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Mar 17, 2016 10:53:11 #

Popeye Loc: LifIno

Take out whatever parts are still usable and the rest in a shoe box, take it out to sea and dump it for the fish.

Mar 17, 2016 10:54:32 #

Popeye Loc: LifIno

Take out the parts that are usable, the rest place in a shoe box, take it out to sea to feed the fish.

Mar 17, 2016 11:43:27 #

tbohon Loc: Olympia, WA USA

I've left instructions for a direct cremation followed by inurnment at Multnomah National Cemetery in Portland, OR. Doubt that I'd have a quorum at a funeral but if someone wants to hold a memorial I've also included a list of some of my favorite songs (Celtic Woman, Andre Rieu, The Eagles, Beethoven, ...) ... making attendees listen to my music one last time seems a fitting way to go.

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Mar 17, 2016 12:02:00 #

pyroManiac Loc: HIXSON,TN

Another alternative is to will your body to a medical school---no funeral.

Mar 17, 2016 14:42:07 #

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Skypilot wrote:

Funerals are really not for the dead...funerals are for the living. Those who are close to you need some kind of closure and an opportunity to grieve....and perhaps in the process receive some degree of comfort from others. Or it may be that you have no family or friends that will grieve your passing.....then the gathering can take on a more celebratory air.

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Mar 17, 2016 15:14:35 #

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Tom G wrote:

I have a much better idea. Donate your body to a ... (show quote)

My mother-in-law and father-in-law both did this and I think I will do the same. Why not advance medical training or research by giving your now worthless carcass to science? This also lessens the burden and expense for those who are left behind.

Mar 17, 2016 16:29:52 #

Nelson.I Loc: Monument, Colorado, USA

donrent wrote:

Sky, you are sooo correct !
When I go, it will be the absolutely cheapest way... No services; no prayers (again for the living and I'm not going to hear a freeging word: no nuttin'.....

I've been known to suggest that the only person at my funeral who won't be upset will be me. ;)

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Mar 17, 2016 17:03:50 #

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

GARGLEBLASTER wrote:

Maybe a slightly morbid subject but when you go, what sort of send off would you want? I havbe no intention of dying just yet but I could be run over by a truck tomorrow, in which case personally I would want "direct cremation".

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It's a good question. At my age, 80, it is one to take seriously. While I hope to live another 15-20 years, as the actuarial tables suggest, an idiot in an SUV may swerve and hit me on my motorcycle tomorrow. Or I may . . . oh well, you know what I mean. I have learned to live every day fully as though it is my last.

That said, what I have done is to register with a medical school so that every viable organ will be available to transplant. Then, the rest of my body will be donated to the medical school so that new doctors and nurses can have a real body with which to learn their trade.

When that is finished, they will cremate whatever is left and see to a respectful disposal or return it to my daughters if they want. Most medical schools need bodies and have some form of registration.

I have asked that at most a simple memorial ceremony followed by a party. Then at someone's convenience, dump the ashes in the Pacific ocean.

Mar 17, 2016 18:21:36 #

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

I'd prefer a celebration of life similar to the ones my wife, children and I have had for our parents. Cremation. Ashed scattered on the ranch or in the local creek (my final river cruise). A nice outdoor lunch, music and laughter...

Mar 17, 2016 19:24:59 #

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

GARGLEBLASTER wrote:

I want to be sitting propped up against a tree in the forest and let the critters have at me.

Mar 17, 2016 19:26:56 #

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

I Told my wife when I assume room temperature, to take a ham bone, stick it up my butt and let the dogs drag me away.
No muss, no fuss.

will

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Mar 17, 2016 20:18:08 #

Mollie Loc: melbourne

NO funeral for me...........no people no nuthin"

a cremation and throw the bones on the rose bushes. My man has decided the same.

Mar 17, 2016 21:01:50 #

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

GARGLEBLASTER wrote:

Since I am the youngest in my family of two, and my relatives all dead or disappeared I will be doing direct cremation with no services, etc. It wouldn't make sense to have a funeral. I can see paying a lot of money to come into the world, after all, you hope to be here for awhile. But to leave it?? Nah. I mentioned letting the buzzards take care of my body or what remains of it, but they sure did give me a strange look. No sense of humor! :roll:

Mar 17, 2016 22:43:26 #

latebloomer Loc: Topeka, KS

Don't worry about the funeral. The dead don't care. :thumbup:

Mar 17, 2016 23:00:09 #

picturedude Loc: Yosemite natl. park, Ca.

I'm donating my body to Science Fiction!

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