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Do you have a burial plot?

Cooky

Veteran Member
I was just thinking that I might want to buy a spot by my mom, because I'm not sure what they'll do with my body, and I want to make sure it's taken care of, and I don't want to leave that burden for others.

Do you have a spot picked out? Is it paid for? How much do they typically cost?
 

ADigitalArtist

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
How do you expect to rise from the dead when Christ comes back? ;)

But no, seriously I just prefer the traditions. Nothing wrong with cremation though.
If he can do no better than a mad scientist with lightning and a corpse than that's on him. Lol

Seriously though, burial is expensive and if you thought used car salesmen were bad try funeral homes.
If you can't afford to put up the exorbitant cost yourself I'd recommend alternatives to spare your loved ones.

More than that though I'd rather my family keep my memories without feeling they need to go and maintain a place for me. Something like that is costly monetarily and emotionally, and just wasteful of space besides.
Wherever I go, I won't be there.

That said, if I had to be buried I'd go with the Jewish tradition. Plain box, simple, without ostentatiousness, in the smallest plot they can fit me.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
In my biological will, done with the Municipality I have stated I will donate my organs and that I want a Christian burial, possibly in the ground.:)
 
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Cooky

Veteran Member
If he can do no better than a mad scientist with lightning and a corpse than that's on him. Lol

Seriously though, burial is expensive and if you thought used car salesmen were bad try funeral homes.
If you can't afford to put up the exorbitant cost yourself I'd recommend alternatives to spare your loved ones.

More than that though I'd rather my family keep my memories without feeling they need to go and maintain a place for me. Something like that is costly monetarily and emotionally, and just wasteful of space besides.
Wherever I go, I won't be there.

But those old bones have been through so much. My sister wanted to cremate my mom, but me and my dad wanted to go the traditional route. This way, I can go hover above the ground where her actual bones are. I wanted it for her, so I should probably want it for myself too.
 

ADigitalArtist

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Staff member
Premium Member
But those old bones have been through so much. My sister wanted to cremate my mom, but me and my dad wanted to go the traditional route. This way, I can go hover above the ground where her actual bones are. I wanted it for her, so I should probably want it for myself too.
Was never one for tradition. I'd rather remember my mom walking through the woods she liked or reading books she fancied than standing over slowly rotting bits. But I guess ultimately its the living that decide what to do with the dead.

Fortunately reserving a plot, unless you want to do so in a big city, is not too bad. Several hundred to a thousand bucks. The real costly stuff is the casket, the services (both funeral and burial services) and the headstone. If you want to ease the financial burden to family for your wishes, I'd call around and get an estimation for total funeral costs instead of just a plot.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
I was just thinking that I might want to buy a spot by my mom, because I'm not sure what they'll do with my body, and I want to make sure it's taken care of, and I don't want to leave that burden for others.

Do you have a spot picked out? Is it paid for? How much do they typically cost?


Light me up and scatter me to the wind. No plot for me.


I would be with @ADigitalArtist here but scattering ashes is illegal in france.

So we have a hole in a wall, built of local stone in the cemetery overlooking the village that an urn containing my ashes will be placed.

Whoever goes last between me and hubby will also be burned, ashes poured into the same urn and mixed. Just a romantic gesture for our family to remember us by.
 

Samael_Khan

Goosebender
I was just thinking that I might want to buy a spot by my mom, because I'm not sure what they'll do with my body, and I want to make sure it's taken care of, and I don't want to leave that burden for others.

Do you have a spot picked out? Is it paid for? How much do they typically cost?

Where I lay after death doesn't matter because I will be dead.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
Was never one for tradition. I'd rather remember my mom walking through the woods she liked or reading books she fancied than standing over slowly rotting bits. But I guess ultimately its the living that decide what to do with the dead.

Fortunately reserving a plot, unless you want to do so in a big city, is not too bad. Several hundred to a thousand bucks. The real costly stuff is the casket, the services (both funeral and burial services) and the headstone. If you want to ease the financial burden to family for your wishes, I'd call around and get an estimation for total funeral costs instead of just a plot.


In the UK the cost of a funeral averages around £5000 ($6500). Its a bit less in france but not much.

My plan is get burned, stuffed in a jar and placed our hole in the wall, no ceremony. If family want celebrate my life then they know where I'll be.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Do you have a spot picked out? Is it paid for?
As you know we do not need it. Cremation for USD 100 or less (cremation ground about a mile from our house where my father's cremation took place). Cloth bag or a earthen pot for ashes and immersion in my choice of water body (River Yamuna). Being an atheist, I would not need any mantras or after-death rituals.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
I was just thinking that I might want to buy a spot by my mom, because I'm not sure what they'll do with my body, and I want to make sure it's taken care of, and I don't want to leave that burden for others.

Do you have a spot picked out? Is it paid for? How much do they typically cost?

Yes and yes. I think I paid in the neighborhood of $250 per plot.

Why my daughter passed, I paid for three plots in a private corner of the cemetery closest to the river. My thoughts at the time were that my body would be laid to rest next to my daughter, and my younger daughter would have the choice of having her body laid to my other side. If she choses not to, I don't have to worry about a stranger being in my bubble for eternity.

If given the choice, I prefer to have my body cremated. But I will be leaving the decision on how to dispose of my body to my daughter, as I feel what is done with the body is best left to those who remain here.
 
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exchemist

Veteran Member
I was just thinking that I might want to buy a spot by my mom, because I'm not sure what they'll do with my body, and I want to make sure it's taken care of, and I don't want to leave that burden for others.

Do you have a spot picked out? Is it paid for? How much do they typically cost?
Yes and my wife is keeping it for me. I will be buried on top of her, funnily enough, since in London space is at a premium, but I don't think she will object! She's still wearing her wedding ring and I will be wearing mine.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
I'm an organ donor and whoever takes my organs is also responsible for disposing of the bio hazardous waste. (Usually burned at high temperature in the hospitals crematory.)
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
There is a new trend in some places where burial and cremation are combined. They use an auger to drill a 6 ft. hole, and put the cremation urn at the bottom of that. It's cheaper for the plot, as 6 urns can go in one plot. Six for the price of one.
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
I was just thinking that I might want to buy a spot by my mom, because I'm not sure what they'll do with my body, and I want to make sure it's taken care of, and I don't want to leave that burden for others.

Do you have a spot picked out? Is it paid for? How much do they typically cost?
If you donate your body... I don't think there is any cost.

But have no idea about the costs of a plot. Usually, if you visit the funeral home, they will give you the costs and you can compare with other locations.

Thank you for thinking about your descendants
 
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