Cremation or Burial?

[ScaredOfShadows]

Hereford- typically it means no chemicals (no embalming), no vault and the casket is typically a plain wooden one...this is so no chemicals are going into the earth and yourbody and casket will degrade and return to the earth.

 

[gfrankel]

For those who are thinking about cremation you should look at Eternal Reefs, www.eternalreefs.com. These are living memorials that really help to preserve and protect the marine environment. Family members and friends are invited to participate with the casting of their loved ones memorial. When they see the amount of life and growth these reefs support there is a real sense of accomplishment and contribution. With a Facebook fan page of 6000 fans in just 14 monthe these memorials make a difference.

We also create memorials putting spouses and family members together as well as including pets. The entire Eternal Reefs process is a positive experiance for the participants.

 

[EweSheep]

That is so neat!!!!!!!!

Do you have to have permission to do that???? Perfect for the environments!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Plan on having my ashes mixed with those of my pets that have passed and all of us scattered over the Sea of Cortez.

My husband is going to be scattered to the wind over UNC-Chapel Hill. What other place is there for a real Tarheel fan??! I'm gonna toss a hand full of him on the basketball court at the Dean Smith Center. If I can't get them to let me sprinkle him over campus, I'm going to dump him in one of the big planters outside of the Smith Center. Funny thing is we have this model of it, I've already pointed out to him which bush/planter it's going to be, lol.

 

[EweSheep]

I bet he prefer to be where the games are!

 

[justbugged]

Well for me I don't think that I care anymore what happens after I go. So cheep, and no funeral for me. I really think that for me I would rather they not bother picking up the ashes is the first place. My first daughter may be very cool with the idea.


I still can't decide what to do with my daughter ashes after 23 years. We had a memorial for her at church, right after she died, but I don't want the same thing done for me. I still have the kids ashes in the closet with a few of her clothes. I had wanted to place her with my grandmother, but it is very clear that my parents will not okay that. In my mind they always belonged together. i cared for both of them as they were dying, so why not keep them together? It just isn't going to happen. My mother in Law did place a bench with Kaitlyn's name and also the name of Kait's cousin that died a few hours after birth in a beautiful park at the south end of Lake Washington. I do really like that.

Now DH is a different story. I am going to cremate him, and I am going to look around the country maybe even the world and find the coolest job site I can. I am then going to have his ashes added to the concrete that is being pumped, and add him to the job. He has loved the job he has been doing for past 23 years, and I don't know of any reason that he shouldn't just stay on the job. He knows what the plan is and he is very cool with the idea

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

I am going to be cremated and tossed to the wind on the ground I was raised on. To the creek or the pond, hay field or corn field, whichever way the wind carries me. From country roots I was grown, and to country roots I will return- forever.

 

[EweSheep]

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Does your parents have that right to say what to do with your beloved daughter? Nope, only you! I see nothing wrong about burying your daughter with your grandma.....I would love to have my ashes scattered on my grandmother's grave and I loved her to death...I can not believe she is gone for 34 years.

Whatever decision you make, it is yours alone, no one elses!

 

[EweSheep]

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I love it! Beautiful!

 

[joebryant]

I chose cremation on the poll, but that was for everybody else, not me. I have no intentions of EVER dying.