Last Wishes

[Salvor-Hardon]

I just finsihed reading McKenna's thread on funeral ettiquette and have been pondering life and death for a while myself so....

Does anyone here have last wishes they want to share?

I found out my preferred wishes, too be placed in a small long boat and have flaming arrows shot at it, is illegal around here, so option 2 is cremated, ashes put into a large model rocket (a hobby of mine) and my ashes scattered from above.

My family and friends have been told about this, and I already have 2 friends who have agreed to build the rocket if I die suddenly.

Anyone else?

 

[TheEarl]

My only last wishes are for my best friend to come onto Lit and announce that I'm dead. I have no wish to just disappear, like MathGirl or Ray Dario.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

My only last wishes are for my best friend to come onto Lit and announce that I'm dead. I have no wish to just disappear, like MathGirl or Ray Dario.

The Earl

I've thought about that. But no one in real life knows I am on Lit.
So if I suddently disappear, blame fried chicken and lack of exercise.

 

[Kassiana]

My husband knows I post here, so it's possible he'd let y'all know that my birds finally got into it and pulled me apart.

As to the rest, I'd prefer cremation and people remembering my sense of humor rather than getting weepy over me, but I know I can't control others' reactions. Sigh.

Well, not yet, anyway.

 

[TheEarl]

Actually, that's my other wish. I don't want a wake; I want a party. I want people to get drunk, dance to upbeat music and remember that I hated depressing nights out. I liked going out, having some drinks and throwing my arms and legs about like an epileptic octopus caught in a strobelight. So I'd expect any mourners to do the same.

The Earl

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Here here! I want my life celebrated. Put on some Monty Python episodes, serve pizza with pineapple on it, make teh biggest bucket of my secret barbecue sauce (its locked away but 2 people know the combination) and have fun telling eachother what a great guy I was, or what a bastard I was and you're glad to see me go. Either way, enjoy it.

 

[impressive]

Yup. I want the link to my Lit member page published in my obituary. Folks can snicker and whisper and laugh and get off ... anything to keep 'em from mourning.

 

[TxRad]

an epileptic octopus caught in a strobelight.

The Earl

Now there's a mental vision for ya...... An apt way to discribe how I dance....

Funerals..... Man that's depressing..... I've had a burial policy since I was sixteen... I wasn't supposed to live to be 21 according to all the powers that were, when I was young.... Well, I outlived them all....

I went to my 40th High School reunion last year and all those old people there depressed me.... I'm not that old... Am I?

Since I still have the damned policy, I guess I'll let them bury me.... I don't want a wake either... Let's party... Except that there won't be but three people there so it won't be much of a party....

Another thing... If it comes to the vegy point... PULL THE DAMN PLUG!!!!!!

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I don't really have any specific wishes involving having my head frozen and what not. I think the only the thing I'd be really opposed to would be a super religious funeral given my some minister who never knew me.

I don't know how many funerals I've been to where this has been the case. At my great aunt's funeral, the preacher, who someone went and dug up since my aunt was about 90 and never went to church, kept pronouncing her name wrong the entire time. It got to the point where my cousin and I were snickering every time he said "Lorraine" instead of "Lorene". He went on and on about what a pious and godfearing woman she was. I knew he'd never met her.

So, please, when I die, just have my funeral at the funeral home and get some of my friends to give amusing eulogies. I don't want all my friends and relatives sitting there thinking "She would totally hate this!"

 

[Guest]

It's the party after I die I'm looking forward.

Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles, old friends I lost too soon will all be there.

An unusal trio singing, somehow making it work : Elvis, John Lennon, Enrico Caruso.

"Disney and Picasso doing little drawings of everyone."*

My dead cat from when I was a kid, and the dogs that ever lived with me will be there; all getting along.

Over in the corner, Leif Ericson and Columbus chatting.

At another table, Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, McArthur and Nimitz chat over old times.



*Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP in Cincinatti

 

[rgraham666]

Burn me and spread me over a farmer's field so I finally do something good with my life.

Go through my belongings (Mostly books). Take what you like. Sell the rest.

Drink on my tab until the money's gone.

Have fun folks. See you on the flip side.

 

[Liar]

I've thought about that. But no one in real life knows I am on Lit.

I don't know what it's called elsewhere, but I have this thing called a "white letter" at my bank that contains a bunch of names, phone numbers and email adresses, as well as what the individual messages would say.

If I was suddenly hit by a comet or something, y'all would be notified.


Anybody who comes in black formal wear to my funeral will be handed a mandatory pink beanie hat.

#L

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Anybody who comes in black formal wear to my funeral will be handed a mandatory pink beanie hat.

#L

I love that. I want guys handing out hawaiian shirts and leis at my memorial service.

