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Kuan, I am sorry for your loses. Having photographed dead bodies and people with cancer during my career, you never take one day for granted. I recently did my will and want my "blast off/ funeral" to be a big party with a conga line, drinking and the movie "Blazzing Saddles" to be shown. Funerals are for the living, the dead don't care....

This thread reminds me, has anyone seen the recent film, The Three Burials of Melqiades Estrada? It's an engaging account of death and inter-ethnic friendship set in the west Texas and Mexican deserts starring Tommy Lee Jones.

5-10 thousand? I don't think that's a realistic range any longer unless it is what the family is choosing.

I am an embalmer/funeral director and I find it really rewarding. Difficult, but rewarding. I think sometimes the public has this image of morticians being a bunch of scum bags trying to con them out of their money, but thats not the case.

I think it would be neat for a person to make a casket. I have considered making my own at some point. I notice with my families that it definitely seems to help with their grieving process when they do participate at least to some level in the funeral process.

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Originally Posted by cmac2012 (Post 1155704)

This'll really cement my reputation but I think we lost something when we started paying other people to bury our family members. A lot of people have real trouble just coming up with the $5 to $10 thousand.

When my dad died in 2000, my mom and I went to the funeral home to get everything arranged. He had bought in on some kind of plan so these were the guys we were bound to go with.

The front man was very smooth, a decent guy, but when they introduced us to the mortician, whoa man, she was a scary looking woman. I'm sure many, most morticians are fine people but this lady gave me the willies. Was way creepier looking than any woman on the Adam's family.

I've read about guys who built their father's coffin out of simple wood, and dug the hole themselves, with friends (would be hard to arrange the legality of that I'll bet). I heard one guy on NPR describing doing something like that and he said it really helped with the grieving process.

I guess most people are too freaked out about the thought of worms eating their body -- would rather be pickled and put in a concrete lined hole. I read one guy's take on that once: "The earth has sustained me these many years. I owe the earth one body." I want to be eaten by critters after I'm gone. Might find a touch of immortality behind that.

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Originally Posted by Cherbear6 (Post 1929407)

Ironic that you're a funeral director considering you resurrected this thread from the dead :P

I visited a Death and Dying class at school when they had a funeral director as a visiting speaker. I was surprised to learn that it is a legal requirement (federal I think) that the funeral home use any casket that is provided to them by the family. There was a good deal on Ebay at the time==old but elaborate wooden casket $300--never used.

Attended a funeral for a colleague last week. She died of lung cancer.

I hate to go to funerals. I'll be going to one soon, I'm afraid. I'm not looking forward to it.

When I die, I want there to be a big party with lots of drinking, laughing, the recitation of funny stories, memories, etc. Like Hunter S. Thompson, I have made it known that I'd like for my ashes to be shot up into the sky in a rocket or a Roman candle for the grand finale.

I want to be embalmed and placed at the wheel of my W123.

In the parking lot at work. Lenin style.

:)

Ken300D

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Originally Posted by Dee8go (Post 1929524)

We'll have a Benz GTG and shoot you out of a rocket. TheDon can come up with the rocket design.

I want to be cremated, ashes put in Ben and Jerry's ice cream cartons and given out to to whomever "wants a piece of me." Then I want everyone to go to a cigar bar, drink and be merry knowing that I'm doing the Rhumba over the "Rainbow Bridge." Also, I want everyone to watch Blazzing Saddles.

I might just have my funeral BEFORE I die so I can come, too. Sounds like it will be a blast.

Literally.

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Originally Posted by Dee8go (Post 1929524)

Oh,can't rid yourself of grandiose notions,eh?Well if I'm invited I'll certainly do justice to the 1st requirement.

When I shuffle of this mortal coil simply cast me into the sea so I may be of some use to the sharks,gulls and microorganisms,If they'll have me.

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes (Post 1929751)

Being the silver-tongued professor of verbage it's only appropriate that you deliver the eulogy.

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes (Post 1929751)

You're definitely on the list, Carleton. Hopefully, we'll meet in person BEFORE then, though. The Manhattens and entertaining stories will, no doubt, flow freely . . . .

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes (Post 1929751)

Viking Burial?

I went to funeral in Virginia once where all the family members were crying hysterically loud. So loud and crazy my wife and I were freaked out. God, the guy was pretty old...:confused:

I didn't know Carleton was a Vikings fan. I figured he was partial to the Giants or the Jets.