The lousiest task ?
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Or at least one of the lousiest tasks which has to be done. Or at least to spare the family from having to do the leg work.
Talking about booking our burial plot, put it off for several months but now must get it sorted.
Also sorting out a funeral plan, again been putting it off for ages but next week it will be completed. I read that the Co-op offer a trustworthy and competitive funeral plan and the East of England Co- op has a branch just down the road.
I opened a similar thread a number of months back determined to bite this bullit. Made the enquiries and did not take them further. Really must get on with it, and then when complete forget all about it.
Talking about booking our burial plot, put it off for several months but now must get it sorted.
Also sorting out a funeral plan, again been putting it off for ages but next week it will be completed. I read that the Co-op offer a trustworthy and competitive funeral plan and the East of England Co- op has a branch just down the road.
I opened a similar thread a number of months back determined to bite this bullit. Made the enquiries and did not take them further. Really must get on with it, and then when complete forget all about it.
You have my sympathy.
I had to organise the same last year for my sister and, a couple of months later, my father. Both at Clandon Wood Burial Ground, in Surrey, who were very helpful and understanding.
It's a grim task but it's good to know they're close together in natural surroundings.
Hope you get everything sorted with the minimum of fuss.
I had to organise the same last year for my sister and, a couple of months later, my father. Both at Clandon Wood Burial Ground, in Surrey, who were very helpful and understanding.
It's a grim task but it's good to know they're close together in natural surroundings.
Hope you get everything sorted with the minimum of fuss.
toasty said:
You have my sympathy.
I had to organise the same last year for my sister and, a couple of months later, my father. Both at Clandon Wood Burial Ground, in Surrey, who were very helpful and understanding.
It's a grim task but it's good to know they're close together in natural surroundings.
Hope you get everything sorted with the minimum of fuss.
Read again - isn't he on about arranging his own?I had to organise the same last year for my sister and, a couple of months later, my father. Both at Clandon Wood Burial Ground, in Surrey, who were very helpful and understanding.
It's a grim task but it's good to know they're close together in natural surroundings.
Hope you get everything sorted with the minimum of fuss.
A buddy of mine recently won the "gravedigger of the year award" (No joke, it's a real thing) for the work he and his team do with Eden Valley natural burial.
May be worth checking out as a slightly alternative option?
http://www.edenvalleyburials.org.uk/
Edit: See told you it was a real thing! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5113731/Gr...
Edit 2 - Just realised this could come across as a bit trite, certainly isn't intended to disrespect. Martin and his team do a great job for families, I feel a bit young to be planning this but the chats I've had with him have convinced me it's the way to go for me now. Sustainable, in a peaceful location and with dignity
May be worth checking out as a slightly alternative option?
http://www.edenvalleyburials.org.uk/
Edit: See told you it was a real thing! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5113731/Gr...
Edit 2 - Just realised this could come across as a bit trite, certainly isn't intended to disrespect. Martin and his team do a great job for families, I feel a bit young to be planning this but the chats I've had with him have convinced me it's the way to go for me now. Sustainable, in a peaceful location and with dignity
Edited by Mannginger on Friday 5th January 16:10
Setting up a funeral plan is the 'lousiest task'?
I sat up for five nights next to my Mum's hospital bed after she had a stroke, holding her hand the whole time, determined that she woudn't die alone. She died at 1:15 on Boxing Day 2010, the last thing she did was raise a hand and pat my head.
I sat up for five nights next to my Mum's hospital bed after she had a stroke, holding her hand the whole time, determined that she woudn't die alone. She died at 1:15 on Boxing Day 2010, the last thing she did was raise a hand and pat my head.
Each to their own of course, but I just don't get why anyone would want to be buried.
Your body decomposing for years, a grave that either is a pain for family to have to tend or which will quickly become an obviously uncared for mess that clearly no one visits.
I'd rather leave my family with just memories. Hopefully good ones...
Your body decomposing for years, a grave that either is a pain for family to have to tend or which will quickly become an obviously uncared for mess that clearly no one visits.
I'd rather leave my family with just memories. Hopefully good ones...
I've been working on a project in Sierra Leone - a faecal sludge management behaviour change campaign; part of a sanitation reformation project.
Most people use latrines which need emptying and few can afford to use a vacuum truck so use manual emptiers. Blokes strip naked and get lowered into a pit containing three or four years of human s
t; scoop it into a bucket and hand it to a bloke at the top. The pits also contain rubbish like broken glass. One cut and they're dead...not that their life expectancy is much beyond 30 anyway.
Still $2 a month is not to be sniffed at. Unlike the latrines.
Most people use latrines which need emptying and few can afford to use a vacuum truck so use manual emptiers. Blokes strip naked and get lowered into a pit containing three or four years of human s
t; scoop it into a bucket and hand it to a bloke at the top. The pits also contain rubbish like broken glass. One cut and they're dead...not that their life expectancy is much beyond 30 anyway. Still $2 a month is not to be sniffed at. Unlike the latrines.
Ari said:
Each to their own of course, but I just don't get why anyone would want to be buried.
Your body decomposing for years, a grave that either is a pain for family to have to tend or which will quickly become an obviously uncared for mess that clearly no one visits.
I'd rather leave my family with just memories. Hopefully good ones...
This exactly.Your body decomposing for years, a grave that either is a pain for family to have to tend or which will quickly become an obviously uncared for mess that clearly no one visits.
I'd rather leave my family with just memories. Hopefully good ones...
Have told them to scatter ashes where they think I would like them,I'm not bothered now and it won't matter then.
If anyone thinks I am being trivial then think again,I carried my grand daughters coffin in Aug 2006 and then my younger sons and I carried her dads (my eldest) coffin in Jul 2007.
We still visit both but not as often as we should,I know the visits will get less and less and I have seen enough neglected graves to know its not for me.
Edited by jjohnson23 on Friday 5th January 18:53
Riley Blue said:
Setting up a funeral plan is the 'lousiest task'?
I sat up for five nights next to my Mum's hospital bed after she had a stroke, holding her hand the whole time, determined that she woudn't die alone. She died at 1:15 on Boxing Day 2010, the last thing she did was raise a hand and pat my head.
I'm sorry for your loss and if it's any consolation, I imagine the amount of comfort you provided your mum in her last moments in unimaginable.I sat up for five nights next to my Mum's hospital bed after she had a stroke, holding her hand the whole time, determined that she woudn't die alone. She died at 1:15 on Boxing Day 2010, the last thing she did was raise a hand and pat my head.
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