Questions for Setter4 - Cremation - You MUST be respectful!!!

[HennysMom]

why not send them UPS or FED Ex in that instance or require signature if sending via USPS?

Just to send something (or someone rather) that precious through the mail to have them "sit" there seems rather...unneccessary...for lack of a better word.

 

[Dar]

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there used to be a show on the A&E network it was called "family plots"...it was about a family run funeral home and the owner of the funeral home had lost his son...he had his sons ashes turned into diamonds I think there was a ring and a pair of ear rings made..

i loved that show

 

[ChickenToes]

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there used to be a show on the A&E network it was called "family plots"...it was about a family run funeral home and the owner of the funeral home had lost his son...he had his sons ashes turned into diamonds I think there was a ring and a pair of ear rings made..

i loved that show

I used to watch that show!

 

[sundance]

Thanks Miss Prissy and Setter 4 for this thread, since I am pushing 72 really close, my will has written in it, no flowers, creamated, and ashes thrown in the river near home. I have told my children, had some arguement with some, but as I told them it's not me, just a shell, and I know where the soul & spirit are, Last summer when my DH's bro died, we went to the cemetary to try to find my parents graves, and we searched almost half day and could not find them.To me that was another reason for cremation. I read one of the post's that was offended, I'm sorry they were, but this is something we will all face at one time, and I am glad that this forum is open enough that we can discuss something like this.It has answered some question probably most of us had not thought of, and in a VERY friendly and informative way, THANX AGAIN marrie

 

[smom1976]

ok crazy question.. .. I know by the time you get people they have been with death for quite some time.. but you always hear stories about people being found alive in the hospital morgue.. has this ever happened to you?

 

[EweSheep]

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there used to be a show on the A&E network it was called "family plots"...it was about a family run funeral home and the owner of the funeral home had lost his son...he had his sons ashes turned into diamonds I think there was a ring and a pair of ear rings made..

i loved that show

Here is the link: http://www.lifegem.com/

 

[EweSheep]

Another link for diamonds: http://www.evrmemories.com/cremation-diamonds-s/81.htm

 

[Cats Critters]

But everyone always speaks of the non forgetable smell of burning flesh.. I hear fire fighters talk about that...

My dads a paremedic (EMT) and says that burning Human flesh smells like pork

(I don't mean to disrespectful just repeating what he said)​

 

[kodiakchicken]

I read through about 6 pages of this and then skipped to the last. I don't have any questions, just a few thoughts. I want to be cremated. I don't want to be buried in a box somewhere. That's just my personal desire. However, my decision was cemented a number of years ago when my mother told me that she wanted to be cremated. Her father died quite young, in his 60's, and my grandmother was 16 years younger that he was. My mom said that she watched her mother take flowers to his grave, tend his grave and have to plan trips and vacations around any holiday that might require the tending or visit to the grave for 30 years and she does not want to have anyone obligated or tied to her in that way after she's gone. She'd rather be remembered as the person she was, not as a headstone that needs flowers.

 

[Chicabee19]

This is a very interesting thread. I would never be cremated for spiritual reasons.

Are specific spiritual beliefs about cremation allowed in this post, or is it too controversial and liable to start an argument?