and their families to, be held at a local establishment.

 

[Gary O']

Cremation sounds good to me

Wife sez she'll put my urn in the kitchen
(so cool......I'm hardly ever let in the kitchen)

When she goes to town, she'll put my baseball cap on my urn and strap me in the passenger seat

 

[VaughanJB]

Cremation for sure. Of course, funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the living. That said, I'd be totally okay with no ceremony at all. No flowers, no celebration (lol). I die, ship me off to the furnace, sprinkle my ashes in the dumpster out back. I'll be dead, I won't care!

 

[VaughanJB]

Just saw this article and thought it was interesting.

Essentially, due to a change in the law back in 2007 (in the UK) you may only get your grave (assuming you're being buried) for 75 years. After that, the local authority can dig you back up, make the hole even deeper, and then put you back. This allows them to reuse the grave space above you for someone else. Essentially, they stack up the bodies.

George Romero would have loved this idea.

Stortford first town outside London to get power to reuse occupied graves

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I vote for cremation. And NO embalming & funeral. If after I died and I've been dead for three days & pickled, and someone walks up to my casket, saying "Doesn't he look good?", I'm coming out and strangling them. I'm dead, you ********* idiot. So, definitely no funeral.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Just saw this article and thought it was interesting.

Essentially, due to a change in the law back in 2007 (in the UK) you may only get your grave (assuming you're being buried) for 75 years. After that, the local authority can dig you back up, make the hole even deeper, and then put you back. This allows them to reuse the grave space above you for someone else. Essentially, they stack up the bodies.

George Romero would have loved this idea.

Stortford first town outside London to get power to reuse occupied graves

It’s the same here in our country. Your dead body can stay buried as is for 75 years. If family members don’t want this, they can pay to have it stay as is. In reality , getting buried is a waste of space. I prefer to be cremated and my ashes released at a special place.

 

[VaughanJB]

It’s the same here in our country. Your dead body can stay buried as is for 75 years. If family members don’t want this, they can pay to have it stay as is. In reality , getting buried is a waste of space.

Ignorance on my part, I had no idea.

Mind, I don't spend too much time thinking of being dead.

 

[Trade]

If I could have my body dumped at the land fill for $3.50 I'd do that. I don't want to give those funeral parlor ghouls any more money than I absolutely have too. However it appears that cremation is the cheapest legal option so I'll have to settle for that. I have asked that my ashes be thrown into the Gulf of Mexico. Just watch out for that onshore wind.