Where would you like to go when you're dead?

A pinch?
Have you seen how much ashes you get handed over?

No. Am I going to need a wheelbarrow?

Were you close?

No. It seems like I was out by about 10 kilos.

Ha Ha.

I meant close to your aunt..!

The Brisbane Sunday Mail reports that Australian widow Sandi Canesco has chosen a special way of storing her husband's ashes. After her husband Dustin was killed in a car accident, his 26-year-old widow had his ashes sewn into her breast implants. She said she did it so "I'd never really have to part with him at all".

Just make sure there are no HENS about when scattering the ashes, and yes, I am being serious!

Beano

Rasher


Condolences, my choice would be the sea. Good Luck.



Sanch

Thanks Sancho.
Yes Jamie, we were close because my family is so small. Even when I was a kid and everyone was alive, we could all get around a table to eat. That's everyone; including aunts, cousins, grandparents etc. Strange to think that my daughter, who isn't out of nappies yet, will probably not remember any of my relatives.
Now.......anyone else want to sample my cooking?

For a while I had my mum and dad's ashes in my house. They come in what look like giant gold blend jars. I toyed with having then either end of the mantlepiece, but bottled it and kept them in the porch until I gave them to my sister to do with them as she wished. She disapproved of my plans for them and I didn't care enough to make a fuss.

Have them squished into a gemstone.

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Sandi Canesco has chosen a special way of storing her husband's ashes. After her husband Dustin was killed in a car accident, his 26-year-old widow had his ashes sewn into her breast implants.

Oliver Reed wrote in his autobiogrpahy that he wanted his ashes scattering in a sunflower field so that a small part of him would end up in suntan lotion and subsequently be smeared over the chest of a nice woman in St Tropez!

Bruce

I'd like to be buried in a forest.

If I was going to be cremated I'd like my ashes to be thrown off Clifton suspension bridge.

Here you go Rasher, something personal.

Goodbye my family, my life is past, I loved you all till the very last.
Weep not for me, but courage take, love one another for my sake.
For those you love don’t go away, they walk beside you every day.


Beano

Thank you Beano

I was not,
I was,
I am not.

I does not bother me what happens after I die and I hope it will not bother others.

The ashes of my stepfather were for a time stored in a large jar, which, as Bob says, looked for all the world like a coffee container, on the mantelpiece of my mothers house.

Despite the obvious potential hazards for the casual coffee drinker, I never found a satisfactory way to broach the subject.

Fortunately the situation was resolved when she moved the container to a safer place.

Sorry to hear about your Aunt Rasher.....the loss of a family member, no matter what the circumstances, is always a loss....I hope you find something that is meaningful and respectful to her and the rest of your family...was she into garden ornaments.....

We have scattered a total of three family members ashes in various places, and this might give you some ideas....

My Uncle lost his battle against cancer in '92, after my Mum nursed him in our home in Dundee for the last six months. We managed a last Christmas together which was nice. My Uncle, like my Mother, was born and raised in Malaysia, and not far from Dundee, by Taymouth Castle near Kenmore, on the mouth of Loch Tay there is a Chinese Bridge that crosses the river. We scattered his ashes there.

My Grandfather, on my Dad's side, was born and raised in the Grampian area, West of where we live now, and spent most of his life in Deeside. When he keeled over in his sheltered housing, after toasting a haggis and drinking the dram (the way he would have wanted to go!) we scattered his ashes up Morven (his favourite and most local hill) while we sipped a 15 year Balvenie and my cousin played Danny Boy on the violin.

A couple of years ago, my Grandmother over in Malaysia passed away and my folks, after going over, brought her ashes back with them, in their hand luggage. Yes, there were some interesting looks at security...
My Mother wished her to join my Uncle, so we made a day of it - hired a boat and scattered her ashes (including chunks, this was Malaysia remember) in the middle of Loch Tay, then had a nice lunch in Kenmore.

Needless to say my Mother knows what she would like us to do with her ashes...

For me though the choice is a bit more difficult. My gorgeous other half has a faith, is an elder at our local Church of Scotland, and believes in being buried.....me, well, I’m not so sure – I like the idea of being set free up the hills like my Grandpa, but want to be next to my wife...have never fancied the idea of being buried, but I guess that was more to do with being alive at the time!

I hope you find something suitable Rasher...

Ali

Rasher, I mentioned your tiny family to my wife. She told me to advise you to create more family.

Please
scatter
my
ashes
among
the
giant
redwood
trees
along
the
coast
of
Northern
California
USA.

Thanks,
Fred

My father-in-law had his ashes scattered on the pitch at Murrayfield being, as he was, a lifelong rugby fan and member of the SRFU.

For myself, I'd like to be put in a hole in the ground and a tree planted there. The idea being that I help to feed and grow the tree.... or something like that.

Mark

I definately want to be cremated, but what happens after that I am not worried by. No doubt my sister-in-law will think of something, though she knows that I want no grave-stone or memorial.

I do wonder though...

I hope there is Vodka in Heaven, if I am good enough to qualify, or if it exists. Perhaps the Buddhists have it right and we come back in another form, though in that case I shall have to study renunciation as there is no way I want to return to Earth.

On the other hand I want there to be a respectable party when my friends turn up to see me off! The only regret would be that I am not there to help it along!

Kindest regards from Fredrik

My mother and I have only recently made this decision - my father loved his garden and that is where the ashes have been scattered. I hope this helps Rasher.

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
Rasher, I mentioned your tiny family to my wife. She told me to advise you to create more family.

I'm doing my best. I have 3 children.

What strikes me most about your replies is that this is a far more serious matter than I had previously acknowledged. It hadn't occurred to me that this might really matter to her that much.
As a result, I will consider this far more carefully and do my best for her.
Thanks guys.

Fred: I like it there too. Nice idea. Put it in your will while you remember.

Fredrik: Somehow, I think you'll be okay.

Chaps

I have asked my wife to have my mortal remains cremated when I ascend to the subliminary abode.

I have asked her to have my ashes dropped into shotgun cartridges and then be blasted out over the fields of Wiltshire.

She said .... sod off.

Regards

Mick