Funerals.

[bigfoot3000]

Have you planned yours yet? Any themes or ideas or will you just be having a bog standard send off?

[bigfoot3000]

Hmmm...Maybe it was to morbid a subject for sunday morning!lol.

[jno]

somebody else's problem, innit. Why should I care?

[bibblebub]

there's a few bin-liners under the sink, they'll do

[bigfoot3000]

So we're going out in a blaze of glory with all the whistles and bells eh folks? lol.

[jno]

possibly, that will depend on my descendants. But I shall be past caring. My own parents got nice send-offs, but that's where my responsibility ends.

I don't think legally you can bind your descendants to anything anyway. You can ask for a marble memorial chapel with gold leaf decoration but they can still leave you on the council tip.

[McMouse]

I've opted for a green woodland burial. Mrs McM won't let me weave the reed coffin and keep it in the loft as she thinks that would be morbid. I offered to do one for her at the same time.

[Barmaid]

You are right jno, funeral wishes are not legally binding. Although most families will try and adhere to wishes. I don't much care since it won't be something that will trouble me.

I once read a will which stated "no flowers, no fuss, any old box will do, just make perfectly sure I am dead". I loved the simplicity of that.

[bigfoot3000]

I want to be blasted off into space, kind of poetic to think that ill be traveling for eternity.

[rowanwitch]

Hi

leaving plans is a good thing to do.... even better to leave it fully paid for and organised It can save so many problems and arguments

I'm having a natural environmentally friendly one

Cardboard coffin, plant a sapling on top I rot and feed the tree hopefully a tree that is good for wildlife No religious stuff and all my worldlies to charity

[bigfoot3000]

Barmaid so even if I got a family member to sign a contract acknowledging that I have paid them a certain sum of money to do my funeral a certain way then that contract wouldn't stand?

[ummmm]

My Dad got the funeral he wanted. Actually I think it was better.....

I requested that it be a Friday so most would have the day off work the next day. Pity he wasn't there....he would've loved it :-(

[dragongiraffe]

My "bods" going to the local Uni Med School for research, prodding, poking, etc. Hopefully I'll still be of use to someone even after falling off my perch!

[jno]

a sort of lesson for the world on how to kill yourself with drink or something, dragongiraffe?

[naomi24]

A friend, diagnosed with terminal cancer and given 6 months to live, unselfishly spent some that that time putting her affairs in order and organising everything so that her family would not have the worry of it all. We now have a file on our shelf containing all the information our family will need.

[naomi24]

*of that

[bigfoot3000]

Read this http://www.huffington...orge-go_n_345817.html

[steg]

i planned mine for last weekend but slept in, so will have to reschedule for a later date, ............. maybe in 40 years or so

[Bobbisox]

I wanna be at my wake so I will have it afore I go I think..lol