Curious........ if you get cremated when you die.........

[a kennedy]

where would you want your ashes spread??? I’m going to Ireland, and will have some in Lambeau field.

[irisblue]

1. The Pier at St.Joseph Michigan

The dogs and the cats are going with me.

[Glamrock]

8. Beautiful!

Know it well. Spent some good times there. Lemme know when you're dead. I'll be there baby!

[Xipe Totec]

2. I have a list.

I'm going to split my ashes into little vials and have a friend visit each person on the list to blow my ashes in their eyes.

That's the only way these bastards will shed a tear for me.

[Freedomofspeech]

5. What a brilliant idea.

[democratisphere]

6. Hey! I know those very same bastards.

[Xipe Totec]

15. You take the left eye, I'll take the right. nt

[malthaussen]

21. When are they going to let us "like" comments?

Is one of your friends named Argentina?

-- Mal

[True Dough]

3. Muir Woods

It's heaven to me.

[California_Republic]

28. Nice choice!

[democratisphere]

4. On top of an Adirondack Mountain.

Dogs and cats will join me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Into the Pacific Ocean, where the rest of my family is!

[mitch96]

54. Perfect!!

So if your friends ever want to visit, just go to the ocean!!! any ocean...
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[Hayduke Bomgarte]

9. I've already made arrangements

For high in the Colorado Rockies.

[Sedona]

10. I'm to become a coral reef

http://www.eternalreefs.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6NmVsKje2QIVS7nACh18rg2xEAAYASAAEgL9n_D_BwE

For families and individuals that choose cremation, Eternal Reefs offers a unique memorial choice that replaces cremation urns and ash scatterings with a permanent environmental living legacy as a gift to the environment and generations yet to come.

[NCjack]

11. In the Atlantic Ocean. I have consumed so much fish that I think it only right

to give them some back.

[rickford66]

12. You need two documents to send your ashes out of the US to be spread.

Death certificate and a certificate of cremation. A portion of my wife's ashes will eventually be sent to New Zealand so that's how I found out.

[a kennedy]

16. Thanks for this info.....I did not know that.

[Binkie The Clown]

13. Easy. Into the compost heap so I can come back as a carrot. nt

[sl8]

14. I don't give a rat's ass.

But I appreciate the question. Now I have an answer for a different Lounge thread.

[bottomofthehill]

17. Cape cod beaches

[MFM008]

18. Up to my son

Something tasteful.

[diva77]

19. Be sure not to forget your Cremation etiquette!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jan/18/cremations-ashes


Stop scattering ashes, families are told
The number of cremations is soaring. Now the government is protecting beauty spots as relatives spread their loved ones' remains far and wide

Cremation etiquette

The scattering of ashes is discouraged by the Cremation Society...

• On mountain tops, where ashes can affect plant life

• In rivers, near places where people bathe or fish

• Less than a kilometre upstream of where water is taken for drinking

• If plastic wreaths are thrown into the water or left on river banks

• On windy days, when ashes affect people living and working nearby

[Laffy Kat]

20. I don't really care.

What ever my kids want to do. It's more about them at that point.

[eissa]

22. Off the coast of Carmel-by-the-Sea n/t

[CTyankee]

23. Probably Florence, Italy but I don't think that''s gonna happen...

or maybe at the Greek theater ruins in Taormina.

honestly, I don't even think about it...

[benld74]

24. Novel by the name of My Father's Ashes

was a good read and provided ideas as well.
The best one was mixing some of the ashes in white paint
and then spreading the paint on the Indy Finish Line

[Va Lefty]

25. The Orioles bullpen at Camden Yards

Not sure they would allow that be that would be my wish

[greymattermom]

26. In clear water

Siesta Beach.

[redstatebluegirl]

27. I have already left instructions to take mine to the farm where I was raised in Illinois.

Many great memories of riding bikes, taking care of cattle, sitting outside at night watching the stars. I grew to love the black dirt where I was raised, I like to go back there at the end.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. Good night sweet prince!

[Siwsan]

30. Scattered in and along Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed in North Wales

And maybe some taken to the top of The Great Orme, by Llandudno - also in North Wales - and released over the water. For me, there is no more beautiful and peaceful place on earth than the North of Wales.

[geardaddy]

40. Nice!

I love Betws-y-Coed! I would probably have mine spread on the top of Snowdon.

[Siwsan]

42. Another beautiful location!

I've made a couple of visits to Llandudno and one time I walked up to the top of the Great Orme - exhausting!! Much easier heading back down.

I probably should have a small bit scattered at Flint Castle, since I am from Flint Michigan!

[geardaddy]

46. That would be cool too.

I've never seen Flint Castle, but I've been in the train station.

[randr]

31. Going in an innoculated mushroom sack

That will hold a tree to plant

[Ernesto]

32. Into the septic tank of the house I built 30 yrs ago n-t

[PJMcK]

57. Yep

Flush 'em.

Who needs them?

[Iggo]

33. All over my mom's house...

....so she'll have to clean up after me one more time.

[Thyla]

34. Mainly in Jeff Bridges beard.

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[csziggy]

35. On my farm. I've given my life to this place

So why not my ashes. That is, if I am cremated at all.

I once told my husband my preference would be that he wrap my body in a sheet and dump it into the woods - but only if it didn't get him in trouble with the authorities. I'd be just as happy to let the critters have at my body and I don't care if it upsets the neighbors!

