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Drisgirl | 22:31 Fri 21st Mar 2008 | Body & Soul
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Whats your choice and why?
Also can i ask if you would have a Minister/Priest oficiating even although you dont practice?

I'll go first -Cremation -I shall be sensitive for obvious reasons. I want my ashes buried with a headstone so my family can 'visit' me.I will not go into the details of my reasons as they may upset.

I am wanting an upbeat Humanist send off with hopefully some of my family reading poems (W.H Auden) and maybe a few wee tales and then some of my favourite music foillowed by a knees up with a live band at my expense -now that is a way to go !!!

Can you tell i am re-writing my will ATM -lol

Whats your take -hey it comes to us all !!!
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Hehe.... I have already planned mine (which hopefully won't be for a while yet)...

1 - All my bits and bobs are donated to medical research, so I get cremation (no way do I want to feed them worms lol)

2 - No way am I having a religious service, the Humanists have been ordered.

3 - Music - already sorted (Oysterband, Brahms and Paul Simon), plus there is a large amount of dosh for the final party woot !

4 - Possessions - My last will and testament has been written and stored with Solicitory fella and my sweetie niece gets the fun job of sorting it all out.

5 - Death is one of life's few certainties... at you say Drisgal, it comes to us all, so you are doing the right thing there.
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Dris, with the amount of alcohol in your body , you would burn for about three weeks,
I am having a woodland burial,the coffin will be eco-friendly and there will be a tree planted in my memory.I'm not having a vicar/priest or any sort of religious ceremony.
Cremation for me.

2 reasons.

I can't stand the thought of the worms getting my eyeballs.

I don't want my coffin being moved in a hundred or so years time, to make way for a housing estate.

Actually 3 reasons.

Cemeteries are such awful places, that I don't want to be put in one.

As regards a service, I suppose if it makes the living happy, they can have one. Thank God I won't have to attend - I am not religious and I hate them.
This is a direct quote from my will:
"I desire that my body be cremated without ceremony and that my ashes be disposed of, also without ceremony, in any convenient refuse receptacle".

Chris
cremation for me, i hate the thought of being buried.

I've always told my family i don't mind a religious cermony the only problem i have is that i don't want a priest who didn't even know me to conduct the cermony. I would much rather it was someone who knew me, and what i was really like in life to conduct it.
Im going for medical research and I want a spiritual service with everyone wearing something yellow or lemon. My fave colour.
I want to be cremated. But for what seems like a pretty silly reason, one of my biggest fears is being buried alive so I'd rather wake up burning than wake up in a coffin and suffocate!! I'd like my ashes buried, so my family and friends can visit.

I'm not religious but would like a service in which people can talk. I don't want any poems or hymes sung tho. And I have my songs chosen, which my family know about. I also don't want any flowers, I'd rather they donated money to charity. And I'd like a good old booze up after.
Considering I'm only young, I have thought about it a lot. Hopefully I have a while yet - x
That would look plain wierd
Oh yeah, I'm ok with donating organs too. They just can't have my eyes!! Thats too weird, and they welcome to my heart, as long as they can find it lol - x
My parents and my sister are buried in the prettiest,most peaceful cemetary.....it is wooded with winding pathways,and the graves are in small groupings-of only6-10 graves. It is also hilly-overlooking Long Island Sound In NY State.....there is a pretty old white,weather-boarded church on the edge of it...all-in -all a very serene 'resting place'....that is where I would like to sleep.
My brother 's sight was saved by having 2 cornea transplants...so having my eyes removed would not bother me
misty i felt the same regarding my eyes i just didn't like the thought of someone touching them or taking them out, until i realised that it can help someone to see.
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I know, but it just freaks me out a bit. I guess once I'm gone tho it wont make too much difference to me whether I have them or not. I'm still not sure - x
My answer is 3fold and its cremation:

1) Don't want to run the risk of being buried alive.
2) I don't want my body to take up space in a cemetery.
3) I have a phobia of worms ( I know I'll be dead but the thought of it makes me sick).

My song has to be "One Day I'll Fly Away" by Randy Crawford.
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I've already quoted from my will but perhaps I could point out that there's an alternative to both cremation and burial.

The artist Gunther von Hagens welcomes body donations for his artworks (which I think are absolutely stunning). I've already got the hat, so it seems like quite a good idea to me ;-)
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Ar ts_/site_furniture/2007/09/06/gunthervonhagens 460.jpg

Chris
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