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re: When do people start thinking about buying cemetery plots and pre-planned funerals?
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:32 am to Slippy
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:32 am to Slippy
I highly recommend. I lost my dad in October. Both he and my mom bought preplanned packages. Best thing ever. It took care of everything. No decisions to be made, no stress over what kind of service or where. It was already done. From my end (was with mom every step), there was a peace of knowing that the body would be picked up from the care center, and all of dad's wishes were being taken care of.
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Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:33 am to Displaced
quote:Some of us like to peacefully spend time praying and thinking of our loved ones at their final resting places.
Why do people buy cemetery space still?
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:34 am to concrete_tiger
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My family is 100% clear I want to be cremated and I don't care much beyond the fact I think graves/cemeteries are a huge racket and waste of space.
^This^
My wife and I have talked about it. I hate cemeteries, and funerals where a dead body is laid out. I don’t want any of that. I don’t want people going to a gravesite to talk to a headstone. I want to be cremated and poured out somewhere. My wife disagrees and tries to talk me out of it every time it comes up.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:34 am to Slippy
Donated body to science via the United Tissue Network. They’ll cremate what is left and send it back after a couple of months. Have approval for VA cemetery.
All free.
All free.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:35 am to Slippy
I don't want a funeral, casket, or cremation.
Just dig a hole, wrap the corpse in a sheet, and drop me in the ground or toss me overboard and feed me to the sharks.
Just dig a hole, wrap the corpse in a sheet, and drop me in the ground or toss me overboard and feed me to the sharks.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:35 am to blacykaty
I lost my mind when my mom died and the woman at the funeral home told me if we had made arrangements before she died, the cost would have been significantly lower.
went the next week and pre-paid for my dad's funeral.
went the next week and pre-paid for my dad's funeral.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:36 am to Kracka
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funerals where a dead body is laid out
This is a much larger discussion. I think it's kind of creepy because soul or no soul, that person is no longer there.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:38 am to Slippy
I’ll take the UNLV route. Drag me to da river
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:39 am to Slippy
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My parents are 80 and still alive but have had their cemetery plots for 20 years.
Mine did the same thing. Angers the hell out of me that they got roped into that silly shite.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:40 am to The Spleen
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I have done all the paperwork to donate my body to a medical school though.
When I was in high school, I worked the dock for a trucking company that used to ship these. It always creeped me out to see one of those stainless steel containers in the back of a trailer that had to be broken down(unloaded).
Posted on 3/4/22 at 10:40 am to tigergirl10
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Some of us like to peacefully spend time praying and thinking of our loved ones at their final resting places.
Sure, but this is maybe 1% of people.
How often do you go visit family at the cemetery? Once every other year?
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:00 am to Slippy
I'm 60 and we have been thinking about it a bit lately. Try to make it easier on the kids. Cremation is what we want, memorial service, any sort of monument and such is for those that remain behind so that is the only hitch we need to decide on.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:04 am to Slippy
Told my wife I want to laid out on a funeral pyre like a king of old with coins on my eyes and a broadsword in my hands with a shield and our house sigil.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:05 am to Slippy
I'm 80, and my wife is 79. Neither of us plan to be buried. We'll have our ashes scattered at a fun spot and let our survivors decide if they want any kind of memorial service for us.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:06 am to Slippy
Who the frick cares - you’re dead
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:10 am to Slippy
I don't want a funeral unless my family just feels it necessary. I don't want any family to see me after I'm dead unless they just feel like they need to. Otherwise, cremate me As soon as possible after death and spread my ashes wherever, or flush them down the toilet, I don't care.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:11 am to Displaced
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How often do you go visit family at the cemetery?
I go once every few months. My father, four grandparents, aunts and uncles, and some cousins are in the same cemetery. I visit each tomb whenever I go. It makes me feel that I still have some connection to them.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:17 am to Displaced
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How often do you go visit family at the cemetery? Once every other year?
My parents passed away abruptly in March and May of 2020 after several years of very hard times. No preparation whatsoever. The day after my mother died (she passed away first) I was at her old church in her hometown asking the pastor if we could bury her there. Her parents were buried there, so I figured it the best place. It was not an easy process starting from scratch.
What I intend to do is visit their graves on their anniversary in August each year that it’s possible to do so and leave a couple of roses. Right now I’m within a couple of hours drive, so I sometimes visit when I just want to get out and drive a bit. But who knows where I might live 5, 10, 20 years from now. Going to try to visit at least once a year, though.
This post was edited on 3/4/22 at 11:22 am
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:20 am to Slippy
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I'm 56 and don't care to plan for my own death right now.
It's more to save your family some trouble when they are already in mourning. Be considerate of them and take a couple of days to set it up and then you can put it out of your mind completely.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 11:22 am to Slippy
Plan is my wife will be put in the same cemetery as her grandparents. They have a mausoleum that has plenty of space. I'll probably start to seriously look at in about 25 years.
As far me, I just want to be cremated.
As far me, I just want to be cremated.
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