What is your burial preference? Burial, creamation, moseleum???
By psspurgeon1
@psspurgeon1 (1109)
United States
January 12, 2009 11:49am CST
I have been thinking about this alot lately and every time death comes up my hubby adamantly insits he wants to be put into a moseleum. I told him to choose a more cost effective method as I don't want to be paying rent on him even after he's dead but he is insistant. I on the other hand, want the most simple, cost effective way to go. I do not want to be worm food, I don't want thousands of dollars spent on a fancy headstone, burial plot, etc. So I have come to the determination that I want to be creamated. It makes sence to me. I don't care what they do with the ashes or even if they just throw them away. I just find it to be such an odd practice to put people in a box, bury them in the ground and then re-visit and stand over a skeleton. Very odd. I don't want a big fuss. I figure, I'm going home to be with God after my death, I don't need people coming to visit my dead body for the rest of their lives. I don't need to be taking up space feeding any underworld creatures. What do you guys think? What do you want done with your body?
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@banadux (630)
• United States
12 Jan 09
I want to be cremated. I think the idea of graves was good, but if you think about the future of the world eventually we would cover the entire earth with graveyards! From ashes we have come to ashes we shall return, when I'm gone burn me and let the wind carry me away.
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@psspurgeon1 (1109)
• United States
12 Jan 09
I agree completely. I think it would be sad if I left my family with such a financial burdon once I passed on. I definitly won't need my earthly body when I'm done here on earth.
@thedaddym (1731)
• United States
15 Jan 09
I want to be buried and mostly in my whole form, if they need a couple of my organs for someone that is fine, but mostly I want to be whole when I am buried. I want to be in a nice casket, and I want to be buried next to my wife. I also want my dogs ashes buried with me. I don't like the idea of my body being burned in to ashes, that just seems odd to me. But I don't blame others who wish to have it done that way, I just don't want it to happen to me.
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
13 Jan 09
Being a Hindu, I don’t have much choice…I, or rather my body, would be cremated once the soul departs.
What you say is correct about making fuss over a skeleton but different religions have different rites which people want to follow. Burial does take a lot of space, which could be put to other use, specially in congested cities. Once cremated, there’s nothing left to fuss over.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
12 Jan 09
I have donated my body to science. So there are no burial expenses as the organization will pick up the cadaver and cremate the leftovers. So there will be no fuss and no expenses. Perhaps some good will come from my remains as I do not want to be food for creepy crawlies.
@psspurgeon1 (1109)
• United States
12 Jan 09
Yea, that was a big "whoa, ewwww, gross" for me. I just can't see spending 5g's on a box for bugs to eat through. I don't want to be bug food. I would rather be fish food or fertalizer! I think donating your body is very nice thing to do.
@LuvBr0wn13s (765)
• United States
12 Jan 09
I want to be cremated. Then I want my ashes scattered. I want my family to remember as I was living....not to have to visit a place in the ground where my remains are buried. Plus with overcrowding and lack of real estate aren't we going to run out of burial space eventually? No need to be an addition to that problem!
@Nisha_Verghese (551)
• India
13 Jan 09
yeah mausoleums are very expensive.. Well i have a combination of methods.. i would like to be cremated but i want my ashes to be buried in some cask in a small area of land.. please dont ask me why i want like that.. just felt as if that is the way i want to go. Anyways you should think about what to do with the ashes because expecting it to be left to your relative's choice is not a wise idea.. they may think that whatever they do with your ashes wont please you,,
@psspurgeon1 (1109)
• United States
13 Jan 09
I guess your right, I wouldn't want them to have to worry about that, as I'm sure there would be enough grief without the added decisions to make. Hmmm... now I'm gonna have to do some more thinking! Thank you for the thought provoking response!
@tinkerick (1257)
• United States
12 Jan 09
Personally I'm leaning toward cremation. Logically it does make the most sense. Too much space is wasted with a grave, and a tombstone plus casket plus grave site is costly.
In my opinion (and no offense to your hubby) but a want a mausoleum for yourself is a bit egotistical. It's one thing if your family has a mausoleum and you would like to be included. Or if you plan on having your descendants placed with you. But a personal mausoleum is a bit over-the-top. There are other ways of having your memory live on. An urn, a plaque, a portrait...etc. are all good ways of keeping your memory and take up much less space let alone less money for the family afterwards!
@psspurgeon1 (1109)
• United States
12 Jan 09
That's what I told him. I said, O come on, I don't wanna have to pay payments on you for the rest of my life. And I think the idea of visiting a graveyard lined with skeletons to pay tribute to someone is just an unnecessary thing to do. I agree about the memory with pictures and stuff. I never go hunting through cemetaries to visit graves of distant family and such so who will be coming to look at you a hundred years from now. I think it is much more logical to go with cremation. BTW love your avatar!
