Last Arrangements

[Freed Fox]

For those of you who have made arrangements, or have already thought this through; what are your plans for your remains when you leave the mortal plane?

Burial? Cremation? ...Mummification? Perhaps something less traditional? :rapture: :p

Just curious more than anything, especially if the method by which one is laid to rest holds any particular significance to you.




Salud

[Earth Angel]

Im not going !

[jagman]

Im not going !

I think im going with the classic Irish wake. A big party with the only one not suffering a hangover is the deceased. but if given a choice i will also opt out lol

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Cremation, was paid for when I was 3 weeks old( i was kept in an incubator/aquarium)didnt turn me into a chicken or fish though( I think they tried), but when i go, very simple service, some Bob Marley, dry cake and bad coffee, party for the friends is allready paid for too, dancing, drinking, good food and maybe a few tears, after i turned to ashes I want to become strawberries for my next run.

[Limor Wolf]

Happily going! and wouldn't mind one bit what happens to the meatsuit I wore here, let me set it free, and let it set me free... as long as my consciousness stays with me :)

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Happily going! and wouldn't mind one bit what happens to the meatsuit I wore here, let me set it free, and let it set me free... as long as my consciousness stays with me :)

Í'll bring the strawberries ( strawberries have conciousness too you know);)

[Timewaster]

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[Snookie]

I've requested cremation in my will. Don't plan on having any big service, but a wake sounds like fun.

[Limor Wolf]

Happily going! and wouldn't mind one bit what happens to the meatsuit I wore here, let me set it free, and let it set me free... as long as my consciousness stays with me :)

Í'll bring the strawberries ( strawberries have conciousness too you know);)

Mmm.. In that case, does cream have consciousness? :rolleyes:

Oh, Hell (or heaven) bring them on!

[Fred Steeves]

Cremation all the way, and honoring the body for it's service is grand style.

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[jagman]

Sorry this just came to mind. enjoy:wizard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSQAZEp3PA

[shadowstalker]

Well after waiting three days of this possible death of my body (as I may choose to come back) I wish to be taken to one of those tribal nation that use Ayahuasca .
Have all my friends that could make it there and have some of that good juice so we could all chat on the other side...
Would wish for half my body be buried and half ashed.

Ayahuasca representing whole heartily for the spirit.
The burial representation of earth and renewal.
My ashes be sent into space as representation of stardust.

[Tangri]

Cremation, was paid for when I was 3 weeks old( i was kept in an incubator/aquarium)didnt turn me into a chicken or fish though( I think they tried), but when i go, very simple service, some Bob Marley, dry cake and bad coffee, party for the friends is allready paid for too, dancing, drinking, good food and maybe a few tears, after i turned to ashes I want to become strawberries for my next run.

I hope you are not coming to Israel or US for next round, They usually modify genetics of strawberries.;)

[Ellisa]

I don't believe in an after-life so I honestly don't care what happens. You can make all the plans you like, but unless your children or friends carry it out you have no control over it! Funerals are for the living, and it's up to them as to how they want to remember you, after all it is their memories that will give you your immortality!

[Tangri]

I've requested cremation in my will. Don't plan on having any big service, but a wake sounds like fun.

You should consider again if your consciousnesses stay a little longer with your body.

[Tangri]

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[Camilo]

Ascension, or in its defect cremation.

[markpierre]

This is a funny one. I can't imagine anyone missing their own funereal, but that's contingent on having one.

I think I'll just leave it up to the local authorities. They seem to believe that it belongs to them anyway.

I plan on being busy elsewhere.

[foreverfan]

Dixieland funeral march... Well... I am in New Orleans LA.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdohpu1ZRA

[Jean-Marie]

Cremation! My ashes to be scattered at my favorite mountain place.

