Your Funeral

[Ciarin]

How do you want your funeral to go?

If you don't care about your funeral, then you don't really have to answer. :wink:


I want my funeral to be grandios. For my burial site, I want a big tomb, with a statue of me with faery wings on a horse. And for a coffin I want a sarcophagus (sp), with silver and jade inlays. in a sort of celtic norse style. And I want a fountain nearby.

For the wake: Music, I want a 16 piece string orchestra with a trombone. And then some songs on the pipes and fiddle. The food has to be KFC and german food, but also a big thing of lasagna. For drinks it has to be juice and mead and milk. And everyone has to wear dark green and/or black.

And there will be no christian clergy. If their must be a religious person then it has to be a Gothi.

[Draskinn]

I gave this some thought years ago and realized I don’t want a funeral. I want as few people to know I’m dead as possible. If possible even no one.

I’ve always had a habit of disappearing from time to time. So I have this vision of long after I’m dead people I know saying

“Oh I haven’t seen him in years but I’m sure he’s wandering around some where”

Like I could come walking in the door any time, which I do almost always without warning.

As for my corpse I don’t want to be cut into in any way, and I don’t like confined spaces so no burying me underground ether. Above ground sarcophagus for the Dras Man. After all got to stay in one peace so my Zombie Corpse can rise up and pray on the living.

Fear the Vrykolakas

[Evil_Gondi]

I want my funeral to be a joyous event, as I am going to a better place, and that is not something that should be seen as sad.

I want a giant bonfire in which various meat products will be grilled (this won't take place a t a cemetary, mind you), along with various drinks of the intoxicating flavor. People shall dance and be merry (It's written in my will) until nightfall, where upon my ashes will shot up into the air with a variety of fireworks, hopefully not choking anyone unfortunate to get caught in an ash cloud of my remains.

After that, all of my stuff shall be given away unless I'm married, then it goes to the lucky man or woman.

[Gramorn Soulaxe39]

Ciarin if you die before me I am so going to your funeral :lol:. I want to be mummified. If I am mummified I can have my organs put in jars and sent to my surviving family members. I also want to buried in Germany where my Gramma's Grampa was from or just here in Michigan. If here in Michigan I would want to be buried in my backyard next to my late dog Max. So mummification or being cremated and having my oldest son, when I have one, throw my ashes over Germany from a plane.

[togashi]

My wife wants to be cremated, and I want us to be buried next to each other. Solution: she dies first, and is buried with me holding her cremains like a football. Aside from that, I want someone to say, "chuck him in the hole so we can go get piss drunk!"

[Wooleen Shadowraith]

Donating my body to science.

But, as a memorial, something simple. Something easy and happy.

[Insomniac]

Wrapped in a cloth, no embalming. Buried deep (to keep out the animals) somewhere where I can help the trees grow. :D

[Da_Dude]

in a sort of celtic norse style. And I want a fountain nearby.

Norse funerals involved your body being placed ina boat set on fire then your head madien would be put in the flames and join you in Valhalla (*sp?).

I really dont want a big funeral. One of the main things I want buried with me, in my oak coffin, is my bow and a claymore sword. The main thing I want to do is have them play "Look On the Bright Side of Life". I honestly want it to be my last cheerful joke to my friends and family. And the song is in a way approirate as much as it is inaproriate for the occasion.

Some thing sorta off topic, but I really wanna go down fighting. I am not planning on joining the military, but I have thought about how I want to go and I have firmly decided I want to die fighting to give someone a last living chance. I want to make the ultimate sarifice. I know it sounds sorta cheesy, but it would allow me to go knowing my life made a difference. So as to how I will achive this I'm not sure. maybe I'll just flat out join up. Dunno but thats how I wanna go.

[Ciarin]

I know what norse funerals are like. I just want the design of the sarcaphogus to look norse or celtic.

[Dilorenzo]

Personally, I want a small deal - family and friends there to mourn my passing and be happy that I had a decent life lived the way I wanted to live it. Aside from that, don't much care if I'm burnt or buried- a body is just a body.
Plus, having no religion just makes everything so much cheaper :p

[Calid]

I want mine to happen far FAR in the future.

[Fyrie]

I want my close family there and that's it. Small service at the site where I will be laid to rest and maybe a meal together to think back on me, hopefully they'll talk of some legacy I've created - either through my family or elsewhere.

I absolutely despise forced showing of respect and I've been to too many funerals where there were a lot of people there - but a majority were there because it was a "see and be seen" event or it was just expected of them, not because they had particular affection for the person being celebrated.

