What do you want to happen to you when you die?

[MadduckUK]

Do gypsys do there own cremations?, i was under the impression they set fire to the old dudes caravan with the body inside. Or is that a myth?

while rolling it down a hill. its like the modern equiv of the vikings being pushed out to sea in there boats

[rox0r]

Heh, can you imagine the reaction if a bunch of pikeys were to set fire to a caravan and roll it down a hill which just happened to be near an airport......

[pumpman]

other, I'd like a party when I'm gone and to have my coffin put down a bobsleigh run , the person who guesses the time it takes to go down the cresta run for instance would get a bonus in my will

[Saracen]

I have a fairly strong view on this.

Having had close involvement in organising more than one funeral for loved ones, I can only say I have a pretty low opinion of the funeral profession, because it seems to me that the costs are ludicrously overstated, and that it is a cynical exploitation of the grieving at the very worst time. Maybe my impression is wrong, but that is how it seems to me.

I don't what what happens to my remains after I'm gone, provided my family use the least-cost method available. If it were legal, they could leave me out in a black bin bag for all I care. Other than that, whatever is the least protracted and least cost option. I do NOT want a funeral, I do NOT want a service, I do NOT want hymns or prayers and I emphatically do not want a fortune spent on a stupidly expensive coffin, and I've warned my family that if they fork out on that kind of claptrap for me that it is expressly against my wishes and that I'll do my damnedest to come back and haunt them if they cross me on this, because I will be very seriously offended, if it's possible to be so.

Nor, for that matter, do I want a gougingly overpriced plot in a local authority 'garden of remembrance', nor any tacky marble edifices, and I don't even want flowers. If someone wants to spend money, make a donation to some useful charity like Sue Ryder or MacMillan nurses.

Once I'm gone, I have no further use for the carcass that currently carries me around, so just get rid of it with the least fuss and cost. Medical science is fine with me, as is a cheap cremation, provided the ashes don't end up in an expensive plot somewhere. But what I don't want is a single penny being spent on getting rid of my carcass beyond the legal minimum.

I rather suspect a lot of people won't understand my attitude (and a couple of members of my extended family certainly don't, though the immediate family know exactly what I want, and don't want, and accept it). And I know that I won't be able to do much about it if my wishes are ignored. But I've made my wishes very clear indeed, in writing, so if that some members of my family give those actually trying to follow my wishes a hard time, they can be shown those instructions and told, pointedly, to butt out.

[MadduckUK]

other, I'd like a party when I'm gone and to have my coffin put down a bobsleigh run , the person who guesses the time it takes to go down the cresta run for instance would get a bonus in my will

"Sanka, you dead?" "Ya, man"

[craigtrap]

Someone feed me to some pigs!! They will eat anything!

[kidzer]

**snip**

All sounds good to me, the fuss around Funerals etc these days seems excessive, or it does to me anyway, so much spent on a dead person effectively (although, if those 'left behind' really want to have a remembrance ceremony of some sort, I guess its only fair they get it in some form).

As an aside, I know what I want to be done with my body when I die, but a few nights ago I, for some unknown reason began to think about what happens when you die (one of life's great unanswerable questions I guess).

And I can say now, it scared the hell out of me...being permanently unconscious, its incomprehensible (at least for me), and I've never been so scared in my life!

[Mossy]

saracen

If that is what you want you should get it it is up to you to make this clear whether your family will respect you wishes is more than likely not in your hands what they say now may not the what they do due to their own beliefs

[Blitzen]

Heh, can you imagine the reaction if a bunch of pikeys were to set fire to a caravan and roll it down a hill which just happened to be near an airport......

Rofl...you go to some parts of East Anglia and you can see that every Saturday night.
The gypos love it

[Blitzen]

Heh, can you imagine the reaction if a bunch of pikeys were to set fire to a caravan and roll it down a hill which just happened to be near an airport......

Rofl...you go to some parts of East Anglia and you can see that every Saturday night.
The gypos love it

I have a fairly strong view on this.

Having had close involvement in organising more than one funeral for loved ones, I can only say I have a pretty low opinion of the funeral profession, because it seems to me that the costs are ludicrously overstated, and that it is a cynical exploitation of the grieving at the very worst time. Maybe my impression is wrong, but that is how it seems to me.

I don't what what happens to my remains after I'm gone, provided my family use the least-cost method available. If it were legal, they could leave me out in a black bin bag for all I care. Other than that, whatever is the least protracted and least cost option. I do NOT want a funeral, I do NOT want a service, I do NOT want hymns or prayers and I emphatically do not want a fortune spent on a stupidly expensive coffin, and I've warned my family that if they fork out on that kind of claptrap for me that it is expressly against my wishes and that I'll do my damnedest to come back and haunt them if they cross me on this, because I will be very seriously offended, if it's possible to be so.

Nor, for that matter, do I want a gougingly overpriced plot in a local authority 'garden of remembrance', nor any tacky marble edifices, and I don't even want flowers. If someone wants to spend money, make a donation to some useful charity like Sue Ryder or MacMillan nurses.

Once I'm gone, I have no further use for the carcass that currently carries me around, so just get rid of it with the least fuss and cost. Medical science is fine with me, as is a cheap cremation, provided the ashes don't end up in an expensive plot somewhere. But what I don't want is a single penny being spent on getting rid of my carcass beyond the legal minimum.

I rather suspect a lot of people won't understand my attitude (and a couple of members of my extended family certainly don't, though the immediate family know exactly what I want, and don't want, and accept it). And I know that I won't be able to do much about it if my wishes are ignored. But I've made my wishes very clear indeed, in writing, so if that some members of my family give those actually trying to follow my wishes a hard time, they can be shown those instructions and told, pointedly, to butt out.

I agree with you completely.
The last thing i would want is some memorial that people feel they must visit and then get upset when they do.

[chicken]

As an aside, I know what I want to be done with my body when I die, but a few nights ago I, for some unknown reason began to think about what happens when you die (one of life's great unanswerable questions I guess).

And I can say now, it scared the hell out of me...being permanently unconscious, its incomprehensible (at least for me), and I've never been so scared in my life!

I found that view made me less scared of death. If you have no conciousness then there's nothing to feel anything negative, no awareness to miss your life, friends, etc. If you believe in a continuation of conciousness after death then there are a lot of things to be scared about!

[Mossy]

I found that view made me less scared of death. If you have no conciousness then there's nothing to feel anything negative, no awareness to miss your life, friends, etc. If you believe in a continuation of conciousness after death then there are a lot of things to be scared about!

I am more scared of living too long and what you may have to put up with in old age!

[tamxxx]

go to heaven duh

[tamxxx]

Never want to be cremated

[Andy3536]

I really don't care, i'd be dead!
The least amount of fuss would mean people would move on quiker

[Grimley]

Be buried in the deepest part of the sea, that way it'll be a much shorter trip to where I'm going (Hell that is)