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re: Buried or cremated?

Posted on 12/12/20 at 8:12 am to
Posted by Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Chicago, IL
Member since Nov 2014
7199 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 8:12 am to
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
72649 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 8:21 am to
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I visited my dad’s gravesite with my sister a few weeks ago and had this conversation with her.
Pics of her so I can plan what type of conversation I would like to have with her.

Examples of potential conversations:

“Sup”

“I didn’t know the Forester came in a yellow.”

“My god, you’re hideous looking.”

TIA
Posted by memphis tiger
Memphis, TN
Member since Feb 2006
20720 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 9:13 am to
quote:


Buried or cremated?


Don’t care, I’ll be dead.
Posted by Quidam65
Q Continuum
Member since Jun 2010
20484 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 9:18 am to
My plan:

1. Donate whatever organs can be used.
2. Donate what's left to medical research. (Future MD's need to study real bodies)
Posted by 75503Tiger
Member since Sep 2015
4821 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 9:27 am to
Cremated, I don’t want some dope head emo finding my skull and using it for a bong
Posted by Huey Lewis
BR
Member since Oct 2013
5051 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 9:31 am to
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2. Donate what's left to medical research. (Future MD's need to study real bodies)


Nah they have plenty of cadavers at morgues and hospitals and plenty of living people to study and practice on too.

But the military will buy your corpse to test bombs and shite which I think is awesome but some people are put off by it.
Posted by SirSaintly
Uptown, New Orleans
Member since Feb 2013
3187 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 10:16 am to
Cremate. frick my family spending thousands of dollars for a funeral. Cremate for $800 and have a big arse party.

Even my old, super Catholic, parents are on the cremation bandwagon and my family has a huge masouleum in Metairie Cemetery.

Funerals and the burial process are such a waste of money.
This post was edited on 12/12/20 at 10:17 am
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
58124 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 10:34 am to
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Burial please


I’m Catholic too but have recently come to terms with this

You will decompose anyway - God can resurrect your ashes or your fully decomposed body

It won’t matter
Posted by Tiger in the Sticks
Back in the Boot
Member since Jan 2007
1732 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 10:59 am to
Team Ash here. No embalming, no visitation-straight to the furnace. I don’t even want a service unless my family feels like they need it. I’ve been treated wonderfully during my life, there’s nothing else that needs to be said after I die. They can go out for a nice dinner or boil some crawfish. Ideally, I’d like the ashes (they call them “cremains” now) to be interred in my grandmother’s grave in MO. My mama’s ashes are there, too-her wishes. She actually wanted us to mix the ashes with flowers and “plant” her on top of the grave, but we had the urn buried and added a plaque. If they want to inter me in Louisiana, there’s a cemetery/mausoleum in Covington that’s very reasonable. If they want to scatter me, that’s ok, too. I just don’t want to be embalmed and/or buried because it’s ridiculously expensive,
Posted by LSU37
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2020
476 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 11:33 am to
Neither sit me in a chair and let my funeral guest take pictures with me for $5.99. I’m an entrepreneur
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
72649 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 12:28 pm to
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Even my old, super Catholic, parents are on the cremation bandwagon and my family has a huge masouleum in Metairie Cemetery.
We already knowed.

Posted by northLAgoomba
Grand Cane, LA
Member since Nov 2009
3979 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 12:33 pm to
Posted by MSUDawg98
Ravens Flock
Member since Jan 2018
12298 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 1:38 pm to
I've been wrestling with the same thing. My dad wants to be cremated and the remains buried next to my grandparents who have the full burial. My mom wants to be cremated. My wife is strongly against burial/wants to be cremated. I've gotten a bit more religious over the past few years and would like my body to be intact for the resurrection. Biggest problem with burial is the cemetery where generations of my family have been buried is pretty much full. I've struggled with the decision quite a bit lately.
Posted by tkeefer
TX
Member since Apr 2004
1121 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 1:45 pm to
Have made it clear to everyone in my family multiple times that I would want to be cremated. And don't want my ashes sitting on someone's shelf -- spread them somewhere.

Also don't want a funeral. If they would need that for some kind of closure and peace of mind for themselves, ok, but personally don't want it.
Posted by jamiegla1
Member since Aug 2016
7882 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 1:47 pm to
There’s something to be said for having your kid spread your ashes over some glorious creation of God.

Also something comforting about being able to visit their grave.

But I kind of like that thing where they turn you into a tree
Posted by Galactic Inquisitor
An Incredibly Distant Star
Member since Dec 2013
18452 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 10:39 pm to
My honest wish would be a sky burial, but western sensibilities won't allow it, so roast my arse and let the ocean currents take me away
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
82649 posts
Posted on 12/12/20 at 10:47 pm to
Cremated. Nobody needs to do anything with my ashes. Leave them in the furnace for all I care.

On second thought, with no plan for children, I'll probably donate.
This post was edited on 12/12/20 at 10:51 pm
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
58124 posts
Posted on 12/13/20 at 12:40 am to
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Even my old, super Catholic, parents are on the cremation bandwagon and my family has a huge masouleum in Metairie Cemetery.


Plus what the archdiocese charges just to open a grave is highway robbery
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
29044 posts
Posted on 12/13/20 at 1:09 am to
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I've gotten a bit more religious over the past few years and would like my body to be intact for the resurrection.
Quite a bit of magical body repairing required either way, not sure it makes any difference.
Posted by lazy
Member since Jun 2020
1594 posts
Posted on 12/13/20 at 1:17 am to
Cremated. Who wants maggots eating them?
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