Screw the state of Virginia, it's YOUR choice.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

uh, just so you know, i have always thought of myself as a viking. we have much in common.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

It wouldn't be Virginia if you could.

Bring on the Flames........

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/p/pleasedontburyme.shtml

There are some private family grave yards around here but you have to be buried in one that's open and registered. You can't dig a hole in the back yard and throw someone into it - that's not legal.
More and more people are opting for cremation but burial is still the most common. You can chose a card board box if you want but all burials require a cement rough box in this area. I think that's pretty common anywhere around here.

Medical science seems like a good idea. I've signed my DL for organ donor.

to lay me on the surface for about a week, then let my dog out to roll in me.

It is not meant as a play on words but creamation seems to be continiously gaining ground fairly fast around here.

There has been the ocassional case reported of one spouse putting the other in a large freezer to keep the pension cheques flowing.

Everytime our freezer starts to get low I wonder. The penalty for doing so is very minor. I know I should not have mentioned this to the wife.

It'd be pretty cool to be converted to a tank or two of biodiesel and then be run in your own car.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

There is no bad way unless the dead are displayed in an onerous way. Dead bodies are very capable of spreading disease and death and unless they are frozen must be disposed of rather quickly. But I don't think there is any bad custom except when certain religious groups want to dispose of the wife along with the husband. That is not nice! Birds need food, worms need food, bacteria needs a host and the list goes on. In the ocean, creatures great and small benefit from sea burial. Indiana corn fields can always use the funeral ashes for fertilizer. Not too much ash, but a little is always beneficial. But there is no bad burial that is done in good taste and done as economically as possible. I have no desire for anyone to look at me after I'm gone, because when I'm gone I won't be there.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C.S. Lewis



1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA

2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage,
Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!

Not too far from reality here...

Nutzoid guy slapped a neighbor kid. Kid squealed to Dad. Dad went over to Nuuzoid's place. Shotgun pokes out the door and shot is fired...a few pellets hits the dad...surface woundage only. SWAT shows up. 18 hour standoff and FINALLY, nutzoid is taken into custody.

Now the fun begins.

Turns out...

A thorough search of the two-story house, owned by the nutzoid's mother, finds said-relative in a restful, frozen state in the basement freezer...apparently placed there AFTER she passed away a few months before from NATURAL CAUSES. Nutzoid, however, did continue to cash mommy-dearest's benefit checks from SS.

THE ENDING?

The incident resulted in the razing of the home, a spawning of an alternative mock-band (not rock...mock) called...















Wait for it...















It's coming...


















Each time they played, and you were one of the first 50 or so through the door, you got a free "freezer magnet" (shows the lid opening with an arm reaching out and is "slugged" with the band's name and slogan).

Yep...freezer humor in La Crosse is cooooooooooooooold.

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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Who cares? I'll be dead. I just hope no one spends tens of thousands of dollars on my decomposing corpse.

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I remember a line I read in the Last Whole Earth catalog regarding burial: 'the earth has sustained me these many years; I owe the earth one body. I gather that it's not easy to take possession of a family member's body for burial outside of the normal cemetery arrangement. Wrapped in a sheet in a pine box, blood intact, buried under an orchard sounds appealing but from what I've read, hoops must be jumped to pull it off. When my dad died, we went to the funeral home where he had purchased space. The head guy seemed decent enough, he showed us around, talked us through the whole thing. At one point, he brought in the lady who was going to do the actual embalming work. Holy crap, she looked like she was a real life 'Addams Family' ghoul. Poor lady just looked weird. Oh well, my dad was past pain but it was a strange experience.

Being consumed by buzzards might not be bad at all, karmically speaking. I can't find statistics but I'm certain buzzards consume way more flesh in their lifetime than what they leave at death in their own carcass. One site said they can consume up to 25% of their own body weight in one sitting, if they've been w/o food for awhile. So the remnants of your life-force would first power a muscle powered flight by numerous birds and then be scattered to fertilize the earth over a wide area.

Not sure I'd want to be part of the pre-vulture filleting (fileting?) ritual. I mean what's up with that? Does it get the vultures aroused perhaps? It's a much more hands on approach to life, all right. It would be hard to do that with a family member however. Perhaps there are burial workers who do it, that would make some sense.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

When my mother passed last August, we donated her body to LifeLegacy. They were very prompt when picking her up from the house and were very nice and sensetive to the situation. We got her ashes back in about a month. Her ashes could have used some pulverization, but overall we were very pleased, especially since the whole process was done at no cost to us. I'm on dialysis but I am unable to get a kidney transplant so I am already registered with LifeLegacy and my lover knows exactly what to do when the time comes.

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Former owner of a few diesel MB cars
1998 Lexus ES 300 In Chicago We Trust

There must be some cultural significance to the fileting thing, I think, because I'm pretty sure buzzards don't usually demand fileting of their meals.

What's LifeLegacy?

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13