[Lifebringer]

i had always planned creamation and the sprinkle on an oceanic shore to touch all of mother earth through rain and tide. I read there is a bodily process after death that involves the body fluids separating, giving off the spiritual gases and the red, black and white separations of chafe, body and soul in the deterioration process with the rays of sunn warming the earth, and the moon shining. The black syrup replenishing for the future crops or energy source in the earth. fossil fuel goo? So now I've become confused on how I want to say goodbye to my body and family. When the body is drained of blood, that black isn't presented properly for this to happen. They are interferring with the natural process of all bodily fluid separation in the box.
So, since they are doing this in the morgue, I am even more confused as to how to properly bury our own bodies. So much deceit and lies, and hidden natural history and eveything is confused and jumbled century by century. i wouldn't mind being part of the Earth as "fertilizer for the next set of beings, but if I can be cremated I would. Any one have the truth on the proper way to bury the material body in acceptance of the ancestrial tradition? I am Cherokee-African-Irish American.:confused:

[sandy]

Me too Jean-Marie (cremation and spread ashes in the mountains)no funeral or memorial but if those left behind want to celebrate my transition with a good time I say have at it !! :)

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Jameson or Bushmills, Jagman?



Im not going !

I think im going with the classic Irish wake. A big party with the only one not suffering a hangover is the deceased. but if given a choice i will also opt out lol

I care not, when I die, where my body shall lie.
Put me to sea, or cremate me;
None shall I care, for me I will not be.

[Wind]

Honestly? I don't really care. There is a possibility that I will not be able to take my body with me to the afterlife so I'm not bothered that what happens to it. Bodies come and go... But our energy & soul is eternal. When I know that I am going to die I will be actually glad to know that my journey will continue in a better place. The journey never ends, it just keeps on going.

[blake]

Hello All,

It’s so easy for the one who transitions, for they are free, and on a new adventure, or not. It’s hard for the ones left behind. Yes, some friends, neighbors, associates, extended family will be sad, perhaps even tearful for their loss of you no longer interacting in their lives. But it is your spouse, your children, and your parents, if they are still on this earth, who are really intrinsically emotionally affected by your death, and will more likely then not grieve deeply in their own way, and often get stuck or hurt without support.

When I was a youth, I thought funerals were morbid, and a waste of money, with many people attending not really caring that much, just being rather insincere as they obligingly went to these wakes and funerals Then as I got more experience in life, I realized that these seemingly morbid, or insincere death rituals actually were helping, in various ways, to those in shock as they emotionally transitioned to their new reality on earth without having the person they loved no longer in their lives. I now have gained much more respect for those people obligingly attending these funerals and wakes than I had in my youth. They are simply giving energy to those in need, whether those in need realize they need that extra energetic support or not.

We all know, we all grieve differently, but grieve our love ones we must to release the sadness so that they can go on living in a healthy way. Funerals, wakes, or memorial services are not for the dead, they are for the living. They act as an anchor, a purpose to hold onto especially during those first few days of a death of a loved one until one can find a steadier gait to go on living without the other. These death rituals that seemingly appear sometimes unnecessary to the inexperienced, can often be, for those grieving, like holding on to a railing while descending a very steep staircase with their legs feeling as if they are about to give out.

Living people need psychological rituals to get them through the hardest part of the emotional and often tortuous painful event of losing their love one to death. To those who died, rituals are insignificant. So whatever my love ones need, is how I want to arrange my last arrangement. It won’t be my eyes that I look through at how to plan the event but through the eyes of those I leave behind and how I can help them get through those days.

Most people are inexperienced at knowing what they need during that ill fated time. So I believe it is best to have some traditions for people to automatically lean on, and to follow in order to help the living put one foot in front of the other . The wake is not for the person who died, it is for giving energy to the grieving person who can hardly breathe from the death that had just happened. If we are celebrating the person who has died, it is even more important, in my opinion, to support and give attention to those who have been left behind. We can honor the dead but to me it is more necessary to help the living.

So while it’s an interesting exercise to wonder how one will arrange their last arrangement, in my very humble opinion, our personal needs to what to do with our physical remains is insignificant to what those behind need to do with them. How wise are we when we choose to make our last arrangements not through our eyes but by through the eyes of our loved ones.

At my death, my concern, if I were alive, would be doing whatever it took to make the very human grieving process easier on my loved one. People need attention in different forms. No one needs more attention and supportive energetic energy than during the death of a love one.

