YOUR FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

You really should cut down, bigdice.....urs and I have discussed this and we think it best.....

I'm trying, too ~ just so you don't feel alone!

... comes a rabbit in a bar and sees another rabbit and says -"gosh, are your ears long"

go figure...

...alll I know is, I don't want to be there when it happens...

Can we hold hands when it does happen?

uhoh, rae... don't think that would be that much fun....

think about it, hon...

No matter......

I'm going to sleep, sir. You ought to do the same. This is not a request! Darnit!

okokokok... I'm hearin' ya!!!



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That's "lift" dead, son. c.i.

logging out just now, c.i.!

My funeral arrangements
Well, I have thought long and hard about this, my funeral, how I would like it, the atmosphere too...its so good I would like to be there!!

Car: I would like my coffin in a stretch VW Beetle, purple metallic, chrome(may have to think about building that!). Big daisies would surround the coffin, mixed in with carnations and red, white and yellow roses.

Coffin: Wood, simple, painted a rainbow of colours in the style of the Beetles Yellow Submarine video (someone must know what I am talking about! he he) with a few choice things in there with me:

1. 'The Well of Loneliness' by Radclyffe Hall
2. My snowglobes
3. The film 'So I married an Axe murderer'

I wish to be wearing comfy flared jeans and red DM boots, as I am in life, with my piercings in and nothing removed.

Music: There she goes by the La's and Anouk (don't know which song yet)

I would like to be cremated I think purely because in my home town an old grave yard has been built on, a nightclub now standing in its place, with smashed gravestones all around it...it makes me so sad, I don't think I would like to end up with my remains and treasures under something so crass and commercial...

Scattered in the breeze wherever people want to put me... my funeral will be about the people I love, and me, my life, and theirs...all as one in that room on that day...hopefully a long way off, I have to build my Beetle yet!!

Carrie

I think I want this song:

ISN'T IT GRAND
Look at the coffin with golden handles
Isn't it grand boys to be bloody well dead?

Chorus:
Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody good cry
And always remember the longer you live, the sooner you'll bloody well die

Look at the flowers, all bloody withered
Isn't it grand boys to be bloody well dead?

Look at the preacher, bloody sanctimonious
Isn't it grand boys to be bloody well dead?

Look at the mourners, bloody great hypocrites
Isn't it grand boys to be bloody well dead?

Look at the widow, bloody great female
Isn't it grand boys to be bloody well dead?

fishin': My dad's ashes are inurned at Arlington. Before his service, my mom had talked the band into playing "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" among other more traditional numbers. It created an odd situation - lots of people chuckled, and then felt really embarassed. It was great - Dad wouldn't have wanted us to be too somber. So maybe your jazzy taps isn't entirely out of the question!


I want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered. Details to be decided...

Great epitaphs:

Billy Connelly: "Is that the time?"

Spike Milligan: "I told you I was sick"

Me: "I knew something like this was going to happen".

Dead popular

Mines simple really:

Cremate me and take me to the rocky mountains and let me loose there. Yeah... I like that idea. I guess if people wanted to be there for that it would be ok. Though I would suggest standing upwind of the spreading. Some music might be nice too. I would definitely want John Denver's "Rocky mountain high" playing in the background on a little boombox or something. I haven't really thought too much about it really. Though I don't really treasure the idea of being put in a box in the ground to be honest.

I figure once I am dead it won't really matter what else gets done with me. I have started the inquiry part of donating my body to science. Of course that becomes null and void if I croak at home and am not discovered for several weeks. In that case I get turned over to some bureaucratic agency for dissection to determine cause of death. I just figure it would be nice for those medical students and researchers to have a go at the workings of a fine specimen such as myself.

I used to have the desire for cremation but that leaves the puzzlement of where to strew the ashes. One method I have suggested is to place the ashes on some fan blades then turn the fan on and let me go anywhere and everywhere.

Ah, just do as you want...after all, I'll be dead.

Right sturgis, I agree. Though that doesn't leave much of anything for the mourners who are left behind I guess. Someone could do a memorial service I suppose, if they wanted to. I can see why people like to be buried. Then their relatives have a place to go visit, leave flowers, and such. I don't know though. Like you said, I'm dead, so I don't suppose it will matter much to me anyway.