Planning Your Own Funeral

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Jadow

Jadow

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each person is different. I'm dying (not too soon I hope), my wife is younger and will probably outlive me, so I thought I'd let her have some ideas so she at least has something to go on.
 
Wyndru

Wyndru

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I want an open bar at mine. Probably won't happen though. Maybe just a keg next to the casket?
 
pyonir

pyonir

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I took a psych class in college and one of the course requirements was to plan out your own funeral. So, yep, I've planned my own funeral. :p
 
Sho'Nuff

Sho'Nuff

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Wyndru said:
I want an open bar at mine. Probably won't happen though. Maybe just a keg next to the casket?
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Screw next to the casket. I want a keg IN the casket. And it better be good beer. Burying me with a keg of Bud Light would be as close to damning me to hell as one might get.

More seriously, my death wishes are as follows:

1. Put body in cardboard box.

2. Ignite cardboard box

3. Spread ashes somewhere they won't get pooped on.

4. Tell my kids not to spend all my money in one place. It took a lot of time and hard work to accumulate it, and a helluva lot of effort not to spend it.

Simple and easy. Just like me.
 
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gorcorps

gorcorps

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I'm gonna side with Louis CK on this... Fuck you, you're dead! I'm not gonna do errands for you when your dead. You don't MATTER anymore.
 
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dingster1

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In all seriousness, preplanning takes a real load off those who are left behind. I just dealt with this with my mother. She had everything paid for, including the soloist. I only had to pay for a headstone. Much easier...
 
skyking

skyking

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dingster1 said:
In all seriousness, preplanning takes a real load off those who are left behind. I just dealt with this with my mother. She had everything paid for, including the soloist. I only had to pay for a headstone. Much easier...
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No kidding, thanks mom. Sorry for your loss :rose:
 
Rumpltzer

Rumpltzer

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I run a Viking funeral business.

Wooden boat filled with plenty of dry lumber and a body. Float that thing off the Santa Monica pier and set it ablaze.


Catered barbecue is extra.
 
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mizzou

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over christmas i saw a .doc listed " things to do before i die" in my moms desktop. Shes 60. :(

most people just make sure they have $$ for your box and hole and ceremony, and get your debt in check most importantly if you want to be respected
 
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nanette1985

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I've got some massive health issues so this isn't a silly question. Everybody in my family knows that when I'm at the end - I go back "home" to the family home where I grew up and where most of my family still lives. It's a Mennonite community, so when I'm gone, the relatives build a coffin, the gathered friends and relatives do a service and carry the coffin out to the burial ground on the property. Afterwards, since everybody of course brought something to eat, there is a huge feast.

Cost of funeral, zero. Also, possibility of expensive end of life medical treatment zero.

We've had several relatives go in the recent past. It's nice and it's basic. And on the off chance that Mennonites are correct about their religious and afterlife beliefs, then I'm covered
 
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