Where do you get buried? (1 Viewer)

[bigdaddysaints]

A coworker and I were discussing this today.
If you were married for 20 years, had a couple kids in the process, and your wife dies. A few years later you get remarried. Say you were married to #2 for about 20 years, whom you had a child with also. When you die, which wife do you get buried by? Is there a correct answer to this? I feel like no matter which direction you go, some are going to be upset...
No, this isn't a case for me, because i won't remarry if my wife passes on. I wouldn't stay single, but i am not getting married again... Plus i want to be cremated anyway, so this wouldn't be a choice me or my family will have to make..

 

[superchuck500]

Trying to answer this question in the present tense is messing with my mid-afternoon vibe.

 

[Dago]

Just cremate me

My family has a crypt in Metairie with 4 spots for the most recently departed. The caretakers have managed to somehow jam up the hole where the older remains go and for some reason one of my relatives who died in the Yellow Fever epidemic was put in a hermetically sealed coffin before being put in the crypt. Now they can't open the coffin to remove the remains due to the biohazard risk so there are only 3 useable spots

 

[Sailorsaint]

Cremated. I want someone to blow a handfull of my ashes in my ex's face, spread the rest in the MS River.

 

[St. Widge]

Trying to answer this question in the present tense is messing with my mid-afternoon vibe.

I guess someone is holding all of Chuck's calls again.

 

[Bleu Raeder]

Burial seems like such a waste to me.

I understand why it is done. Graveyards can be very interesting places (re: the plethora of Youtube channels dedicated to finding the famous, infamous, and downright odd/interesting in cemeteries) and historically fascinating in some cases.

But I also find it odd that we use vast acreages of land that could be better used for something else. I have only visited cemeteries a couple of times in the past, long after the decedent was gone. The lengths we go to preserve bodies and the expense we incur to preserve bodies seem somehow odd to me. I've never really understood it.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Burial seems like such a waste to me.

I understand why it is done. Graveyards can be very interesting places (re: the plethora of Youtube channels dedicated to finding the famous, infamous, and downright odd/interesting in cemeteries) and historically fascinating in some cases.

But I also find it odd that we use vast acreages of land that could be better used for something else. I have only visited cemeteries a couple of times in the past, long after the decedent was gone. The lengths we go to preserve bodies and the expense we incur to preserve bodies seem somehow odd to me. I've never really understood it.

Imagine all the golf courses we are missing out on! Yeh, I don't get it either. I know it's sentimental but you can always have a memorial set up at home or something, no need to put your family in debt just to put you in the ground.

 

[antipop]

i believe it was the great poet and philosopher, Iron Mike Tyson, that said "dead people take up too much space"

i'll take a fancy urn on the shelf...

 

[Zack Lee]

Eventually neither will care which one of them I rot next to.

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Interesting watch on the racket of the burial industry. Its actually a fair recent phenomenon



TLDW, cremation or natural burial are your most eco friendly options.

Instead of a headstone maybe do something like a remembrance album, small memorial.

 

[Swamprat]

The real question is... what kinda Celebration of Life party you want in your honor?

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

The real question is... what kinda Celebration of Life party you want in your honor?

I want them to play thriller and animate me rising from my casket and dancing using strings.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

cremation. divide ashes according to time spent

 

[SWJJ]

Give people still alive my organs, burn the rest, I don't care what the survivors do with my ashes. put them in an urn, spread them in the swamp, put them all over dollar bills and go to the strip club, all the normal things your family does with ashes is fine.

 

[St. Widge]

i believe it was the great poet and philosopher, Iron Mike Tyson, that said "dead people take up too much space"

i'll take a fancy urn on the shelf...

We keep my dad's ashes in my mom's closet. His real wish was to be thrown in the river and that we use the money we would have spent on a funeral to throw a big party in his honor. But, we had the funeral anyway. And the party.