Your funeral - what sort of service do YOU want?
 

Let's say you visit the doctor and are shocked to learn that you have about a month to live. You have the opportunity to plan every detail of your own funeral service. How would you direct your loved ones to send you off?

Cremated, throw my ashes in the Au Sable river in Michigan.

I'm dead, so I would let my family do what ever is cheapest...

Or they could stuff me.

:D

Cremate me. No services. Just let everyone get together and have a party. If they want, have a picture of me sitting on the bar. No tears, no fuss. Life's too damned short to be sad. Just let everyone tell their tale of the time they saw me do something really dumb, or the times I made them happy. I would much rather be sent off with a smile, and a laugh, than to have everyone see me lying in a box, and feel all screwed up about it.

Ditto

Cremated, and want the wife to scatter my ashes out of a car while running around Nurburgring. (maybe she can cop a ride w/ Sabine in the "taxi")...Last time we went, my wife was a great sport for continuing even after we had to slow down and carefully negotiate a very bad wreck that had just happened at Foxhole.

An Irish wake.
But with less keening and more drinking.

Me too. Toast me, no service.

Actually I'm afraid no one would come to the funeral. So other than making it obvious no one cared enough to turn up, I'd have it as free drinks in a bar.

Probably, if it was a doctor one month type thing, I'd head off to some hot spot in the Middle East and go down in a hail of gun fire. Or sniping soldiers at a terrorist training camp in Indonesia. That way I'd get buried on the spot.

Thats easy. Full body donation. Once they are done with it my remains are cremated and returned to my next of kin and they know what to do with me from there.

Cremation, cheap. Have a dinner, wake or whatever...I don't care I won't be there.

Well, for you guys that want to be cremated with no service, that wasn't the question. I think he meant for people who have willed a preference.

Since I don't prefer a service, maybe none will take place. It's not all up to me. I was surprised at how my dad's death was handled. Cremation and burial at sea.

He never even went to the beach, much less out on the water. We scattered my mom's ashes out at the golf course. Much more fitting. Our "service" was dinner at the country club.

Her kind of day.

Organs donated, the rest cremated and ashes tossed in the ocean at Zuma. Following that a large jam session/party with bass player/friends putting my instruments to good use.

Cremated, memorial service at our church with live music and happy memories, not just the sad (recent) ones, but a way to remember my life and those I love...

I asked my wife to cremate me, then she can take my ashes with her and her new boyfriend on their travels, dump some of me on all the beaches they go to. No service needed.

viking funeral

Mirth.

I like the viking funeral, but don't live near the ocean...so, default to cremated and the party, bar, picture, no tears. Gotta pick some music though...

We have a family plot, Dad and my sister are already there. My Mom goes there weekly and places flowers. I visit once a month, beautiful memorial park in Newport Beach

During 4 visits and 46 laps logged at the N-ring, there have been 2 deaths and I've waited 4 or so hours for the ring to reopen while they removed bodies, Bikes, cars and replaced guardrail. Most of that was during the Festival of speed though (avoid that day if you ever go there).

That said, I imagine if anyone saw someone spreading ashes or any debris purposely on the ring would probably get followed in and get their ass beat. Unless you don't like your wife, I'd warn her about that.

:p

Burnt to a smoking cinder. Ashes scattered on a 7 mile loop I ran on over 4,000 times in 30 years. Or put in a Nike shoe box I have saved and put in the back of closet somewhere.

big azz keg party then cremation. maybe grow pot with my ashes.

timothy leary and his funeral kind of intriqued me.

A Viking funeral pyre on a raft - let my burned ashes just sink into the river/lake.

And a big awesome party for my friends!

angela

This Viking this seems pretty popular.

I'd like all my usable parts removed and distributed. Roast the rest. Throw a "no tears allowed" party - enlarge photos from my travels have them hanging up. Maybe a slideshow. Just hit shuffle on my Pandora account for music. Scatter some of my ashes near a beach with big surf, some in a stream in the North Georgia mountains, some at Road Atlanta.

