Burial or cremation?

I have no idea what I want so this is defintely got me thinking.

I prefer cremation, like you becks i have a friend who is an embalmer and after hearing some stories no way do i want to be buried. Ive never liked that idea anyway though. I always thought i would like to say have my mum cremated and then plant a tree and do a special wee area in the garden for her that i can go and sit anytime of the night or day. I wouldnt want to be going to a creepy cemetary at 3am in the morning when i felt i needed to be close to her!

Oh and in some cemetaries you can put ashes with a burial, just depends on the cemetary rules but apparently they generally like that cos they are all running out of room (i asked cos my friend buried her wee boy but wants to be cremated but wants to be with him when she goes)

Not thinking too much about it id have to say burial

As long as we haven't run outa room inside the earth when i die, coz i dont want to be buried standing up (wont feel at rest) Or we suddenly have geothermal active soil & everything starts bubbling up under there & burning skin & bone. I dont mind the creepy crawlies eating me, i like the idea of being part of the food chain

Aint the stories from undertaker freinds lovely

DH wants to be buried so he can come back as a zombie

hubby and I are both for cremation and organ donation as well. Was discussed years ago now

cuppatea wrote: DH wants to be buried so he can come back as a zombie

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mum2paris wrote: See that's an interesting one Becks.. I mean, I wouldn't mind donating lungs, liver, kidneys.. but would want to keep my heart which in my opinion bears all the sgnificance of all those you have loved in your life and ties in with the soul in some way i guess.   I don't know if you can specify though that you would donate x and x but not the heart..

But if you dontated your heart it could go on living and loving

I'm not fussed whether I'm cremated or buried, but either way I will have a plot with a headstone, that's really important to me. My grandparents were both cremated and had their ashes scattered and it bothers me that I don't have somewhere to go and visit them. I know it's a metaphorical thing and they're not actually 'there' but just the whole idea of having a 'place' is important to me.

One thing that does upset me is that Willie and the girls will all most likely be buried in the urupa on their marae as is tradition in their family, but I won't be coz I'm not strictly family, but I really want to be with my girls. Not that I couldn't be buried in the urupa, just that my family probably wouldn't be comfortable with it.

I'm an organ donor, I'd donate anything and everything they can use coz I have no need for it.

hehe this is really gross now that Im older but Ive always been really scared of my mum dying and when I was little I always said that when she died i would have her stuffed and keep her at my house.