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Originally Posted by Parker
Personally, I plan to be cremated with the ashes scattered in the mountains or some other pretty spot. Will leave that to my loved ones. A grave no longer seems the least important, because as you say, the spirit is elsewhere/everywhere. Families now live all over the place and may rarely or never see a burial plot again.
In fact, much of my family is buried in California, in what was once the only cemetery in a lovely small town. That cemetery is now, these many years later, in a scary area that none of us are brave enough to visit. Who would have ever foreseen that?
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Great minds think alike.
About a dozen years ago, our now 42 year old son told everyone , in writing, that he wanted his ashes scattered up in the Colorado Rockies and that his friends would know where to put them........his favorite place.
More and more, I'm hearing things like this.......
We know top executives who say "Don't waste money on a funeral; just send me off in the cheapest way possible....a cardboard box." Serious.
I had an Eastern Rite "Greek Catholic" priest tell me once:
"Funerals are not for the dead........they are for the living".
You can take that as "Do kind things for your loved ones when they are alive". It doesn't matter after they are dead.
Thanks for sharing.............