I am an Organ Donor. I wish only to have my heart, liver and kidney harvested for another human being.
I want a direct burial (which means no embalming) Right from my deathbed to the coffin. There is no sense in spending mega bucks to rehydrate my body for an extra day or so. Embalming does NOT ensure the bacteria from eating you up…it just prolongs the process. The trick is really to just use heavy antiseptic before being buried, cause the bugs hate that smell.
I do NOT want a “viewing” or a “wake” That type of ceremony took place in the old days when they wanted to “view” the body to make sure the person was dead. I think medical science has come a long way since then and I am confident if they pronounce me “dead” I will not stir in my coffin.
Besides there is no reason for my friends and family to see my eyes and lips sewn together. Cotten jambed up my nose to prevent embalming fluid from leaking. My body stiff as a rock and falsely hydrated with a tinge of color to make me look alive.
I do NOT want a funeral since I wish to have a direct burial. Therefore a Memorial service should suffice for the survivors I leave behind.
The only two songs I really would like played at my Memorial is:
Amazing Grace and I can Only Imagine ( by Mercy Me)
I want to be buried in my everyday clothes. There is no purpose in going out to purchase a new outfit only to be placed 6 ft. under.
I do not want any jewerly buried on me. I want that to go to my kids.
Cremation. No funeral service, no flowers (anyone wants to give flowers, give them to the living. They’ll only get burned on the box, and that’s a waste). Just a simple box, the cheapest one, no preservatives, no chemicals, and get rid of the corpse, and the ashes after the bones are pulverised and cooled, as soon as possible, 'cause I won’t be there anymore.
Doesn’t matter what we want for our funerals, tho’. They’re there to comfort those we leave behind, not for us.
I want all usable organs to be donated. The rest of me, if medical science wants it, goes to them. If I’m unwanted after the good parts have been taken out, I like the cremation and sending the ashes with friends and family to be scattered as they will.
I’ve always wanted to be cremated (since I was little and saw scary movies about people being buried alive).
They will take my ashes,say goodbye, chocolate will be passed out to all attending, and they will play Ice Ice baby.
I am hoping to not die,instead to be raptured.
yes,I am serious.
In fact, only about one in twenty people die in a way that makes organ donation possible, which is why so many potential organ donors are needed.
Surely nobody “plans” an autopsy. It’s something that comes up if your cause-of-death is mysterious in some way, like if there is or might be some crime involved, or if the doctors can’t be sure what killed you. Anybody here planning to die by stopping a bullet? (“Shot in the back by a jealous husband” jokes don’t count.)
Well organ donation for sure, it is on my driver’s license. Cremation for return to Panama.
Also my will provides for not less than $100 for beer for the (Army) funeral detail. Some young slick sleeve will be at the service and with any luck at all will grow into a full-fledged Sergeant Major who, for years to come, will tell people I was the classiest guy he ever buried.
In end I would like to donate any usable organs,followed by cremation. at my wake
I would like the songs played, Megs Deth Le tout de mone Cat Stevens Wild world and Pantera Cemetery gates followed by a keg at Foxrun. While waiting for the love of my life and I hope it’s a very long wait I will remain with her sealed in urn…This is where it gets interested but I think all should now because they haven’t thought about it or didn’t know…When the love of my life goings me tosame motions will be followed expect music selection. .Shortly following which will be in will we will once again become INTWINED meaning are ashes will be blended called intwinement so we will be forever together. .Small lockets and key.chains with small amount of ashes will be available for family and friends. …Then let there be a large party to celebrate our lives and Love. Remaining ashes will be buried so kids, grandchildren and family, friends can visit if they need solitude and talk…granite bench instead of stone so they can sit and reflect. .married 28yrs now many more to come…Don’t know how many know about intwinment but a great way to be with the love of your life FOREVER…THIS IS IMPORT ANT TO US…THANKS 4 READING
I would hate to think of people remembering me as a body in a coffin, too. I have a “friend” (person from high school who sent me a FB friend request that I mistakenly accepted) who is obsessed with making sure her corpse is beautiful. At least once a month she’ll post something along the lines of, “This is the nail polish I want when I’m dead,” or, “I can’t decide which of these dresses I should be buried in.” She’s not physically ill and is in no danger of imminent death as far as I’m aware. She’s just really obsessed with everyone remembering her as a beautiful corpse. It’s very macabre.
Immediate cremation; no embalming; no public anything; scatter my and my dog’s ashes together somewhere other than this god forsaken cultural wasteland and ice box I live in. Somewhere along the Blue Ridge under a blooming dogwood tree would be nice.
Get rid of my body as cheaply as possible. I don’t care what happens to it, but I do care that getting rid of it not impose a burden on any of my relatives who are still alive then.
I have specific instructions for the disposal of my ashes, and they are in my will. Ditto my wife. The location of disposition of either is dependent on who dies first. If we go together, it’ll be her site of choice.
I’d like to be cremated, and have my ashes mixed into potters clay, and have a professional make bowls, coffee mugs, etc. out of me–which will be handed out at my funeral.
Then my family and friends will be stuck with me forever.
No services. (Agnostic/Atheist)
Cheap as possible cremation (frugal)
Scatter my ashes in the woods of upstate NY (home area)
Have a party. (Irish ethnicity)
