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| The Freedman's Cemetery is across street from the Catholic Cemetery and just up the hill from the large city cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia. Even the cemeteries were segregated in the old south. Do you really care who is decomposing next to you? |
1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other?
2: Do you have a final resting place?
3: How will you haut those who live on behind?
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites?
5: What should your gravestone read?
My answers:
1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? Cremation, dumping me in the forest to feed the critters is frowned on in this country.
2: Do you have a final resting place? No. I inherited a cemetery lot in the last place I would want to spend eternity, and gave it to my sister - my brother-in-law filled that space. I need to decide where to dump the ashes or I will end up in my nephew's basement.
3: How will you haut those who live on behind? I will probably keep sending annoying emails.
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites? Last fall there was a family funeral for sweet bear's family, for my family three years ago when my sisters husband died.
5: What should your gravestone read? Origin is Not Destiny
Please share your answers in the comments.
1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? Cremation
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a final resting place? I purchased a spot in the Columbarium at church a few years ago.
3: How will you haunt those who live on behind? Whoever has to settle out my estate wi;; be traumatized and haunted by my record keeping.
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites?
5: What should your gravestone read?
If I am the last to go, my nephew gets to sort it all out, there will be a few surprises.
Delete1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? So far, cremation.
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a final resting place? Not yet.
3: How will you haut those who live on behind? I can’t be bothered.
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites? Nine years ago.
5: What should your gravestone read? I’ve never thought about it. (I like yours.)
There is a gravestone in Georgetown that reads, "I finally found a parking space in Georgetown."
Delete1. Cremation unless there is a better option. I like the idea of the shallow grave in gauze thing that makes the body deteriorate quickly. No coffin.
ReplyDelete2. While the cemetery my family is interred has room, the section we are in is full. But if cremated, spread my ashes on the Marginal Way in Maine
3. It will be in our wills I suppose. Or will tell a close acquaintance on what to do.
4. I visit my parents at least once a year. I guess everyone else who is in that plot as well. But I don't go for them.
5. Have You Tried Rebooting?
A friend of a friend, does green burials in Oregon, she will wrap in cloth directly into the ground, state regulations there offer a lot of options.
Delete1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? I was going to sayu taxidermy, but I'll go cremation, too.
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a final resting place? Toss me in the sea off Bodega Head.
3: How will you haut those who live on behind? They'll miss my wicked sense of humor and whenever they see or hear smart-assitiude they'll think it's me.
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites? Years back I went to visit my paternal grandmother's grave. She was buried next to my grandfather, whom I never met as he died before I was born. But I am named after him and so I was slightly startled to see MY name on a headstone!
5: What should your gravestone read? He Was Fun While He Lasted
You would, will be deeply missed, a few more decades to go.
Delete1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? Cremation
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a final resting place? No. I guess I should think about that.
3: How will you haut those who live on behind? I'll be too busy with new adventures.
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites? It's been about 6 years.
5: What should your gravestone read? She was always taking pictures.
And great photos.
Delete1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? Cremation, I guess, but taxidermy mentioned above is an intriguing choice I never thought about...
Delete2: Do you have a final resting place? The Roman Forum, believe it or not, close to where they cremated Caesar; this will, no doubt, have to be done on the sly.
3: How will you haunt those who live on behind? Once I get away from people I have no desire to be around them again.
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites? Very much contrary to my family custom, I don't visit graves other than burials after the funeral. And my family graves are 400 mi (644k) away.
5: What should your gravestone read? Go away!
I'll stay around until you tell me to go away.
DeleteIs your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? Most likely cremation with my ashes scattered.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a final resting place? My ass is to be scattered on my grandmother and mother's Graves and the other part on the beach in the ocean.
How will you haut those who live on behind? I would constantly be moving and putting shit away that they left out, you know driving crazy
When was the last time you visited family graves sites? I visit my grandmother's grave every Christmas and Easter
What should your gravestone read? He had some miles on him.
I'm in Philly for the No Kings protest yesterday and later today since I'm already here I'm taking a walk in my favorite Cemetery. And Friday night I visited a vampire Museum.
And what a nice ass to scatter.
Delete1. cremation
ReplyDelete2. scatter my ashes in the DuPage River at the confluence where the branches meet. My favorite spot to hike to in my city.
3. no haunting. I'll be dead.
4. last week when I was out hiking with my sister
5. no gravestone for me
A woman with a plan.
Delete1. Cremation.
ReplyDelete2. Scattering in the Memorial Garden part of a local Edmonton cemetery. I had to personally go buy in advance the Scattering Permit from the City of Edmonton to place on my pre-paid plan file. I was a bit stumped by the bureaucrat's question of what date the scattering would occur.
3. I will haunt any noisy prick whose loud car or partying ever woke me up in the middle of the night. Since I will have eternity, I'll take my revenge on them all. It won't be pretty.
4. Last time was at my mother's burial seven years ago.
5. Not applicable, see # 2 "scattering" above.
When, a few weeks after I die.
DeleteI'm going to use this for my Monday post.
ReplyDeleteLet me go look for it.
Delete1: Is your final plan, burial, entombment, cremation or other? Recently, I haven't really thought about it but I used to imagine being buried in the village of my birth in the abandoned medieval graveyard that once surrounded St Faith's church.
ReplyDelete2: Do you have a final resting place? See above.
3: How will you haunt those who live on behind? There's no such thing as ghosts so I will not be haunting anyone. I will be dead forever.
4: When was the last time you visited family graves sites? Earlier this year, I visited my brother Simon's grave. It was me who arranged for the erection of his Yorkshire stone gravestone.
5: What should your gravestone read? "Here lieth the mortal remains of Yorkshire Pudding. He was a human being."
I read someplace, fear not the dead, it is the alive that are trying to harm you.
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