Sadly we don’t get much instruction on how to help each other during this time period. All we seem to have is some built in traditions. Centuries old guard rails for the living to lean on.

How many people feel comfortable or know what to do when someone loses a love one to death? Your death will not matter to you after you are dead. Your death will matter to your loved ones. So perhaps another question to ponder is when I make my final arrangements how will this help my love ones. But those are just my thoughts, and my opinions

Sincerely,

Mr. Davis

[Heartsong]

I will be cremated and burried contained in a beautiful china dish in my husband's family section in a small town cemetary.

A funeral or memorial service or gathering will be held with friends and relatives present. There will be food, music and memories shared.

Our people are ordinary salt-of-the-earth sorts who are comforted by tradition so tradtional it shall be.

Me, I'm going to a traditional heaven, thank you very much.

[Freed Fox]

I agree blake (and others who stated a similar stance), these arrangements are really for the living, not the dead.

I would humbly advise that we don't seriously buy into the notion that we will not encounter physical death.

My own jury is out on the subject of ghosts. I've never encountered such a thing, but I've learned enough to know not to discount a possibility based on lack of personal experience. That said, the only reason that I can think of, for someone to unsuccessfully move on and thus become stuck here as a spirit, is that they were unable to let go of some aspect of that incarnation. Whether it is the body, or a loved one, or some pursuit in the physical realm.

There was a period of time about a year and a half ago, during which I had the distinct impression that I was dying. I've taken some medical classes, so I knew that was the most likely outcome. Still, for reasons which are my own, I kept it to myself and did not seek medical treatment.

I thought about the moment of death, and realized that above all I did not want to go in fear. It was immensely helpful, then, to go through the process of letting go, preparing myself to let everything go.

Like the Ancient Egyptian weighing of the heart, in a sense. Do not be encumbered. If the soul is lighter than the feather, the soul can pass on. Not a personal belief of my own necessarily, but at the very least this can lead to living a less fearful and more liberated life.

[Rich]

I don't believe in an after-life so I honestly don't care what happens.
That's a fascinating thought. Do you think that death will be forever? And how long can one be dead if one is not aware of time passing?

[Deega]

Thanks Freed Fox, at death, I will be taken in charge by a Funeral Home where they will hold my corpse for a period of 7 days for the soul to complete the journey out of the dead body.

After that, I shall be cremated.

In my early forty, I had workshop in Mental Dynamic where I learn at the time the soul at death is not always sure that the body is dead, so he (soul) moves around the body for awhile.

Unfortunately, I don't have the reference of the 7 days.

[crosby]

i would like to go back to where i came from, the water. i have always felt like one with the ocean, lakes and so on; so i have informed my family that if i die while visiting the ocean just toss me overboard, if i die at home, cremation and then toss me in the ocean. either way, i'm heading in that direction.
warmest regards, corson

[baddbob]

Nothing big just lay me down in Forest Park
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Cremation is my way. Maybe spread over a local mountain here in vermont or up by my camp in Wooford vermont

[Decibellistics]

I'd like to be stuffed in a scary halloween pose, and be brought out at halloween as a decoration. That or a funeral pyre.

[Magnus]

Cremation buddhist style, preferably in Thailand.

It would be nice to have dear friends celebrate my departure and i would be there celebrating with them, and they would not doubt my presence.

This is my far fetched personal utopia, obstructed by national borders, bureaucracy and preset economic restrictions.

[Carmody]

I want to be frozen and dressed up in a clown suit and be fired out of a giant bolt action cannon at some particularly rotten PTB type private jet owners, whomever may be the more ugly animal at the given time.

If you put a grenade in my mouth, before you freeze me, then I could even be chunky frozen flak, in case of a near miss.

"Once more into the breach, old friend...."

[778 neighbour of some guy]

I want to be frozen and dressed up in a clown suit and be fired out of a giant bolt action cannon at some particularly rotten PTB type private jet owners, whomever may be the more ugly animal at the given time.

If you put a grenade in my mouth, before you freeze me, then I could even be chunky frozen flak, in case of a near miss.

"Once more into the breach, old friend...."

