Funerals.

[duncvis]

although I do like downers. 

[DirtDawg]

Most everyone I ran with as a kid, loved them, too. They fuck me up too much and I go off on an adrenaline rush for hours. I noticed that my heart was pounding after a bunch of us "taking a 'lude" once and everyone took each other's pulse. Most were under sixty, but mine was above one hundred, when it was "normally" near fifty at rest. I missed something, I guess.

[McGiver]

My home city. Its grim oop North. 

Bradford metro area is about the size of Anaheim.

BTW dunc, I've noticed you karma stuck on 714. It's not me doing it, must be McJ. 

They could be twin cities! Except Bradford doesn't have Disneyland. Or sun. Or a palpable sense of dooooom. (My mistake. Yes it does)

As for the karma, I probably haven't done anything entertaining for the last couple of days. 

dance, monkey, and i will give you some karma.

[duncvis]

[McGiver]

good enough for me.

["couldbecousin"]

  I don't want a Catholic wake and funeral Mass.  I'd better write up my wishes while I still can. 

[Icequeen]

I hate funerals. I would so much rather remember someone as I knew them. Not haunted by that last good-bye while their body lays made up and barely recognizable in a casket.

My parents both requested cremation, no viewing, no funeral.

My dad wanted scattered where the trillium covered the top of the hillside in the spring on the farm where he grew up.

My mother in the small creek she waded in barefoot as a child.

Throw me on the fire, take me up on the hillside and toss me to the wind.

I told SO if I go before him and he decides to go the funeral/display route he better hope that there is no afterlife so that I can't kick his ass. Because if there is a way to do it...I will.

 

[odeon]

^I'm the same.

I've told my wife that I am to be cremated and scattered at sea. Yes, I know it requires permission but I don't care. I do not want a grave or urn of any kind.

["couldbecousin"]

  I admire the final arrangements of an old lady whose obituary I read years ago.
  She died of cancer and left her body to the local teaching hospital for dissection/doctor training. 

[Queen Victoria]

  I admire the final arrangements of an old lady whose obituary I read years ago.
  She died of cancer and left her body to the local teaching hospital for dissection/doctor training. 

That's what I did with PA and am intending to do with my remains.  I'd like to donate The PR's remains because so few handicapped bodies are available to the students.  But since I'll be dead before her, I'm not sure what her caretakers will do. 

One annoying thing is the wait until we get the cremains back.  If we don't want them, they will be interred in a large grave in a hospital's cemetery.

["couldbecousin"]

  If I predecease my sister, I should have my cremains sent to her,
  so her cats can knock them off the shelf.  'Cause cats are assholes. 

[Queen Victoria]

  If I predecease my sister, I should have my cremains sent to her, so her cats can knock them off the shelf. 

And have ashes all over the floor? 

[odeon]

Wouldn't it be great?

["couldbecousin"]

  Maybe I could even be laid to rest in the litter box.  Useful right to the very end! 

[odeon]

  Maybe I could even be laid to rest in the litter box.  Useful right to the very end! 

That's the spirit.