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Cremation or Burial ?
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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 !!!
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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
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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