How do you want to go????

whisteria said:
I'd let the medical people decide if they could use what your burning up,
Look at todays BBC News ref a 16 year old thats just married his 16 yr sweetheart then died because he couldnt get a bone marrow transplant,
His life gone at 16 for such a simple thing "you want to burn" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel nothings greater than the gift of life.
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I prefer just to "burn up".
 

Not fair to scold, Whisteria. Tsk, tsk! That was not the original question.;)

Sure have at 'em. I sort of figured I'd be too old, but I just Googled and that is not the case. I'll add this to my posthumous instruction sheets. (It's getting longer than my to-do list.)
 
whisteria said:
No mention by anyone ref giving body parts to those suffering a life of hell while they are still alive?
Nobody want to help these people ?
Would you rather burn your body than give whats left of someones life a bit of enjoyment before they go ????:rolleyes:
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I'm an organ donor. So were my wife and son. Cremation does not prohibit that. Your choice to do that is indicated on your driver's license.
 

"I feel nothings greater than the gift of life."

Agree, and understand. Unfortunately, the "gift of life" has widely varying interpretation, based on moral interpretation. The Middle-Eastern slant favors that "gift" as having been bestowed mainly upon men. Elsewhere, cremation has been made mandatory (though, I know not the organ removal possibilities prior).

And I, viewing the inevitability of eventual death, feel there actually IS a gift of enormous magnitude: that we all be allowed to pass in painless obliviousness. As Kenny Rogers said, "The best we can hope for, is to die in our sleep". imp
 
imp said:
"I feel nothings greater than the gift of life."

Agree, and understand. Unfortunately, the "gift of life" has widely varying interpretation, based on moral interpretation. The Middle-Eastern slant favors that "gift" as having been bestowed mainly upon men. Elsewhere, cremation has been made mandatory (though, I know not the organ removal possibilities prior).

And I, viewing the inevitability of eventual death, feel there actually IS a gift of enormous magnitude: that we all be allowed to pass in painless obliviousness. As Kenny Rogers said, "The best we can hope for, is to die in our sleep". imp
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Absolutely. Short of blowing yourself up in a theater, I don't know why anyone should have the right to interfere with when or how you want to die. The ultimate intrusion into another persons life.
 
whisteria said:
I'd let the medical people decide if they could use what your burning up,
Look at todays BBC News ref a 16 year old thats just married his 16 yr sweetheart then died because he couldnt get a bone marrow transplant,
His life gone at 16 for such a simple thing "you want to burn" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel nothings greater than the gift of life.
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I carry my donor card in my wallet. I am registered as a donor in the UK.
 
I have to go to a family funeral this weekend and I've been upset about it all week. Death diminishes us all. The loss of a loved one can be almost unbearable. In an effort to remain upbeat, my activities this week have been hectic. Yesterday, I was such a scatterbrain people actually commented on it. Letting go forever is tough.

My own final arrangements are all paid for. The cemetery where I'll be interred is quiet and lovely and partly historic.

I hope death isn't the end of everything because I couldn't bear that, but I'm very much afraid it is. Right now I think I need to take a break from the subject because it's hitting too close to my personal situation.
 
Chic, my condolences on your loss. I feel the same as you about what happens after we are gone. We find comfort in thinking our loved ones have gone to some lovely heaven, but I'm doubtful.
 
To love and or to have feelings for another is a gift in it's self, when lifes clock ticks away from sex and your both growing old , the hair changes from what ever to grey,
And the most wonderful thing is you care about each other for what you grown into (the looks have changed so has the body,
it's the most wonderful feeling in the life cycle to find true love as you look into the eyes and know you care.

But it has the most costly debt to be paid when the first one dies,
We're all to well aware of the future and we're all again not really knowing if we can cope without that very special person,
This is what true loves all about,
It's like experience, you have to have age to have experience and love is something that takes time to complete it's circle,

Make the lost of what you've got while your here, because it was really worth being in true love for that very special person.
 
Well, maybe I'm the only one, but truthfully, I really don't want to go at all. Decline, pass, not for me. So when you ask how to I want to go, I'll just say, bye bye birdie, tweet, tweet, belly up, bite the buttered bun, kick the bucket.
 
Hi cookie,
Maybe you'll be excused for being late for your own funneral,
Im like you i dont want to go now, but if my wife should go first i dont know if i'd really want to carryon, (unless we had a dog and then its our job to have the dog for life)
So that the one reason i'd always give a dog a home and its amazing just how an animal can become an companion in times of need.
 
How do I want to go...? I'd like to pass while working alone in the garden on a warm beautiful day. I want only enough time to whisper a thank-you to God for my life and family and to tell Him that I love Him. After that a simple ceremony and plant me in a wooden box. Do I think it will happen this way? No. But maybe as I leave this world it will happen this way in my head and in my heart surrounded by my loved ones.
 
I'm with you Jim.
When I was a school girl I absorbed this passage from Julius Caesar and it stuck in my psyche

Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
 
Well it's hard to quibble with a timely quote from Shakespeare, I'm impressed DW. Still I can't help feeling that a questioning mind does not limit it's scope to just the present moment. Being able to contemplate the future is one of those traits that distinguishes us from the rest of life on earth.
 
To all you wanna be crispy critters out there... No one has come back to tell you without a doubt that it didn't hurt. Until they do... no fire for me.
 
I can't think of anything worse than being enclosed in a casket with the lid snapped shut and then buried with 6 feet of dirt thrown on top. UGH !

It's cremation for me, bought & paid for. Which, BTW may be the coming thing since we're running out of space. I read somewhere that they're
thinking of burying people VERTICALLY as a space-saver.
 
Falcon said:
I can't think of anything worse than being enclosed in a casket with the lid snapped shut and then buried with 6 feet of dirt thrown on top. UGH !

It's cremation for me, bought & paid for. Which, BTW may be the coming thing since we're running out of space. I read somewhere that they're
thinking of burying people VERTICALLY as a space-saver.
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It's more than the idea of being in the ground for me. I don't want to leave a monument that makes some feel obligated to visit. The idea of my remains as ask going back to the earth as such is much more appealing.
 

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