Well, This really sucks.

There's one in Hull, MA near Sta PA that reads "I told you I was sick" !!!

too funny

Behold and see as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so you must be,
Prepare for Death and follow me.

- unknown smallpox victim, Boston Harbor

Just whatever the VA provided bronze plaque will allow... No more, no less. Never saw much use in wasting granite for a stone in a necropolis...another waste of usually nice ground property that could be better utilized than planting useless corpses in. Someday I hope all cemetaries are replaced by some sort of recycling idea.

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I hope all cemetaries are replaced by some sort of recycling idea.

They already have... It's called Cremation.

Ashes can be placed where ever you want (pretty much) and whenever you want... around the orange tree, ocean, lake, etc.....

If people do any planning and see the difference in price between a cemetary, and an urn, there isn't much question in my mind.

I guess it just depends on how you want to spend your money before you leave.... I intend to pay for my wife's and my cremation this coming year.. certainly things wont get any cheaper, and I don't want that burden to fall on my kids. I think for my Mother the cost was under $500.00

Wray...

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Originally posted by Wray:
I think for my Mother the cost was under $500.00

Wray...

Wow that is a good price..my mom cost over 6k to bury..i am a organ donor..but i also need to look into that creamation thing..my wife and i have already talked and agreed verbally to it.

As the immortal Jerry Lee Lewis said "Don't put no headstone on my grave!"


Jason

First - Magic, very good of you to quote the late, great Douglas Adams.

I, too, will be cremated. Half the ashes to be spread at sea - North Atlantic please (or the Great Lakes) and the other half I would like to be spread where the soccer fields were on Governors Island. However, just as a final stab in the eye to society, I would like a tombstone that says:

Crappy view but no complaints from the neighbors. However, I ain't in at the moment.

nickap
retired and still having fun

My mother once told me that whom ever dies first her or my dad will be creamated and then when the other dies put their ashes into the same urn and shaken so they can always be together. And my father being the very salty man he is and will always be is true home is the sea. Lets just hope non of that happens for a long time. Because even though I am 26years old I don't know what I would do with out my Daddy and Momma. I will always be their little girl, and Im still a BIG DADDY's GIRL

Rest In Pease Ya'll and Don't ever stop Living even if they said your dead... are you really....
~Peace

To make the nectar of which I crave
Plant hops and barley upon this grave

"And all those years on earth I thought
stepping in dog poop sucked"

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"I am watching you right now, get off my grave!"
...boo

No tombstone for me. I, donating my body to the Univ. of Michigan Science Dept. Free, what you see is what you get.

"My mother once told me that whom ever dies first her or my dad will be cremated and then when the other dies put their ashes into the same urn and shaken so they can always be together. And my father being the very salty man he is and will always be is true home is the sea"

I've thought about this and BScardino's post was a great idea- perfect for a couple of sailors. I'm not sure about the shaking of the ashes- who ever is last gets to decide on who gets to be on top for the last time! In all seriousness, I'm thinking one of us will be spread ~500NM north of Barrow to rejoin a shipmate, actually make that both of us. Please make sure there isn't a JO at the con who can't figure out how to make the wind go from the pointy end to the round end- last thing we need are deckies cursing us!

If you are familiar with popular restaurants in Miam Beach, Joe's Stone Crab's has been there for more than 40 years and known around the world for Stone Crab's.

I was attending a Funeral in Miami recently at Woodlawn Cemetary, on my way out while driving by a moseleum the inscription apperaing on one vault reads:
" I would rather be at Joe's"

"Ok, one more and I'm out'a here"

No matter how grandiose the marker, the only thing that matters is what you did with that little dash between the two dates.

Who wants a tombstone... just another waste of money....

Smart people get cremated.

Wray...