I have discussed this with my family and I opt for cremation. I don't know...I remember when my grandfather passed, he had an open casket and it kind of freaked me out looking at a dead, loved one's body. I figure that once you die, your spirit is gone, in a better place without suffering, so the thought of cremation really didn't creep me out. I want to be buried next to my brother who passed when he was 18 from a car accident. I don't want my ceremony called a funeral, I would like to call it a celebration of my life. I want people to remember me for who I was, my passion for life, just me. A good friend of mine had some of her husband's ashes molded inside a gold heart, it really is beautiful, doesn't look tacky at all. Jenn <img src="i/expressions/rose.gif" border="0">
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Burial or Cremation?
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I have discussed this with my family and I opt for cremation. I don't know...I remember when my grandfather passed, he had an open casket and it kind of freaked me out looking at a dead, loved one's body. I figure that once you die, your spirit is gone, in a better place without suffering, so the thought of cremation really didn't creep me out. I want to be buried next to my brother who passed when he was 18 from a car accident. I don't want my ceremony called a funeral, I would like to call it a celebration of my life. I want people to remember me for who I was, my passion for life, just me. A good friend of mine had some of her husband's ashes molded inside a gold heart, it really is beautiful, doesn't look tacky at all. Jenn <img src="i/expressions/rose.gif" border="0">
I have discussed this with my family and I opt for cremation. I don't know...I remember when my grandfather passed, he had an open casket and it kind of freaked me out looking at a dead, loved one's body. I figure that once you die, your spirit is gone, in a better place without suffering, so the thought of cremation really didn't creep me out. I want to be buried next to my brother who passed when he was 18 from a car accident. I don't want my ceremony called a funeral, I would like to call it a celebration of my life. I want people to remember me for who I was, my passion for life, just me. A good friend of mine had some of her husband's ashes molded inside a gold heart, it really is beautiful, doesn't look tacky at all. Jenn <img src="i/expressions/rose.gif" border="0">
I want to be cremated. I know it sounds weird, but I always figured since I'm an organ donor, hopefully they can use most of me, and then there wouldn't be much left to bury, so just burn it up. Maybe sprinkle my ashes in the woods (I love hiking in the woods) on a beautiful fall day when the leaves are all changing colors. I'd rather not be siiting on a shelf in someone's house, or better yet in a box in the attic like my hubby's grandma has her husband.
I want to be cremated. I know it sounds weird, but I always figured since I'm an organ donor, hopefully they can use most of me, and then there wouldn't be much left to bury, so just burn it up. Maybe sprinkle my ashes in the woods (I love hiking in the woods) on a beautiful fall day when the leaves are all changing colors. I'd rather not be siiting on a shelf in someone's house, or better yet in a box in the attic like my hubby's grandma has her husband.
I want to be cremated. I know it sounds weird, but I always figured since I'm an organ donor, hopefully they can use most of me, and then there wouldn't be much left to bury, so just burn it up. Maybe sprinkle my ashes in the woods (I love hiking in the woods) on a beautiful fall day when the leaves are all changing colors. I'd rather not be siiting on a shelf in someone's house, or better yet in a box in the attic like my hubby's grandma has her husband.
I want to be cremated. It's less decisions for my surviving family to have to make (which casket, which clothes, which jewely, glasses or no glasses....etc) plus it's less of a financial burden to be cremated.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That's my preference.
-lightNlife
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That's my preference.
-lightNlife
I want to be cremated. It's less decisions for my surviving family to have to make (which casket, which clothes, which jewely, glasses or no glasses....etc) plus it's less of a financial burden to be cremated.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That's my preference.
-lightNlife
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That's my preference.
-lightNlife
I want to be cremated. It's less decisions for my surviving family to have to make (which casket, which clothes, which jewely, glasses or no glasses....etc) plus it's less of a financial burden to be cremated.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That's my preference.
-lightNlife
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That's my preference.
-lightNlife
irishdavid
New member
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
... Post death rituals are to help those you've left behind grieve and say goodbye. Let's face it, your dead! What the heck do you care? It's only your living emotional self that cares and once your dead, that's history. Your soul isn't going to give a crap what happens to your body either way.
Death is less about the dead and more about those we leave behind.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
Interesting way of looking at it.