"Welcome to Mark's passing, here's you tacky shirt."

But it has to be my best friends with great taste in women who know when to let the hot female in the slinky black dress to either stay in the slinky dress or else change into just the shirt.

Mmmmmmm Love a woman looks in just a shirt.

 

[elsol]

Last Wishes...

Post-dead Nobel Prize in Literature and have it be for PORN!!!!!!

It's okay if it's only given to me in protest of the evil that is censorship, etc... etc.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[fairysong]

How appropriate that this thread should show up now when I’m fighting my battle against cancer. I’ve given much thought to life and death over the past few months. My last wishes….

1. That I be taken back to Ireland, my ancestral home and buried there.
2. That my painting titled “Twilight” goes to Shadowskill Knight, he is a wonderful friend whose support has meant a lot to me.
3. That someone comes to Lit and posts that I have died and how much I’ve enjoyed everyone’s company here.
4. That people celebrate my life and not feel sorry for me.

That said I have no intention of dying any time soon. I’m going to stick around for a while longer folks.

 

[McKenna]

1. Cremate my body. Husband knows where to sprinkle the ashes.

2. For the service, I have no preferences other than it NOT be a religious event.

3. Eat and drink lots at the gathering after the service. I know I would have. (Or smoke a bong if you're so inclined.)

4. If I go before my husband, comfort him.

 

[mrmgp]

I want my SO to cremate me, then at midnight on a clear night with a full moon, I want her to scatter my ashes in our flower garden while Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is playing. Then every year after, when the flowers bloom during the warm season, she will be reminded of me.

Hopefully I'll live long enough to acquire 1) a significant other that I want a lasting relationship with, and 2) a house out in the country with a nice flower garden.

 

[sophia jane]

I want to be cremated. I don't care what happens to the ashes. I do not want any kind of burial, marker, etc for people to feel obligated to visit after I'm gone.
I don't want anyone to buy flowers for me after I'm dead- what good do they do then, really?
I don't want a funeral or a wake or a viewing or any of that stuff.

Basically, I want those who loved me to remember that they loved me and go on with their lives.

SJ

 

[cloudy]

I want the bonfire burning for four days while my spirit visits those closest to me and says goodbye, so that it'll light my way to the next adventure.

After that, cremate what's left, and throw it out over the ocean, I suppose. That's always been my favorite place.

 

[The_Fool]

Too many funerals. Too many flowers. Too many times as pallbearer.

Death paints too macabre of a mask on those it takes so please close my casket. Goodbyes can be said without makeup on my face. I too prefer cremation, but if my family needs something more solid in the form of a casket, so be it. Eulogies by ministers to me are empty words. But some take comfort in their religion. Let the ministers offer the prayers, let friends and family offer up memories of good times. Since funerals are times to bring together families and friends that see each other all too infrequently, let them gather for food and drink and companionship.

A funeral is for the living, not the dead.

 

[ishtat]

A funeral is for the living, not the dead.

Totally correct.

I would like my body to be used for spare parts and if they are too far gone they could chop it up for medico's education. I would prefer to have my spirit remembered rather than my carcass but as the Fool says what the living think is more important.

 

[impressive]

I want to be cremated. I don't care what happens to the ashes. I do not want any kind of burial, marker, etc for people to feel obligated to visit after I'm gone.

I agree 100%

I hate cemeteries. I think they're a complete waste of space. Hell, our Supreme Court can enable the uprooting of LIVING, BREATHING families while the dead suck up real estate.

[I've told my family that if they feel they absolutely must have some sort of memorial, to plant a tree each year on my birthday. (It's a tradition we started with the kids years ago. They love selecting & planting their birthday trees each year. Sometimes it's on our property (usually fruit trees, there); other times donated to a park with a little, engraved tag hanging from a branch.]

 

[sophia jane]

I agree 100%

[I've told my family that if they feel they absolutely must have some sort of memorial, to plant a tree each year on my birthday. (It's a tradition we started with the kids years ago. They love selecting & planting their birthday trees each year. Sometimes it's on our property (usually fruit trees, there); other times donated to a park with a little, engraved tag hanging from a branch.]

That's a really nice idea!

SJ

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

That said I have no intention of dying any time soon. I’m going to stick around for a while longer folks.

Good on ya fairysong. Not only "don't go gentle into that good night" but kick Death in the balls and make him drag us kicking and screaming, the bastard.

"Because I could not stop for Death he had to stop for me" and he stepped in dog poo when he did

 

[Guest]

Get a 12' wooden boat, fill it with driftwood, Place my naked body on top of it, push it out onto a calm body of water and set it afire.

Build a bonfire on the beach, drink, dance, sing and be happy.

Slap anyone who cries and throw their disrespectful asses out of my party.