Friday OT #2 - Six Feet Under

[Angie]

I think we already did an OT on if you want to be buried/cremated/other. But Janny can’t discuss this, so maybe if I write my intentions here he can refer back some day if needed. (Yes, I have seen his other thread and no, I don’t want to consider it.)

What special things do you want done at your funeral?

I want Tom Petty’s Wildflowers played. I would like Diet Coke served. Instead of a photo of me by my urn, it would be pretty sweet if they could get a life-sized cardboard cutout of me with a thumbs up.

I do take this matter seriously, but I don’t want things to be sad.

How about you?

 

[JM4CY]

Blare Juicy Wiggle as you’re lowering me into the ground.

 

[ISUKyro]

I lean toward cremation. Maybe use the ashes and infuse them into something. (the urn on the mantle freaks me out - don't do that)

As for a funeral, if there is not drinks and laughter, whoever the hell was in charge of that did not know me at all.

 

[BCClone]

I honestly don’t even want a funeral. Get cremated and have my ashes spread where I grew up, since I totally hate where we live now. Funerals seem rushed and people get weird. Just ride off onto the sunset is my thoughts.

My FIL told me about one where the dude was cremated, so when they got to the cemetery, a guy walked to his car, pulled out a post hole auger, dug a hole, tossed the urn in and stomped some dirt down on it. Then they broke out vodka and OJ and everyone had to drink a couple since the guy was always drinking them. Good way to get a bunch of drunks in the road I guess.

 

[JP4CY]

Sentimentally, I want people to know (since I don't talk much about it in person) that I never stopped thinking about children that aren't here from miscarriages.
Now, since I said the sappy part, the more that time goes on I'm leaning cremation but don't need a family member to keep ashes. I'd rather spend money on a "in remembrance of" park bench vs casket.

 

[Angie]

Sentimentally, I want people to know (since I don't talk much about it in person) that I never stopped thinking about children that aren't here from miscarriages.
Now, since I said the sappy part, the more that time goes on I'm leaning cremation but don't need a family member to keep ashes. I'd rather spend money on a "in remembrance of" park bench vs casket.

I would like our first daughter’s ashes either spread or buried with me, as well. I am so glad you brought up miscarriage/stillbirth/infant loss as mattering.

 

[CRcyclone6]

I don't have anything, but my wife wants Black by Pearl Jam played at her funeral.

 

[JM4CY]

Sentimentally, I want people to know (since I don't talk much about it in person) that I never stopped thinking about children that aren't here from miscarriages.
Now, since I said the sappy part, the more that time goes on I'm leaning cremation but don't need a family member to keep ashes. I'd rather spend money on a "in remembrance of" park bench vs casket.

I'll find that bench and pretend I'm putting my butt on your face.

 

[JP4CY]

I'll find that bench and pretend I'm putting my butt on your face.

And the plaque will read:

In remembrance of JP4CY:
He was an ass!
Is that a skid mark on JM4CY's pants?

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

No funeral
A hefty bag and a dumpster would be good enough for me but you can't do that so cremation.

 

[cyfanatic13]

I’d rather have the people that I care about just get together in a happy setting and drink, gamble, and tell stories about me.

If I do have to have a funeral I want it requested that everyone wears ISU clothing. Cause the pain I know it would cause some of my hawk friends would be a great way to remember me by

 

[Rural]

When Jill Ireland died she was cremated and the ashes were put inside a custom made cane.

When Charles Bronson died the cane was buried with him.

 

[pourcyne]

No funeral
A hefty bag and a dumpster would be good enough for me but you can't do that so cremation.

No funeral, no grave, no obit.

Currently trying to figure out how to get cremated without the hefty fees to the undertaker. They charge coming and going to the nearest crematorium. It's against Iowa law to transport a cadaver without some kind of permit. Some sort of official needs to approve the cremation as well. Well done, Undertaker Lobby. Well done. (joke intended)

There goes my wish to be sent off on a boat while Edmure Tully tries to shoot a flaming arrow into it and/or go out like The Purifier...

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Blare Juicy Wiggle as you’re lowering me into the ground.

Well played. Same here only I want to be cremated. I want things to be as cheap as possible. No reason for people to go into debt because of my passing.

 

[TXCyclones]

I want to be cremated and want a handful of my ashes spread in the stands at Jack Trice Stadium, a handful on central campus, a handful on the lawn of my old fraternity, a handful on the old Cap Timm field, and a handful on the baseball field where I grew up.

 

[BurgundyClone]

I don't think I want cremation if there's a chance I could reanimate and become a zombie some day, or they find a cure for death and can rebuild us!

 

[Isualum13]

No funeral
A hefty bag and a dumpster would be good enough for me but you can't do that so cremation.

 

[Isualum13]

When the pgi firework convention was in mason city a few years ago there was a special made shell with the cremated remains of a former member launched into the sky.

 

[Frog]

I want to be cremated and dumped on our farm. I do not want any historical services. I just don't want family and friends to go through that. Family and friends will stop by regardless and with kids home will all spend some time together. My wife says services are for the living but she will oblige. Facts are she will probably outlive me.

My wife wants cremated as the embalming freaks her out. She wants a party on our farm instead of visitation and a simple service. She would like to be next to her sister so part of her ashes will be split. That will be honored.

My biggest fear of dying right now is it happen in the fall and leaving my wife with a harvest to handle. farmers never retire, just die.

 

[Sparkplug]

Cremated with my ashes spread along the old railroad right of way on my farm. I want this done when the Sweet Williams are in bloom (early spring).

And some of the ashes are to be put in the planter box and “planted” with the crop that spring.

I’ve been reading comments about how funerals are for the living not the dead. My dad spent five weeks in a hospice. He called many friends and invited them to visit him there. We always said he had his own visitation