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Green burial is becoming more common in the U.S. you can get wicker caskets and be buried without embalming. Your urn can be made out of biodegradeable paper that will dissolve in water, looks like a seashell. Or a pressed paper urn that can be used for scattering or buried. Look up Passages Scatter Tubes on google.
Well, I hope I live to a ripe old age & noone will want my shriveled up organs but I'm an organ donor nonetheless. If there is a need & I can help someone, that's great. I would then like to be cremated & taken out to sea to become part of a coral reef. Then I would like to have my family spend the day on the boat, having good food, good drinks, fond memories & marveling at the beauty of the sky, dolphins, birds & water around them.
Well, I think it would be best if any who wished it would come over to the house, and talk with others, telling all of the funny stories about me they can remember. I suspect I have given enough ammunition for this sort of thing to keep them busy for a while. Then, charbroil my butt and take me out on a fishin' boat out of either Morehead City, NC, or Atlantic Beach, NC and at some point toss the ashes out into the ocean, somewhere around the gulf stream. With luck old friends may think about me when fishing, and, yeah, one other little thing, I want my fishin' hat to cook with me, that ole shady brady has seen a lot of fishin'.
I forgot to mention, you can go to www.greenburialcouncil.org to get information on green burial programs, "green" cemeteries, cremation and products. In Denver, there has been talk of taking one of the oldest cemeteries, Riverside Cemetery, and using part of it for scattering in a prarie-like setting.
Not trying to change your mind one way or the other, just pointing out that even if you're cremated your ashes can be buried and a memorial available for you to visit.
HUMMMMMMMM, does give me food for thought, please enlighten me, Assume I am dead and have been cremated, then......memorial or not, just how do you propose that I could visit anything?
In my home town in Montana there were a large number of Irish immigrants living in a mining town and I've heard many stories about Irish Wakes and I'm mostly Irish myself. My uncle told me an awful story about how everybody got so drunk at a wake that they actually were pouring down shots of liquor down the dead man's throat when he was there as a young boy. He told me he had nightmares about it. Yes, it's true blue that we Irish have an interesting culture.
... Montana, your status otherwise suggests you've got lightyears to get up to scratch, sorry
... that might enhance the industrial greed and reduce the cash cow.. err flow.. err ....
Stephen's greetings!
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but I'm an organ donor nonetheless. If there is a need & I can help someone, that's great. I would then like to be cremated & taken out to sea to become part of a coral reef. Then I would like to have my family spend the day on the boat, having good food, good drinks, fond memories & marveling at the beauty of the sky, dolphins, birds & water around them.
.interesting is only the Irish ...
Good idea, really ....
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