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Burial or Cremation or ___?
- Thread starter metis
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Won't make much never mind to the dead person.
My old friend, a gun person, has a 37 mm field cannon and says when he dies
he wants cremated and his ashes shot out of the cannon over a woods.
We all agreed to do so if we out live him.
Yes they are legal if proper paper work is done and one waits the 6 months to
a year for background checks and agrees to unannounced inspection by the
BATF&E.
I simply can't afford to feed a machine gun.
If I could I would.
I guess I'll content myself with my pistols and semi-auto modern sporting rifles.
M.S.R. = un-correct term "assault rifle".
Why do I have these things?
Because I WANT them, because I can.
I hunt game with them you see.
Sadly the little shooting I do any longer is at paper targets.
And not much of that.
I guess I could sell 'em and take up golf. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
This world has become civilized.
Jihad Report
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^^^^ civilized don'cha'know?
My old friend, a gun person, has a 37 mm field cannon and says when he dies
he wants cremated and his ashes shot out of the cannon over a woods.
We all agreed to do so if we out live him.
Yes they are legal if proper paper work is done and one waits the 6 months to
a year for background checks and agrees to unannounced inspection by the
BATF&E.
I simply can't afford to feed a machine gun.
If I could I would.
I guess I'll content myself with my pistols and semi-auto modern sporting rifles.
M.S.R. = un-correct term "assault rifle".
Why do I have these things?
Because I WANT them, because I can.
I hunt game with them you see.
Sadly the little shooting I do any longer is at paper targets.
And not much of that.
I guess I could sell 'em and take up golf. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
This world has become civilized.
Jihad Report
Jul 23, 2016 -
Jul 29, 2016
Attacks48
Killed409
Injured700
Suicide Blasts9
Countries13
^^^^ civilized don'cha'know?
The Emperor of Mankind
Currently the galaxy's spookiest paraplegic
I'm in favour of cremation as long as my ashes can be used to grow a tree. It will be a way of giving a small something back to Mother Earth after I've taken so much.
So yeah, I put other because I want cremation and burial!
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metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
My wife & I chose about 30 years ago to be cremated, but she wants me to do it now.
We chose this because we simply do not want to be occupying much space, plus it's much cheaper. Because there's a family tradition with both of our families to visit grave-sites of fallen family members, we are going to be placed in a small niche at a nearby cemetery where my in-laws are buried, which is not far from where my parents and grandparents are buried.
We chose this because we simply do not want to be occupying much space, plus it's much cheaper. Because there's a family tradition with both of our families to visit grave-sites of fallen family members, we are going to be placed in a small niche at a nearby cemetery where my in-laws are buried, which is not far from where my parents and grandparents are buried.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Neither. Gonna try and take my body with me.
(Narrator) It's just a jump to the left.
(Guests) And then a step to the right.
(Narrator) With your hand on your hips....
Cremation, it's the Hindu way. I think it's only children and self-realized persons and saints that are buried. Others are cremated.
As a side note, I would like my ashes brought or sent to India to be placed in a river. Ideally I'd move to Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges and hope to die there. It is said that grants instant moksa, and I want off this moebius strip.
My niece said she would certainly be willing to take my ashes to India. She said while she's there she'd spend some time touring. I said, "now wait, you're waiting for me to die so you can take my ashes to India and get a vacation there?" She said "yeah, pretty much".
As a side note, I would like my ashes brought or sent to India to be placed in a river. Ideally I'd move to Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges and hope to die there. It is said that grants instant moksa, and I want off this moebius strip.
My niece said she would certainly be willing to take my ashes to India. She said while she's there she'd spend some time touring. I said, "now wait, you're waiting for me to die so you can take my ashes to India and get a vacation there?" She said "yeah, pretty much".
When I merge with the infinite, I'll be cremated.
Then, my fine white powdery ashes will be mailed
in unmarked envelopes to government offices
around the country.
Booowwwhwahahahahahahahahahahaahhh, etc!
Then, my fine white powdery ashes will be mailed
in unmarked envelopes to government offices
around the country.
Booowwwhwahahahahahahahahahahaahhh, etc!
Sirius Star
Member
That is how they laugh about how even hell is. That it encompasses all of their very own curses. Vanity of vanities.Neither. Gonna try and take my body with me.
(Narrator) It's just a jump to the left.
(Guests) And then a step to the right.
(Narrator) With your hand on your hips....
What are rights? They are connected to the Ten Commandments. Just two stones. Both held back the rising waters.
One is the Bill of Rights is contingent on the Ten Commandments; the other is the Bill of Goods only works for the hoods.
Not for those carrying Bibles. Not any thesis. The pestilences. The evils. That matter more are black lives? The bee hives.
Pitch black darkness. From their very own hell fires. They may think that this could point to desires. What are degrees?
Sirius Star
Member
Ya, well if you get donated any it is all mine.Launched into a Sol escape trajectory so that dead or alive I may one day drift among the stars
*cough* accepting donations
Sirius Star
Member
Not a chance to it that those ever cause more ashes.
Orbit
I'm a planet
I just have an irrational dislike of being burned, so burial for me. Being burned just sounds so awful. Decomposing seems more natural.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Gotta admit, I burst out laughing at this. Too funny... ...unless, of course, she was serious. Ouch.My wife & I chose about 30 years ago to be cremated, but she wants me to do it now.
Agree. All kidding aside. Me dad's ashes are sprinkled in a large hexagonal raised bed in the front area of the property and we're going to toss mom's into the mix so they can be together again. (Just waiting for big sis to come up from Washington State for the festivities.)
Cremation. Its less expensive. Sanitary. The funeral tends to be less sad when there is not a corpse on display. Besides the fact that I briefly worked at a funeral home after high school, and I tell you , What they do to a body to prepare it for viewing is basically taxidermy
and borderline desecration. No thank you.
and borderline desecration. No thank you.
Burial at sea seems easy and inexpensive, and I do not like either cremation or embalmed burial. The cremation leaves you with ashes and a jar, and there is no respectful way to get rid of the jar. An embalming is weird as the body and the coffin don't rot like they should. They should rot and then be gone.
RabbiO
הרב יונה בן זכריה
My friend metis is sometimes slow on the uptake. His wife has been trying for 30 years for him to do it "now."
Two movies you should not let your beneficiaries ever watch - Dial M for Murder and Double Indemnity.
Well, a standard burial here involves embalming and a lot of formaldehyde, not to mention an often non-biodegradable coffin -- all very expensive and environmentally toxic.
A green funeral, sans chemicals or metal box, is cheaper and less environmentally hazardous, but still, if someone doesn't keep up the rent on the cemetery plot your remains will be ousted.
Cremation is neat, clean and inexpensive, but the oven does use a lot of natural gas and discharges hydrocarbons, CO2 and particulates into the atmosphere.
Not so green.
If I had my druthers, I'd opt for a sky burial, like the Zoroastrians and some Himalayan peoples use.
Lay my body on a mountaintop or open area, where the vultures can strip the flesh and the bones can provide calcium for smaller animals.
It's Nature's way.
A green funeral, sans chemicals or metal box, is cheaper and less environmentally hazardous, but still, if someone doesn't keep up the rent on the cemetery plot your remains will be ousted.
Cremation is neat, clean and inexpensive, but the oven does use a lot of natural gas and discharges hydrocarbons, CO2 and particulates into the atmosphere.
Not so green.
If I had my druthers, I'd opt for a sky burial, like the Zoroastrians and some Himalayan peoples use.
Lay my body on a mountaintop or open area, where the vultures can strip the flesh and the bones can provide calcium for smaller animals.
It's Nature's way.
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