I used to never think of anything but a traditional casket burial...but I am beginning to sway towards creamation.

No option for the Hunter S. Thompson cannon?

I could easily.

 

Me too, I was just done with this thread, since apparently I am crazy for not thinking about if I want to be cremated or burried when I am 23.

I work at a Funeral Home. Believe it or not, I have taken part in digging up 7 or 8 bodies in my area and moving the casket/vault/remains to another burial site. Has anyone heard of this happening or even been part of it (Family member, Worker, etc)?

Burried. I want for my family to see me and everything before I get put into the ground.

Me too, I was just done with this thread, since apparently I am crazy for not thinking about if I want to be cremated or burried when I am 23.

 

That's fine. You can move on to another thread...

Burried. I want for my family to see me and everything before I get put into the ground.

 

If that's the only reason you want to be buried, then you need to research more about the burial process because I mean that is a big decision. You can have a viewing (where people come and see you in the casket) and still be cremated & then still be put in the ground.

I work at a Funeral Home. Believe it or not, I have taken part in digging up 7 or 8 bodies in my area and moving the casket/vault/remains to another burial site. Has anyone heard of this happening or even been part of it (Family member, Worker, etc)?

Yes I have. I have signed quite a few permits allowing bodies to be moved from one part of a cemetary to another, Of course if you move from one cemetary to another you have to get the permit from the state. I always hated this because it made me sad to think that a body was being distrubed.

Yes I have. I have signed quite a few permits allowing bodies to be moved from one part of a cemetary to another, Of course if you move from one cemetary to another you have to get the permit from the state. I always hated this because it made me sad to think that a body was being distrubed.

 

Yeah, you have to have a permit to move a grave. So much for Resting In Peace.

 

Some of the reasons family wants a grave to be moved: 1) If the family has moved far away, they may want to move the grave so they can be closer when they visit. 2) Family feuds. If there are say 3 children of the deceased & 2 of them want to move their loved one to another cemetery because they are mad at the other sister/brother. 3) And a not so common reason: Over the summer, a woman came down from Ohio (to SEKY) and said she would like to have her mother dug up. The reason being was because she was like 25 years old and Her mother died (got shot) when she was just a little baby. She said she wanted to see her mom because she obviously couldn't remember her from when she was just a baby. She got us to open the vault/casket up (that had been in the ground for some 25 years). The vault was still in fairly decent shape, all besides the carrying handles which had rusted away. We pried the vault open and opened the casket. The woman was all bones except for her hair which was still perfect like it probably was when she was put in the casket. The daughter ordered a new casket and vault & we drove the body to Ohio & reburied it.

I want to be cremated and sprinkled on our tomatoes out back. Haven't had any luck with them up to now...can't hurt to try.

Of course if you move from one cemetary to another you have to get the permit from the state.

I bet the KHSAA wouldn't allow it.

Traditional Burial.. Right next to my grandpa..

I want to be cremated and sprinkled on our tomatoes out back. Haven't had any luck with them up to now...can't hurt to try.

Or ruin the chance of them ever growing:lol::lol::lol:

I really don't care what they do with me. I would want my wife/kids to decide what comforts them the most and the go with it. The whole funeral/burial process is for the living that remain anyway. And like a lot of things in our culture, it is greatly overemphasized and commercialized by the industry who takes advantage of the grieving, IMO.

 

It makes no difference whatsoever if they bury me, sprinkle me over Birdsfans tomato plants or just chunk me in the river. I won't know anything about it. I'm sure my family would want a grave to visit, but I'd just as soon they'd stick me in the ground out behind the house in a cardboard box and let nature take its course. Then they could take a vacation with the money they saved and really celebrate.

No option for the Hunter S. Thompson cannon?

 

My plan has always been to take half my ashes and sprinkle them into the Ohio below my parents' house, then take the rest of them down to New Orleans and sprinkle them in, and they'll meet in the Gulf.

 

But the HST idea has a lot of appeal ...