Since this thread is spawned of Bucks passing I really don't wish to appear irreverent.
Disposal of my body should be by the least expensive means possible. I would be thrilled with a funeral pyre. Unfortunately the Funeral Directors PAC has made sure someone somewhere gets their fingers into it and make money off our carcasses. I could probably have my pyre if it were overseen by someone in an official capacity.
So cremate me and use my ashes as potting soil. In my younger years the soil was specific to someone growing class A Pot so my friends could take a toke and say .... never mind.
Throw my ashes about, keep me in a sack on the top shelf, makes no difference long as I don't get flushed.
I turn 50 in a couple months so I'm at that age where people start taking these issues seriously, personal serious. I'm going to die. When? Last thing I intend to do.
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Mother in law has moderate dimensia and things have transpired where the 'family' can no longer deny or ignore it. I'll leave my personal stuff out of this, but a year ago the 'family' didn't want Ma to take her meds because Ma was so much happier thinking she was a teenager in Bari, Italy.
I suspect my own Moms cogs are starting to slip.
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Yes, Funerals are for the living.
We're all mortal. At least in this life.