Burial or cremation? Which would you prefer?

Cremation and ashes spread in the garden,leaves more room for the living.

I hate graveyards and regard them as a waste of space and then all the rigid bureaucratic rules about headstones,pictures,flowers from small minded jobs worth individuals hardly makes them a place of peace.


Incog.

[kronas]

bury me 6ft under and watch the maggots eat me

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by kronas

bury me 6ft under and watch the maggots eat me

Aaaah - a secret Slipknot fan, eh

Not a big fan of cremation but, TBH, as long as they're 100% sure that I'm dead, I'm not too bothered - whichever my family / loved ones would prefer.

As long as there's a wake where everybody gets plastered, that'll do me

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Cremation and ashes spread in the garden,leaves more room for the living.

I hate graveyards and regard them as a waste of space and then all the rigid bureaucratic rules about headstones,pictures,flowers from small minded jobs worth individuals hardly makes them a place of peace.


Incog.

You've obviously never visited an irish cemetary, people get comfort from visiting graves, praying over them, tidying them up etc, I like to visit long dead relatives and talk to them. (and this is for the comment below yours, unless fly's start learning how to burrow 6 feet in to the ground, you're not going to get eaten by maggots)

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by Macca371

I know this is a morbid question, but I'm just curious...

one of the old gits up the pub always used to say burial because fire was invented and not created by god.

I asked him one day if god created teh shovel

I don't care as long as I'm dead first...!

[Mr_love_monkey]

Cremation for me... I don't like the idea of rotting away... also since my blood is about 60% proof, I'll burn more quickly

[kronas]

Originally Posted by Nugget

Aaaah - a secret Slipknot fan, eh

never heard there songs it was just something that i felt like saying because its true lol

Originally Posted by Nugget

Not a big fan of cremation but, TBH, as long as they're 100% sure that I'm dead, I'm not too bothered - whichever my family / loved ones would prefer.

As long as there's a wake where everybody gets plastered, that'll do me

each to their own i suppose, no alcohol at mine

[Ramrod]

Cremated and ashes scattered (don't yet know where)

My father (dead for almost 3 years) wanted his (and my mothers) ashes scattered together in the river that flows through their farm in Latvia when it is in full flow with the spring meltwater.

Cremation for me.

I'll want half my ashes scattered in Northern Ireland (dont know where though). And the other half scattered from Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Originally Posted by Bifta

You've obviously never visited an irish cemetary, people get comfort from visiting graves, praying over them, tidying them up etc, I like to visit long dead relatives and talk to them. (and this is for the comment below yours, unless fly's start learning how to burrow 6 feet in to the ground, you're not going to get eaten by maggots)

That would be the ideal Bifta,but the reality is that either the graves are totally neglected or the local council forbids any kind of unique individuality and insists on standardisation.All headstones same size,all flower pots removed no flowers so as to allow for the uniform cleaning up of said cemetary which half the time is very lax anyway.

Remove the headstones and scatter ashes that way it doesn't matter.Make them gardens for rememberance.Nothing sadder than looking at the grave of a person long gone that no one visits.

[ian@huth]

Once I am gone I aren't too bothered about what happens to my body. I find it disgusting that funerals cost what they do nowadays and what a waste of money and natural resources on fancy elaborate coffins that are either burnt or buried and left to rot.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

That would be the ideal Bifta,but the reality is that either the graves are totally neglected or the local council forbids any kind of unique individuality and insists on standardisation.All headstones same size,all flower pots removed no flowers so as to allow for the uniform cleaning up of said cemetary which half the time is very lax anyway.

Remove the headstones and scatter ashes that way it doesn't matter.Make them gardens for rememberance.Nothing sadder than looking at the grave of a person long gone that no one visits.

I've never heard of that, not even while I lived in England, mind you the only cemetaries my family members have been buried in are part of the church, some of the headstones are stunning, normally paid for by the person before they die, I would much rather lose a couple of thousand in inheritance and have an real effort made on their grave. I spent a good few hours last week redoing my partners mother's grave ready for a blessing in a few weeks, it's satisfying and gives her entire family somewhere to pay their respects.

[Mike]

Interesting this..................hope many people have included their wishes in their will. I recently wrote mine and included my wishes.

[Salu]

Originally Posted by Debsy42

I defo want to be cremated, I've got this dread that I will wake up in a coffin

Unfortunately you would also be in a coffin when you were cremated. So you would burn to death rather unpleasantly if you were to be mistakenly alive......