On 12/5/2014 8:36 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:19:01 -0600, Becca EmaNymton
> > wrote:
>
>> On 12/5/2014 4:52 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
>>
>>>> Wish that I could have. His funeral cost me close to $20,000 and I
>>>> already had the plot. He was buried in a traditional pine coffin in a
>>>> shroud. There was no embalming, as we don't do that. I had to pay to
>>>> send the remains to New Jersey from Texas and that, alone was a couple
>>>> of thousand. His daughter is married to a trust fund baby and they are
>>>> far from poor, but she refused to help with the expenses.
>>>>
>>>> My children will have to pay for my funeral as there is no one else to
>>>> do it and it's against the law to throw my remains into the nearest
>>>> dumpster.
>>>
>>> We both agree we want to be cremated and our ashes scattered together in
>>> our favourite place in the country.
>>
>> Same here, Ms. O, George and I will both be cremated, our ashes will be
>> together, then tossed off a ship. The container has to be biodegradable,
>> so my choice is a paper bag from Whataburger.
>>
>> Becca
>
> Odds are that won't happen unless you both die at the same time.
>
> I think that's very sad... I believe everyone deserves a marked grave
> or it's like they never were... even all my cats that passed have a
> marked grave, and I personally dug every one and in a pleasant place.
> I know that those who have passed don't know but it's for those who
> come later to remember. I think cremation and scattering ashes is
> simply pure miserly cheapness. Those won't be your ashes anyway, more
> likely some stranger's burnt briquets
>


In our local cemetery, my family has a burial site, and I have looked at
headstones and gravestones, but I have not picked one out, yet. If you
walk by, my name will be there, but I will be out at sea.

Becca