Serena
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My dad always said just to put his ashes in a Skippy Peanut Butter jar and roll it off the side of the road somewhere. Works for me.
Custom lately has been a stone in the family boneyard, actual remains wherever. I don't think I'd want to stay home just to avoid logistical hassles. Otherwise, I won't care. I'll be elsewhere and otherwise concerned. Or not. TBD. I do think it would be cool to plan my own funeral, though. (Or maybe I just just hate letting anybody else have the last word??  Still, seems like you oughta at least get to choose you own epitaph. It's gonna be there for a while, like a last post-it to the world. I'd kinda like it to be...pithy...or something useful. Like maybe, the conversion formula for inches to millimeters (I always have trouble remembering that). Or what kind of flowers I actually like, since I don't expect anyone else to remember that offhand. A granite reminder could be useful.
"Even in Death,
She Vastly Prefers Gardenias."
R.I.P.
(Blah, blah demographics.)
That oughta shake up the first cheapskate to show up with carnations, lol!
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Nolan
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Wife and I have talked about this. Since we are full-timers and all. We have decided each want to be cremated. We asked our families if they would want to see the body before it's cremated and some do. So where ever we are is where the viewing of the body will be and cremated there too. Ashes put out on a curvy road some place so we will always be "in the wind".
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Lovedays
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This is an important serious topic and I'm not sure joking around is appropriate. This may be offensive to some and I apologize.
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welovecamping07
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Lovedays wrote:This is an important serious topic and I'm not sure joking around is appropriate. This may be offensive to some and I apologize.
One of the greatest movies of all time!!!!! Poor Aunt Edna!!! 
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SemperFiCop
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Yes,
the Funeral Home will make
ALL Arrangements for you...
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WTTCS
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Put casters on my coffin and tow me four down.
Actually it is a serious question and should be considered. However, in all honestly, I could care less what they do with my body, when I die , and my wife says the same.
And seriously, my answer is not joking.
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Serena
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Making fun of someone else's actual loss or grief would be tasteless and cruel. Making fun of your own death is not. It is a well respected and much enjoyed literary form, and has been for centuries.
Come to think - I do believe a sense of humor is one of those many things you (theoretically, at least) can't take with you...might as well use it. Or if not, try to think of it as an inadequate but sincere tribute to Carlin. George rocked!
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barboc117
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Bake me off at 500 degrees and cast my ashes to the wind in the most beautiful place you can find. However, I have wondered about this myself. Shoreman, what Good Sam policy covers this?
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garry1p
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If you know the name of the funeral home in the town/city you want to be interned call them and they will take care of everything.
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Chock Full o' Nuts
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I don't know about full-timers, but I'll tell you what we did when my Dad died. He passed away in a hospital several hours from home. He wanted to be buried next to his mother in the family cemetary. When the time came, we had a Durham funeral home handle the immediate remains. Then I called the funeral director in Dad's hometown and told him that Dad had passed and which funeral home was picking up the body. Our hometown funeral director handled everything. Dad was cremated and his ashes Fed-exed to the hometown funeral home. We held a graveside service and buried the ashes in a special box next to his mother's grave.
The whole thing was as easy as such a situation *can* be. I'm sure there were permits acquired and stuff to be handled, but our hometown guy just took care of it. We were able to leave the hospital in the middle of the night without worrying about it.
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