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vera2010

vera2010 Report 10 Mar 2013 03:05

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

Sharron

Sharron Report 10 Mar 2013 08:22

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

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 10 Mar 2013 08:29

:-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

Dermot

Dermot Report 10 Mar 2013 08:35

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!

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 10 Mar 2013 09:18

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 ;-)

Sharron

Sharron Report 10 Mar 2013 09:25

You would waste whisky?

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 10 Mar 2013 09:45

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

Sharron

Sharron Report 10 Mar 2013 09:59

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.

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 10 Mar 2013 10:05

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

Sharron

Sharron Report 10 Mar 2013 10:37

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.

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 10 Mar 2013 10:40

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

Island

Island Report 10 Mar 2013 10:43

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?

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 10 Mar 2013 10:54

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

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 10 Mar 2013 11:06

:-D :-D :-D @ BC






Edit, slaps wrist :-D

GinN

GinN Report 10 Mar 2013 15:09

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!

Joeva

Joeva Report 10 Mar 2013 15:15



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

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 10 Mar 2013 16:41

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.