Show us your grave site!
Ok, I thought this would be a good way to examine our individual mortality. My parents bought these graves from my uncle. They're not where most of my family is buried, so they asked me to see if they could be resold. I couldn't find any good place to sell them (would you believe that Ebay sells timeshares but not grave sites), so my parents gave all 6 of them to me.
The graves are in Haym Solomon. While the cemetery has some mausoleums, most of the gravestones are plaques set in the ground. I think this makes the place look nicer. It has trees and a nice rolling hillside. Famous residents include
Jim Croce.
It's actually not too far from the original Cellar site.
Graves in the Cellar.
That should be a song title.
Haym Solomon the financial hero of the American Revolution?
I wanted to buy a lair in the local churchyard a while back as that's where I'm going, but you can't book in advance now. I'll just have to hope that there's space when my time comes (they are buying the field next door for expansion, so it should be OK).
I'll pop along and take a pic sometime ...
My current plan is to never leave.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
--Woody Allen
Everything left of me will go to donation and research.
Nothing left to bury.
We did this with our Mom. Her body went to Fordham Univ. Medical School. They let us know that her corneas were donated to other people and the rest went to research.
They even picked up the body only 2 hours after she died at home.
Almost as good as getting a pizza delivered. :D
My parents bought me one next to theirs, but when I got married they sold it.
I don't like the brass plaques on the ground. It's done to make groundskeeping easier. My parents' graves are that way. I don't care if my gravestone is a PITA for the weed-whackers, thank you very much. :) I want a real gravestone. A nice ornate gothic one.
We've got a cemetery down the road from our house like that, with real gravestones. Some of them are quite unique. What's especially fun is that some people have placed solar LED lights on the stones and on the plots, so you can see the eerie glow of them at night as you drive by. Nice.
Something like this, but under a tree on a hill. No casket. Just shove me in, fill in the dirt, and go.
Something like this, but under a tree on a hill. No casket. Just shove me in, fill in the dirt, and go.
Just to be clear, you DO want us to wait until AFTER you die, right?
:D
I'm not big on pre-planning.
I guess I should start thinking about where I'd like to be scattered.
I want to be scattered, smothered, covered, and chunked.
Sounds too much like Waffle House.
Something like this, but under a tree on a hill. No casket. Just shove me in, fill in the dirt, and go.
I'm with you! I want to return to the earth. No casket, no embalming, just me and the naked earth.
It kind of conflicts with my desire to be buried next to my brother, but since he's within the city limits I would have to be embalmed etc.
I'm with you! I want to return to the earth. No casket, no embalming, just me and the naked earth.
It kind of conflicts with my desire to be buried next to my brother, but since he's within the city limits I would have to be embalmed etc.
Really. Does that mean that there are no Jewish cemeteries within the city limits, since embalming is not kosher.
I think you can bypass embalming if you get a leakproof concrete grave liner. Most of the cemeteries are not within the city limits, though... only a couple of really old ones, like Lone Fir.
I'd like to be cremated, then placed in an urn. Every time one of my nearest-and-dearest takes a trip to someplace really cool, they should take a quarter-cup of my ashes to be spread at a location of their choosing during their trip. Places I have never been to, in life.
When "That Time" comes, I can (per my user name) make you a great deal on a hole...:reaper:
I know I've told this story before, but for those who haven't heard it, here it is for your bored pleasure:
I was telling my family that I want a big party when I die. I want an open bar, and people to have fun. If they feel like it, they can go to a podium and tell a story of something funny or stupid I said or did, and I want lots of laughter.
My older brother responded "now that we have it all planned, let's set a date!"
Grrrr. He really does love me. ;)
I'd like to return to the ocean. A headstone might be considerate for those who want a marker to visit, but I'd like it gone after, say, 50 years. I made my own headstone
HERE.
When "That Time" comes, I can (per my user name) make you a great deal on a hole...:reaper:
I can make you a better deal on a-hole. ;)
Something like this, but under a tree on a hill. No casket. Just shove me in, fill in the dirt, and go.
That struck me as funny because that hole was made by a machine that digs trees up. If they plunk you in and put the tree back, you'd be literally under a tree. :haha:
That was kind of an Everyhole, for effect and illustration.
I'm usually out of my tree. ;)
Take whatever parts are useful and burn the leftovers. Scatter the ashes which you may pretend are actually mine somewhere that looks like this: (Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho)
Scatter here please, after burning of course. Right after the pre-match brief.
I'd like to be cremated, then placed in an urn. Every time one of my nearest-and-dearest takes a trip to someplace really cool, they should take a quarter-cup of my ashes to be spread at a location of their choosing during their trip. Places I have never been to, in life.
Don't they get upset when you toss someone's ashes off the side of the car at Disneyworld?
"To respond to this growing problem, Disneyland's custodial department recently had to purchase special vacuums with very sophisticated HEPA filters that can capture the gritty ash of human remains while also capturing the small bone fragments that can also be present after cremation. The Cast Members who work in Attractions know the code words when calling the custodial hotline, and they tell the custodial dispatcher that they need a 'HEPA Cleanup' as soon as possible."
It left me with a very eerie feeling.
ha ha shawnee123. I *have* a date, it's in nine days. here's the site.
That looks like Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota with the above ground connecting tunnels becauseitistocoldtowalkoutside.
Lotta places have them now - saves people from going to the first floor then across the street then up to where they want to go.
it connects the courthouse to the jail