Funny stuff Skip...thanks for that. Knowing Vandy like I do,I'm sure hes rolling on the floor by now..

LOL! That's the idea Skip!

Here's one for you ..... The Captain of the Local Golf Club died and his last wish was for his ashes to be placed on the Mantel piece above the fireplace in the Club House so he could be with his friends. As they do, the guys used to stand around the fire after a round in winter drinking and smoking and it wasnt uncommon for a member to knock his cigarette ash in to the Cask of the Honoured gentlemen using it as an ashtray..
During one of these get togethers they were talking about the ex Captain and telling tales from the past and remembering him with fondness. Suddenly one of the members lifts the Cask and says.." Well, I don't think we should feel too sorry for him , he must be OK..he's putting on weight!"

Boom ! Boom !

Howard

Regardless of your choice, just be careful who you are dealing with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Crematory

I also REALLY loved Bill Palmer's idea with the spring snakes. I can see myself doing something like that (Wish I'd thought of it!!) and a year later my friends are shaking their heads saying, "Dang it! Dead a year and he's STILL getting us!!" Dang! Who said death can't be fun!

As I recall, nearly EVERYONE at Andy Kauffman's funeral were fully expecting him to spring out of his coffin at any moment and shout, "HA! Gotcha!"

Don't laugh! When my brother and his wife came through town on their way back home from her father's funeral, she saw my nitro tablet container I wear around my neck and she asked what I had in it...I told her pills for my heart. Then, she pulled out a smaller container and said, "guess what I have in mine...my daddy!" I was taken aback, and didn't quite know what to say!

Margarette

Viking funeral!

Oh...I wish!!!
Except for the part where they send an innocent female along for the ride.
Burning ship, sure.
People screaming for their lives while I am trying to take a nap, not so much.
Gwyd

I told my wife to creamate me, and she told me "if you die first you will go where I tell them to take you".
AND THAT'S THAT
Al Angello

This entire thread kinda reminds me of one of my favorite Hudson & Landry comedy routines: Ajax Mortuary. "Pretty busy, huh? Well, as stiff as that sucker is I don't suppose there'd be any problem balancing him on the back o' my Honda."

:) Skip

In my will, it has provisions for organ donations and cremation.

All you who are going to be cremated are going to contribute to GLOBAL WARMING!! do we really need to have your gases in the atmosphere?

I already have a plot next to my sister.

My mom's neighbor was cremated and buried.

Cremation does not add to global warming!

My gases are already in the atmosphere. In fact, my wife calls me the KH.

Creamation for me.
I don't care for fire but embalming scares me more.
Save the space for the living.

Cremation for me then my ashes put in a home made rocket and fired off into space - instead of a wake it'll be a Launch Party :o)

See, now I agree with this. After this life-changing event, we're little more than no deposit-no return empties. What is the corpus being preserved for? Fewer cemetaries...more parks.

Someone mentioned something similar to what I've always wanted: I wanted to be frozen, but no for the purposes of eventually coming back... I just want my friends to hold a party every year on the anniversary of my death and take me out and use me to cool the drinks.

Greg

Hey, Greg:

According to some news reports, that 'freezing' idea is not far off the mark. Evidently a new disposal technique being vetted is dipping the deceased in liquid nitrogen, then shattering the corpse into powder. Don't know more than that (caught a snippet on the Science Channel recently) but it seems less macabre than other methods I've heard about. Not that the 'Soylent Green' approach isn't looking more and more trendy and Earth-friendly, mind you...

That bit about the kid in the HM at Disneyland -- complete fabrication. Ask a Cast Member and watch them laugh...or surf on over to snopes.com

Me? I'm a cabinetmaker...guess who's gonna build my little packing crate? As a lifelong gardener, I then anticipate being buried and turned to compost.

Leland