Never thought about it like that before.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
..... somebody may want to opt for cryogenics just in case there's a CF cure in the future. Assuming of course that we can bring folks back from the dead.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
This is the funniest thing i've read in ages!!
Cryogenics Guy: Quick they found a cure for CF .. lets go wake up David... No wait , we haven't quite figured that part out yet.
... Post death rituals are to help those you've left behind grieve and say goodbye. Let's face it, your dead! What the heck do you care? It's only your living emotional self that cares and once your dead, that's history. Your soul isn't going to give a crap what happens to your body either way.
Death is less about the dead and more about those we leave behind.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
Interesting way of looking at it.
Never thought about it like that before.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
..... somebody may want to opt for cryogenics just in case there's a CF cure in the future. Assuming of course that we can bring folks back from the dead.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
This is the funniest thing i've read in ages!!
Cryogenics Guy: Quick they found a cure for CF .. lets go wake up David... No wait , we haven't quite figured that part out yet.
irishdavid
New member
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
... Post death rituals are to help those you've left behind grieve and say goodbye. Let's face it, your dead! What the heck do you care? It's only your living emotional self that cares and once your dead, that's history. Your soul isn't going to give a crap what happens to your body either way.
Death is less about the dead and more about those we leave behind.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
Interesting way of looking at it.
Never thought about it like that before.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
..... somebody may want to opt for cryogenics just in case there's a CF cure in the future. Assuming of course that we can bring folks back from the dead.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
This is the funniest thing i've read in ages!!
Cryogenics Guy: Quick they found a cure for CF .. lets go wake up David... No wait , we haven't quite figured that part out yet.
... Post death rituals are to help those you've left behind grieve and say goodbye. Let's face it, your dead! What the heck do you care? It's only your living emotional self that cares and once your dead, that's history. Your soul isn't going to give a crap what happens to your body either way.
Death is less about the dead and more about those we leave behind.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
Interesting way of looking at it.
Never thought about it like that before.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
..... somebody may want to opt for cryogenics just in case there's a CF cure in the future. Assuming of course that we can bring folks back from the dead.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
This is the funniest thing i've read in ages!!
Cryogenics Guy: Quick they found a cure for CF .. lets go wake up David... No wait , we haven't quite figured that part out yet.
irishdavid
New member
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
... Post death rituals are to help those you've left behind grieve and say goodbye. Let's face it, your dead! What the heck do you care? It's only your living emotional self that cares and once your dead, that's history. Your soul isn't going to give a crap what happens to your body either way.
Death is less about the dead and more about those we leave behind.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
Interesting way of looking at it.
Never thought about it like that before.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
..... somebody may want to opt for cryogenics just in case there's a CF cure in the future. Assuming of course that we can bring folks back from the dead.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
This is the funniest thing i've read in ages!!
Cryogenics Guy: Quick they found a cure for CF .. lets go wake up David... No wait , we haven't quite figured that part out yet.
... Post death rituals are to help those you've left behind grieve and say goodbye. Let's face it, your dead! What the heck do you care? It's only your living emotional self that cares and once your dead, that's history. Your soul isn't going to give a crap what happens to your body either way.
Death is less about the dead and more about those we leave behind.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
Interesting way of looking at it.
Never thought about it like that before.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>anonymous</b></i>
..... somebody may want to opt for cryogenics just in case there's a CF cure in the future. Assuming of course that we can bring folks back from the dead.
Claudette (aka CFHockeymom)</end quote></div>
This is the funniest thing i've read in ages!!
Cryogenics Guy: Quick they found a cure for CF .. lets go wake up David... No wait , we haven't quite figured that part out yet.
It has been fascinating reading everyone's ideas! For me personally, I don't care at all. I've chosen cremation because it's the simplest and cheapest. I don't think there is any connection whatsoever between my "essence" after I die and the tangible body parts (either decayed, in ashes, or frozen). I talk to my dearly departed friends and family anytime, anywhere. Ever since I was a little kid and went with my parents to visit dead relatives at cemetaries I was completely baffled. My mom would say she felt close to her dead parents at the cemetary. I was puzzled because I felt close to them just by "talking" to them in my room at home. I must be really strange (well, actually, I know I am really strange!) I still have my mom's ashes because she wants them scattered at the Grand Canyon and we just haven't been able to work that out yet. But I never look at them - they are packed away somewhere. But I still talk to her daily and feel her presence constantly.
