A Fitting End

[Alisoncc]

Worthy of a new topic - split off TRABB.

I have been idly looking at details of the local woodland burial ground, curiosity rather than forward planning,

For me "forward planning". The prospect of being interred in a biodegradable wicker coffin wrapped in a wholly natural shroud, in a woodland in the UK is massively appealing. Funerals in Oz are a massive rip off, with their faux wood coffins, imitation brass handles, and polluting crematoriums. Yuk. I would like to be returned to the earth, with a few acorns for company. Not too deep. Apparently there is little oxygen six foot down, hence decay happens very very slowly. Don't want to hang about for years, thanks.

Alison

[om15]

Very near me, quiet area overlooking the Stour and Hambledon Hill, can't think of anywhere more peaceful to return to the elements.

http://www.hamdown-greenburial.co.uk/gallery.php


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[ribrash]

I will be swimming with the fishes.My ashes will be added to the Mersey from the back of one of the ferries.

[Pontius Navigator]

I will be swimming with the fishes.My ashes will be added to the Mersey from the back of one of the ferries.

That'll improve the water quality

[4mastacker]

I wonder if my ashes being chucked in a cement mixer with the sand and cement and then being used as mortar for the bricks on the lock restoration is permitted. If not, perhaps being sent through the firebox of a steam locomotive.

[OFSO]

I want to be stuffed, given a coat of shellac, standing, with two fingers raised on my right hand and arm, and stood on a concrete foundation on Beachy Head, facing France.

[ribrash]

I will be swimming with the fishes.My ashes will be added to the Mersey from the back of one of the ferries.

That'll improve the water quality

Instead of me catching the fish,they can catch me.

[John Hill]

My ashes will be frozen in a solid block then fired from a berley cannon out past the breakers to land in the Blue Pacific Ocean.

[k3k3]

Sharpham Meadow near Totnes, overlooking the River Dart is where we are going to end up. All arranged for when the time comes (hoping for 30 or 40 years after getting a telegram from King William) as our children live abroad, and we don't want them paying to have someone looking after the grave.

https://www.sharphamtrust.org/userfiles ... d_view.jpg

[Alisoncc]

What a gorgeous view k3. Much better than the view inside of a crem oven.

Having spent a lifetime collecting all these nutients together, my body, seems a waste to just stick them in a fire. Why not feed a nice tree.

Alison

[ricardian]

In Scotland the grave is termed a "lair". When Mrs R passed away 5 years ago I purchased a lair which I later discovered was for us both. Mrs R at six feet and, eventually, me at four feet. The graveyard on Stronsay has some magnificent views and is in a lovely, quiet spot.

[Flintstone]

I plan to ;ive for ever.


So far, so good.

[G-CPTN]

I plan to live for ever.

You just think you will - but you will never know, one way or the other . . .

[Slasher]

I don't care if I'm buried or burnt or fed to the pigs. I'll be dead. Since death is exactly like having never been born, to me the method of my body disposal is unimportant and moot, akin to asking me what hospital do I want to be born in while not even being a twitch in the old man's pants.

To each his own.

[Hydromet]

Not that it will make any difference to me - I'm with Slasher on this one - but my ashes are going to be tipped in a particularly nice river near where I once worked. No doubt the trout there will sample me, so the circle of life will be complete.

[Sisemen]

It would appear that Mrs S wants me in this place - Koorda in WA. It’s where the rest of her mob are planted and it’s in the middle of the Wheatbelt, very unlikely to ever be built out (in fact the opposite - probably headed for ghost town status). So there I’ll stay unless future archeologists want to play.

[Fliegenmong]

Turned into a Diamond????......

[Boac]

It would appear that Mrs S wants me in this place

- fancy detailing EXACTLY where in the middle of the road you are to be.............

[boing]

We have two cemeteries in our local area with "One Way Only" signs on the entrances. Is irony dead or are the dead ironic?

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[k3k3]

I've said I want to be buried with a periscope so I can enjoy the view!

https://www.sharphamtrust.org/userfiles ... d_view.jpg