Cremation is not a 'green' way of disposing of remains. It takes a lot of fuel to burn up a body.

I've looked into green burial but would still want it on my farm.But I do not want a marked grave. If my husband wants to mark my resting spot, he can plant a tree.

[The Polack MSgt]

38. I so agree with you

I had a stock answer of - "Run me through a wood chipper blowing onto a vegetable garden" but I quit using it after Fargo came out.

Once I vacate this body, it's just stuff. You aren't honoring me with all those post-death shenanigans, I already left...

I'd be offended if my family wasted the obscene amount of money and material a normal funeral and internment in America uses up for no purpose...

[csziggy]

39. Yeah, when my Dad and my mother in law died the families spent big

In my Dad's case, we did what Mom wanted. In MIL's case my husband's siblings did what they thought their mother would have wanted, including relocating their father's remains. Both cases, full internment for my Dad and cremation and a space for MIL, were absurdly expensive.

Fortunately both estates had enough to pay for everything so the survivors did not have to go into debt. But that money could have been put to much better uses.

[geardaddy]

41. See, that's what I want to do.

I want my partner to dump my body in the Minnesota North Woods and let the bears, wolves, and other critters snack away.

[csziggy]

44. The only things that would have at a body here are vultures, racoons and possums

Though there might still be a black bear and a few coyotes down in our bottom thirty acres.

It wouldn't take long even with those few varmints. When we moved from the old house to the new one, I found a five year old frozen turkey in the bottom of the freezer. I thawed it just enough to get the plastic off then put it out in one of the fields for the vultures. Twenty four hours later all that was left was the pelvis, the plastic piece that held the legs together and shreds of the plastic bag that had held the gizzards. The vultures still patrol the area where that dead turkey appeared in hopes of another one.

[geardaddy]

45. We have racoons, foxes, and red-tailed hawks around here in Minneapolis

I'd have to get my girlfriend to drive my body up 6-8 hours to the north woods to be bear and wolf food.

[csziggy]

47. I forgot about the foxes and raptors

We have both red and gray foxes, red tailed & red shoulder hawks, Mississippi & swallowtail kites, and the occasional bald eagle. Last eagle seen was on election day 2008!

But our bottom thirty is very thick woods so most of the raptors would not be able to get down to a body.

A few weeks ago a dead beaver showed up on the side of the road into town. The vultures checked it out, but they could not get through the skin. It wasn't until the body bloated and the hide split that any scavengers could work on it. Now there is just a dark spot on the side of the road. I might try to stop Wednesday on my way in and see if there is still a skull I could collect.

[geardaddy]

48. We have a lot of beavers in northern Minnesota.

They absolutely love the birch trees there.

[Callalily]

36. I am going to help build

the reefs off of Florida!

http://www.eternalreefs.com

[a kennedy]

58. Might be changing my desire to go to Lambeau Field......

I love this idea of the reef building.

[Mr.Bill]

37. At the base of the rose bushes where I have spread my dog's ashes.

[backtoblue]

43. The redwood forest nt

[panader0]

49. I remember one evening after my mom had been cremated.

I was sitting with my dad and brother and asked my dad what he had done with
mom's ashes. "They're on the shelf in my closet." After some more beers we
decided that we needed to put them in a place she loved. We chose a small semi-ghost
town in New Mexico. So we set off the next day on our mission. When we finally got
to the spot, a forested crag above the small town, my brother and dad wanted none
of the actual disposal. So I climbed up high and emptied the ashes into the wind.
I got a mouthful---miss you so much mom.
Perhaps I will join you there someday.

[yellowdogintexas]

50. my daughter gets to decide that but...

if I did not have her to decide for me I might leave instructions to do the coral reef plugs, I think that is totally cool.

I have often wished I had obtained portions of the ashes of my mom's brother and his wife who were my second 'parents' and childless. I would have combined them and had a diamond made.

[LakeArenal]

51. Maybe Keith Richards would snort them...

[no_hypocrisy]

52. My uncle gave 1/3 to me, and the other thirds to his sons.

I went to the end of The Pier at Coney Island (Brooklyn) to fulfill his last request.

[Throck]

53. Assembled into a big ass fireworks display.

[mitch96]

55. Reminds me of an old joke

Don't remember all of it but it there were cremation ashes and a last blow job....
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[Blue_playwright]

56. Grand Lake in Oklahoma

Just make me fish food somewhere near the No 10 bridge....

[TlalocW]

59. Thrown in the face of my worst enemy by a British butler carrying my urn on a silver tray

"Mr. TlalocW send his regards, sir." *POOF*

Actually, I think I'll have my ashes mixed in one of those tree pods that I've seen advertised on the internet... And then planted in the yard of my worst enemy....

TlalocW

[yonder]

60. Here's Lee Hays (of The Weavers) request

In Dead Earnest

If I should die before I wake,
All my bone and sinew take
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while.
Worms, water, sun will have their way,
Returning me to common clay
All that I am will feed the trees
And little fishes in the seas.
When radishes and corn you munch,
You may be having me for lunch
And then excrete me with a grin,
Chortling, "There goes Lee again."
'Twill be my happiest destiny
To die and live eternally

Lee Hays, 1981