Your remains.

[Chris803]

I want to be buried in my convertible f ck maybe blow it up with me in it. The Mercedes can be crushed! POS

 

[Thad1527]

The family plot for me, please. Eastlawn Cemetery in Swarthmore, PA, by my parents, grandparents, Uncle Walt and Aunt Kittie, and across the way from Uncle Dick and Aunt Miriam.

 

[Thad1527]

And, please, not with my other grandparents in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia. That place was in a strange legal limbo for years...NOBODY owned it.

Mount Moriah Now Under New Management

Mount Moriah Cemetery Preservation Corporation takes over stewardship of the long-neglected cemetery

hiddencityphila.org

 

[Nude_Dude]

I want the cheapest casket, no embalming and a quick viewing by family then burial in the small cemetery where my dad and his family are buried.

That's kinda what my Dad said before he (and my Mum) died, a couple of years back.
They were both in their late nineties - and he'd seen a television documentary exposing what a giant rip-off the funeral industry really IS.
So to their wishes, they both had the simplest of cremations - no funeral and no 100-year lease on a buriel site.
My Dad and Mum were most emphatic their four kids should be beneficiaries to their estate - to the exclusion of any funeral businesses.
Losing them both is still quite "raw" in our minds - so their ashes are in my little sister's possession, till me and my (remaining) siblings decide on their last stopover.
I'm hoping, for my two nephews' benefit it will be their mother, my little sister, my Dad and Mum's first-born daughter, who we lost under a year ago.

ON the subject, one thing puzzles me.
My mother was a christian - and my father an atheist.
Would "God" take my mother to heaven - and condemn my father to hell ?
Would "God" punish my mother, with this eternal separation ?

As an atheist, like my Dad, this is the kind of question I ask myself, FREQUENTLY.

PS, I'll be cremated and sprinkled over our 'Pet Cemetery' - where my six dogs and two cats are buried - in a special place, deep in our forest.

 

[purina]

Noy my problem. I won't be leaving any survivors.

 

[rareboy]

Some of them on the farm buried with our cats and some of them taken to our favourite home away from home in Vermont.

 

[Rickrock]

My mother was a christian - and my father an atheist.
Would "God" take my mother to heaven - and condemn my father to hell ?
Would "God" punish my mother, with this eternal separation ?

As an atheist, like my Dad, this is the kind of question I ask myself, FREQUENTLY.

No, I think God will judge atheists for their lives the same as for Christians. Just my opinion.

 

[Rickrock]

The family plot for me, please. Eastlawn Cemetery in Swarthmore, PA, by my parents, grandparents, Uncle Walt and Aunt Kittie, and across the way from Uncle Dick and Aunt Miriam.

I wish my family had a "family plot". Everyone was buried (as couples) in spread out spots wherever available as they died, mostly in the same cemetery.

 

[jjonn3]

ON the subject, one thing puzzles me.
My mother was a christian - and my father an atheist.
Would "God" take my mother to heaven - and condemn my father to hell ?
Would "God" punish my mother, with this eternal separation ?

As an atheist, like my Dad, this is the kind of question I ask myself, FREQUENTLY.

If there was a god I can't imagine it would be so petty and childish as to say "You didn't worship me so you can't enter the pearly gates".

 

[Thad1527]

Are there even pearly gates?

Maybe some kind of glowing afterlife..

 

[frankfrank]

I want my remains scattered at Disneyworld.

I don't want to be cremated.

"Yuck! WHAT just fell into my hair? Eagle shit? Um...oh My God it's a tooth...and it looks like a HUMAN bicuspid! What the hell?"

My driver's license says that my body can be harvested for organs, and that I wish to be cremated with my ashes spread over "anywhere in Canada". I had originally thought to specify that I'm scattered over Antigonish NS, until I realized that ANYWHERE in Canada would make me eternally Canadian, a near-lifelong dream that I was never able to fulfill in my physical life.

Assuming I'm able to do a Canadian trip before it's too late (like, if Trump wins, might Canada quickly protect the border from us by shutting it down?), I hope I remember to ask Customs whether this final wish will cause any exotic issues.

 

[frankfrank]

If there was a god I can't imagine it would be so petty and childish as to say "You didn't worship me so you can't enter the pearly gates".

Not to mention that, for those who believe in God, Who is supposed to love all His children, wouldn't eternal damnation and fire and horrific torture be impossible, because it violates His nature? But it's interesting I started saying the same thing that you just now did, about the pearly gates - but I came up with as different adjective: SELFISH. God has no reason to be selfish

Though I believe in God, I'm still open-minded to the possibility that my belief could be wrong. If there's a "place" (which cannot be defined by our three-dimensional rules) that we go, I don't think that a hell of eternal punishment is possible, and the concept of Heaven may also not be valid. We simply don't know what the "place" is.

 

[peeonme]

That's kinda what my Dad said before he (and my Mum) died, a couple of years back.
They were both in their late nineties - and he'd seen a television documentary exposing what a giant rip-off the funeral industry really IS.
So to their wishes, they both had the simplest of cremations - no funeral and no 100-year lease on a buriel site.
My Dad and Mum were most emphatic their four kids should be beneficiaries to their estate - to the exclusion of any funeral businesses.
Losing them both is still quite "raw" in our minds - so their ashes are in my little sister's possession, till me and my (remaining) siblings decide on their last stopover.
I'm hoping, for my two nephews' benefit it will be their mother, my little sister, my Dad and Mum's first-born daughter, who we lost under a year ago.

ON the subject, one thing puzzles me.
My mother was a christian - and my father an atheist.
Would "God" take my mother to heaven - and condemn my father to hell ?
Would "God" punish my mother, with this eternal separation ?

As an atheist, like my Dad, this is the kind of question I ask myself, FREQUENTLY.

PS, I'll be cremated and sprinkled over our 'Pet Cemetery' - where my six dogs and two cats are buried - in a special place, deep in our forest.

I am not a "fan" of cremation, "from dust you came, unto dust shall you return" from scripture is my reason. Also, I find the idea of embalming rather bizarre as well. Embalming took off during the civil war so the dead could be transported back to their families and soon thereafter with the advent of railroads and automobiles people would travel to view the decedent, so they were embalmed rather buried soon after they died. Flowers were at one time used to cover the stench of decomposition as well.

A body in the ground leaking carcinogens is rather repulsive to me. Bury me when I die and let nature do it's thing.

As for who gets to go to heaven and who doesn't for Christians the answer is simple, John3:16, John 6:37. Many seek to add a lot of luggage to this, but I keep it simple.