After you die casket or cremated

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I'm being cremated and thrown into Oneida Lake. :smt001
 
My Aunt was buried today and I'll bet that fancy PINK casket cost over $6k. :wow:

Who's gonna see it inside of the cement box 6ft under. ??.
 
I own a cemetery memorial business here in MI, seams like the majority of my customers are choosing cremation over full burial with casket and vault, but still choose to bury the remains in a cemetery and buy a nice memorial where loved one and family members can go to remember and pay their respects.

Otherwise I'd be out of business and no money for that big Sea Ray I'm dreaming about. LOL:smt043

My choice would be cremation:thumbsup:
 
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
 
Cremated and taken out in my boat to spread my ashes. I spread the ashes of two people in my 320DA within a few months. I think we had very touching and beautiful ceremonies.
 
I'd weigh in here but my opinion might be a bit jaded...
 
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MonacoMike said:
A bit or a "but".

I was looking forward to your input on this...

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People who like cremation don't really like my input. But as someone who deals with death, burial and cremation all day everyday there is no interest in cremation as far as I'm concerned. Before I went to mortuary school and figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up, I was a full time firefighter. In that time I was unfortunate enough to encounter more than one deceased burned victim. Through this experience and what I've witnessed with cremation there's no way I'd Ever want a family of mine cremated. So if I don't want you to cremate my family member, why in the world would I want you to cremate me!? That's where I stand.
 
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Lucky's said:
People who like cremation don't really like my input. But as someone who deals with death, burial and cremation all day everyday there is no interest in cremation as far as I'm concerned. Before I went to mortuary school and figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up, I was a full time firefighter. In that time I was unfortunate enough to encounter more than one deceased burned victim. Through this experience and what I've witnessed with cremation there's no way I'd
Ever want a family of mine cremated. So if
I don't want you to cremate my family member, why in the world would I want you to cremate me!? That's where I stand.
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You can't put that out there without a couple stories...those that are sittin' the fence want to know.
 
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...
 
Uh oh... this simple question is about to get VERY interesting..... Get that adequate first aid kit on standby...... And FTR... I don't give a crap what you do to me or with me after I'm dead.
 
I suspect Shaun's "tales/truths" are not really for public announcement, perhaps he will PM y'all:) My main concern is making sure I'm really dead before you do anything! We had a really lovely lady who's husband was a patient and they lived for quite some time in the Caribbean, mainly in Tortola on a sailboat. She fell very ill one day and was rushed from the sailboat to the local hospital where she was pronounced dead! However, she woke up in the hospital mortuary under a sheet !!! Scary eh!!!

Many years later, when she moved to near our office and her husband became a patient and she got to know us she told us all about her "death" experience. She told us how she actually went to heaven and Angels told her it was not her time yet and that she must go back. This lady was a very smart educated lady (not a ding bat at all), she was very well read and taught Spanish. The irony was that when it was really her time a couple of years ago, she seemed to know. Her son visited us just after she died and he said she'd put all her affairs in order right down to every bill and the mail stopped, etc. He too recounted her "death" experience and how it had changed her.

The two things I took away from this kind lady were 1) please make sure I am really dead before you do anything with me at all, and 2) I always thought that there was a heaven and I really do hope that there is that other opposite place for all the really wicked folk in this world to languish in! Plus like Shaun I think casket if I have to have either:)
 
Nice story Britlady....

One thing I'm pretty sure of, if there is some sort of heaven, I don't think what happens to your body is going to matter. I do think it matters here on earth. I've never really understood the fascination or thought process of funerals, coffins, and cemeteries. I've thought cemeteries take up some real nice land with a lot of headstones, etc....I rarely ever see anyone go back to pay respects. I'm not even sure why sitting next to a box would be any different than being by a dock or any place where you reflect on a former loved-one.

I don't like the idea of being burned, but I think it's better than filling the earth with coffins. I know many cultures burn their dead.

One interesting thought that wasn't listed as an option is cryogenics. No one seems to want to be frozen.... I don't either. But, with all the stem-cell research and growing organs, I might just freeze the brain and possibly come back as a health 20 y/o....

But, if I don't take that option, I'm thinking sprinkle my ashes out at Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu and have a celebration of life.... I think I'll even fund it. I'm not ready to go anywhere and hope I live a long life. But i sure have a lot to be thankful for and celebrate. ....... So have fun...Drinks on me......
 
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