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On a slightly morbid note, would you like to be buried or cremated considering that we are running out of cemetery spaces and maintaining the grave is going to be fairly expensive in the future.
My preferences is cremation. |
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I would like to be buried then the grave yard cremated.
On the resulting brown field site a lovely housing estate could be built, probably featuring some of those nice 'town house' designs that are popular these days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cremated for me, I can't stand the thought of all the bugs and creepy crawlies eating away at my flesh   "
to true ,i have the same feelings as well,plus i wouldnt like the thought of coming back to life in a box. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cremated and then my ashes buried in the family plot where my son and father already lie. The cemetary is the most beautiful spot...very picturesque. There's something oddly comforting about knowing exactly where I'll end up....... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can't decide and in a predicament tbh.
What happens if you need your body in the next life and you are cremated? An eternity of being a pile of dust, or even worse you feel every moment of the cremation process in the afterlife.
Then again being buried what if you can pass on until your decomposed and no more? Another eternity of waiting and enduring pain.
Hmmmmm I really don't know what to do, I suppose we come into the world whole and not in a state where you add water. So maybe burial. Hmmmmm arghhhhh |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just beware when and where ashes are scattered as we were covered head to toe with someones ashes while sitting up at the view point above Tighnabruaich. |
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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago
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cremation cheapest available
my late dad wanted to be buried but my mum couldn't bear the thought so had him cremated now she don't know what to do with his ashes which are still at funeral parlour
cousins of mine kept their parents ashes together in their SHED!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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have heard funeral pyres in your own garden are legal, as long as the council ok's it, so this option for me.
if not, then have always wanted a viking burial.
so if i cant get the permission for my pyre i will start building a wee long boat lol |
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"On a slightly morbid note, would you like to be buried or cremated considering that we are running out of cemetery spaces and maintaining the grave is going to be fairly expensive in the future.
My preferences is cremation. "
I wish to be buried in one of the natural burial grounds, back to nature for me. was in a house fire years ago, don't want another fire |
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"on a similar note would you like your body to be viewed I did with my dad and wish I hadent as it sticks in my mind now I wouldn't want peeps looking at me when im dead "
difficult one, I've always wondered if that's the last image you think of when you've seen them dead.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm going to be cremated and my ashes put into a firework to give me a spectacular send off.
Might even have some put into some shotgun cartridges and have my own 21 gun salute  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"on a similar note would you like your body to be viewed I did with my dad and wish I hadent as it sticks in my mind now I wouldn't want peeps looking at me when im dead
difficult one, I've always wondered if that's the last image you think of when you've seen them dead. "
For me personally I wanted every opportunity to see and spend time with my mother at the funeral service before saying goodbye but maybe that's because I spent so many years living on the other side of the world. |
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I want to buried. Knowing how expensive this is likely to be, I've made financial arrangments so it won't cost my family.
I've always been brought up to believe that seeing a dead person helps with the grieving process. I saw my first dead relative when I was 5 years old. Apparently I poked him, asked why he wasn't singing (he died of chirosis of the liver-I was 5 I just thought he was always happy) then sat in a corner with my colouring book. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My son was cremated and I had a beautiful necklace made using a tiny amount of ashes. It's so comforting. So cremation all the way for me. Can make it more personal for those left behind. Scattering of ashe's etc |
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By *ifornowCouple
over a year ago
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Burial at sea is also possible and quite legal in the UK, which is something that I have considered.
There is only one Shipping Company in the UK who specialize in this service, which was apparently very popular in the past but has declined in recent years. I learned of them recently when one of their "clients" surfaced off the coast of Jersey. The coffins are lined with concrete to keep them on the seabed, but the wood is meant to rot away and the corpse decompose within 18 months. The article, however, didn't mention what happens to the skeletons. A new law has now been passed whereby it is compulsory that DNA must be obtained from the deceased, prior to burial at sea, so that in the event of a "resurfacing" then they can be identified and re interned, without the cause of a major investigation by the authorities. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've warned my family that they have to cremate me otherwise I'll come back and haunt them. Knowing my luck I'd wake up while I'm 6ft under
Also I don't want people to feel they have to visit a grave. I'm dead, I'm in their hearts and memories so why go to the added expense of a burial x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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cremation is permanent. Think the plot or lair you are buried in, is only guaranteed for ninety nine years or a hundred years. After that they may have to dig you up and re-bury you, perhaps in a mass grave to make way for the ten storey car park |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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preserved for medical research
like this
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bodies+exhibition+london&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=4uvLUoLFCIGshQeBmoHwBg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=676 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cremated and then my ashes buried in the family plot where my mother and father already lie. The cemetary is the most beautiful spot...very picturesque. There's something oddly comforting about knowing exactly where I'll end up......."
