Have You Planned Your Own Funeral

@wolfie34 (26771)
United Kingdom
February 2, 2007 9:19am CST
I know it's a morbid subject, but it's a subject everyone of us will have to deal with. Lives are not guaranteed and it's not that we can sit back at any age young or old and think it's not an issue. If I die, I have no dependents only my parents, so they would get everything, I will also need to make a will. I also want to be buried so I would make sufficient monies available for that. I also want Moby's Porcelain to be played at my funeral if possible as that is such a beautiful song, memorable, haunting and somewhat sad. What arrangements have you made if any? Is there any specific requirements you want for your funeral?
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@aarroonn (160)
• Nepal
3 Feb 07
No i haven't planned for mine own furnel but i'm think about that.I just think tha i'll make mine furnel more intersting then any others.
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@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
3 Feb 07
I just want normal buried will do yea ... just don't burn me into ashes lol
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@manmaxman (850)
• India
3 Feb 07
no not yat
@terrly396 (126)
• China
3 Feb 07
If I die,I hope it happens after my parents,as an old woman,I will be pleased to face my last minute.I would like to be burned by my next generation and dig a deep hole to bury me,on the top of any hill,to plant a pine tree on me.Then I could stand in sunshine and rain everyday,to breath clear air everyday.
• Saudi Arabia
3 Feb 07
I have'nt planned my funral because I injoy every singal moment and take out the idea of daing out of my head, this my way to injoy it.
• United States
3 Feb 07
i dont care what happens to me after i die. they can throw me in the ocean for all i care. all i know is that i want some kind of gathering and i want another one bites the dust played.
@rahulmig (1030)
• India
3 Feb 07
to be honest this thought never came in my mind .. !!
@toonatoons (3737)
• Philippines
3 Feb 07
well, not exactly. but i'd want to keep it very simple, no videos, no photos. i'd like to have it early in the morning, and perhaps, i'd have prepared tea, coffee, light sandwiches, canapes...
@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
3 Feb 07
I am clueless...I cant make up my mind on this one..I will probaly have to think about it for awhile. I dont want to be buried and I dont like the idea of cremation either really...but I would rather be cremated as I am claustrophobic but I also hate fire....well I am open for suggesations lol..
@mogg20 (172)
• Philippines
3 Feb 07
I prefer cremation over burial, since I find the former method to be much cheaper. Though I would want all my healthy organs to be donated first. But then again, I may not be eligible for organ donation if I die of old age.
@xbritterx (170)
• United States
3 Feb 07
i'm only 19 so no i havent
@gemini1960 (1161)
• Philippines
3 Feb 07
yes i do...i want my body to be cremated...and be put beside our house..
@menaaiza (13)
• Philippines
3 Feb 07
yes... but one thing i wanted to have before i die is a donor card wherein i can donate my eyes to those who need it.
• Philippines
3 Feb 07
yes it's a morbid subject for some specially in the Philippines who has a different culture i may say conservative. my parents doesn't like the idea of getting a memorial plan/insurance but for me preparing is better than caught in a situation that you don't know what to do. my reason is simply because i don't want to be a burden to anyone when i die.
• United States
2 Feb 07
Yes, I have everything planned out and my family will follow it through. I am going to be creamated, my ashes will be put into a large firework, and I will be blown off above the mountains of Colorado. :)
@kerbausama (1335)
• Malaysia
3 Feb 07
yes i am.i wanna die in a peace place,after 100 years old from now.i want spent my whole life with happiness first.. .
@ukchriss (2097)
3 Feb 07
Yes, I have, its all done and dusted. It was the first thing I did when I was told I had terminal Cancer. There was no way my family were going to sort it — they have different tastes from me lol There will be songs to sing along to, Such as Robbie williams singing Angels. I don't want any Hymns, I have the reading which I would like read out all sorted and I even asked my best friend if she would do a reading. I would like a nice simple pine coffin and would like to be buried near my nan in the village where i grew up. The grave yard is up on a hill overlooking the village. There's no way I want to be cremated! I would just like a few yellow roses and a collection made for money to go towards Cancer research. I don't want anyone to sit and cry, I want them to go out and have a party to celebrate the life I had, I've told everyone I will come back and haunt them if they don't!
@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
3 Feb 07
We did the will thing and update it if there are any major changes that take place. Our "caskets" are $250.00 cardboard boxes that they will use to cremate our bodies. And a small memorial service is all we have stipulated. The money that would have been spent on caskets, flowers, limo's , plots, headstones etc is in a trust account so that when "we go" so to speak our kids are going on a holiday instead. We have discussed this with our children, which was morbid, but they have agreed to respect our wishes.
• United States
3 Feb 07
no
• United States
3 Feb 07
To be honest I haven't written out my wishes nor have I actually financially planned for it. What I have done is make my wishes abundantly clear to my hubby and kids. Right down to wanting to be buried naked!