What are they going to do with you when you go?

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Whether you're buried or cremated, they have to do something with you, when you go.
What are they going to do with you when you go?

I want to be cremated, and my ashes down the toilet into my septic system. The reason is the permit on my septic system lapsed a few days before "closing" on the property. NO permit meant no financing= no closing. PLus, the contractor wouldn't be able to reschedule me for a year. I was frantic getting perk tests and paperwork. For all the grief I had to go through, that septic system will be mine for eternity.
 

Don't know, don't care, and if I have any choice in my death, they'll be lucky to find me.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
I want to be cremated, and my ashes down the toilet into my septic system. The reason is the permit on my septic system lapsed a few days before "closing" on the property. NO permit meant no financing= no closing. PLus, the contractor wouldn't be able to reschedule me for a year. I was frantic getting perk tests and paperwork. For all the grief I had to go through, that septic system will be mine for eternity.
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Oh good gracious... sometimes ya worry me, Fuzz!
 
I have donated my body to a University Medical School. When they are done dissecting and studying, it gets cremated and send to relatives, no charge. However, if it is too damaged as in a bad accident or something, then they do not want it. I suppose I should have a backup plan.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Whether you're buried or cremated, they have to do something with you, when you go.
What are they going to do with you when you go?
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In another forum long ago and far, far away, there was a poster that suggested a wood chipper. He explained that cremation caused too much pollution and burial took up too much land. He was a serious thinker.

I've heard or read of a country or region where land was so scarce that graves had be periodically vacated to make room for other people.
 
Shadowman said:
I have donated my body to a University Medical School. When they are done dissecting and studying, it gets cremated and send to relatives, no charge. However, if it is too damaged as in a bad accident or something, then they do not want it. I suppose I should have a backup plan.
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apparently the hospitals here have stopped taking dead bodies for study, they've just been overwhelmed with them
 
Olivia said:
In another forum long ago and far, far away, there was a poster that suggested a wood chipper. He explained that cremation caused too much pollution and burial took up too much land. He was a serious thinker.

I've heard or read of a country or region where land was so scarce that graves had be periodically vacated to make room for other people.
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it's quite common in some places... graves are often reused after 100 years....
 
I plan on being cremated with my husband. Not at the same time, mind you. We are letting our extended family deal with our last wishes are and like Pepper, we are mixing our dogs ashes with ours.
 
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My ashes will be mixed with husband's ashes. Cat ashes will be added....my poor son's responsibility to keep or spread. He's a keeper. Wears a t-shirt that says so. I didn't keep my daughter's ashes, I buried them at my father's heart at his grave. I would have kept them if I knew her dad was going to follow her. Actually, couldn't wait to rid myself of them. Killing me, they were.
 
I have a prepaid cremation, there is an old almost forgotten cemetery on the bluff overlooking the Missouri River, a very pleasant and quiet spot very park-like we buried my mother-in-law there and that's where my wife will go they're supposed to scatter me there. If not I suppose I'll be dumped in a common grave at Potter's field.
 
hollydolly said:
apparently the hospitals here have stopped taking dead bodies for study, they've just been overwhelmed with them
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You're right. Researchers want normal bodies. If someone has all kinds of medical issues, it may nullify the results. And if you're too diseased, the body may not be useful as a training tool. As an R.N., I had to tell a few patients that they had to make other arrangements.
 
There are artisans who make jewellery with ashes. I donā€™t want that.

There are potters who can make an ash glaze. Again, no thanks.

Any stream or river is ok for me.

DH said he wants to be spread on a mountain top. He said this in front of his sons. I donā€™t want to hike up a mountain, even for him. I donā€™t really think he was serious, just a thought off the top of his head. Now weā€™re stuck with the plan.
 
As I've posted before, my ashes are to be split, with half put in the ground in Ohio next to my first wife, and the other half to be taken to Big Island of Hawaii and put in the Pacific, along with the ashes of my second wife and our two furkids, at the Punalu'u Black Sand Beach. Grandson #2 is in charge of that.
 
My daughter insists she's going to have a little bit of my ashes made into Jewellery, which is a compliment really because she only ever wear expensive pieces, no junk jewellery...


I haven't decided where I'd like to be.. except I know I want to be where the sun shines on me... I might ask to have my ashes placed in the crematoria /cementerio near my Spanish home....they have some really stunning ones there..
 
There is always space. From a 1997 article:

"Timothy Leary, the 1960s guru of LSD and 1990s symbol of the Internet, will take the ultimate trip Monday when his ashes are blasted into space with a Spanish satellite. The cremated remains of Leary will be launched into orbit with those of ā€œStar Trekā€ creator Gene Roddenberry and 22 other space enthusiasts for the worldā€™s first space funeral."

And then they got recremated when the ashes reentered the atmosphere later. That was the highest Leary ever got. :)
 
Olivia said:
In another forum long ago and far, far away, there was a poster that suggested a wood chipper. He explained that cremation caused too much pollution and burial took up too much land. He was a serious thinker.

I've heard or read of a country or region where land was so scarce that graves had be periodically vacated to make room for other people.
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In the time of swords etc, where thousands got butchered on the open battle field, some countries ploughed the dead into the ground for fertilizer (blood and bone).
 

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