Weird Question That Freaked My Wife Out.

[Oh8ch]

It is a heck of a lot easier to talk about it now than when you have reason to talk about it.

I keep telling my wife I want to be cremeated and turned into a Donato's Pizza topping.

My motto is "Ashes to ashes, Edge to edge."

Ummm - Pizza.

 

[Thump]

Then when you meet the next, next Mrs. Rugby she can say "oh thats a beautiful diamond earring"

"Thanks, its my wife"

I think a nice pearl necklace would be much better.

My parents have a single plot. Whoever dies second will be buried on top of the first.

 

[scarletandgrey]

I'll be dead! Why do I care what you do with me. As far as I care you can prop me up beside a tree in the woods with a beer in my hand so I look like some old drunk pissing in the woods.

But if I had a choice I would like to be buried under the 50 yard line at the shoe. That would be the hizzy fo shizzy

 

[OCBuckWife]

I want to be cremated. If they can arrange some iron in with me or around that would be great but not necessary (it adds a green tinge to the ashes).

After cremation I want a wake of some kind, with lots of drinking and talking and laughing and fun. I know my friends, they will come up with something appropriate! I want a vial of my ashes given to certain people at the wake. I have a list and I have spoken to each person on the list about this. Those people can do whatever they want with the ashes but I have asked that each of them place a wet fingertip's worth of ash on their tongue. Or in tea. Or whatever helps them to ingest this tiny bit of my cremains.

The remainder of me is going to LifeGem. I have begun a prepay plan and will be making payments so that when I go it will already be taken care of. I am getting small green "created" diamonds made from the 5.5 lbs or so of cremains that should be left. Enough of them so that each person who received a vial also gets a diamond. They will be cut but loose to give those people a choice of setting that pleases them.

Whatever ash is left and returned by LifeGem I want half to go to my husband and half to go to my oldest, dearest friend. They can do what they want with em. They are asked to place a pinch of me in any place I liked, enjoyed, had fun at, was somehow influential in my life, etc. If they want to give some to other friends for the same purpose I'm all good with that. I don't need a marker. I don't need a plot. I don't need a niche in a wall. I need good memories and a beautiful piece of jewelry that will (I hope) be handed down from friend to friend to family to friend, ad infinitum, carrying me with it and associated with love and beauty.

 

[Big Papa]

I want to be cremated. If they can arrange some iron in with me or around that would be great but not necessary (it adds a green tinge to the ashes).

After cremation I want a wake of some kind, with lots of drinking and talking and laughing and fun. I know my friends, they will come up with something appropriate! I want a vial of my ashes given to certain people at the wake. I have a list and I have spoken to each person on the list about this. Those people can do whatever they want with the ashes but I have asked that each of them place a wet fingertip's worth of ash on their tongue. Or in tea. Or whatever helps them to ingest this tiny bit of my cremains.

The remainder of me is going to LifeGem. I have begun a prepay plan and will be making payments so that when I go it will already be taken care of. I am getting small green "created" diamonds made from the 5.5 lbs or so of cremains that should be left. Enough of them so that each person who received a vial also gets a diamond. They will be cut but loose to give those people a choice of setting that pleases them.

Whatever ash is left and returned by LifeGem I want half to go to my husband and half to go to my oldest, dearest friend. They can do what they want with em. They are asked to place a pinch of me in any place I liked, enjoyed, had fun at, was somehow influential in my life, etc. If they want to give some to other friends for the same purpose I'm all good with that. I don't need a marker. I don't need a plot. I don't need a niche in a wall. I need good memories and a beautiful piece of jewelry that will (I hope) be handed down from friend to friend to family to friend, ad infinitum, carrying me with it and associated with love and beauty.

Are you expecting to check out soon? You have put a lot of thought into this.

 

[Muck]

Currently my Will stipulates that I be buried in Fort Mitchell National Cemetery in Phenix City AL next to my daughter Kaitlynn.

I want to be cremated. If they can arrange some iron in with me or around that would be great but not necessary (it adds a green tinge to the ashes).

And here I thought you were planning on warding your remains from faeries & jinn.

I want a vial of my ashes given to certain people at the wake. I have a list and I have spoken to each person on the list about this. Those people can do whatever they want with the ashes but I have asked that each of them place a wet fingertip's worth of ash on their tongue. Or in tea. Or whatever helps them to ingest this tiny bit of my cremains.

What black magic is this meant to facilitate?

 

[Buck Nasty]

Originally Posted by OCBuckWife
I want to be cremated. If they can arrange some iron in with me or around that would be great but not necessary (it adds a green tinge to the ashes).

After cremation I want a wake of some kind, with lots of drinking and talking and laughing and fun. I know my friends, they will come up with something appropriate! I want a vial of my ashes given to certain people at the wake. I have a list and I have spoken to each person on the list about this. Those people can do whatever they want with the ashes but I have asked that each of them place a wet fingertip's worth of ash on their tongue. Or in tea. Or whatever helps them to ingest this tiny bit of my cremains.

