Your Funeral - What do you want done with your body

mckayleesmom wrote: The organ donation thing has got my mind twirling...

Personally....I told dh to suprise me.

I don't like the thought of being creamated or buried......but I can't live forever.

PrairieMom replied: For me, just a normal burial, but who knows, I am slowly getting greener, no sense in pumping my body full of toxic chemicals and taking up valuable space in the ground... I guess I may have to re-think that.

mommy~to~a~bunch replied: I don't want to be cremated either, so I guess I'll get buried. I told DH don't do anything fancy, it's a waste of money.

luvmykids replied: I want to be cremated. There is no point in my body rotting in the ground. I know a lot of people want to be buried so their loved ones have a place to come remember them but for me, I'd rather not. I don't want people sitting around my grave crying, years after I'm gone.

mckayleesmom replied: I don't want them to have one of those receptions afterwords either.....I want them to have a party or something....

Those things are depressing....Maybe they can all go to Disneyworld or something...

PrairieMom replied:
I kinda do. I am so selfish, One of my greatest fears is being forgotten. It really makes me anxious and scared to think of life going on with out me.

Anthony275 replied: i really want to be stuffed in all honestly, but i know that wont happen so i want to be cremated. theres a LOT of ashes when you're cremated so i could be put in other places, like a garden etc

stella6979 replied:
I totally agree. And if you think about it, eventually there will be no one coming to your gravesite. I mean, years and years after you're gone I doubt you'd really have many visitors, so why take up the space? That's JMO though. I also don't like the idea of rotting in the ground.

mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: cremated

boyohboyohboy replied: dh and I are both being cremated and spread over az.
we have discussed it with my parents, but his are against it.

Calimama replied: I'm not 100% sure yet.

grandma replied: No cremation and no open casket, no big funeral either, just a small gathering at the cemetary.

lovemy2 replied: I want to be in a masoleum - I don't want to be buried in the ground - and I don't want to be cremated - and I agree go to Disneyworld or something afterwards -

Cece00 replied: I want to be in our private family cemetery. I want to be buried along side my DH and parents (and I hope our children will also choose to be buried there) or maybe in a mausoleum with them.

jcc64 replied: I want my relatives to spend whatever money a standard burial would cost instead on a trip to Jamaica, where everyone can sit on a beautiful Caribbean beach, smoke a big fat spliff in my honor, and send me on my way...

Anthony275 replied: can i come to your funeral?!

HuskerMom replied: I haven't given it alot of thought yet. I don't want an open casket though. I don't want the last time my loved ones see me is in a box. I also don't want depressing funeral music played. I want like oldies or something. At Dh's grandpa's funeral they played a cd of him singing and playing his guitar.

I also kind of like the idea of being cremated so I can be scattered somewhere. Dh said he doesn't care what happens to his body after he dies. So if I'm buried then I want him buried next to me. Or cremate him too and we can be scattered together. Kind of romantic in a morbid way.

msoulz replied: I couldn't possibly care less. I'll be dead.

Jackie012007 replied: I don't know - none of it appeals to me (or anyone I'm sure) - I like the idea of being cremated. My dad wants to be and I was horrified at first but now it has grown on me. Whichever of us goes first (me or Carl), we want the other to keep some of the ashes so they can be mixed with the others so we will be together forever!

kimberley replied: i want to be buried.

kimberley replied:
you are too funny!

Nina J replied: Bury me. I don't want to be burnt to ash.

ZandersMama replied: I want everything taken out of me that can be used, then cremated.

MotherForever2043 replied: Buried with all my organs please

Crystalina replied: I want to be cremated. I'm pretty frugal and just the thought of all the wasted money on flowers and the casket gives me hives. If my family wants to put my ashes in a grave so they have somewhere to mourn then that is okay but I don't want anything big at all. I don't want people showing up just to gawk at me and critique me one last time. I have friends that call me and ask if I'm going to so-and-so's funeral and I say no because I haven't seen that person since high school and they go "just to see". Sick! I don't want to remember them like that and I'm not going to *not* call them for 15 yrs but then pop in on them while they lay dead. No thanks.

One reason I don't want to be buried is because a million yrs from now I don't want someone picking apart my bones to see what I ate or how I lived.

A masoleum won't work for me either...tornadoes. I don't want someone pulling me out of a tree 5 yrs after death.

austins mom replied: I want to be buried. I dont want to have ashes made of me. To many things happen in live for others to have to keep up with them. I have moved so many times over the last 10 yrs. If I had my moms or anyones like that they would be lost by now.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: cremated and tossed.... no reason to have someone keep my ashes. My uncle was in my closet for about 6 months until I moved and has been in my moms for the last few years. I don't want my kids to have to move me or fight over who has to deal with me

Twelve Volt Man replied: I say donate my viable organs (sorry to those in need of a liver), then dump the rest of me in the ocean. It'd be comforting to me to know that I'll be at sea, not to mention that it'd bring a smile to my rotting face knowing that I was chumming the waters so that someone could catch a trophy fish.

Anthony275 replied: oh i thought you would want to be burried in a keg of beer or something

coasterqueen replied: I have thought about this a lot lately, as we have been dealing with this in regards to my aunt who passed away with no wishes, no nothing -- and most of us haven't seen her in 20+ years. I've never met her. So it's been difficult. I still can't answer that question for myself.

TheOaf66 replied: 1. Cremate me !!!!!
2. Use a portion of my life ins to buy 3 Kegs of Beer
3. Everyone sits around (in jeans and t-shirts) and just goes around telling FUN stories about me.
4. At the end one last toast to me *klink*

5. Jennie spreads a portion of my ashes in "my spot"

lisar replied: Personally I want to be buried. Mainly cause I want a place for people to be able to come and morn me. My kids my dh etc.....

grandma replied:
That sounds like a wake...
After my husband passed, my sons and his good friends went to a bar and told stories about him (I didn't go).