[Soria]

I don't plan on a funeral... Since I plan to be cremated. ( I figured might as well, since when I filled out my orange donar card I more less put ' If it still works, take it.')


As for the memorial... Nobody in black, happy music and good food. I don't want them to mourn my death, but celebrate my life.

[Nulien]

I plan to live forever. :)

[Soria]

I plan to live forever. :)


How is that going?

[Nulien]

So far, so good. :)

[Breandan]

I could try to explain the funeral and burial I want, and why, but it would probably exceed the character limit allowed in each post :-)

[Dilorenzo]

Ah, go on Brean, try it in shorthand.

[Soria]

Okay... My curiostity is peeked.

[Korkskrew]

Hmm, I never actually thought about mine. I guess I'd want my organs to be donated if they still worked, and then be cremated so I couldn't come back as a zombie. I wouldn't wanna have a funeral per se, just gathering of my closest friends, and a live band, but nothing depressing, something cheery, like the future equivelant of Flogging Molly. And everyone will mosh and be merry.

[Slacker_45]

The funeral will be a New Orleans style funeral, with Jazz, Blues, and good ol' Rag Time - - plenty to eat at the wake. No crying allowed. It will be a time of joyous fun and zany celebrations. Family and friends are encouraged to get up in front of everyone and make jokes at my expense or tell something very funny or stupid I did to make them laugh. My body will be cremated, and my ashes will:

a) either be shot into space, or....

b) taken to the middle of the ocean, and cast into the Deep.

[Daiv]

I want to be cremated and scattered over a lake during sunrise in Alaska.
About the actual funeral? No idea :D

[Coffee]

Just a good old fashioned wake (think Finnigan's kind) and a plain ole, run of the mill Catholic funeral.
For my grave? Doesn't matter.

[Kelssy]

I plan to live forever. :)


How is that going?

I'm with Nulien, I don't plan on dieing... and Soria, It seems to be working so far. :)

If it should happen though, my family knows to have a big party with dance music, lots of drinking and I get to be out of the coffin. I don't wanna miss the last party I get to go to!

[Korkskrew]

Hey coffee, if you have a Finnegan type wake, doens't that mean you'll come back to life? ;)

[Wolf]

I don't want to be cut open like others have said, thats like disgracing the body in my opinion.

I kind of want to be burned but not cremated (sp?). Just an open fire at night time on a night wila lot of stars

[Korkskrew]

Like a greek funeral?

[Dannalyn]

Both my husband and myself are organ donors and have already purchased our chosen place to rest for eternity (and not because we are responsible either).

All other arrangements will hopefully be taken care of before we depart so as not to burden our kids with that task.

[Evil_Gondi]

Like a greek funeral?

A funeral pyre.

And I wanted that at first, but I think it's a health code violation of sorts.

[Elenial]

I plan to live forever. :)

I plan to live forever or die trying.

[HalfLife]

Ive always wanted to get cremated, just much less to deal with that way, but now that you guys have the idea of coming back as a zombie in my head, maybe i should be buried near some sort of satanic unholy land or something, come back as a zombie and bite people. That would rock



Just burn me, and do whatever you want with the ashes, im gonna be dead anyway so it dosent really matter what happens to my body.

[Rifter]

I don't see much point in using the Earths' resources to house my remains after I'm dead. I'm not using them anymore, so I plan on being cremated and scattered in the mountains.

[bob the goat]

I want to be creamated. My estate will be sold to fund a 3 day party a-la wintereenmas (from Crtl Alt Del comics). Basically I want everyone to celebrate my life, by doing the things I like. It would be 3 days of lan party, drinking, and I would add in Karaoke and shooting just to round it off. I would pay everyones travel expenses, and pay for the party (you can't take it with you right).

[Breandan]

Ah, go on Brean, try it in shorthand.LEt's put it this way- Technically, Méabh is one of our ancestors (the founder of the Ciarraide family was Ciar, son of Feargus Mac Roith, usurped king of Ulaid, and Méabh, queen of Connacht), so I want to be buried in a fashion that honours that line and the nobility of my ancestors (http://ciarraide.org/images/righs_burial_mound2.jpg), as well as inspires future generations to be as good as I was or better. The funeral will be a traditional feast and celebration that will last until the last celebrant passes out.

[Soria]

:: blinkies:: Good luck finding the hill.