Bwahahaha, Frozen Surface to Air Clown, me liky this idea!!:cool:

F.S.A.C.

[Hermite]

A few years ago there was a lot of talk about natural burials. Wonder how that's working out. Here is a website for Memorial Ecosystems, which looks very cool. They have two natural cemeteries in the States. http://www.memorialecosystems.com/

Better yet, become part of a reef. I'd like to do this. http://www.eternalreefs.com/

Due to economics, I've just told everyone to toss me out in the woods here and let the bears eat me. I don't think anyone takes me seriously, though. Except my ex, who keeps trying to make this happen BEFORE I die. Sheesh.

[spiritwind]

Interesting topic. I always thought I’d go for cremation because I could never understand spending lots of money on nowadays even a cheap casket. Not wanting to be a financial hardship, you know. My husband talked about wanting to be buried when we met and now talks about wanting to be put on a boat that is set on fire at sea. My mom was cremated and I got to release the last of her ashes while making our maiden voyage on our sailboat as we passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. That was kind of cool and I’ve always kind of thought she would have liked that. My son when he was younger used to always talk about wanting to be cryogenically frozen in case it would be possible to revive him at a later date.

I absolutely hated my adopted mother’s memorial service if you want to call it that. They were Jehovah’s Witnesses and I had not been in a Kingdom Hall for maybe 30 years and I’m absolutely sure it will be the last. All they could do was talk about how obedient she was. It was truly hard to keep from gagging.

If anything I’d want a celebration of life where my friends get together and just remember all the funny things that have happened along the way, which in my case have been many. I already feel like I’ve lived several lives in one and have absolutely no doubt that I will continue in some form and already exist in more ways than just what I am consciously aware of. I do not fear the loss of the physical although I am in no hurry to leave either. They say the amount of energy in the universe remains constant, never more or less, so my feeling is things just change from one form of energy to another and it’s happening all the time. Plus I also see everything as connected to everything else. It’s like for me, the light is simply off here for some I used to know and it’s turned on somewhere else.

I have had enough personal experiences to convince me that I am more than my physical body but even if I just became absorbed back into a larger whole I wonder if that would be all that bad. Who knows. Been fun reading other people’s ideas about this.

[Craig]

I was told that cremation wastes a tremendous amount of energy, so that is playing on my mind, also I would like to return to the earth for the benefit of others.

But I do think it is important for others to grieve - I never did properly for my dad's passing cause you know men don't cry so I think I am still carrying that around and I don't want others to do that for me.

I would just like to be a peace and not an inconvenience to others - possibly stuffed and stuck on the end of the couch until my daughter is married if I go too soon.

[Anchor]

All my hard disks should be wiped - just don't go there! :)

[Mulder]

My dream would be to ascend to heaven in a fiery chariot like the Prophet Elijah, but what actually is likely to happen is my body will not be discovered by anyone for months. Not until my landlord comes knocking and asks: "Where's the rent?"

[Carolin]

Being empathic at a funeral is torture!!! Unless it's an absolute must I won't attend funerals anymore. I'm planning parties for all my loved ones when they die and have asked they do the same for me. Food, drinks, laughs and have my ashes given back to nature in a gentle wind on a summers day.

[witchy1]

I think burial for me. I just cant get my head around the whole fire thing. I like the thought of somewhere to go contemplate, think privately and be at one with whatever it is - just as I do with my Mum and others that have passed before their time. I do think the cells stay alive for quite a while after brainwave stops and I also beleive that the consciousness does not necessarily vacate the body quickly. When we do realise the physical is lost I think there is an amount of visitng that occurs on earth before going to the recycling place. I also have the feeling that our energy dissapates and is somehow joined or comingled with others - dunno, just daydreaming.

When nursing and someone passed, I always opened the window. I dont know why, just something that I need to do.

I absolutely do not want to be embalmed either. So they will have to chuck me in the ground really quick. The old cemetaries are great places to find phages. (before paradehyde)

I would like to think friends and family would celebrate my life, but if they dont, well thats ok to.

I dont go to funerals either Carolin.

[The Truth Is In There]

what's left of this "me" will be composted...and good riddance.