Rest In Peace

Have you made your funeral arrangements? Are you going to be buried?

or cremated? Have you picked your own headstone....what do you want on it? Do you want certain music played at your funeral....or will you just die and let your family make the arrangements?

Public Comments

1. My choice is being cremated. Let out a pond the wind. If I had a head stone my kids told me they would put on it. Here lies a woman who died with a vacuum cleaner in her hands. lol
2. They can make the arrangements but ill pay for it. Also donating my body to science/medicine so i guess they can just cremate whats left. No point letting a perfectly good body go to waste when it can give someone else a leg up on life.
3. I hope I can just disappear & let the forest creatures feast upon my remains. If that doesn't happen, I suppose I will be cremated. I was looking at urns & thought it might be nice to have mine ready & pre-engraved with my name, birth day & a short one liner. I'd leave a space for the date of my demise to be etched or written in....whatever the person decides to do & can afford after I end up costing more dead than I did alive. I don't have insurance...so the cheaper, the better! I'm just trying to get rid of all my excess junk so my kid won't have to deal with that end of my death. I know it's coming It could be tonight or it could be in 5 years. I'm already past the time limit the pros gave me. Neener-neener, to those bozos!
4. I'm working on it. My husband is entitled to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, so I will go with him. He is definitely against cremation. I want my obituary to begin, "With a song in her heart, she died peacefully in her sleep." Musical Choices for Funeral Home I Had the Time of My Life Hello Dolly You Don't Send me Flowers Anymore. I feel Good Somewhere Out There Life is a Cabaret (I love the part that says "I'll go like Elsie" I did it My Way Cracklin Rosie I'm still working on my list
5. Yes I'm having one day viewing & Elvis' songs playing & then cremated
6. Weird as it sounds, I will let the state do it all, I want no funeral, Ive paid enough taxes to let the state pay for it all.
7. 1. Made verbal intentions known to family. 2. Cremation. God is capable of carrying out His plan for believers whether they are cremated, buried, frozen, or whatever. If God were against cremation, He would have spoken out against it. Let ashes blow in the wind. 3. No need for a headstone. 4. Brief memorial service. Very brief. The Lord's Prayer, my favorite Psalm, and hymn. No long eulogy.
8. cremated.half of me will be placed with my first husband in the columbarium next to him,the other half will go with my present husband to arlington national cemetary.if i die b4 him,my urn will be held and then placed in his casket when he goes.if he predeceases me,they will dig a smaller pit on top of his coffin and place my urn above him.i better not have any more husbands,theres not that much of me to go around.my funeral is going to feature "rhiannon" by fleetwood mac,"my heart will go on" from titanic,by celine dion,and "dont cry for me argentina." i'm such a diva.hearing someone sing "rhiannon rings like a bell thru the night,and would'nt u love to love her?" will seem pretty ludicrous if i live to 103,but i will let the audience (my funeral goers)excercise their imagination,that at one time,the song may have fit.i think they will be entertained.i wish i could write "let me out" on my plaque and or my husband and my collective headstone,but theres no room on the former ,and arlington has a certain (justified)gravitas,and does not allow humorous sayings-just the facts.ive already checked,btw-theres no cemetary anywhere in the u.s that allows u to deduct 10 years from ur age on ur headstone-unfair !!!!every1 at my funeral will know i lied all these years!
9. I picked my grave and paid for it when I was early 30's. There will be no funeral, and no visitors. Yes I have my headstone.
10. I would like a "green burial"...no embalming, no coffin...just me in the dirt out in the middle of some woods somewhere. There are only a few places in the US that do this right now, but I'm hoping that by the time I pass away there will be more. I would like "Peace in the Valley" to be played and my funeral and perhaps "This is it" by Jim Reeves. I also like "Go Rest High" by Vince Gill and "Hope you had the time of your life" by Green Day.
11. I don't care what they do with me. I'm not going to be there anyway.Hopefully the cheapest they can get so they have a few cents left over for them.
12. Cremation, and No visitation. My ashes will be buried between my Mother and Fathers.
