Thread: Funerals......other options

Hi,
Both my parents went with the Uni body bequest program. When they each died, one phone call to the Uni and everything was taken care of and the ashes returned a year later.
I will do the same.
Cheers

Options? Don't die.

If I die at work I guess they will shove me in the freezer.
If I die at home I guess they will shove me in the river.
Either is OK because I won't be bothered.
Jonesfam

Originally Posted by Zeros

I like your plan Weeds...but I’d let everyone come, not that you’d have much say in it!

At my Dads funeral seeing long lost cousins was an unexpected highlight and it was great to see who turned up out of the blue.

Love the group planting of the flowering tree... for my Dad we all stood under a great tree, shared readings from his favourite books and stories from his life. Then adjourned to the pub. 👍

I'm not a funeral person. Dad died in December (aged 98) - I didn't go to the funeral.

cant spell funeral without fun.

Cant spell therapist without...

When my uncle died he was cremated at a funeral centre, we hired a tent which was erected on a rural property where he had lived and we invited family and friends for a farewell and then his ashes were placed in a wall spot at a council cemetery. Seemed to work well.

Originally Posted by weeds

has to have said g’day in the previous 12 months to show up at the gathering.

Does an email thread count? Either way I won't be there for you!

Wife's parents both died this year, 2 months apart, and my father some years ago. All were cremated, cheapest option. In ground seems to almost double it.

Significant elder Aboriginal man up here, many years ago, decided to have his funeral before he died, so he could see which important people would turn up.

I could be buried on my 360 acres it would seem, with a permit, but the funeral home thought that my being there by the river might devalue the property!

On TV. Body frozen in nitrogen, vibrated into small pieces, put in an oversized pizza box, and buried in the root zone.

My idea. Hope this appeals to the fisher persons. Concrete tubular coffin with your name on it, closed in with steel mesh at one end. Nice ceremony on a pontoon. Over you go. You dissolve faster than the mesh, so when the mesh finally goes you have a nice home for a fish. Thousands of such coffins would make a nice reef. Fish the older end of the reef while adding new to the other end.

Main issue is avoiding the nursing home.

Got plenty of crocs up here...