Preplanned, Prepaid, Funerals, Anyone?
By barehugs
@barehugs (8973)
Canada
March 6, 2009 1:50pm CST
About 10 years ago my wife and I contacted our local Funeral Home, with regard to Prepaid Funerals. About this time we were updating our Wills, and decided to Preplan and Prepay our funerals at same time. Presently most funerals cost between 5 and $10,000 each. We were able to arrange both of ours for a total under $3,000.00. We opted for Cremations. We are not into organized religion, and did not require the services of the Clergy, or Funeral Home. We did not require a Casket, just a cardboard box, and a plastic urn for the ashes. There will be no service of any sort. No prayers for our souls, and hopefully no tears. Instead there will be a Family Gathering to Celebrate our Lives, with plenty of food and drink. At this time I have requested my ashes be flushed down the toilet, (into a Septic Tank)
Can you think of anything we have left undone, or unfinished? (I write this post as if we were to die together. I did it this way for convenience)
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@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
6 Mar 09
I was with you all the way....until the toilet part. I have request that I be sent on a slow boat to China but was told they don't want me.
I want to be in the garden.
I have had mine taken care of since my first stretch of Cancer back when I was in my early twenties... about 10 years back now.
I too want the family to gather and drink, eat, and remember with a smile.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
7 Mar 09
The thing about the Flush,- Nobody who's ashes are flushed down the toilet ends up in a Septic Tank. We are Not In our Physical Body! We are Spiritual Beings who use a physical body only when living in this material, third dimension. That was the point, made when I joked about the flush.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
7 Mar 09
You made a good move there. I was counting on our very secure investments to cover this and now those secure investments are long gone. I don't know what they will do with us when we go. I don't want to make a problem for others but there isn't much I can do right now except keep on living.
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