General Chat

Hi, Before I got into genealogy I was going to have green funeral. But now I feel obliged to have a headstone so my descendants can find me. Gwynne

My children know that after harvesting anything useful, I am to be cremated & my youngest daughter will arrange for the ashes to be put into a huge firework. This will be the main point in a lovely display, half way through a big party of celebration. My son wants to be made into a diamond. Vivienne

Karen Whats that then someone removed your thread or Mikes lovely thread about his mothers burial? Pat x

Okay!!!'...............................????? So who removed the thread abouit Mike mothers burial???? I wont be responsible for mentioning it cos i wasnt!!!! I wont be your whipping boy!!! Karen

Didnt Mikes mum have the most wonderful burial??? It sounds like an ideal to me!!! no waste of energy and soooo tranquil!!!!! Karen PS if you know the thread could you plz nudge it???? thanks

its prob freakky but i would like every family member to take a hand full of ashes and go in the shower ans rub a little bit of me on their skin!! Eventhough 90 % of me would go down the plugwhole i would like to think that the rellies has someting on my essence!!! Well thats my wish!!! i hope my thoughts and morals would rub off!!! Karen

First of all give everything I have to those who need organs/body parts.... then use the rest for science (I won't need them!). Then burn (cremate) the rest and use them to grow a tree. Once I am gone I am gone, use me to help something else grow... it may be the most useful thing I do! love becx

My ashes could be turned into Fireworks(that would be fun) or a nice diamond... Lucia

cremated and ashes scattered in New York.... Bond Street will do at a push tho!! My fav shopping areas..... couldn't afford to go too often in real life so in death it would be great to be there every day!! :O)

I'd prefer to be buried I think. My father is buried and my parents-in-law were cremated, but their ashes are buried in the churchyard in Wales under a tree my father-in-law used to climb as a boy. nell

shove me in a bin with the rest of the rubbish on Monday morning Davex

Having Just buried my dad in a green site, in a few years time he will be part of a new spread of woodland...which should be ok for the next 100 years. I think that there is too much pomp and ceremony in a normal funeral........ok if you like it, but ours we feel was more personal,,no rush, no hurry........and we will be able to visit the site, at our leisure...and pay our respects, in a quiet part of Lincolnshire.........but he will be not too far away from the RAF in which he served,all those years ago......... Bob

As me grandad said.....Put me on a low light till it's a nice day..... :-))))))

The more ancestors I find the more I realise I'm not destined for a long life! They all died early, of lots of different things. I'm only in my 40s but have told everyone I don't want a funeral at all - horrid, sad things - instead I'll have a non-religious and extermely anonymous cremation and then they can scatter me in Buttermere in the Lake District which is what we did with my mother and are going to do with my father.

oooh sue ... i went to lawnswood a couple of weeks ago.... mum in law is now there... i could not believe what it is like there ! dewsbury is a bit mean about what you are allowed to have, plus it gets vandalised a lot. lawnswood is sooo different, sue. x

I have already discussed this with my daughters, Burial for me in the grave I have for my husband in Lawnswood cemetery and I won't be too far away from my Mum and Step-dad. Sue

The older I get the less I believe in anything but nature, so I'd want no service of any kind. I'd like to be cremated because I used to cook for a living, so it seems quite apt to end up being over cooked!!I 'd like to be cremated then I'd like my two daughters to scatter my ashes on Luskentyre Beach, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. This would make them travel to the area to see just how gorgeous it is there. My maiden name was Udall which originated from 'Yew Dale', so I'd like to be cremated and buried under a Yew tree in a deep dark wood as an alternative. I think it's sad being buried in a grave that gets forgotten about over time. I'd prefer people to remember me as a good, kind hearted person rather than as a sad memory in a cold church. I'm only 41 so I hope to clock the 100 yet. Louise

Sue Smith!! Where'd your posh paws go??? Did you know i'd been to York this week, & brought back a fat rascal to share with this lot? lol I like the crystal thing actually, & the ashes in the plant pot, that's nice too!! :0) Joan x

I am sure that can be arranged, Missy Sue! lol BC

i would like my ashes placed in a hugh pot with a lovley plant. kept forever, even if the family moved i'll still be with them. lynnxx