[Incorrigible]

 

By the time I'm 100, maybe I can be beamed into space.

 

[mtbopfuyn]

four hours at 1,600 degrees

No thanks.

[taxcontrol]

After I leave this mortal husk, burn it and put my ashes to good use ... under a rose bed sounds good to me.

[AbeKrieger]

This is a shame. I have discovered so much of my family history through actual cemetery burials and records, and nothing compares to the feeling I got when I discovered the burial place of my great-great-great-great-grandfather and then stood on the spot where he rested.

Cremations... out of sight, out of mind, and out of the history books. Then again with the trivialization of family in today’s society, who cares, I guess....

[bill1952]

Just another step in eradicating America’s history and dignity.

Soon, almost all of the graves will be dug up and disposed of, along with any teaching of American history other than to denigrate and debase our ancestors as brutal thieves, and concomitantly, all of the values of Western civilization, replacing them with the multi cultural equality and "diversity is strength" nonsense, as your descendants acquire and accept the gay lifestyle and abort most of their babies.

Decadent: ‘fallen from a higher plane or ideal”

[patton]

Plant me in the family cemetary - Arlington.

And it’s free.

[Leg Olam]

My wife wished to be cremated and so it was. What she did’nt know was that I decided after doing some research that I would have some of her ashes scattered in a place she loved very much and the rest mixed into ceramic glazes for stoneware pottery. The pieces came out really beauitful with irredescent blues and pinks predominating. Everyone got to pick out a piece. Ceramics are forever.

[RC2]

When my father passed on, my mother and I went to the cemetery and went through all the normal ritual of locating a plot, casket, etc. The guy at the cemetery gave us a book of caskets so we could pick one out. One was $15000.00. I told him “For that price it must come with a stereo and air conditioner”. The burial plot was $2000. I asked how much the cheapest one was. He said “$700.00 but it’s way on the other side of the cemetary”. These guys are rip off artists. The whole funeral cost us $5000.00. They will play on your emotions.

[rahbert]

I visited the cemetary in Raton NM where my wifes great
grandparents are buried - a durable stone helps the generations to come piece the family tree together.

The poor side of the cemetary has traditional NM style burials with wrought iron crosses, a hand lettered sign,
and some toys. Somehow this seems more genuine than an
imposing monument.

[bannie]

Cremations...provide a dead person's loved ones more flexibility about how and when to memorialize.

I tell the kids that they have to have my ashes made into a couple of REALLY UGLY VASES, so that they'll be stuck with some ugly piece that they can't throw away.

I do tell them that; but what I'm really going to have done:

When you get your 21-gun salute, the soldiers hand the next-of-kin the empty shell casings. I'm gonna have my son put some ashes in each of them and have them sealed with a soldered lid--for my kids. (They can toss the rest of the ashes.) I keep trying to get my daddy to agree to do this too.

Seriously, doesn't that sound like a cool idea????

[Marko413]

I suspect a scandal brewing of increased unexplained deaths in Portland.

[Billthedrill]

I just want my ashes scattered at a Code Pink rally.

By a claymore mine.