It's Your Funeral ...

[mickeyboat]

I really only want my wedding ring. If my family would feel better putting something in with me, I will be happy to shlep it around for eternity.

Denae

 

[JoyG]

I don't want anything with me at all. Obviously they'll have to pick out an outfit for me...but I don't even care what that is.

I want everything I own to be left for my family members to remember me.

I won't need anything where I'm going.

 

[luvwinnie]

With my mom we put Life Savers (she always had them on her), pics of all of us, letters from us, a crossword puzzle and her glasses. Also little angels that said Best Mom and Best Grandma.

 

[EthansMom]

I want to be cremated and told DH that he and my mom can decide what to do with my ashes as long as I'm not sitting on anyone's mantle. If I got to pick, I'd want a picture of my kids with me.

I've always told DH that if something happened to him first, I'd cremate him and the kids and I would take his ashes out on a sailboat and put him in the ocean and empty a couple bottles of beer in for him to take along.

 

[TurboKitty]

I hope my son will put a copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in there with me. We have shared many memories over that series, he and I.

I'd also like one of my daughter's drawings in there.

If my husband happens to tuck in one of the fishing rods he's made me, that would be great too.

 

[wendy46001]

I'm going to be cremated so I won't have anything to bring with me. Besides, "I'm going to DisneyWorld!" Don't tell anyone my boys have been told how and where.

Ok way to funny...my mother has a plan as well...the last great recon mission as she likes to call it..

 

[pfishgirl]

When I die, I would like to be burried with My Lap Top so I can Dis I'm thinking I may have alot of extra time on my Hands.

My DH's cousin had just turned 19 when she passed away. She died of Cancer. She was buried with some Sports memorabilia, and some pictures and a Whinnie the Pooh doll. Her Jerzeys were hung up at the HS she had just graduated from.

 

[ducklite]

I don't really want or need anything. But they better dress me in black or there's going to be big trouble. Really big trouble. And it better not be anything itchy. And bare feet!!!

I wouldn't be surprised if DH tosses in my cell phone--no better yet tells the undertaker to set my coffin up so it's up to my ear with my "little black book" or a camera in my hand.

Anne

 

[juligrl]

I'm going to be cremated so I won't have anything to bring with me. Besides, "I'm going to DisneyWorld!" Don't tell anyone my boys have been told how and where.

Me too!
...and a little bit to Gettysburg & a little bit to my cottage.

 

[meandtheguys2]

My mom is always cold, so her plan is to be cremated (Think Sam McGee) in her pj's, and robe!

Me, I don't really care. If they could legally put me in a pine box, and bury me at our farm it would be fine and dandy with me.

 

[rayelias]

As far as I'm concerned, when I go, stuff me in a Hefty bag and toss me in the trash.

There's a quote from Star Trek that goes something like this: "His body is just an empty shell. Treat is as such."

(Geek test... I *think* it a Klingon speaking of a dead relative or friend. Can't remember who or what, though... I'm so ashamed - I should KNOW this!!!)

 

[SavvyMom]

I would like one of those New Orleans funerals where people are marching and partying. I like the idea of playing The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Go DAWGS!) Put a Bible in there with me and stick me in the ground. I won't care. I will have already gone home.

 

[EthansMom]

As far as I'm concerned, when I go, stuff me in a Hefty bag and toss me in the trash.

There's a quote from Star Trek that goes something like this: "His body is just an empty shell. Treat is as such."

(Geek test... I *think* it a Klingon speaking of a dead relative or friend. Can't remember who or what, though... I'm so ashamed - I should KNOW this!!!)

Not sure where the quote is from, but along those lines... when you are cremated, you can either be cremated in a wooden coffin or in a cardboard box. I already told DH, "Don't you go spending the money on a wooden coffin that will just get burnt up!" A cardboard box is fine with me!

 

[cccm]

I want to be cremated. DD knows to carry me around with her the rest of her life. That way she can talk to me or yell at me or ask me if what she is wearing looks okay.

I don't have a special attachment to any object.

 

[Kitty 34]

I want to be cremated and thrown into Lake Michigan so I guess I really don't want anything cremated with me.......just saved in some kind of keepsake box.

 

[Amapola]

I want a direct cremation, no wake, viewing or anything like that. And I don't want anything cremated with me. All I want is a funeral mass at the Cathedral and have the cremains go in the columbarium there.

Funny story: when I was in my early 20's I dreamed that I was about to die and I was making my funeral plans. In the dream I told my cousin to dress me in a red silk dress I had just worn to her wedding (a real dress that I had in real life ) and that I wanted to wear my pearls, but to be sure to take them off before the burial because there was no sense in wasting them. Then I took a shower, put on a long flannel nightgown and laid on my bed to wait for death . Needless to say, I woke up It was such a vivid dream, 25 years later I still remember every second of it.

 

[Amapola]

When our son passed away we put in a few pictures and our oldest daughter (7 at the time) picked out a stuffed bear that she had two of. That way she would always have one just like his she said. We thought it was sweet, so we went out and bought a set of two other bears and placed one with him and kept one for DH and I, we keep it next to a framed pic of DS. I also made a small crocheted blanket for him to be buried with.

My condolences on your loss. What a sweet thing to do for all of you. It must have been of some comfort in the midst of the pain.

I had a stillborn boy 16 years ago. It was all quite unexpected and sudden, and in the confusion of the first few days, I didn't get to do anything special. In fact, DH and I weren't able to go to the burial because it had to be done soon and I was still in the hospital (massive uterine infection). My parents and aunts and uncles took care of everything for us. He's buried with my grandparents -- or rather, they were buried with him, since they died years later.

Recently our church had a pew restoration project and for donations of a certain amount, you could get a small engraved "in memoriam" plaque (not on the pew itself, but on a very discreet memorial inside the entrance). We did one for our baby and even 15 years later (at the time of the project) it was very moving and comforting for us.

Ooops, I sure went off on a tangent... sorry to hijack the post!

 

[piglet50]

i don't have anything special that i'd want to go in with me. my family can put in anything they want to - or not. my one request is that my casket not be opened. i don't like the idea of anyone looking in at me and saying "doesn't she look good?" i've never seen a dead person look good, only dead! besides, if i look better dead, that would be just too sad.

 

[Tarheel Tink]

i've never seen a dead person look good, only dead! besides, if i look better dead, that would be just too sad.

Between this and "I'm going to Disney World!" I've been chuckling quite a bit at our responses!

 

[PhotobearSam]

my one request is that my casket not be opened. i don't like the idea of anyone looking in at me and saying "doesn't she look good?"

I said this to my Mom and she said that it helps people com to terms with your death and is a great help top those mourning you.

Now I think they can do what they want and leave it open. I am coming back to haunt my house so I will stop by my funeral and "listen" to people's comments. If I hear anything I don't like, I will haunt them too...