Carrying another casket

[rellek]

This morning my grandmother died (no condolences necessary, she was old and I expect this type of behavior from old people) and yet again I must fulfill the role of pallbearer...or is it pallbeerer? Anyhow, as death tends to do, it got me thinking about funeral services and how they are such an inconvenience and boring to boot. I understand that such services can help people in the mourning process, but why must we be so somber in the process?

If you had the choice...
1. How would you like to exit this world?
2. How do you want your funeral?

1. Im hoping for a cure for death so I can live forever.
2. (If there is no cure for death when its my time) I want to be dressed in a scuba outfit and packed in a casket filled with ice and beer. This way when people come to pay respect they can literally have a drink on me. After everyone is good and drunk they can toss my nearly frozen body in the dirt.

[stjoe]

Originally Posted by rellek

This morning my grandmother died (no condolences necessary, she was old and I expect this type of behavior from old people) and yet again I must fulfill the role of pallbearer...or is it pallbeerer? Anyhow, as death tends to do, it got me thinking about funeral services and how they are such an inconvenience and boring to boot. I understand that such services can help people in the mourning process, but why must we be so somber in the process?

If you had the choice...
1. How would you like to exit this world?
2. How do you want your funeral?

1. Im hoping for a cure for death so I can live forever.
2. (If there is no cure for death when its my time) I want to be dressed in a scuba outfit and packed in a casket filled with ice and beer. This way when people come to pay respect they can literally have a drink on me. After everyone is good and drunk they can toss my nearly frozen body in the dirt.

Not asked for, but given anyway... That sucks, man, sorry

1. In the most horrific car accident possible. No pain, just something that'll look good on the news afterwards.
2. Cremated. Boring, I know, but what the fuck do I care? I'll be dead.

[blue eyes]

I hope to die before I can't wipe my own ass anymore. Hope i die fast. Am counting on my friends making sure of that.

Want anything that can't be used to be burned then dumped in a hole for fertilizer for a tree. Cherry tree. Then others can eat my cherries.

[brianward81]

1) I'd like to die doing something I love; rocking out OW! "Brian passed away this evening after 72 continuous hours of rocking out! He always loved Summahtime!"

2) Definately a light hearted funeral with music I love - Tool, Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters would be playing. Everyone would be encouraged just to talk about how awesome I was while drinking and eating all the Root-Beer and waffles they could. I'd want to be cremated - after my body is stripped of anything that someone in need could use.

Funerals are something we'll all have to go to eventually so why not make it a happy time - no glitter though.

The car accident might be cool for you, but think of your family dealing with it afterwards. Driving passed where you crashed, being over-cautious in the car, etc... I've been through all this as my fiances' brother died in a car accident last year, only 24 years old too. His was the first funeral I'd ever been to, and I was a pallbearer. I was proud to do it for him but fuck me, what a terrible day. I've been to 2 more funerals this past year and I just can't understand how you can work in the funeral "industry".

[Mr. Moon]

1)I want to die either in colision between an oil rig and polar ice cap or by inventing the cure for cancer which as a side affect amplifies global warming. Oh and I want some landfill named after me

2)My casket should be made of a non-biodegradable super-durable metal that releases soil denutrients every so often once I'm in the ground. My funeral is open to smokers, drinkers, some homosexuals, and you are free to litter amonst yourselves.

SAVE THE TREEZ

[ElleJ]

Sorry to hear that...

1) I have no clue...and it's morbid as hell to think about it

2) My boyfriend of 7 years and my family don't get along, so we decided that we'll tell all my family to come wearing hawaiian shirts..(come to think of it, he'll have to tell them because if I did that'd be weird) My friends and his family can come wearing whatever they want, that way my family will look like assholes and that can make him laugh on an otherwise sad day. This plan sounded much better when we were drunk.

[zwa]

1. if im ever in a position where i cant keep the poop out of my pants (mohecan sun type incedents excluded) its gonna be an overdose of morphine / heroin bag on the head.

[Juline]

Originally Posted by rellek

If you had the choice...
1. How would you like to exit this world?
2. How do you want your funeral?

As a cancer survivor, I've thought about this a lot. I'd prefer not to exit in the middle of an ugly chemo regime. If it looks like it's going to come to that, I'd like to think I'll have the option of legalized physician-assisted suicide. Aside from that, I suppose in my sleep, but how often does that really happen? My grandparents are in their 90s and still living at home, and they're just TIRED. Though they get around fairly well still, I think they're just bored -- they can't hear very well and can't see worth shit, but they're sharp as tacks. How frustrating that must be. My grandmother always says she never understood where the "golden years" were. "What golden years?!" she says. I think a horrific instant-death single-car accident as a senior citizen would be preferrable.

Please do NOT bury me. What a waste of money and property. Cremate me and sprinkle my ashes in the ocean. And have a party with lots of loud music and homemade cake. Puhleez, no big speeches about the cancer survivor that beat the odds, just have a good time, share stories with each other if you wish, but celebrate my life, such as it was.

[ooda]

1. How would you like to exit this world?
2. How do you want your funeral?


1. This I thought a lot about. If it were from natural causes, then I'd like to be having some good meal at a restaurant, and then just full dead from a heart attack. Fuck being discrete about dying, I want it to be known I'm dead.

Otherwise, if I were sick with some terminal disease that I know I'd be dying from, what I'd like to do is to have a private week. In that week I'd write up a psychological assessment of myself, after which I'd write a long letter just summing up my ideas about life. Then I'd write individual letters to all my significant others, as well as having my will double-checked. Then around my house I'd throw out all the food and drink in the house, and pack everything up in boxes. When everything around the home was packed up and everything was clean, I'd send an email or whatever is relevant in the future to someone, asking them to send the police to my home, though this would be set to be sent some time (hours) after my death. I'd then put some plastic on the bed, lay down, and overdose.

2. Cremated, and I don't really mind where my ashes are spread, as long as I'm not kept in an urn somewhere. As I'm not religious, I wouldn't really want a funeral, but I guess something small would be held so as to provide closure for people, after which there would be some gathering at a restaurant or whatnot that I had paid for in advance, and sent invitations out during the last week of life. Basically I just want to be forgotten.

[Paws]

Harvest every organ or piece of tissue that someone might need and then crispy fry me.
I like the thought of being eternally toasty. (and not in the hell type way)
Toss my ashes anywhere, no funeral. I hate them, don't want one.
And if anyone sings "Amazing Grace" like they have at every one of my families funerals I'll kill myself double.

Two or three generations out no ones going to remember you anyway.
Burial is a waste of space, literally!