I've told my wife to take a couple of weeks to think about what she liked and didn't like about our marriage, then sign up for eHarmony and move on. Life's too short to be looking back.

Viking funeral but I also like the reply about going out in a blaze of gunfire! :eek:

Organ Sale. Hey the doctors and hospitals don't work for free. Balance cremated. No service. No memorial service. I am not into "pomp". I remember my passed friends without that BS. Family can do what they want with the ashes.

I want my wife to donate whatever parts of me that can be used, that is if they're not too old & worn out. Then the rest cremated on the cheap and rent a plane & dump the ashes out the window over Lake Basin in the Sierras.

Viking funeral, but I know nobody in my family would ever carry that out. Next would be my ashes placed in one of my model boats and put in the ocean and set on fire.
One way or another, my ashes have to end up in the Atlantic Ocean. I have written orders for that. The ocean is my first love. so thats where I want to be.
I really dont want any kind of service. Unless I die in the line of duty. Then a full firefighters funeral will be ok.

Well, I'm an organ donor, so if anything is usable, it will be. I am already set to be cremated, some of my ashes spread at some of my favorite tracks & races, some mixed into the paint & my 78 SC completely repainted, bare metal:p including the centers of a set of Polished lipped Fuchs I have set a side.. What is left will be mixed with the ashes of my Pets from over the years and spread over the waters right off Bimini.. My urn is already set,
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Yes,one of these bottles:cool:
As for a service, the deck at my Club will be fine for a open bar party, on the river where my favorite songs will be played..
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Yeah, didn't add the organ donation thing, that's a given. Seems like most of us are of a like mind on this.

Byron - well done.

Here's another appropriate song you could add to your playlist:

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Already in the process of buying a plot next to my Mom. It's a dual plot for my son and I. If my daughter dies before me then it will become a tri-plot with my son and daughter buried and me cremated and placed on top of their caskets. Assumption is that my daughter is unmarried at the time of her death. My son will probably never marry and will either live with me or go to an assisted living arrangement. He will never be alone.

Music will be The Doors and Green Day and a few other bands yet to be named. There will be a slideshow and there will be rememberance.

That's all I have planned so far. Oh, and all organs will be donated first.

Three Chinamen are playing fantan when a man runs up and says "the world is coming to an end." The first Chinaman says "hell, well i best go to the church and pray." The second Chinaman says "well i'm gonna get me a bottle of mezcal and three whores." And the last Chinaman says "well i shall finish the game."


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First, organ doner. Second, cremation. Third, small service, a few words, flower's if they want. Forth, off to the K of C for a party, on me, drinks, food, hopefully laughter from some. What's a small $$ amount for one last get together. Only problem, my wife does not drink, nor goes to the KofC. Oh well, a thought.

Having our ashes all combined, Mj, Me, all our pets. They will be put into fireworks by Zambelli, a local fireworks company here. Big picnic/ party in August when the Persied meteor shower is happening. Fireworks display, our ashes in the big finale. This is in our will and preparations have been made.

I told my wife the most economical means possible. Put me in a Maytag box and take me to the landfill.

I'm an organ donor but doubt I will have anything of value. I choose cremation and ashes spread off of Camino Cielo overlooking Santa Barbara. No service please.

I want a service like the one that Kim Jong Ill is going to get.

And racer/Byron, I know Joe W., he's a character. The first time I met him, I said, "I can't believe you're still alive!" He replied, "me neither!"

Byron, I just drank an Arrogant Bastard.....one of my favorites. Actually, everything from Stone is pretty much awesome!

As far as my funeral.......IDGAF, I'd prefer to just be cremated and everyone get hammered and have a blast, If some drunk fool ends up spilling me all over everybody, at least I've gotten in one more blow......hehe

Cremated. Have a service with pictures of me with the people and my favorite music playing. I want my ashes tossed over the family burial plot and a little stone saying I'm there with the rest of them. I like going to the cemetery and seeing the stones that remind me of my ancestors. I'll like to have my name among them.