Who has their plot and headstone?

[Racerbvd]

I too have mine planned out, cremation, then 1/4 of my ashes get mixeed into paint and my 78 SC repainted with it, 1/4 gets spread at my favorite tracks durring races, and the rest will be spread over Bimini

[Buckterrier]

A waste of good land. I'll be dead I won't care.

[rattlsnak]

You guys are missing the point. Its not for YOU, its for you're loved ones to have a place to grieve. My grandfather was buried and we visit his grave, my grandmother was not (cremated), and I cant explain it, but it we don't have a place to go to 'visit', so it's always a very empty feeling when we think of her.

[MRM]

This is true. If you want a place where the decendents of your family can visit the ancestors and remember where they came from, and you want it to be in one cemetary where everyone is close to one another, you need to plan ahead and pick out a good spot with room for everyone.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

You guys are missing the point. Its not for YOU, its for you're loved ones to have a place to grieve. My grandfather was buried and we visit his grave, my grandmother was not (cremated), and I cant explain it, but it we don't have a place to go to 'visit', so it's always a very empty feeling when we think of her.

But I'm the last of my line, no kids & if I do have one, he can have my 911SC with me mixed into the paint
There will be a day when land is worth so much, grave yards will be dug up & built on, it is already happening in some places.

[strupgolf]

No plot for me, I want cremation. I have a spot located above a lake where my loved ones can picnic and view the beautiful lake down below. Trees, grass, and all 4 seasons. It's still a location for all to meet. Oh well, thats what I want, but the wife might have other ideas.

[KNS]

Me? Hefty bag or perhaps the box the new Maytag came in...

[Joeaksa]

Picked mine out years ago. Fly overhead Bassett Peak in SE Arizona and open the container.

[johndglynn]

Not putting anyone down here but I will never understand this notion that my descendents will need a place to grieve for me - what? I think it is wildly self-important to believe that years later I will have folks coming back to look at where I rotted away, I don't want that.

I think leave people some writing, photos, video, something that illustrates who you were in character, not a filled-in hole under a shady tree. I never go to visit my grandparents' graves (they are 600 miles away for one thing) but I think about them every day. Same with my wonderful Uncle Sean, who's remberance card is on my refridgerator door next to a pic of my wife in a bikini (he would love that). No way is it an empty feeling to not be visiting a grave, more like a liberating feeling.

Remember people in life, not in death.

[cgarr]

Originally Posted by Joeaksa

Picked mine out years ago. Fly overhead Bassett Peak in SE Arizona and open the container.

This reminds me, When doing a preflight on the 172 I noticed a big dent in the stabilizer and asked the instructor how it happened, They were tossing someones ashes into the big lake when it got away from him..

[kstar]

Here's the new web-based obit website, hoping to make obsolete another function of newspapers: http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp

And a slick website on some of the issues of death and different ways to "go":
http://www.obit-mag.com/

For the composters, how about a bio-degradable Ecopod?:

http://www.obit-mag.com/viewmedia.php/prmMID/262

For the cremation folks who want a burial at sea, the "Shell":

http://www.obit-mag.com/viewmedia.php/prmMID/284

And for the folks who want to be around a bit longer, some possibilities:
http://www.obit-mag.com/viewmedia.php/prmMID/4971

[cashflyer]

I don't have my plot picked out yet, but have been looking over cemetery records trying to find somebody with the same name as me.