Babyland

[Tuckervill]

I hate hate hate it, too, Claudia. {{{}}}

Karen

[Zen]

Tombstones were so much fancier back then.

When I die I want to be cremated then have my urn strapped to someones package rack and scattered along the towpath as they ride.

[malkin]

I want my ashes in the brew pot.

[PscyclePath]

About a year ago when I went to my uncle's funeral down near El Dorado, AR, I saw this marker that really struck my heart as an inveterate collector of old bird dogs:



Now that's the kind of marker I'd like when I take up residence on the wrong side of the grass...

Tom

[OakLeaf]

oh that's as sad as the baby graves

[Trek420]

That's very sad. No parent expects to outlive their child.

Also ((uforgot son))) thanks for serving, come home soon and safe

I was listening to NPR about "natural burial" or "green burial". Instead of embalming and in a steel casket which puts tons of harmful chemicals into the ground and ... the idea is back to the earth. The graveyards becomes a park, open space. Plots can be marked by GPS so they can always be found.

"Hey, let's go geocaching to Trek's plot" JK gals.

I like the idea and it beats my previous one of "put me in the compost bin and plant a garden" . Obviously hope not to use the concept for a long long long long long long long long long time in the future.

[OakLeaf]

I like the idea of a green burial too, except that it's illegal in most US jurisdictions to just have yourself buried on your own land (or the land of an agreeable friend or relative). If you don't happen to die near one of the handful of licensed "green" cemeteries, the carbon footprint of refrigerating and flying your corpse to one of them probably exceeds that of cremation.

But far enough out in the woods, with either a sympathetic backhoe operator or some strong survivors with shovels, no one would have to be the wiser, I suppose.