When You Are Dead and Gone

[MUMMIBOO]

i think i would have to be cremated as i hate the cold! but pleeesse make sur im really am dead just make sure i smell terrible before you chuck me in the oven.

Then i want my ashes to be kept in a nice urn on the mantle so i can keep my eye on all thats going on.

[Busman747]

Originally Posted by MUMMIBOO

Then i want my ashes to be kept in a nice urn on the mantle so i can keep my eye on all thats going on.

Make sure nothing is left for medical science then mummiboo, s*ds law that your eyes would be removed! Theres you in a pretty urn thats sitting on the mantle - - and you wouldn't see a thing!

[MUMMIBOO]

humm not thought of that they can take what they want but not my eyes. i really need them.

[Less]

Originally Posted by garinda

Sorry, but you'll never get in my drawers, though if I ever decide to get a cat, and therefore a litter tray, I might take you up on your kind offer.

Well you know my feelings about cats, but at least if I,m in the bottom of a tray using me it might just mean some childrens sand pit will not contain a surprise, so I'll still be performing a useful function, (which is more than can be said for the cat!).

[panther]

when im long gone i want to be cremated, dont want to be buried, dont like the idea of been eaten by bugs! after that?......couldnt care less!!

[junetta]

It's All Souls' Day today. The Canarians have a lovely ritual where they go to the graveyards and have a picnic. They take the favourite foods of their dead and make a day of it.

I reckon that it I might appreciate a nice pork pie!

[ANNE]

Take the bits they want. Get rid of the rest the cheapest way possible and if I'm cremated then I want scattering to the winds somewhere nice.
MUMMIBOO you wont need your eyes you will still be able to see all. I will most certainly be keeping a watchful eye on you all.

[MUMMIBOO]

I might be blind by then anyway eh!!! look at my dad hes half way there he didnt used to wear glasses but he does now! lol Shhhhh dont tell him i said that.

[Busman747]

Is it me or have attitudes changed dramatically over the past 50 years or so? I seem to remember that the majority of adults when I was in my childhood had grand thoughts of how they would be treated on their deathbed.

Many would have paid for their funeral in advance thru the co-op and their weekly or monthly payment would have a higher priority than the house rent

Didn't matter how you lived - as long as you got the best when you died! Yet, only two accyweb members have so far voted for "no expense spared"

Does anyone elase have similar recollections?

[Eric]

I would like to be fed into a wood chipper like the guy in Fargo, then I can be as messy in death as I have been in my life.

Sometimes I think that the only reason I hang around on this planet is to p**s off the people who want me dead.

But sort of seriously: when Ontarians get a drivers licence they are allowed to opt for organ donation in the case of death, or to have their bodies used for research. I relish the thought of some medical student shaking his head in amazement as he views my liver.

[spinner]

i know asians prepare and many have an insurance system to pay for the funeral. but fancy burials are against Islam ie tombstones etc are not allowedalso i cant believepeople want to be cremated. it sounds horrible i woudnt even want to do that to a cat. also its appaling for the enviroment all those emissions being released from bodies. the overweight bodies will even be more lethal. it should be banned.

[lindsay ormerod]

And what exactly is your solution for all those "overweight" people who thoughtlessly go and die ? You can't really be sizeist to a dead person can you ?

[spinner]

they can be buried 'dust to dust' just like the rest of us

[panther]

i want to be cremated, not buried!!
theres not gonna be any room left if we were all buried, anyway does it matter , we wont know will we?

[cashman]

i'm being shoved under simple as that. its a promise i made.