After you die casket or cremated

This is the last conversation I ever thought would b had on csr. You guys are sick lol. I'm 26 y/o and live a pretty dangerous life style. Im a nyc ironworker, climbing and hanging all over the skies of Manhattan, license skydiver, scubadiver, and love basejumping. (With my new little girl base is out and the rest will slow) but with that being said I already sat my siblings and parents down and told them if anything were ever to happen to me I want u to burn me go for a skydive over the Atlantic and drop my ashes as soon as u leave the plane so I can rest in the place I love the most. The water.
 
Woody said:
You can't put that out there without a couple stories...those that are sittin' the fence want to know.
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Woody, it may just be me as there are other FD members on the site, but those are the stories that I'd rather keep locked away. I can say my very first house fire we had a 4yo that made me question my willingness to continue in my job. BTW I did stay.

I do see Shaun's point tho. I just don't want to be trapped in some box. Mrs Brit, I have so many brothers still in the FD that will be very sure I'm dead before I'm moved to the next step.
 
Wrap me up in a canvas tarp and bury me under an oak tree. Let the tree be my marker.
 
HUMPH said:
But if I am dead, how can burning me be bothersome? I get that being alive and in a fire (or on fire) would be horrible but...
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My uncle just had his ashes spread over his favorite spot near an Island in Puget Sound so will I.
Do you want to be cremated or have worms or whatever critters get into your casket crawling through your remains?

Edit: It's in our wills to be cremated after we're pronounced dead not before !!!!!!
 
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Bob & Sue said:
My uncle just had his ashes spread over his favorite spot near an Island in Puget Sound so will I.
Do you want to be cremated or have worms or whatever critters get into your casket crawling through your remains?

Edit: It's in our wills to be cremated after we're pronounced dead not before !!!!!!
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I can assure you that with the proper casket and vault, there aren't any "worms or Critters" getting to you.
 
I just tell my children, I will take a walk in the woods. No one is to follow me.
 
dwna1a said:
Cremated..then placed in an Eight o Clock coffee can and throw into the James, that way I will have made the full circle born on the James buried in the James
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Right thought. Wrong coffee.:grin:

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I was going to say chum but that's probably illegal so I'm opting for cremation partially because of this guy.

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"Golf courses and cemeteries
are the biggest waste of prime
real estate in America."

~~Al Czervik​
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Bob & Sue said:
My uncle just had his ashes spread over his favorite spot near an Island in Puget Sound so will I.
Do you want to be cremated or have worms or whatever critters get into your casket crawling through your remains?

Edit: It's in our wills to be cremated after we're pronounced dead not before !!!!!!
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This made me think of my mother's burial. I was choosing vaults and caskets...there were a few options...the director was explaining the differences...one vault had a guarantee against water leakage that was 2-3 times that of another...30 or 45 years with a smile...some people like that extra assurance their loved one is resting comfortably ya' know. I reminded him that my mother was going to be dead a lot longer than that...:smt043
 
Interesting thread.
I have had this discussion with family members a few times. Ex-wife wants to be cremated. Sons think they do. I haven't decided yet. What Brit Lady wrote I believe. I live my life believing there is a God so dying isn't a bad thing. Yet with all the things He has given us in this world, what if some frozen state gives you the opportunity to do this again and do it better. That might be cool. No pun here. I am Catholic and I think we don't do cremation. So the issue for me is - what to do. Frozen, Cremation, Status Quo. I have said the same thing - if I know I am going I will say my good byes and walk to my boat and take my last journey as far as the gas will take me. I better go fill up.
I know - it doesn't answer the question..........
 
dpmulvey said:
I was going to say chum but that's probably illegal so I'm opting for cremation partially because of this guy.

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"Golf courses and cemeteries
are the biggest waste of prime
real estate in America."

~~Al Czervik​
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I've read that the amount of water used by golf courses is enough to meet the drinking water needs of the entire worlds population.
 
dpmulvey said:
I was going to say chum but that's probably illegal so I'm opting for cremation partially because of this guy.

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"Golf courses and cemeteries
are the biggest waste of prime
real estate in America."

~~Al Czervik​
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I don't agree with this at all, cemeteries hold the remains of our loved ones and many of them paid the ultimate sacrifice defending our country. With Memorial Day fast approaching drive through a local cemetery and see all the flags flying then take the time to say a prayer of thanks to all the veterans. If all their ashes were just thrown in the sea do you really think future generations would remember?
 
If all their ashes were just thrown in the sea do you really think future generations would remember?
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Most of the next generation kids don't give a rats azz about anything,

They only care about themselves and gaming & texting. :smt021

Their parents didn't teach them the values of being respectable to others.

Go to any mall or school and you'll see the freaks of the future. :wow:
 
Well I was on the cremation path until my wife nixed that idea. Her solution was a burial at sea by a company like: http://www.maritimeburials.com/

The reason why is that she loves the water as much as I do and that gives us a chance to wake up if somebody misdiagnosed the situation. Anyway the rules governing this process are interesting to read and it seems like a better solution than getting cooked. Both my parents are buried at Arlington but they live in my mind and heart.

I would rather have my kids smiling that Dad is hanging out with the mermaids than the alternatives.

John
 
I would like cremation, because of two reasons... 1. It's cheaper, 2.once I am dead, I'm dead and don't really care what you do with my body. I understand that my family would like to pay respect later, but I want them to celebrate my life and their
life after the fact. No better way than to celebrate that on the ICW, where I have spent all of my life in Georgia.
 
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