When you die…

[Wacky Racer]

Would you like the funeral to be the typical sombre morbid affair or more up beat, a celebration of your life.

[LordHaveMurci]

My plans to live forever are going quite well so far …

[The Rotrex Kid]

Box me up (cardboard) and burn me.

I’d rather my wife spend the cash on a holiday with the kids.

Dead is dead.

[TonyRPH]

I want my eulogy to be read by Rev. Lovejoy, or someone who can copy his voice!

[QuartzDad]

The Rotrex Kid said:

Box me up (cardboard) and burn me.

I’d rather my wife spend the cash on a holiday with the kids.

Dead is dead.

Think I'm with you. We're up to a ridiculous amount so far for a fairly simple cremation and wake for my Dad.

[Punctilio]

I'd prefer the people left behind to plan funerals, upbeat wacky funerals planned
in advance by the deceased are fun on paper after a few beers but a painful
embarassment to attend.

Everbody Hurts by REM ? do f*** off.

Black tie, black veils, sombre classical music, a proper funeral with tea and fishpaste sandwiches afterwards.

[Yazza54]

I want these guys to run mine

https://youtu.be/wTkLLQjgoEU

[Export56]

Told the kids I want a pure cremation type affair, no funeral, of course if they want to do some sandwiches at our house as a sort of wake and invite a few people, go for it.

[Caddyshack]

I think a cremation, no comments of "he’s up there looking down’ and then scatter the ashes in nature and let the whole energy cycle continue.

[JuanCarlosFandango]

Punctilio said:

I'd prefer the people left behind to plan funerals, upbeat wacky funerals planned
in advance by the deceased are fun on paper after a few beers but a painful
embarassment to attend.

Everbody Hurts by REM ? do f*** off.

Black tie, black veils, sombre classical music, a proper funeral with tea and fishpaste sandwiches afterwards.

Agree with that.
I also want to be buried rather than cremated, ideally with a stone tomb. I have a site in mind but the landowner is not too keen. Hopefully got a few years to negotiate something though.

[GiantCardboardPlato]

I want them to snort cocaine cut with my ashes and then watch most of my ashes (90% not used for the cocaine) be fired into the sun on a rocket. One day atoms of my body will fuse in the sun and the photons produced will shine out across the universe (or just get absorbed by atoms in the outer atmosphere of the sun, but there you go).

[GiantCardboardPlato]

Sorry I’ve just read the thread and realised everyone was being very reasonable and humble. Just the cremation for me please. No fuss. Wash the cocaine down the sink.

Edited by GiantCardboardPlato on Wednesday 8th February 20:57

[Caddyshack]

GiantCardboardPlato said:

Sorry I’ve just read the thread and realised everyone was being very reasonable and humble. Just he. Or so crematorium for me please. No fuss. Wash the cocaine down the sink.

I was gonna ask for an invite…I’m out now the coke is off the menu.

[vixen1700]

Caddyshack said:

I think a cremation, no comments of "he’s up there looking down’ and then scatter the ashes in nature and let the whole energy cycle continue.

Yep, that's what I'd like too.

[Red9zero]

My uncles funeral was perfect for me. Local crem, humanist "ceremony", couple of mates telling tales of the good times they'd had together, full version of Albatross and a whip round for the RNLI.

[Golfgtimk28v]

i want nothing.

[Regbuser]

Plastination for me > https://vonhagens-plastination.com/pages/medical-t...

[dave_s13]

Caddyshack said:

I think a cremation, no comments of "he’s up there looking down’ and then scatter the ashes in nature and let the whole energy cycle continue.

You provide more of a service to nature by being buried in that cardboard box though. Being incinerated seems a bit quick, and a merely flatulent squeek into the infinite void.

[The spinner of plates]

Turn me into worm food.

Burials just waste valuable land.
And there are better uses for energy than cremating imo.

Seriously, I think it looks good.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/16/hu...

[GiantCardboardPlato]

Either way you get into the carbon cycle and into trees though.