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You got 4?! Lucky!
In a can or in a box?
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ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. If you wanted to watch T.V. late at night, all that was available was the signal they put on when they were off the air.
At least we had T.V.. When Rouse was a kid, T.V. hadn't been invented yet.
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I tell everyone that my wife is going to put me in a silvered mason jar, that way she can keep me down in the pantry or up in the kitchen.
But what if someone mistaken my ashes for pepper!? Sure would give a whole new meaning to "lightly seasoned."
But what if someone mistaken my ashes for pepper!? Sure would give a whole new meaning to "lightly seasoned."
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Ok, now that we're SORTA moving back to the original question, I've never really understood why people want to keep someone's remains in their house with them. I don't mean to be critical. Each family has to decide that for themselves. But I think I prefer burial. When we buried my dad, there was more of a finality to it. We were letting him go. (I know burial is more expensive, but I have insurance for that!)I tell everyone that my wife is going to put me in a silvered mason jar, that way she can keep me down in the pantry or up in the kitchen.
But what if someone mistaken my ashes for pepper!? Sure would give a whole new meaning to "lightly seasoned."
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I understand your feelings. I guess I've seen or heard just about everything when it comes to this. One idea that I thought was rather cool, they take your ashes and place them in the root ball of a tree, then the family can plant the tree as a why to honor the family member. I've been in the homes where the urn was next to the TV, on a coffee table, in a cabinet, and even had one hung on a wall. Had a lady tell me one day that her husband was up in the top of the closet with two of her dogs she had cremated.
As a young lad (older parents) was always going to a visitation or funeral of family member or church friend. My view has changed a bit though. I very much have enjoyed the celebration of life services that I have recently attended where the body isn't shown and folks spend more time eating, getting reacquainted, and just enjoying each other. When I go, that's what I want people remember. How much fun it was to go to my celebration of life service.
Called on a lady one time that was telling me bout having two sons that had died.. She said they are right over there... She pointed to a single box. She had mixed the ashes together.
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I'm definitely in favor of a closed casket simple graveside service. Maybe a memorial service and fellowship dinner at church after for my family and friends. I may prefer burial over cremation, but I'm not in favor of excessive ceremony or expense.
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Graves and graveside rituals can happen with urns as well as caskets. By using cremation and urns, my mother got both of my parents in one cemetery lot.
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Some people stuff their pets. I told my mom that we're going to have her stuffed and take turns passing her around between her 6 kids. We've also talked to her about the tree thing. She likes that idea better than getting stuffed.
Years ago I started telling people that I didn't want any kind of service where people were said. I want someone to throw a party. I was telling people to prop me up beside the jukebox a couple of years before Joe Diffie put it to music.
Since that time I have changed my mind a bit. Cremation all the way! Who cares about a party or not. I know I won't! LOL