Billy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My preference would be to get eaten by wolves, following the advert on telly at the moment the UK equivalent is to be processed by Whiskas which would also be fine by me. But given societies restrictions on what types of corpse are just meat and which are not then I would go for cremation, as I would be dead and wouldn't give a toss really  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I want a viking burial "
Only if I can be buried on a ship with the top of the mast still 6' below ground level, and I get to choose who digs the hole and with which implements  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"on a similar note would you like your body to be viewed I did with my dad and wish I hadent as it sticks in my mind now I wouldn't want peeps looking at me when im dead "
I wouldn't wish to be displayed after my death but in a similar vein I was present with my sister at our father's bedside as he took his last breath, we held his hands and talked to him, I read him silly jokes and the sun blazed in through the Windows on possibly the most beautiful February morning I can remember.
We sat with my dad and had a cup of tea and stayed for about an hour, kisses his cheek and said our goodbyes.
I would not change that experience for the world it was possibly the single most important and beautiful thing I have experienced in my life aside the birth of my children. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"on a similar note would you like your body to be viewed I did with my dad and wish I hadent as it sticks in my mind now I wouldn't want peeps looking at me when im dead
I wouldn't wish to be displayed after my death but in a similar vein I was present with my sister at our father's bedside as he took his last breath, we held his hands and talked to him, I read him silly jokes and the sun blazed in through the Windows on possibly the most beautiful February morning I can remember.
We sat with my dad and had a cup of tea and stayed for about an hour, kisses his cheek and said our goodbyes.
I would not change that experience for the world it was possibly the single most important and beautiful thing I have experienced in my life aside the birth of my children."
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I will be donating my body to medical science"
I am not against this by any means but having gone to university with some medics, I probably have a better idea than most of what happens to bodies left to medical research ... And it is not pretty. |
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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago
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"I will be donating my body to medical science
I am not against this by any means but having gone to university with some medics, I probably have a better idea than most of what happens to bodies left to medical research ... And it is not pretty."
I know what you mean I used to work for a medical school in London years ago and it would put me off |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"I will be donating my body to medical science
I am not against this by any means but having gone to university with some medics, I probably have a better idea than most of what happens to bodies left to medical research ... And it is not pretty.
I know what you mean I used to work for a medical school in London years ago and it would put me off"
I think the idea is that you're dead before they get their hands on you. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes. It is a bit misleading. Many people have a rather romantic notion of being helpful toward advanced research. Unfortunately, they do not envisage buckets and students. Ugh. Still, if our medical trainees could not gain experience, I guess we would not have any surgeons. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"bury me at sea but I want the wife to put fresh flowers on top of me every day lol"
U want to make sure her life's difficult even after you're gone! Poor lady |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have it written down that i want a cremation followed by a flight in one enormous rocket. And have a bench placed in the open space i choose so if my family want to chat they can. That way no one has to keep me tidy and with a bit of luck they will take photos to remember that i did go out with a BANG Ruby |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"cremated, mix my ashes with gun powder, put me into a bullet and shoot me out of a gun (yes this can actually be done) "
You can have anything done with your ashes these days, a friend of mine had her husbands ashes interned into football trophy and keeps it on her mantelpiece. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"cremated, mix my ashes with gun powder, put me into a bullet and shoot me out of a gun (yes this can actually be done)
You can have anything done with your ashes these days, a friend of mine had her husbands ashes interned into football trophy and keeps it on her mantelpiece. "
Actually quite like the idea of getting my ashes compressed into a diamond then just getting put into cash converters as a cheap engagement ring that is almost definitely going to end up back there a few times |
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I imagine cremation more practical .I am not a church goer and dont want to be buried by the alotments and railway line
My Mum and family are all buried over in the Church Yard where the Murdered girl was found a couple of weeks ago. I was married there.
