Is your mode of disposal important to you? Would you like to be buried with loved ones? In a pretty place?
2007-10-15 03:51:07 · 25 answers · asked by pete the pirate 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I would be in a coffin, because I find it too creepy otherwises.
2007-10-15 03:53:38 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure where your from.
But with New Zealand Maoris they are normally buried in a family cemetry or in a town where they came from.
My brother passed last year(14/05/06) and is burried in a maori family cemetry in Taumaranui where his sons mother is from(my brother is not from there nor has family ties to the area, but his partner does.) it is where his son(3) is most likely to live the majority of his life. So it was a family decision for him 2 be burried there(i think it may have had to be approved by the local kaumatua, which means the local old people first)
I would also like to be buried at the same cemetry next to my brother as we were very close(but with no family ties to the place may not be possible)
Anywhere where i can be visited by my family would do me great...
Cardboard box would be fine too(why pay a fortune for something only use once and that will never be seen again)
2007-10-15 04:09:44 · answer #2 · answered by maorigurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I told my husband that I'd like to be buried in a casket that's painted to say "Return to Sender." He thinks I'm kidding, but I'm not. I also told him I wanted people to tell jokes at my funeral. Caskets and funeral services are really about the living seeing some kind of show to help them grieve and remember the deceased. The disposal, once it's done, doesn't really matter much, so long as there's a place we can go to remember the dead, like a grave or a place where the ashes are kept.
I'd like to be buried next to my husband, mainly because it's easier for your living relatives to visit your graves (if they choose) if everyone is in the same place. In my case, we may be buried in the Veterans' Cemetary. I don't really care if it's pretty, just so long as it's not a toxic waste dump or in any way an unsafe place to dispose of bodies.
2007-10-15 04:00:41 · answer #3 · answered by nosleepthree 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was actually reading an article now that people are being buried in the ground without a coffin or any kind or container - just body and Earth, because it's more natural. As "unsanitary" as it sounds, I think I'd much prefer being buried in the Earth, just me and the Earth (no coffins, boxes, or anything expensive and "fancy") with my loved ones.
That is, if I die from old age.
If I die from any other cause, I want my body to be donated to science.
2007-10-15 03:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a coffin and a place in the family plot. My great grandparents have a family vault and there are 2 places left. As I and my husband didn't have a resting place. I contacted the cemetery that holds the family plot and we have secured the last 2 places in the plot. We don't have any children so there is not need for a family plot.
2007-10-15 04:01:57 · answer #5 · answered by elizabeth m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coffin would be best suggestion because it is cheap you can be burried next to peaple you loved. cremation would be to weird because your relatives would pass you around every christmas and you would leave for a new family members house every year like a family eirlom. space would be to expensive and when you die you should if possible divide your fortune among family and charitys. plus when you are on your death bed you will not be thinking oh yeahh i will be in spae in a few months you will be dead so it reall y doesnt matter.
2007-10-15 03:58:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since direct cremation is the cheapest way to go then that's for me!
No viewing prior to! None of that stuff.
The LordsPrayer ... Amazing Grace ..... and scatter my ashes. then back to my house for a party. Rock and roll and dancing.
BTW I'm 67
2007-10-15 05:44:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it's a coffin for me...but it's on display with me in clothes from when I was 14 so the world in the future can see what it was like in 2006...but maybe I will tell someone to put me in a cryogenically frozen compartment and wake me up in the future..hmmm....have got to start working on that will....
2007-10-15 03:55:22 · answer #8 · answered by *Going nowhere much too fast...* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The body should be put to use i.e. mangled up for fertiliser or fed to the pigs. Think of all the pollution that would be caused if loads of stiffs were launched off into space not to mention the disruption as they kept battering into satellites
2007-10-15 04:25:09 · answer #9 · answered by KRITHIA W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Immediate cremation...no barbaric display of embalmed body.....maybe a few "happy" phographs as a nice "remember when"
2007-10-15 04:02:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