The remainder of me is going to LifeGem. I have begun a prepay plan and will be making payments so that when I go it will already be taken care of. I am getting small green "created" diamonds made from the 5.5 lbs or so of cremains that should be left. Enough of them so that each person who received a vial also gets a diamond. They will be cut but loose to give those people a choice of setting that pleases them.

Whatever ash is left and returned by LifeGem I want half to go to my husband and half to go to my oldest, dearest friend. They can do what they want with em. They are asked to place a pinch of me in any place I liked, enjoyed, had fun at, was somehow influential in my life, etc. If they want to give some to other friends for the same purpose I'm all good with that. I don't need a marker. I don't need a plot. I don't need a niche in a wall. I need good memories and a beautiful piece of jewelry that will (I hope) be handed down from friend to friend to family to friend, ad infinitum, carrying me with it and associated with love and beauty.

Are you expecting to check out soon? You have put a lot of thought into this.

You don't have breast implants by any chance do you?

 

[OCBuckWife]

Are you expecting to check out soon? You have put a lot of thought into this.

Absolutely not, but if and when it happens I would prefer this planning was already taken care of as best as possible. I've lost people and been the main support of others when they lost people. It's not a time when anything but one's grief should be dealt with, all the niggling details should not be a factor in what is already a terrifying and tremendously emotional time. If I die tomorrow, certain decisions will only have to be implemented, not made. If I die 40 or so years from now, not only will the decisions have been made, it will have already been paid for. That all leaves more time for my family and friends to simply grieve instead of trying to decide burial or cremation, what kind of coffin/urn, memorial or church service, ad nauseum.

And here I thought you were planning on warding your remains from faeries & jinn.

Dang little people always stealing bodies and shit.

You don't have breast implants by any chance do you?

No, silicon-induced suicide is not in my personal future!

 

[gregorylee]

Wow, the whole "wet fingertip" thing..... To each her own, but that would really weird me out.

 

[OCBuckWife]

Wow, the whole "wet fingertip" thing..... To each her own, but that would really weird me out.

Yep, I understand. It weirded out about half the people on my list. All agreed but some EXTREMELY reluctantly.

I watched a tv show about this tribe of Amazonian indians once. It must have been 10 years ago. Part of their funeral customs is a dinner party kind of thing with the whole village. The soup that is the center of the dinner is reserved for the family of the recently deceased and added to it is ALL of the cremains left behind after a very crude cremation. To this tribe, each person literally contains/is a part of/carries about a piece of an ancestor within their own bodily structure. That struck me and stayed with me. It resounded in my head so forcefully that I made it a part of my personal funeral planning.

 

[Buck Nasty]

Absolutely not, but if and when it happens I would prefer this planning was already taken care of as best as possible. I've lost people and been the main support of others when they lost people. It's not a time when anything but one's grief should be dealt with, all the niggling details should not be a factor in what is already a terrifying and tremendously emotional time. If I die tomorrow, certain decisions will only have to be implemented, not made. If I die 40 or so years from now, not only will the decisions have been made, it will have already been paid for. That all leaves more time for my family and friends to simply grieve instead of trying to decide burial or cremation, what kind of coffin/urn, memorial or church service, ad nauseum.



Dang little people always stealing bodies and shit.




No, silicon-induced suicide is not in my personal future!

I don't know how old you are, but if you expect that you could live for another 40 years, I hope you have written your plans for yourself in pencil. Who can even imagine what options will be available to you in even 20 years let alone 40. Also what happens to your money if LifeGem goes out of business in the next 40 years.

 

[iambrutus]

Wow, the whole "wet fingertip" thing..... To each her own, but that would really weird me out.

yeah, that would freak me the fuck out. dont know that i could do that

 

[OCBuckWife]

I don't know how old you are, but if you expect that you could live for another 40 years, I hope you have written your plans for yourself in pencil. Who can even imagine what options will be available to you in even 20 years let alone 40. Also what happens to your money if LifeGem goes out of business in the next 40 years.

Of course, plans are made to be changed as needed or desired. Nothing is set in stone but I also don't know if I will be alive next week so having plans available is a kind of peace of mind NOW.

That's a good question. But it's the same question that can be asked of anyone that buys a plot early or invests in a coffin as part of a funeral pre-plan service.

I have watched LifeGem from the first year of its inception to now. This company isn't going out of business anytime soon. If I had even a thousand dollars at the time I first heard of it I would have bought stock in the company and reinvested each year into more stock, I am that sure of its stability. The company has refund policies and such as well of course.

Nothing about death customs ever goes out of business. Death is an ongoing business. It's "fads" may change but there is always profit to be made from the trappings of grief.

 

[Deety]

I'll just build a bot for posting and automate a "Yes... no... mmhmm" message for my phone, and nobody will ever know I'm gone.

I'll just build a bot for posting and automate a "Yes... no... mmhmm" message for my phone, and nobody will ever know I'm gone.

I'll just build a bot for posting and automate a "Yes... no... mmhmm" message for my phone, and nobody will ever know I'm gone.

Pardon, must reboot. I mean, grab a snack.

 

[Brutus1]

I thought this was going to be about asking your wife for a threesome.