Son has joked that he would have a few ashes in a bag and take me traveling.
That would suit me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Not fussed!
I'll be dead!
*although I've been informed by Fox she wants Funky to 'stuff' a certain part for her!
Your wallet???  "
Na - i'll bleed that dry before I kill him  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Leaving my body to the local medical school
Let the med students cut me up
And instead of lining the pockets of an undertaker have money for family & friends to have a big party |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I would like a woodland burial if I’m honest, I like the idea of them and they always seem so peaceful, of course a churchyard is too but there is something more calming with woodland burials, plus also trees are being planted.
I’ve never liked the idea of cremation personally. I know you are dead but it always feels me with ‘this is a bit final innit!’.
Plus I’m a huge family history buff so I want somewhere my relatives can go in 100 years and do some research.
Geeky x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My best friend had a wicker basket coffin woven with pink roses and lined with white satin .played nights in white satin .can't listen to that song without crying .id be cremated as i like heat and don't like worms |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Been thinking about this recently. I was out in the back of beyond recently and the dark, clear night skies made me wonder. If I’m buried I get to “see” that until the end of the universe. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I would like a sky burial.
That's being left in an isolated, high position for carrion to take me away. "
Ooh a Parsee burial! Don’t see many of them where I live now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Neither. I’m donating my body to the local teaching hospital."
Make sure this is clear!! A lady at my old care home wanted to donate her body (it was in her will) and nothing happened. So make sure if you go to a Care home (or whatever) this is written into your care plan for final wishes etc.
Geeky x |
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"I would like a sky burial.
That's being left in an isolated, high position for carrion to take me away.
Ooh a Parsee burial! Don’t see many of them where I live now."
It's believed that it was quite usual in many ancient cultures. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I would like a sky burial.
That's being left in an isolated, high position for carrion to take me away.
Ooh a Parsee burial! Don’t see many of them where I live now.
It's believed that it was quite usual in many ancient cultures. "
I like the idea. Maybe it would be better suited to a dry country though. |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
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"I would like a sky burial.
That's being left in an isolated, high position for carrion to take me away.
Ooh a Parsee burial! Don’t see many of them where I live now.
It's believed that it was quite usual in many ancient cultures.
I like the idea. Maybe it would be better suited to a dry country though."
It'd get a bit maggoty in this country unless you could guarantee a large crow population. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I like the notion of being buried in a sheet and having a tree planted on top, so that when I rot, I nourish it.
I'd like it to be a useful tree, an apple perhaps. "
This is exactly what a friend said to me earlier. I literally couldn't care less personally, what ever caused those left behind less hassle. |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
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"I like the notion of being buried in a sheet and having a tree planted on top, so that when I rot, I nourish it.
I'd like it to be a useful tree, an apple perhaps.
This is exactly what a friend said to me earlier. I literally couldn't care less personally, what ever caused those left behind less hassle. "
I wouldn't want to be a waste of perfectly good fertiliser. |
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"I would like a sky burial.
That's being left in an isolated, high position for carrion to take me away.
Ooh a Parsee burial! Don’t see many of them where I live now.
It's believed that it was quite usual in many ancient cultures.
I like the idea. Maybe it would be better suited to a dry country though.
It'd get a bit maggoty in this country unless you could guarantee a large crow population. "
Put me on top of a hill somewhere remote and let nature take its course. I don't reckon it would take more than about 48 hours. Failing that dump me in the lion's enclosure at a safari park |
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I'd probably choose cremation, although I do like the idea of one company; having your body processed and planted with a tree seed to provide it with nutrients |
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I want to be cremated - no service, no mourners, no nothing. Just shoved into a fire in private. Ive an irrational fear of worms so burial is a massive fuck no.
I hate burials and cremations - both suck and make me feel broken inside, at the point the coffin is lowered into the grave or moved and curtained off - I don't want anyone having that as a lasting memory of me. |
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"I'd probably choose cremation, although I do like the idea of one company; having your body processed and planted with a tree seed to provide it with nutrients"
processed? |
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