[Madelaine Amee]

Donate whole body - everything that they can use to help someone live their life. Cremate the remains. No service, nothing in the paper, told the kids to just remember I had a wonderful life! Make that "having a wonderful life".

[Happinow]

Death is hard to think about because we all want to live forever! However, given that it is eventually going to happen. I am an organ donor because i want to help someone in need and also a part of me will still live on. I want to be cremated and my ashes put in something pretty and kept with my husband if he should still be living. When he passes, I want our ashes to be put together and hopefully kept someplace safe with my daughter. No services as I feel they are way to hard to partake in emotionally. I don't want my friends and family to be distraught over my passing, just celebrate the time that we had together.

[skip0358]

Our plans have been made and our Children know what they are. In case they forget I have written instructions. My final resting will be at the National Cemetery in Bushnell as Florida is our new home. As for Funeral Homes there are several in the area and one that I know of by TVRH that's GC accessible where I'll be.

[queasy27]

Boy, any cemetary owners or funeral directors here won't like reading this thread!

When my grandfather and mother passed many years ago, I drew comfort from attending their funeral services, which were large with many friends and relatives. My grandfather even had the traditional service at the gravesite after church.

I have no idea what's become of my grandfather's gravesite these days, or those of other relatives. There are no family members remaining in California to know or care, which seems sad -- that their bodies/bones are there, but abandoned.

I currently have two blood relatives and two in-laws, period. Should they survive me, the thought of them organizing a formal funeral is beyond ridiculous. I have a pre-paid cremation plan with instructions for the crematorium to dispose of the ashes. Scatter, schmatter.

[asianthree]

don't want to live forever..just until i can't take care of myself...don't do funeral homes, like digging a hole dropping lots of money in it and can't get it back...wonder how many ashes are actually on the golf courses in TV even though they are not allowed....

[jblum315]

Ashes to ashes.

[l2ridehd]

Got a cemetery lot with a head stone already in place in the mountains of NH. Not sure I will use it though. I might also do cremation and have the ashes strewn from the top of a mountain I know of with magnificent views about 3 or 4 miles from the headstone. It will be pre-paid, organs donated, no viewing, no funeral, maybe a celebration if I still have enough friends alive to enjoy one. At one time in a will I had set aside $10,000 for a party, but that was when I still had enough people around that might come. But they seem to be dying off faster then I planned.

[olgreeneyes]

My father's ashes went into the ocean, my godparents are in a river in upstate NY, my mother we took down to Atlantic City in the ocean. My grandmother put my grandfather's ashes in her rose bushes on Long Island, however, she moved away and when she passed, I couldn't see us asking strangers if I could put her ashes in the rose bush with her husband, so we put her in our rose bushes. Even one of our dogs ashes are in the backyard, so it will be cremation for us also. The idea of making a vacation out of it for whom ever has to dispose of them sounds like a great way to make it a happy memory.

[OldManTime]

My Cremation is bought and paid for, my ashes will be in the family plot with my parents and brothers.

[Chopper]

I'm donating any body parts that can be used. No public viewing. Cremation and burial in the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell. No fuss, no muss!

[NotGolfer]

First of all...made sure I'm "right" with my Creator (read John 3: 16-18) Then made sure our will was compliant with FL laws then had a conversation with a local funeral home. We'll be cremated here then our urns will go up to where we grew up to be buried. We've also purchased a plot for that in a quiet country site. We wanted the plans in place so when one of us passes away it will be "easier" for the remaining person and the kids. It's not something our culture likes to think or talk about but it's pretty much a fact that 100% of us won't get out of this life alive!!!

[queasy27]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

At one time in a will I had set aside $10,000 for a party, but that was when I still had enough people around that might come. But they seem to be dying off faster then I planned.

Ain't that the truth! Plus losing track of friends as I moved around and the decades rolled by. My will and final wishes when I was in my 30s-40s were a lot different than they are now.

[Parker]

Interesting point made several times here about having no services, no funeral. With the high cost of traditional funerals, and our frequently scattered families unable to attend, it makes me wonder if no-frills 'lite funerals' may be a new trend? I have to say it would appeal to me. Don't want my children burdened with the expense, time, or trouble of saying goodbye. As one poster above said, "No muss, No fuss."

Oh dear, the death industry (and it is an industry) won't like that!

[Lbmb24101]

Funerals are usually for the benefit of the living....
My mom wanted to be cremated and i convinced her not to.
Back in 1995 when she passed, i thoight the Church was against cremation.
I read recently that now one can also dispose of a body w water ( special chemicals) and that, might seem gentler than fire.
We have not discussed this topic.
My hubby is Jewish and I am Catholc.
It is necessary but oh so unpleasant....i am still undecided but i do know i want a Catholic Mass

[DaleMN]

Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light