I have absolutley no judgments about anyone's decision. It's just been interesting reading about everyone's viewpoint.
Debi
I have absolutley no judgments about anyone's decision. It's just been interesting reading about everyone's viewpoint.
Debi
It has been fascinating reading everyone's ideas! For me personally, I don't care at all. I've chosen cremation because it's the simplest and cheapest. I don't think there is any connection whatsoever between my "essence" after I die and the tangible body parts (either decayed, in ashes, or frozen). I talk to my dearly departed friends and family anytime, anywhere. Ever since I was a little kid and went with my parents to visit dead relatives at cemetaries I was completely baffled. My mom would say she felt close to her dead parents at the cemetary. I was puzzled because I felt close to them just by "talking" to them in my room at home. I must be really strange (well, actually, I know I am really strange!) I still have my mom's ashes because she wants them scattered at the Grand Canyon and we just haven't been able to work that out yet. But I never look at them - they are packed away somewhere. But I still talk to her daily and feel her presence constantly.
I have absolutley no judgments about anyone's decision. It's just been interesting reading about everyone's viewpoint.
Debi
I have absolutley no judgments about anyone's decision. It's just been interesting reading about everyone's viewpoint.
Debi
It has been fascinating reading everyone's ideas! For me personally, I don't care at all. I've chosen cremation because it's the simplest and cheapest. I don't think there is any connection whatsoever between my "essence" after I die and the tangible body parts (either decayed, in ashes, or frozen). I talk to my dearly departed friends and family anytime, anywhere. Ever since I was a little kid and went with my parents to visit dead relatives at cemetaries I was completely baffled. My mom would say she felt close to her dead parents at the cemetary. I was puzzled because I felt close to them just by "talking" to them in my room at home. I must be really strange (well, actually, I know I am really strange!) I still have my mom's ashes because she wants them scattered at the Grand Canyon and we just haven't been able to work that out yet. But I never look at them - they are packed away somewhere. But I still talk to her daily and feel her presence constantly.
I have absolutley no judgments about anyone's decision. It's just been interesting reading about everyone's viewpoint.
Debi
I have absolutley no judgments about anyone's decision. It's just been interesting reading about everyone's viewpoint.
Debi
littledebbie
New member
Cremation. I hate my body and I don't mind the idea od it
being destroyed, but prefer it be done quickly and cleanly. Not all
by bugs and slow and drying out etc. Eeewww. I am not
sure what I want done with the ashes yet. I might give some
to my Mom to keep have some sprinkled and some placed in a memorial
by a pond so if people want to come talk at my memory they have
somewhere to go. Just current ideas.
being destroyed, but prefer it be done quickly and cleanly. Not all
by bugs and slow and drying out etc. Eeewww. I am not
sure what I want done with the ashes yet. I might give some
to my Mom to keep have some sprinkled and some placed in a memorial
by a pond so if people want to come talk at my memory they have
somewhere to go. Just current ideas.
littledebbie
New member
Cremation. I hate my body and I don't mind the idea od it
being destroyed, but prefer it be done quickly and cleanly. Not all
by bugs and slow and drying out etc. Eeewww. I am not
sure what I want done with the ashes yet. I might give some
to my Mom to keep have some sprinkled and some placed in a memorial
by a pond so if people want to come talk at my memory they have
somewhere to go. Just current ideas.
being destroyed, but prefer it be done quickly and cleanly. Not all
by bugs and slow and drying out etc. Eeewww. I am not
sure what I want done with the ashes yet. I might give some
to my Mom to keep have some sprinkled and some placed in a memorial
by a pond so if people want to come talk at my memory they have
somewhere to go. Just current ideas.
littledebbie
New member
Cremation. I hate my body and I don't mind the idea od it
being destroyed, but prefer it be done quickly and cleanly. Not all
by bugs and slow and drying out etc. Eeewww. I am not
sure what I want done with the ashes yet. I might give some
to my Mom to keep have some sprinkled and some placed in a memorial
by a pond so if people want to come talk at my memory they have
somewhere to go. Just current ideas.
being destroyed, but prefer it be done quickly and cleanly. Not all
by bugs and slow and drying out etc. Eeewww. I am not
sure what I want done with the ashes yet. I might give some
to my Mom to keep have some sprinkled and some placed in a memorial
by a pond so if people want to come talk at my memory they have
somewhere to go. Just current ideas.