Will you be buried on your land?

For those not familiar with the process: Your body is put into a cardboard box held together with something like duct or strapping tape. It is pushed into basically an oven with quickly reaches 2,000 degrees. After an hour the oven is shut down and what is left is stirred to take out any metal (e.g., knee replacements and possibly lead or metal still in the body from perhaps combat action). It is then put back for one more hour again at 2,000 degrees. After that time little is left but assorted pieces, such as teeth and the top of your skull. These are then ground down into something resembling a powder.

With my relatives in Croatia they owned only a small lot in the local Catholic cemetery. Generation after generation were buried one on top of what remained of the others. Grave digging was a respected trade.

Deal only with a well respected funeral home who does their own cremations on site.

I've made it known to my kids that I want cremated, then my ashes (or my ole ground up bones. they probably like 'ashes' better. lol) spread in the woods at the height of October fall color. it's my favorite season and the woods bring me great peace. they can pick the place that is most vibrant, and I asked them to make it a wonderful celebration. not something sad and creepy. to my knowledge, it is illegal here to bury anywhere but a designated cemetery. can't imagine my remains in some box. nope...I have to fly with the wind over the woodland floor!

The magnet, also picks out any metal zippers, snaps and metal buttons, etc that may have been on the person's clothing.
The body is not undressed before cremation.

"Will you be buried on your land?"

Hopefully not until I die. (Course I'd better watch what I say to my wife or it could be sooner.) When the time comes, my wife's family has a plot in the cemetary where we grew up, and they have a couple of spots reserved for us. No room for our kids though, so their on their own.

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I won't be taking up space in the ground, supporting the grossly over priced funeral industry (thousands of dollars for a box nobody will ever see again??) or having a parade of people looking at my cold stiff body saying "she looks good, don't you think?" I've promised my family that if they did that to me I would sit up and yell "I don't look good! I look DEAD!" and scare them all half to death. They should celebrate how much I loved my life, not mourn that I am gone. Maine allows private cemeteries and green burial. I'm going to be cremated. Whatever my family does with the ashes is up to them. DH says he's scattering my ashes in the garden so that I'll always be where I always was.

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i think this a wonderful idea. makes me wonder why so many forget me nots are located on a mountain stream i frequent !

my wife and i hopfully have many years to go but as it stands we are to be cremated MIXED together in order to complete each others half and spread in a stream way up in the mountains near our favorite place the place we spent our first summer the place we were wed and the place we will always return to. id like to think we would drift on down the stream into the conconully lake then into conconully resoviour into the salmon river then the snake river followed by the columbia and finally the Pacific Ocean

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I had a farm employee literally die on the job. He didn't come back by 4PM, so I went looking for him. Found him dead of natural causes. His wife asked if I would agree to having his ashes left on my farm as he loved so much to be working here. Certainly. Nice short ceremony. One neighbor is a minister who went to school with his wife's father.

I was Joking about needing a Death cert for dh and ds. Yes one is needed but an authsy may be pushed for but is so easy to refuse as long as there is NO supision of murder ect. It is against many faiths to descrate the body.

Mom just died. Hospic was called first and mom anounced dead next call to the funeral home of her choice.

Checking with the local laws was a fun call. Lot's of questions due to not having a body to bury. The part were I was planning for a death freaked them out. Seemed odd to me cause I expect every single person to die with in 150 years. Personally I know that given the fact that in the winter the ground is froze that it would be best to pre dig and protect the hole to be prepped and it is on my prep list.

I have lived my whole life on our farm, my wife and I got married on our farm, my Mother has her ashes spread under a sugar maple as will my Father`s. We also will have our ashes left at the farm, I think it is a shame the amount of money is spent on burials, thousands of dollars thrown down in a hole. I also have no want to have my body preserved and buried six feet underground in a cement vault. MY wife and I have made an agreement that who ever goes first will save some of the ashes and have those put in with the second to go, so we can be togeather forever. WE also have bought a plot at a small local cementary, just in case we would ever leave the farm. Mom and Dad also will have a plot there and a small urn buried there so my brother can have some place to go to pay his respects, and they also have a head stone there. > Thanks Marc

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Probably will be buried next to my mother and brother and great-great-grandfather in the old family plot in Stonewall, MS. Plenty of room left.

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My wife wants her body donated to the bodyfarm in tennesee, they study the decomposition of bodys there. I wish to be laid out in the woods for the animals to feast on but i know that wont happen so i will be cremated with the ashes spead over the farm.

I seriously love this idea! A family "resting" island.

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I want to be buried in a cemetery that is near where I grew up. I've got lots of great greats buried there. I doubt I'd be able to be buried in the old family plot. I don't think there are any places left in it, but the same cemetery would be nice.

However, I also don't want to be embalmed which would be necessary to be transported that far and cross state lines. So, I guess it'll be somewhere else, probably. I di want to be buried, not baked.

I want my ashes spread here on the farm near my special dogs. DH wants to be buried in the same place. Our farm is in a conservation easement, so supposedly we don't have to worry about development encroaching on a grave. The covenents of the easement appear to allow this.

For our most special dog, I used the tractor to drag a big, flat, good-sitting rock to her grave, and I put a bronze plate on it with her name and birth/death dates. You can sit on the rock and look out over the pond. A nice peaceful place. I like the rock idea for DH and I, too. That, or a life-sized statue of a sleeping dog. Doesn't even need any words on it--just something to mark the spot. I've been looking for granite or cement statues of sleeping dogs, but can't find any. Must not be googling the right words.

Cremated and my ashes spread on my favorite beach in Port Aransas Texas.

I am, as of yet undecided.

I had always thought creamation, (cheaper, takes up less space, etc etc) But the pastor of our church says that creamation is not biblical.

I have more research to do on that one.

BuI have already asked my brother to build the coffin. And I asked his daughter if she would be in charge of the paints and brushes at the funeral. I thought friends and family could paint things on the casket, much like signing a cast when someone breaks their leg .

Admittidly, as a Senior in high school, she thinks that's a bit out there.

Good thread with some good ideas.

No casket or elaborate ceremony for me thank you.

What a waste of money that would be .

Yes, my ashes will be spread on the land.

When DW's mom died the kids all wanted the very best of everything
for her funeral services. It became a financial hardship for all of them when it was all said and done.