[Breandan]

you MAKE the hill. The entire thing is built up over the tomb. It's part of the reason why I have a $750,000 life insurance policy :-D

[Evil_Gondi]

I remember reading something about that in a history book. Their feasts lasted three days or so. *Drools*

[Soria]

... Am I invited?

[Dilorenzo]

Whoa. Gotta say, thats one cool funeral idea. And just think, future archaeologists will wonder what an Irish burial mound was doing in America. You'll confound scholars in generations to come. :wink:

(like so many people, I'm descended from Brian Beru- but since there's so many of us, I'm sure someone will do something like that to honour the heritage)

[Breandan]

Brian Ború got around a bit, dint he ;-)

[Dilorenzo]

Aye, that he did- wonder how he found time to be killed what with his busy "schedule"

[Breandan]

well, he was an old man, in a tent, making prayers (probably before nookie), and some Viking git stabbed him in the back before being killed by his guards. But, he had one HELL of a funeral and a blow-out bash :-)

[Grand Inquisitor Cyrilus]

I want my funeral to be an absolute freak show. There'll be an interpreter who translates every speech into Spanish, a group of people who pretend that I was part of their sky-diving team, no beverages except for Fanta and rum, a bunch of shifty-looking Goths... you get the idea.
As for music, I want "Wake up Jeff" by the Wiggles to be playing.

It's not so much that I want people to have fun at my funeral, more that I want them to leave thinking "Wtf?"

[Chewbenator]

I want it too be happy

[Fromter_McStabbins]

I want to be shot out of a cannon into the sea / space / endless void.

[KaihnEshin]

The funeral will be a traditional feast and celebration that will last until the last celebrant passes out.

/cry
Bad timing to read this after staying "festivly enhanced" for 9 hours straight last night. There is a time when the body has had enough.. but lo!!! We have Red Bull and Sparks to keep us going!!

In any case, cremation for me, and I hope I get the last laugh and end up in my friends face like in The Big Lebowski
cause I'm evil like that ^_^

[Trebax]

You can bury me in a pine-box for all I care. I'll be dead, and I won't be here to care about it.

[Mutton]

I want a pine crate and I want people who care enough about who I was to dig a hole so I don't rot in the sun. I could even do without the crate.

[Frodric]

Since my desire to have an ornate BLue Granite Pyramid erected as a tomb is unlikely I would like to buy 4 plots together and plant a shade tree near a bench on them. Have some brass marker denoting that this shade and place for reflection was provided by me. And to make sure the tree grows render my body down for tree food and plant me under it.

[Darth Lorax]

Funerals aren’t for the dead, they’re for the living. I like the Klingon philosophy of death. Once you die you go on to fight other battles elsewhere. The corpse is just an empty shell and should be treated as such. Their ritual involves opening and looking into the dying man's eyes and howling, warning those in the afterlife that a warrior is on his way. However, that’s not very comforting to those left behind to morn losing you. So my answer to what kind of funeral would I like is whatever helps my family deal with my death and move on. Personally, I don’t like the idea of my body taking up space in the ground. Take any useable organs I have left and give them to people that need them. What science can’t find a use for should be used as fertilizer.

[LowerClassBrat]

I want too be buried in a random forest miles away from the world so I can be at peace with nature...oh that sounded lame.

[Recon_Wannabie]

Well my funeral? I would say, a nice military barial, 21 gun salute, and all that good stuff, music, i would want Johnny Cash to be played, Food, a big huge cake, and some subs, since i love subs....

[Stell]

Frozen so I can be re-animated in the future.

THE FUTURE!

[Satrah]

Dang...

Well, if I still happen to have useable organs by the time I'm dead, I'd like them to be donated to help others. They could probably at that point use them far better then me.

Other then that, creamated and placed in an urn near where the rest of the family is buried.

Afterwards a memorial...pretty much come as you are in your nice clothes say a few words, cry a little, laugh a lot, eat well, remember me with fondness (or at least remember me well with humor *grins*) and make sure to have a few good drinks. *grins broadly* (I'll arrange the cabs to take you home or at least a place to face plant and crash.)

Not much else to say...Still need to think this over some.

[Dravvan]

LowerClassBrat...that actually sounded pretty cool.

I don't want a funeral so much as I'd like a memorial service. Like a few others, I wish I could have a good ol' style Viking funeral, so the closest I'll get is a cremation. And I'd like my ashes scattered in various spots; some at the Oregon Coast, some in Canada. The rest upon the 4 winds.

However, make sure you do your family a favor? Have things set up ahead of time as it's very stressful. Leaving it to your family really sucks; I should know.