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Funerals: Burial or Cremation?
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Which do you prefer? And if you prefer cremation, may I ask, please, what would you like done with your cremains? (ashes).
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I do want to be buried I think, but I don't want a funeral, they are too hard to deal with, just a few chosen words said at my grave side along to Moon River playing in the open air, that'll do me. With the prospect of attending a funeral looming ever closer at moment I probably am not being rational!
Hi Fr Bill & all - I asked this question some years back, so here's a few more thoughts on it:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion59947.html
Hope you all enjoyed your roast dinners! ;o}
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion59947.html
Hope you all enjoyed your roast dinners! ;o}
What interesting answers everyone! I find it fascinating that several people share the same thoughts about being buried alive. When I was a child, I had the same fear. But I blame my parents for having taken me to cinema to see the House of Usher�awful! And an awful thing to do to a child. I still recall the nighmares!
Moon River- I actually played that at one of my funerals on Friday. The deceased�s husband asked for it. He couldn�t remember the name, so he hummed it to me. I think it�s a lovely tune. For this funeral I chose Andy Williams singing it.
Leaving your ashes on the mantel: That too is a common practice. But it always leaves the rather uncomfortable decision to others, what to do, when you�re no longer there. What do they do with all these ashes!
Smudge: Thanks for that. It gives a rather interesting audit trail of thoughts. Again, the prevailing thought was the fear of being buried alive�as well as the fear of vermin.
Recognising that it�s illegal to strew ashes into the sea, what are some of the other options? Would you prefer to have your cremains interred at a cemetery with a small stone of remembrance, or leave them at the crematory (I have my own thoughts about that), or cast the into the garden?
Thank you for all your thoughts. It�s a wonderful insight t society�s changing trends.
Fr Bill
Moon River- I actually played that at one of my funerals on Friday. The deceased�s husband asked for it. He couldn�t remember the name, so he hummed it to me. I think it�s a lovely tune. For this funeral I chose Andy Williams singing it.
Leaving your ashes on the mantel: That too is a common practice. But it always leaves the rather uncomfortable decision to others, what to do, when you�re no longer there. What do they do with all these ashes!
Smudge: Thanks for that. It gives a rather interesting audit trail of thoughts. Again, the prevailing thought was the fear of being buried alive�as well as the fear of vermin.
Recognising that it�s illegal to strew ashes into the sea, what are some of the other options? Would you prefer to have your cremains interred at a cemetery with a small stone of remembrance, or leave them at the crematory (I have my own thoughts about that), or cast the into the garden?
Thank you for all your thoughts. It�s a wonderful insight t society�s changing trends.
Fr Bill