Biodegradable Coffins What Do You Think?

[Carol Dee]

What is direct cremation? I've never heard of that.

@Smiles Jr. Direct cremation is being taken directly to the crematorium as apposed to embalming and displaying the deceased at a visitation then to crematorium. Skipping the middleman so to speak.

 

[Nyboy]

Can people who live on farms with family graveyard be buried there now a days?

 

[canesisters]

Here in VA - IF you already have a family plot on your property, you can be buried there.
I don't know if you can START one though. Seems like you COULD but there will very likely be a mountain of fees, paperwork, licenses, etc.

 

[Ridgerunner]

We looked into burying my sister on the farm in Tennessee, a really nice hilltop with a view of the whole valley. That was her daughter's wish. Yeah, a mountain of paperwork. We did not do it, she went in the same cemetery as her grandparents, great-grand parents, an may other relatives. I'm glad we did not put her up there. It was kind of hard to get to and in a pasture field. Instead of leaving it for the cows to keep clean with an occasional bush hogging, we'd have had to fence it off and maintain it. It would have been hard for people to go visit and pay their respects, especially those that could not climb steep hills well.. Not really practical unless you just bury her and then ignore it. Mom can still get to her grave where it is now.

Yes, make your wishes known but the funeral and other rituals are not for you, they are for the ones left behind so they can grieve. As I said earlier, at that point I won't care. I'd be extremely happy for the direct cremation them dump the ashes in a stream that flows to the Mississippi River and on out into the Gulf of Mexico where I spent so much time working. Feed the fishes where I used to enjoy fishing so much. But my wife wants me in the ground in that same cemetery where my sister and brother are now. And she wants to be buried in the same place, probably pretty close to me so she can keep an eye on me.

My uncle, who is 91 and doing really well although he recently buried his third wife, manages the maintenance on that cemetery and another one that has many of my relatives. Every Christmas my surviving brother and I send him a Christmas card with a check to help pay for that maintenance.

 

[bobm]

Well .... I want everyone to contribute their savings from their cremation to be used for the construction of my grand pyramid to be constucted near Mt. Rushmore and my body mumified so 5,000,000 years from now everyone will wonder who this modern mangod was.

 

[thistlebloom]

PM me your address Bob. I'll send that nickel and two pennies I found in the washer.

 

[valley ranch]

Or a pound of Quick Lime.

 

[Smart Red]

We have a spot built in to the basement we had set aside for the first person who wanted out of our marriage. It would be easy-peasy to stand a body in the alcove, block it up, dump lime over the top, and finish blocking up to the fireplace hearth.

The remaining spouse would be certain the other left the area for parts unknown and it would be an unlikely spot to suspect. After 44 years, I guess we'll just leave the alcove -- with the house -- for our decedents. Neither of us wanted out of a good thing.

Mom gave Dad the cheapest funeral she could manage. I figured the same would be good enough for her, so I did exactly the same. I've always figured it was how you treated people when they were alive that was most important -- that a showy funeral was a waste. I'd be perfectly happy(?) under a hydrangea bush. I'm going for cremation simply because it's cheapest, but still would prefer the ashes under a bush rather than in a jar or under a headstone.

 

[seedcorn]

leave it that way in your will. it will happen that way.

 

[Smart Red]

Just imagine the great grands standing before a show-stopping bloom of hydrangea and hearing, " There's your great-grandmother, children. She never looked better".