final wishes

[Sunray]

I want a pyramid. Nobody's getting my stuff. Told my useless brother to build me one years ago and have yet to hear about the construction being started.
"...spread them..." Isn't legal everywhere.
"...simple inexpensive caskets..." No such thing. And our government(Provincial) has a lot of rules about what you can and cannot do with your carcass. Starting with your grave must be lined with concrete. No embalming means you'll get planted faster without visitation or service. Apparently within 72 hours of croaking. Isn't required by law here though.

[kj47]

Prepaid my cremation, I have a 75 mm shell that I turned a wooden tip for it. Good to go.

[Vern Humphrey]

Did you guy's ever think that if you owed the government money there is a regulation against you dying until the debt is paid?
Sam

I wrote to the IRS and told them I refuse to pay the Death Tax. They wrote back and told me I won't be allowed to die, then.

[lyman]

I told the wife to donate my body to science, let students hack on my corpse, I wont need it,

she says no, so cremation is my next option,

[Allen]

Welfare. I wonder how much we pay for those on welfare, not only for the funeral but for the plots? I've never heard of anyone being denied a funeral and there's no doubt laws in place to provide for that too. It's not like they are going to plan for any of this so if already on welfare they have been adopted by the taxpayers.

A few months ago a female illegal on U.S. soil attacked a border agent and was rightfully put down. Oh how the democrats cried about it losing dozens of votes. Her body was shipped back to Columbia or wherever she came from and was given a funeral service fit for a king with what looked to be a nice painted metal casket. This person did not have a pot to pee in. Undoubtedly the taxpayers footed the bill for this and her illegal acts as we do with all deportation cost.

Strange how you never hear of this.

What welfare and obamacare has done to skyrocket medical expense to the point where so many have to use it (socialism), the same can probably be said about welfare causing funeral expenses to skyrocket. We pay $7000-$10,000+ for a simple funeral plus the cost of the plots while those who do no planning or are simply irresponsible pay "nothing" plus we have all those rules about what we can and can't do assuring that we end up paying that escalated required expense to pay for those who do not pay. Just like health insurance.

[dobek]

I used to think spread my ashes in the ocean - then I got involved in genealogy. A grave / tombstone leaves a link between the past and the future. It allows a future generation to find you and say - “that was my great great great grandfather. “

It may take a while (for me generations) before someone recognizes you again - I am heading to the ancestrial homeland in June and the cemetery is my first stop followed by the farmland they owned.

So - be a link to the past for those yet to come

Steve

[Allen]

I used to think spread my ashes in the ocean - then I got involved in genealogy. A grave / tombstone leaves a link between the past and the future. It allows a future generation to find you and say - “that was my great great great grandfather. “

It may take a while (for me generations) before someone recognizes you again - I am heading to the ancestrial homeland in June and the cemetery is my first stop followed by the farmland they owned.

So - be a link to the past for those yet to come

Steve

But do it tastefully--not like these folks did.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/sear...g&action=close

https://images.search.yahoo.com/sear...F-8&n=60&x=wrt

[RED]

I will be cremated (cheap shipping) and I will burried in the same grave as my wife of 49 years, 10 mo's in the MO veteran's Cemetary in Higginsville, MO. (free), and the thouands of dollars of funeral expenses can go to educating grand kids.

[dryheat]

I want a pyramid. Nobody's getting my stuff. Told my useless brother to build me one years ago and have yet to hear about the construction being started.
"...spread them..." Isn't legal everywhere.
"...simple inexpensive caskets..." No such thing. And our government(Provincial) has a lot of rules about what you can and cannot do with your carcass. Starting with your grave must be lined with concrete. No embalming means you'll get planted faster without visitation or service. Apparently within 72 hours of croaking. Isn't required by law here though.

You should get better help.
The "father of Arizona" has a pyramid. So,we all know that funerals are for the living. God, I hate work and putting on a great funeral is a little work. Fortunately it's all over in a matter of days, so do it right. I was the best man at my best friends second wedding(and event kinda like a funeral). I studied up on it a little and got some good advice; Like anything else, it's not about you. Don't tell awful high school stories about him. Don't drink before the advent(unless it's called for)and tell awful and weird stories. In a word: funerals are for the living. We aren't all Captain Call, don't ask for the ridiculous. Aside from that, have the courtesey to make out a will(if you have anything of monetary value, not "collectables")so there isn't a fight afterwards. Doesn't matter what you do, if your family likes to fight, it'll be a fight.

[PWC]

With my nephew, my family name dies out. He has no son, all the rest of the males had daughters. There will be a link, but the name dies.

My girls are in their 50s and don't care about geneology. My wife and I have quite a bit.... I always thought it interesting that my grandmother was born in a covered wagon in Oklahoma Indian Territory. Of course we played cowboys and indians outside when we were little. My kids played inside, Space Invaiders, and my grand kids play Warcraft.

I think before I die I'll put it all inside a trunk, with other things important, to my wife and me, and put a big lock on it and throw awsy the key. When my wife and I are dead the kids will wonder what was so important to be locked away like that. They will have to expend some effort to find out what we thought was that important. What they do with it after that is up to them.