Where will you prefer to be buried or have your ashes spread?

[Sam Mills 51]

Uh, wasn't that Bob Knight who said that about being buried upside-down so the world could kiss his ... ?

 

[waterytart]

Uh, wasn't that Bob Knight who said that about being buried upside-down so the world could kiss his ... ?

On Senior Night, with parents and grandmothers there to beam about their boys. Such a class act.

 

[ChrisLong]

I've already arranged and paid for cremation. I have no idea about dispersal, but I imagine a beach will be involved.

 

[MisterCreosote]

 

[micropolitan guy]

My alma mater has a columbarium next to the chapel. I expect some of my earthy remains will end up there.

 

[PaperClip529]

after my mother’s death, I was really turned off by the thought of a burial. My wife can toss my ashes wherever and be done with it. I don’t care. I just don’t want to be rotting and forgotten in some cemetery.

 

[WriteThinking]

So far, I find that I've been saying what my 94-year-old mom, who doesn't want to think about it, has been saying for years: "I'm not goin'!"

 

[waterytart]

after my mother’s death, I was really turned off by the thought of a burial. My wife can toss my ashes wherever and be done with it. I don’t care. I just don’t want to be rotting and forgotten in some cemetery.

I’d always assumed I’d be cremated, but I’ve been intrigued by what I’ve read about green burials. I kind of like the idea of feeding a tree.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

I’d like to have my ashes spread at Nubble Light in York, Maine.

 

[Driftwood]

I am afforded the opportunity to be buried at sea by the US Navy. I've thought about it, but I honestly want to just be scattered in the two places previously mentioned.
Spending eternity watching the sun rise over the Atlantic and the Appalachians seems better to me than hanging out with Poseidon.

 

[MarkWatney]

The Catholic Church, of which I am still technically a member (although as Bruce says, "while I'm not an active participant, I'm still on the team), has loosened its prohibitions on cremation:

-- When I was a kid in the 60s-70s getting ace scores in religion class in grades 1-8, cremation was banned unless destruction of the body made full body burial impossible. I believe all cremation burials had to be individually approved by bishops.

-- In the 1990s things were changed so that elective cremation was no longer considered sinful in itself, but full body burial was still the preferred method.

-- After the turn of the century, the church's attitude on burial methods shifted to neutrality. However some vestiges of the old preference for physical burial remain. As of now, cremation is permitted, but cremains are supposed to be interred in grave sites or columbariums. Scattering ashes over natural scenes, land or water, is still discouraged and cited as an undesirable emphasis on "naturism," ie worshiping natural forces over God. Which begs the question: who do you think created Nature itself?

-- However, while as scattering over lakes and oceans is still officially discouraged, a huge loophole has been left over: while ash scattering is not allowed, "burial at sea" is, as long as cremains are contained within a ceremonial urn specifically designed for the purpose. There are ceramic urns widely available which will dissolve within several weeks if submerged in water.

And while "burial at sea" is more frequently associated with the formal ceremony administered by the Navy in the open ocean, the Church doesn't require it; all they specify is the cremains should be consigned to the deep in a "dignified" manner.

So I'll be placed in a water-degradable urn and sunk in the Great Lakes.

 

[Slacker]

"Vaught Hemingway Stadium at Ole Miss," Tommy Tuberville said today.

"Thanks again, Rebels fans, and please bury me in a nice pine Auburn box."

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I didn’t put much thought into it before I got married. But I figured cremation.

My wife is a hard NO on that. So I’ll be planted somewhere next to her when the time comes.

 

[Here me roar]

I didn’t put much thought into it before I got married. But I figured cremation.

My wife is a hard NO on that. So I’ll be planted somewhere next to her when the time comes.

I guess I don't understand this. You two can be prepared differently and interred in the same place. For example, my in-laws have a joint gravesite. My mother-in-law is buried there in a casket. My father-in-law was cremated and his ashes were put there. So if you don't have strong feelings about it, that's one thing. But if you want to get cremated you should be cremated.

 

[SixToe]

Spreading ashes is a fan favorite activity

A curious Iron Bowl trend: Fans leaving cremated remains on the field

 

[Bubbler]

Probably cremation, but maybe burial if I can come back like this.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I guess I don't understand this. You two can be prepared differently and interred in the same place. For example, my in-laws have a joint gravesite. My mother-in-law is buried there in a casket. My father-in-law was cremated and his ashes were put there. So if you don't have strong feelings about it, that's one thing. But if you want to get cremated you should be cremated.

I have no strong feelings at all. My position is that I’ll be dead so it won’t matter.

Happy to agree with my wife’s wishes in this life and in death.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I keep an eye out for the same Folgers can used here on eBay for this very purpose. They're not cheap, because others have the same idea: A Lebowski Funeral. I've already said to spread some of my ashes at the cemetery where my dad, grandparents and uncle are and some on the lawn of the Cathedral of Learning. Wanna keep some and leave the in the Caribbean, that's fine too.

 

[dixiehack]

No one ever brought up cremation being a sin in my Southern Baptist family but I think there was an unspoken understanding that it wasn’t what they thought the Lord intended. Everyone always was buried.

Then a couple of years ago my aunt died without life insurance or even a penny to her name really. Dad is the last surviving sibling so it fell to him and mom to cover the funeral costs. And thus did we have our first cremation on either side of the family.

Me? I’ve asked to be stripped for parts (I.e. organ donation) and then they can send my cadaver to UAB for med students to slice up. Take the savings and throw a tailgate for all I care.

 

[Gym Beam]

No one ever brought up cremation being a sin in my Southern Baptist family but I think there was an unspoken understanding that it wasn’t what they thought the Lord intended. Everyone always was buried.

Then a couple of years ago my aunt died without life insurance or even a penny to her name really. Dad is the last surviving sibling so it fell to him and mom to cover the funeral costs. And thus did we have our first cremation on either side of the family.

Me? I’ve asked to be stripped for parts (I.e. organ donation) and then they can send my cadaver to UAB for med students to slice up. Take the savings and throw a tailgate for all I care.

Please make sure to leave this info with your family. My great grandmother donated her body to science without telling anyone. Quite an unpleasant surprise when my grandfather showed up at the nursing home to claim the body!