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Nitro
Posted on 11/19/2003 4:37:52 PM PST by Nitro
Do you think it is wrong to choose a coffin before you die?
I mean as an ex-sailor I want to be dead at sea... but my sister has a patch of dirt in New Jersey.
And I was born and raised in Brooklyn!
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I want to buried at sea.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:37:54 PM PST
by
Nitro
To: Nitro
Do ya Think? Not if I can help it.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:41:51 PM PST
by
TrappedInLiberalHell
(Do Muslim androids dream of electric goats?)
To: Nitro
Do you think it is wrong to choose a coffin before you die? Its your funeral. You get to decide in my book.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:42:02 PM PST
by
Who dat?
To: Nitro
The thought of being buried in the ground just doesn't sit well with me. Personally, fry me to ashes, scatter my dust...
Now, IF I had the money, I would really like to have my body in cryo and lauched out into the stars. Aim me at a nice glactic neighbor, send me on my way..
To: Nitro
My son-in-law wants to build his own and use it as a coffee table until it is needed for continuous use.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:44:23 PM PST
by
irishtenor
(Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ............(When all else fails, play dead))
To: Nitro
Why would it be wrong to choose a coffin?
You chose yours, now let me choose mine.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:45:40 PM PST
by
perfect stranger
(No tagline today. Tagline yesterday, tagline tomorrow, but no tagline today.)
To: Nitro
It's your funeral, as they say.
Make a will, if you haven't already, and specify how you want your body disposed of.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:45:47 PM PST
by
wimpycat
("I'm mean, but I make up for it by bein' real healthy.")
To: Nitro
It is a bit odd to be planning for death unless it is right around the corner.
On the other hand, it makes it easier on family if everything is planned for and paid for when you kick the bucket.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:46:55 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: Nitro
I hate funerals. I'm not going to another one. Not even my own.
As for my final resting place, I'd prefer to be cremated and have my ashes used in a garden (rose or otherwise). Something useful.
And if I'm not cremated, then I should just be stuck in the ground in nothing more than eight sides of half-inch pine. None of this lead-lined, built-to-withstand-world-war-three nonsense for a coffin. And I don't want to be embalmed either. When I die, God intended for my carcass to be a banquet for the worms, so...so be it.
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:48:31 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(This Post is Rated "Conservative": May Be Too Intense for Liberal Viewers.)
To: Nitro
I think I'd want an indian burial, although burial doesn't really cover it.
Take this empty shell put it up on a platform and let the birds pick it to pieces either that or let .....
Weasels lick my flesh!
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posted on
11/19/2003 4:49:40 PM PST
by
tet68
( Patrick Henry ......."Who fears the wrath of cowards?")
To: Nitro
"They scaffold their dead on eminencies where may be descried afar off." Now that's the way to go! Let the birds have me. I don't want to be buried and I don't want to be cremated. I keep tellin' my wife, but she ain't buyin' it.
To: tet68
Beat me to it! :-)
To: LibWhacker
I would take this second..
I want my entire dead body to be given to the sea.
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posted on
11/19/2003 5:05:14 PM PST
by
Nitro
To: Nitro
1. If you want to make it enforcable, see a lawyer. (Hint, the more money you have when you shuffle off this mortal coil, the more attention your inheritors will pay to your wishes, provided you have an iron-clad will).
2. Consider cremation and scattering of the ashes at sea (unless you have some objection to cremation).
3. Really, why should anyone care so much what happens to the meat when we have left it? Funerals are not for the dead, they are to comfort the living. In my own case I only hope that no one pays a lot of money to tie up a 6x3 plot of land. What good is that?
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posted on
11/19/2003 5:44:31 PM PST
by
LibKill
( PULL MY FINGER!)
To: Nitro
I plan on living forever. So far, so good.
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posted on
11/19/2003 7:06:41 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
To: Nitro
Do what gives you peace, Nitro.
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