Funerals.

[Glam]

(actually I'm going to medical research so don't really care about any of that.)

That is a totally different thread, but was that easy to arrange Bob?

Yeah did if a few years ago with a medical centre in Bristol. The executor of my will has the number (she's a family member) and will call them to come and pick up the stiff when I go 'silent key.' (Sparky's term for a croaker.) I'm not a believer or in anyway religious and I don't see any point in occupying a bit of ground that could be put to better use, like growing rhubarb or something.
No funeral or any of that, and if I get enough notice I'll put a bit of money behind the bar at my local so everyone can have a drink and celebrate that the grumpy old fu**** has finally checked out.

Right, this is a subject that I am interested in. I'm not getting any younger, 59 this Christmas and am fully aware that the women on either side of my family don't usually live past 75.
Youngest wants to have just a hole in the ground where he becomes worm food almost immediately, no embalming or owt.
I've considered leaving this mess of a body to medical science, as Bob states he is going to do.
This afternoon has actually been my ex Mother-in-laws funeral, she has been cremated, although as a Catholic, that is going against the grain, because your soul doesn't go to heaven, allegedly.

Has anyone else got as far as thinking about their final demise? Have any of you had a prepayment plan?

I wasn't allowed to get involved with my Mums send off, as my big sister shoved her way in and arranged it all.

 

[Theresa Green]

As long as people understand that leaving a cadaver to science is likely to mean it’s going to be cut up and messed with by students then I commend that choice

It does then leave nothing physical to grieve over at a funeral/memorial/service of course

Be aware that should Covid or similar flare up again, then Universities will refuse bodies and then you will have to rethink the whole thing, and likely at short notice

A plan B is recommended

 

[BobClay]

Plan B.

November 5th.

 

[Theresa Green]

Plan B.

November 5th.

Are you a Catholic

A Pope effigy was the original’guy’ on the bonfire

 

[Glam]

I quite like the youngests choice, but I'd want everyone to be 100% sure that I'm dead before I'm shoved in the ground.

 

[BobClay]

Burning the Pope, and every other religious leader on the planet sounds good to me.

 

[The Hawk]

Put me down for the Klingon Death Ritual.

 

[proactive]

I quite like the youngests choice, but I'd want everyone to be 100% sure that I'm dead before I'm shoved in the ground.

Because for every other type of burial, burning of other disposal, you'd be happy to be alive?

 

[Glam]

Because for every other type of burial, burning of other disposal, you'd be happy to be alive?

I don't want to wake up 6 feet underground, in a wooden box and have no way of getting out. Whichever way, I want the powers that be to be sure that I've passed.
There's a lady in America, she has a youtube channel called Ask A Mortician, Caitlin Doughty. She has covered this subject multiple times.
This is something I am seriously interested in
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[Gramaisc]

Human composting facility? That's basically a teenager's bedroom...


A friend of mine went for the 'donating to science' route, when it became clear that the MND would get him. There were some ashes, but no actual bits left, I believe, after a couple of years.

He does have a gravestone in a churchyard, not really of his doing, I suspect - but most, if not all, of his ashes were scattered on the bog, where he cut his peat fuel for decades.

That's his stone, the furthest away, in front of the hedge.

 

[Theresa Green]

Death can be fatal