Scattering the ashes

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Cajungal;283920][quote=Rob King said:
In the show Eli Stone, the tititular character's father was cremated. They kept the ashes in a coffee can too.

Maybe I'm sick, but I find something cool about that. I don't like any urn I've ever seen for ashes. They all seem too pompous.
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I kind of see what you mean. I'm not fancy now, so I don't think a fancy container would be appropriate for my remains. Maybe a shoebox, or a plastic bag in the junk drawer. :p

"Move Leslie, I need a paper clip and some rubber bands."[/QUOTE]

 
LittleSin

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Blue wants to be taxidermed when he dies and put in a motorized rocking chair.

He says this way if he dies young he can scare off all potential new husbands and if he dies when he's older he can creep out the kids/grandkids.

He also specified he wants a Joker like smile on his face.


I'm thinking I'll keep him in the closet.
 
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I have trouble with cremation because of an overactive imagination that only unfortunately gets borne out by science more often than I'd like it to. Like the idea that maybe you're not all dead when you die. I mean, I've thought that a million times, and now they're publishing papers on it. There could be some low-level "life" going on for some time. Your skull's got a fairly hefty impedance, too. Picking up weak EEG signals is tough. Not to mention you're made up essentially of millions of microorganisms, not all of which go, "Oh, okay, we're dead, let's stop!" We've all heard about the hair and nails thing. I told my wife I think that's the real reason they embalm--to make sure you're good and dead.

Oh, and it didn't help that House was about this last week.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

I know what you mean and where you're coming from Fade (Did I just say that?) I'm not the least bit superstitous but part of me wonders if maybe, just maybe, the afterlife ties somehow to your mortal coil and by burning it away, you fuck up your chances.
 
Tinwhistler

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Once I'm gone, I won't care much what happens to my corpse. I would hope that my family would dispose of it in the cheapest way possible, and keep the majority of my life insurance for themselves. Knowing them I doubt that they'd actually do that, though.

Oh, and hair and nails don't keep growing after you're dead.
http://www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.asp
 
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Tinwhistler said:
Once I'm gone, I won't care much what happens to my corpse. I would hope that my family would dispose of it in the cheapest way possible, and keep the majority of my life insurance for themselves. Knowing them I doubt that they'd actually do that, though.

Oh, and hair and nails don't keep growing after you're dead.
http://www.snopes.com/science/nailgrow.asp
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Hmm. I'm going to have to research that one a little more. Little suspicious of an anthropologist quoted as authority, actually. Not that I don't think he knows, really. Just curious more than anything.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Sorry for the loss, we scattered my dad's parents ashes next to a cabin my great uncle owns up in Michigan (where they met, married and started a family).

When my uncle scattered my grandpa's ashes, my dad came up afterward, said a few words, and then took a can of my grandpa's favorite beer (plain old Bud in the can), shook it up and sprayed it over the ashes.

The point I'm making is I don't think there's really any rules, save for something like laws Krisken posted. I suppose it's mostly determined by those at the scattering.
 
North_Ranger

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I believe I have already mentioned this... I will stipulate in my will that my right hand is to be cut off, mummified, and put on a tasteful pedestal under a glass cover - flipping the bird. And one of my descendants has to keep it in a prominent location in his/her home :D

The rest of me... Mmm, I dunno? Cremate, bury, plant an oak tree. I don't want to stay on anybody's table (save for my one-hand greeting to the future generations). With my luck, I would eventually end up spilled on the floor and peed on by the family cat in a Ben Stiller-esque comedy scene that is not funny at all.
 
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