Weirdest ride ever

[Melalvai]

That is really beautiful. That is a good point that having everything planned out ahead of time will help our loved ones. I would love to have a final resting place picked in a spot that I could bicycle to and enjoy during my lifetime. It would mean more to my friends and family knowing that I had already enjoyed visiting the spot.

[malkin]

It really does sound beautiful, although after reading the story, my thoughts wandered to one of my kookier cousins who had her portrait taken lying down on our great, great grandmother's grave.

[Kiwi Stoker]

A friend told me his parents brought plots overlooking the house they built together. It sounds nice to have something mapped out in advance and not just in a rush.

After my grandmother was buried, her sister who couldn't make it to the furneral, requested photos of her grave and DH's grandma has LOTS of photos of her husbands furneral, including the open coffin.

Once a year the family visits his grave site and they all stand and have photos around the headstone. Different cultures, beliefs etc. I think at least it is nice that he is remembered in a special way.

[Crankin]

Malkin, don't worry, no pictures of anyone lying down on a grave. Although, DH did threaten to do this...
I told my kids I wanted the song "Champagne Supernova" at my funeral. One laughed his head off and the other thought it was disrespectful.

[Selkie]

I bet your final resting place sounds nice, Crankin. And your husband will be next to you forever. Since you have kids, it'll be good that they will have a place to come and visit you.

"Freebird." That's what I want them to play at my funeral. My husband might have a hard time finding a priest who will allow it!!

I'm being cremated, my ashes mixed w/those of my beloved dog Agnes, and my husband is required to go on a vacation to the Caribbean and cast us into the ocean.

[OakLeaf]

It does sound like a nice spot.

I'm reminded of one of the first rides I took with a couple who have since become my frequent riding buddies and friends, but at the time I hardly knew them. They were planning to ride past my house on the way to visit the grave of their aunt, who had passed a few months earlier, and invited me along. It struck me a little weird too, but it was a pretty day and a nice ride. We stopped at the cemetery, had a Clif bar and went on.

I hope "green burial" becomes more acceptable by the time it's my turn. It really bothers me that what should be the final natural process of returning my body to the earth that nourished it, instead is super toxic. There are no cemeteries anywhere near me that allow non-embalmed burial, and I can't see that the carbon cost of transporting my body someplace that does allow it, could possibly be any less than cremation.

[malkin]

How 'bout this:
http://obit-mag.com/articles/coming-through-the-lye