Burial or Cremation? (mystic, virtual, funeral, coffin, catholic)

[stephenw]

Originally Posted by MidnightBlue

John will do what I say if he's allowed to.

Wouldn't he have the most say as your next of kin ?

[cardero]

Originally Posted by w00t

I want to be cremated. My husband says he will put my ashes in an egg-timer/s so I can be useful after death.

In a small country like the UK cremation seems sensible!

mrscardero is seriously considering getting me stuffed.

[w00t]

Originally Posted by MidnightBlue

A cenotaph is for anybody whose body is not where the monument is. I have seen them for people whose ashes were scattered and for people whose graves lie under man-made lakes as well as for soldiers.

Not in the UK. The word cenotaph is is only used for the memorial in London housing the remains of the 'unknown soldier', as memorial to all who have died in war.

[Draka]

Originally Posted by stephenw

Wouldn't he have the most say as your next of kin ?

If they were legally married he would, but that is a whole other argument. As long as they are not able to be legally married then his blood relation could come in and do anything, despite what John might say.

[mrscardero]

I want to be cremated. I was thinking of a funeral that they would have in the Phillippines, but that's too much. They would have an open casket viewing with gambling and lots of eating. I don't like gambling so that won't due. Cremation is cheaper and cardero can carry me around or put my urn next to our sons.

I am going to have cardero stuffed and put in a glass container and placed in the living as a coffee table. Not that I will be placing coffee on him or anything.

[Draka]

Originally Posted by mrscardero

I want to be cremated. I was thinking of a funeral that they would have in the Phillippines, but that's too much. They would have an open casket viewing with gambling and lots of eating. I don't like gambling so that won't due. Cremation is cheaper and cardero can carry me around or put my urn next to our sons.

I am going to have cardero stuffed and put in a glass container and placed in the living as a coffee table. Not that I will be placing coffee on him or anything.

All I can think of to say here is: Snow White he ain't. I just picture this kind of Snow White in the glass coffin thing going on in your living room. Wow. Talk about a conversation peice.

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I've been mulling over the idea of building a coffee table for the family room with an N-gauge model railroad running through it. It might be interesting (or horribly awful) to combine that idea with mrscardero's.

Originally Posted by MidnightBlue

At all the Catholic and Protestant funerals I've attended, the coffin was open during the visitation and up to the start of the funeral, then it was closed immediately before the funeral started. At the Orthodox funerals I've attended, the coffin was open all through the funeral, and at the end of the funeral, before the coffin was closed, the mourners lined up to give the deceased a parting kiss.

Never been to an Orthodox funeral, but I've seen open and closed caskets at both Catholic and Protestant funerals.

Originally Posted by MidnightBlue

My friend Mikey's ashes were divided among his family and friends, and we each have a little bottle containing some of his ashes.

In one auto racing series I follow, just this past weekend, one of the teams carried a vial of the ashes of their crew chief in the car for the race. Apparently, he always wanted to ride in the car.


Personally, if everything else was equal, I'd prefer the cheapest, easiest option, which I suppose is cremation. Really, though, I think that funerals and burials are more for the living than the dead anyhow, so I'd be fine with just about anything the people I leave behind would want to do.

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by stephenw

Wouldn't he have the most say as your next of kin ?

As we don't have equal marriage rights, he's a legal stranger. I have papers drawn up, but it's always a crap shoot as to whether those instruments are honored or not.