General Chat

Island - they will only take you if you are intact - i.e. no post mortem.

Sharron - I did not go to my dear mother's but should I, it would have been the first she had ever given me either.

Just hope I am 'late' for mine ! :-D

I want a woodland burial, probably at the one in Norwich. I've always loved being among trees.
I'm with you on this one, Vera - definitely no hymns, just some favourite music and poems.
Being cremated scares me, I hate the thoughts of being burned!

:-D :-D :-D @ BC






Edit, slaps wrist :-D

That sounds very worthwhile, Island. Am trying to decide which of my parts would be most useful :-D

There's always the option to donate your body to medical research.

No-one's going in the wheelie bin or blowing up the crem so why not consider something useful?

:-(...I feel sick at the thoughts of that Sharron! :-D

Get a digester cone then. They would have to leave your feet (or head) sticking out while the rest is digested but it would make an interesting garden feature.

They can put my remains in the Recycling Bin or the Garden Waste.
Not bothered really, but Garden Waste sounds OK, turned into compost and used to give life to flowers and plants sounds reasonable to me.

Mind you Recycling me could be fun, the mind boggles, cant see what usable parts they would be able to salvage, Hair? virtually all gone, Teeth, about the same, Skin, suppose they could tan and use to make Wallets and suchlike , Bone, Hmmm knife handles or perhaps carved figurines it could replace Ivory, (Elephant and Seal tusks) that should give a little longer life to the latter unfortunates.

I don`t much like the idea of going in the Household Waste Wheelie Bin, although, I suppose I would most probably come under that category. :-D

Now don't be silly.

You start on those bottles of whisky yourself now. They are no good burned and are really not benefitting you in bottles.They are meant for belly not bottle.

Trust me.Tip enough in your belly and you really won't care who has time for you.

Using whisky to cause an explosion! Whatever next I ask myself.

Sharron, not a waste - just could not bear leaving it behind for my lot to pollute it with things like cola etc, besides it might make a big enough bang to take, a few of those who had no time for me when i was alive, with me :-D :-D :-D

You would waste whisky?

As I said on another post, I want to be cremated in a coffin with 36 hoops placed round the inside of the coffin and a bottle of malt whisky from my collection placed in each one - I want to go out with a BANG as the mourners sing Frank Sinatra's My Way ;-)

The gulf between young & old is wider than ever. The pace of technological & social change is partly responsible.

The media glorify youth & images of youth so that ageing is seen as something to be avoided at all costs - hence the popularity of plastic surgery.

Liberal educators are also culpable, having inspired students to believe that rebellion against the previous generation is normal, even admirable. Was this so in earlier generations?

Death wins all arguments & I hope I'm not around for my own funeral - if you get my meaning!

:-D :-D :-D :-D. Sharron, I enjoyed my so called Mother's too as I knew she would no longer be around to plague me. :-D

I have told Fred he is going in the waste digester cone.

Woodland setting. We have one in Cambs, under a tree with a brass plaque and pray
(altho I don't) that its not stolen.

No church, no prayers bit a music somewhere would be nice.

Vera

I enjoyed my mother's funeral very much. It was the first party she had ever given me.

Have always said I wanted cheapest coffin there was, as it is going up in smoke, would be like burning money! Money saved goes RNLI. Having recently heard about cardboard ones and they can be used for cremation.

No flowers just a spray of freesia. No black to be worn. Son to wear his Liverpool FC tie.

Music - on entering chapel - Ferry me cross the Mersey. Mid service, You'll never walk alone and leaving church Chris Barber and some upbeat jazz to get the toes tapping.

My dau. will be furious!!!!!! Nearly forgot, my ashes go to Chicken Rocks, Isle of Man where my Dad's are.

Dunno what I want in a funeral, but I'd like it to be cheerful.

I want to be cremated.

I want my ashes scattered on the golf course.

That way I will be able to keep an eye on OH at least twice a week :-D ;-)