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Funeral Plot (gruesome? maybe, but) a question:

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lighter:
Hi Izzy....

errrr...

HAPPY HALLOWEEEN!

I guess it's just right to have this discussion first thing, eh?

I personally want to donate whatever's left of me to the closest medical facility when I've gone.

Usually 2 med students take charge, do their thing.

I'll be cremated, and a small service held.

I always knew I wouldn't be buried, but I 'm not sure I want to be scattered to the four winds either.

I guess I'll have some suggestions but the main thing is for my children to have some comfort in the ritual.

If they feel strongly about dumping me out over the Atlantic, or from a plane or whatever, then they'll have that.

The only thing they won't have is me layed out, on view, then wheeled and carried about before planting over a 2 day service where everyone's a basket case, and you get to see sides of people you never wanted to know.

For me, that particular service is very disturbing.

sKePTiKal:

--- Quote ---For me, that particular service is very disturbing.
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Me too, Lighter. Even while I appreciate the cleansing, neutralizing aspects of "earth"... I guess for me, it still seems to carry overtones of imprisonment; being trapped; stuck in one spot. I'm still fighting hard to keep what "freedom" I've earned and feel is mine... ain't givin' it up even for my physical molecules just for what is a questionable "final resting place"!!!

Izzy_*now*:

--- Quote ---Hi Izzy....

errrr...

HAPPY HALLOWEEEN!
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Yo Margo

errrr...

HAPPY HALLOWEEEN! to you too!!

I have to agree on no wheeling and dheeling when I don't know about it, and I don't mind being alone when alive, but I don't want to be alone when I am dead. (I always, since a little kid held a picture in my mind, a cutaway of me underground, alone, eyes open and nothing to do.) So I chose cremation!

Nice that you agree too, PR

and as far as my plot goes, if no one uses it, it might, one day, be the only patch of green grass on this earth.

xx
Skits

Baddaughter:
we ended up with a couple plots that we didn't know we had in a place we had no intention of going.  When we got the "deed" to the spots, it was clear that we were not "allowed" to re-sell the spots and that the cemetery would be happy to buy them back, at the price they were purchased in 1961 of $125.00 each.  We can, however, give them away, which is what we did.  I like the idea of being scattered to the winds and would be miserable underground. 

Hopalong:
http://www.agingwithdignity.org/five-wishes.php

http://estate.findlaw.com/estate-planning/estate-planning-overview/estate-planning-overview-process-checklist.html

http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/fcs5/fcs5422/fcs5422.pdf

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