13. All of my arrangements have been made and paid for and I plan on being cremated.
14. I will have the traditional Native funeral but I want "How Great Thou Art" sung by Elvis sang and flute music, haven't picked out any more!!
15. i havnt made any arrangements yet, and i dont suppose i will end up next to my husband as he wants a "green" burial, so he will end up in the tummies of some creatures, but if i DO end up with a headstone, i would like it to say "she tried...she died" :) also, i think the song "somewhere over the rainbow" sung by bruddah IZ would be nice. i have instructed my kids not to "plant me" in the beating sun... i want to be in the shade. and definately not in a masoleum. i would haunt them if they put me in a drawer.
16. not yet. going to have them put me a garbage bag and set me out on the curb on trash day.
17. We have no fixed arrangements made at this time, but we will be cremated. My step son is a mortician, and he knows our wishes, and being executor of our will, he will take matters into his own hands, literally!
18. Yes, we have our plans made and we will be buried in our family plot. Our headstone has been selected and just not engraved yet. I'm not sure what I want on my headstone. I'll probably let my children decide. Or maybe it will depend on the way I die. I could see something like: "Here lies Gladys, no longer does she ache. She stepped on the gas, instead of the brake." And then for music, I've always like the hymn "Jesus is Calling". I guess they'll need to tell everyone to turn off their cell phones during this hymn.
19. Many years ago I told my kids I wanted both hubby and I cremated and our ashed mixed. That way we really will be one, for all time. Hubby's ashes are buried and will be dug up and then mixed with mine. I wish I had bought a "double" urn. I didn't know about them, when I ordered the two. I will be paying for it. Well, I have enough insurance to do the job. (hubby's funeral, including flowers and transporting, by plane, one of our singers was a grand total of $1300) What is left, the kids can have a farewell party. I want just a graveside service. No preaching, just singing. No funeral homes, except to do the cremating. Hubby traveled on his Harley to the cemetery. I want to go in my van. I have picked out my music, or at least some of it. "He'll Understand and say 'Well Done'" ,"His Eye is on the Sparrow" and "In the Garden" The theme of hubby's funeral was "He'll Understand" and it is on the headstone. Unfortunately I don't think any of my "singing" kids know those songs. We purchased the headstome before hubby died. The name markers came from the Veteran's Administration. It paid to be a Vet.
20. My arrangements have been made for 12 years. I have been very specific about every detail.....music, pall bearers, what food for the reception, music, etc. I have chosen cremation as my husband was also cremated. Our ashes will be buried together and on the bottom of our small headstone it says....."We love you too"
21. No.At the moment I'm busy making funeral arrangement for my enemy no.1.Well, if I have a choice I'd like to be cremated.But I'll bury this enemy to bury the hatchet.
22. My husbands ashes are in a dresser drawer in a biodegradable urn. There is room for me. I have told my children I hope it will be buried under an old tree on some established family land. Just a memorial party at someones home, Please play the Eagles "Take it to the Limit", I would like to have someone or all sing "Amazing Grace". I would very much like for a Catholic or an Episcopal priest to say a short prayer. Maybe a small brass marker with our names and the word "soul-mates" affixed to the tree.
23. My family knows what I want and we already have a family plot. I have the attitude that after I'm dead, I dont care what you do with my body. You can stuff me and use me for a door stop or grind me into dog food for all I care. I wont be needing this body anymore so someone might as well get some use out of it. I'll be in a much better place.
24. Twice and someone has been putting flowers at the headstone every Memorial Day for almost 20 years now. Hope I bump into whoever this is when I return for a visit next year.
25. I agree with dirtfarmer.
26. I have not made arrangements, but my daughter knows that I want to be cremated. No headstone, no funeral, no memorial service unless she wants it. I have a paid up live insurance policy and the less she spends, the more she gets to keep. Cemetery's are such lonesome places. I took an urn to my parents grave this morning. It's the day before Memorial Day and the grounds are a mess. The grass isn't even cut