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Burial or cremation?
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#41
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 15, 2023 at 7:12 pm
^ I drove down that street about 50 years ago. I don't want to be buried there.
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#42
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 15, 2023 at 7:35 pm (This post was last modified: August 15, 2023 at 8:23 pm by Bucky Ball.)
We're all getting cremated eventually anyway, so I'll be getting a small jump on that.
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#43
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 15, 2023 at 10:39 pm
Feed me to the flames and pack my ashes into one of these:
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#44
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 16, 2023 at 1:01 am
Cremation. Get it over with quick and enjoy the wake.
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#45
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 16, 2023 at 3:29 am
(August 15, 2023 at 2:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm seriously leaning towards a non-traditional cremation. Instead of being rolled into one of those ovens, maybe get meself strapped to a motorized gurney, lit on fire, then propelled down a city street.

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I always thought if I could manage it, I would like to burn up during atmospheric re-entry.
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#46
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 16, 2023 at 7:08 am
(August 16, 2023 at 3:29 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(August 15, 2023 at 2:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'm seriously leaning towards a non-traditional cremation. Instead of being rolled into one of those ovens, maybe get meself strapped to a motorized gurney, lit on fire, then propelled down a city street.

Boru

I always thought if I could manage it, I would like to burn up during atmospheric re-entry.

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#47
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 16, 2023 at 8:00 am
I've thought about my death.

When I feel the time is right to go, I want to be killed doing something fun or cool - like freediving or mountaineering. Something actually "living" !!!

I don't want to be buried, it's a pain in the arse, theres no space in the UK and most importantly - I want everyone to get over it, be happy and smile when they think about me - and live their own life.
I want to to think back on me and be happy, then get excited for meeting again in the next life (I believe in that sort of thing).

So no tombstone or marker to visit and pine over me. Get up, get out and get on ;-)

I guess i see this life as the first sentence in a long story - where we never really die - so what do i care??
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RE: Burial or cremation?
August 17, 2023 at 9:44 pm
(August 16, 2023 at 8:00 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote: I've thought about my death.

When I feel the time is right to go, I want to be killed doing something fun or cool - like freediving or mountaineering.  Something actually "living" !!!

I don't want to be buried, it's a pain in the arse, theres no space in the UK and most importantly - I want everyone to get over it, be happy and smile when they think about me - and live their own life.  
I want to to think back on me and be happy, then get excited for meeting again in the next life (I believe in that sort of thing).  

So no tombstone or marker to visit and pine over me.  Get up, get out and get on ;-)

I guess i see this life as the first sentence in a long story - where we never really die - so what do i care??

The End is the end full stop
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#49
RE: Burial or cremation?
August 18, 2023 at 7:26 am
(August 17, 2023 at 9:44 pm)MarcusA Wrote:
(August 16, 2023 at 8:00 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote: I've thought about my death

When I feel the time is right to go, I want to be killed doing something fun or cool - like freediving or mountaineering.  Something actually "living" !!!

I don't want to be buried, it's a pain in the arse, theres no space in the UK and most importantly - I want everyone to get over it, be happy and smile when they think about me - and live their own life.  
I want to to think back on me and be happy, then get excited for meeting again in the next life (I believe in that sort of thing).  

So no tombstone or marker to visit and pine over me.  Get up, get out and get on ;-)

I guess i see this life as the first sentence in a long story - where we never really die - so what do i care??

The End is the end full stop

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