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Atheists, how would you like your funeral arrangements to differ from a religionist?

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Public Comments

1. I'd prefer not to have one.
2. the only real difference is a lack of religious funerary rites
3. I'd like to be mummified
4. What is a religionist? I would prefer to not have a funeral...
5. I don't really care what happens to my body after I die ... Though I'm confused why other people do ...
6. I would specifically state in my will that if anyone tries to hi-jack my funeral and start talking about how we need to be "saved," they are to be taken out back and pistol-whipped. Both of my grandpas' funerals were hi-jacked, where I heard more about why I should join the church instead of about my grandpas. I was pissed.
7. I want a green funeral and a nonreligious memorial service.
8. My funeral service won't be in a church. Also, I was thinking if I was buried I would like my tombstone to be the shape of a love seat or some kind of platform for lovers or people picnicking to use..
9. i don't want any. Funerals are just a capitalistic trick to suck more money out of people. Cremate me, spread me on the lake and have a a few beers watching the sunset.
10. I'd like to be set out on by the curb on trash day, with instructions that my survivors are to videotape the expressions of the refuse engineers.
11. I'll be dead so I don't really care... Why waste life obsessing over death?
12. I wouldn't want any mention of a soul or heaven. I would like people to come to my funeral and remember my life. I think it would be selfish to not have a funeral because people need to grieve.
13. I plan on being laid out at home and then having a wake (Irish tradition, a big party where everyone reminisces, tells jokes about the deceased and gets very drunk). Then I want to be cremated, and attatched to some fireworks and be blown up on Galway Bay, my favourite place :) I'm only 19 so I hope this will take place a long time from now haha
14. I'd like my body to be put in a coffin, into the ground, with a tombstone that says "Requiescat in Pace" with no religious crap all over it. Thanks.
15. I don't want a funeral. I think they're big wastes of money and my family is far from rich. I'm an organ donor, so hopefully my body can be used for transplant or research purposes.
16. I probably won't have one... but if I did, I really wouldn't care, it would be for my family, not me... I'd be dead...
17. i've been to more than one "secular" funeral. it's really not terribly different from a religious funeral. we still have eulogies, you can have readings from the deceased's favourite poetry or books, music, for obvious reasons we still have a burial or cremation. we just don't have all the prayers and superstition, i wouldn't mind one of those. and "always look on the bright side of life" from the end of monty python's life of brian must be played or i am coming back to haunt them
18. I'd like a large party, one with beer.... and perhaps some Italian food.... Then I want a few of my close friends to jump into a van, drive past a large group of abortion protesters so that they can throw my ashes out the van window.
19. I ask that it is kept simple, and that if someone gives a eulogy that they not mention anything about any gods or christs.