Graves & Burials

[thør]

People worry about too much shit after they're dead.

 

[lifeis2short2b]

What a waste of money. How often do you think your loved ones or future relatives will come visit your plot ? I also have a bridge for sale

 

[thør]

What a waste of money. How often do you think your loved ones or future relatives will come visit your plot ? I also have a bridge for sale

Yet, some people actually do this and they keep the landscaping up around their family graves.

 

[jaF0]

^^ But generally only immediate family and often only a few members for a few years. Once they die, become frail or ill or move away, nothing much else happens.

 

[FataMorgana]

Yet, some people actually do this and they keep the landscaping up around their family graves.

What a waste of money. How often do you think your loved ones or future relatives will come visit your plot ? I also have a bridge for sale

I do, regularly.

 

[thør]

It might not be the American way, but it certainly is the Danish way in Jutland. The church keeps up the pathways and the families keep up the plots. If you peek behind the headstones, you'll often find some of the tools used stashed there.

 

[FataMorgana]

Gosh that's beautiful.

 

[MNGuy]

I'm going to be cremated, then have my ashes spread into a mud pit, my memorial service will be called "The MNGuy Women's Memorial Mudpit Wrestling Extravaganza." They have to use the word extravaganza because that word screams class.

 

[Bigboobbabe]

I get anxious just thinking of laying in a box. Then add in the dirt on top....
They better make sure I am dead already.

 

[thør]

It's traditional to let the body lay for 3 days before burial, because sometimes, folks come back.

 

[lifeis2short2b]

Cremation and body composting That should be the way for all. Your remains can be given to loved ones to do as they or you wish. Unfortunately some beliefs will not allow it.

 

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It might not be the American way, but it certainly is the Danish way in Jutland. The church keeps up the pathways and the families keep up the plots. If you peek behind the headstones, you'll often find some of the tools used stashed there.

That is beautiful, but the concept just feels like more familial responsibility bullshit.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Folks take up way too much room when alive, seems a waste to do so when dead. I'll be cremated and then my fellow Coasties will scatter me at sea.

 

[jaF0]

Cemeteries are for the living.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The Savage Family has a cemetery with kin that have been lying about since the early 1700s. I plan on becoming a reef ball though.

 

[ishtat]

A previous poster suggested exposure to vultures on a Tower of Silence as the Zoroastrians prefer is optimal. This practice is in fact even older than that particular religion and is still used by other religions (especially Buddhists) in the central Asian mountainous countries. There is no soil to bury in, and no fuel to burn , so it is the only option. Lammergeyer vultures are the best, because while they will consume flesh their preferred diet is bones - so you get 100% recycling with no carbon impact from fuel burning at all.

There is an outfit in OZ which will bury you in an unmarked grave in an open 'field.' The naked corpse is put into a cotton bag and interred in a fairly shallow grave. They put a temporary weight on top to keep out scavenging animals and because it is shallow, decomposition is quick. Eventually the weight is removed and the grave is left unmarked - no memorials allowed, vegetation takes over. It is fairly popular and run by an orthodox crematorium company, the boss of which told me that christian memorials are generally only maintained by families for one generation, two at the most.

 

[Cindy027]

I am all for cremation and if for some reason I go too early then I want my partner to get my ashes made into a big diamond that she can have set in a ring.

Possibly a touch macabre but I’m dead so who cares

 

[jehoram]

What about the recycling plan put in place in California recently? You can be returned to Mother Earth as compost for the garden.
Not for me but, hey, whatever grows the garden I guess.

California has just legalized graves where you're buried and they plant a sapling over you, and you feed the tree as it grows. I kind of like that.

 

[FL30]

What about the recycling plan put in place in California recently? You can be returned to Mother Earth as compost for the garden.
Not for me but, hey, whatever grows the garden I guess.

Canada offers this now, as well.

 

[FL30]

What a waste of money. How often do you think your loved ones or future relatives will come visit your plot ? I also have a bridge for sale

it's a tradition that Hispanics do every year on the "Day of the Dead". They usually go to the grave of a loved one and have a picnic and tidy up the gravesite.

 

[Pairaclities]

Is that all provinces or a federal initiative In Canada?

 

[jaF0]

Swimmin' wit' da fishes.

Sort of an old mob joke, but not a bad idea overall. Sharks and other things won't leave much to decay. Dump/discard further off shore to lure them away from beaches and people that aren't ready to be shark chum.

 

[eomerson]

Since you can't do sky burials in NY, I told everyone to cremate me. They can put the cremains in a cardboard box and sneak me into a forest. Then they can plant a tree on me!

 

[FataMorgana]

I tell ya, undertakers are raking it in. Went to them today to sort out lettering on mum's headstone. Thought it might be a couple of hundred quid, three max. £720.

175 for refitting, 20 for two new pots, 120 for dads re-lettering (to match mum's) 350 for mum's and the absolute pisser...55 permit fee to council (cunts I work for) to put the stone (I own) back on the plot (I also own).

 

[eomerson]

Its jyst as bad in the states....the death industry is where the money is...everyone dies!