When you Die ?
Burial ? Cremation ? Stuffed ? Mounted over the Fireplace ?
If you had the ultimate say in the disposal/use of your earthly remains how would you go ?
use your imagination...but pleeze don't be too vulgar.
As for my carcass.
Being dropped into a natural tar-pit or peat bog sounds fitting.
Especially since it is my eternal hope to drown in a very large vat of beer.
Aqua
If you had the ultimate say in the disposal/use of your earthly remains how would you go ?
use your imagination...but pleeze don't be too vulgar.
As for my carcass.
Being dropped into a natural tar-pit or peat bog sounds fitting.
Especially since it is my eternal hope to drown in a very large vat of beer.
Aqua
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Lash me to the top of an Apollo command module atop a Saturn V.
Up, up and away! and straight into the sun.
Not sure about the other bits. Will need to give that more thought...
Originally posted by burningwheel
You want to be buried in a pile of sick puppies?
Now that's just weird. Not to mention unkind to poor dogs in need of rest, if not medical attention.
Only problem was Qantas insisted he had to be embalmed in case he went "astray" en route (couldn't have him lying around Tokyo airport getting all smelly).
I've never been quite sure whether it was a good idea or not. While I know he would have got a kick out of flying "home" one last time by Qantas, embalmed bodies take an awful long time to rot away. And there's something about that I find a bit creepy.
I guess they started tying bells to the bodies, because sometimes they came back to life when no one was paying attention.
Has anyone ever read anything about that kind of thing?
Originally posted by Carol A
Years ago I read something about bodies lying on a table at the undertaker's in Italy.
I guess they started tying bells to the bodies, because sometimes they came back to life when no one was paying attention.
Has anyone ever read anything about that kind of thing?
Well, ala another thread, I believe this is the origin of the phrase "saved by the bell", although I think it refers to bells rigged up so they could rung from within a buried coffin.
That way, if you happened to be buried alive you could alert somebody topside.
Originally posted by addabox
Well, ala another thread, I believe this is the origin of the phrase "saved by the bell", although I think it refers to bells rigged up so they could rung from within a buried coffin.
That way, if you happened to be buried alive you could alert somebody topside.
Okay, maybe the body was already in the box. That makes more sense. But the thing I read definitely referred to the body still being at the undertaker's.
Just think how many people may have been buried alive over the centuries. God!
Originally posted by Carol A
Okay, maybe the body was already in the box. That makes more sense. But the thing I read definitely referred to the body still being at the undertaker's.
Just think how many people may have been buried alive over the centuries. God!
Ever see the original (Dutch) version of "The Vanishing"?
Very creepy doings involving live burial.
Originally posted by Carol A
Okay, maybe the body was already in the box. That makes more sense. But the thing I read definitely referred to the body still being at the undertaker's.
Just think how many people may have been buried alive over the centuries. God!
It's true, there would be graveyard watchmen to listen for bells ringing. I thought it was lead poisoning that caused a lot of it, but I'm not sure completely, and looking it up would be too much work
Also where graveyard shift came from.
I think it was said that when digging up graves when they ran out of room, it wasn't uncommon to find scratch marks on the tops of the coffins. All I know is that I don't know what I'd do. I think I'd go crazy before I died of anything else. Think about pitch black, not being able to even move to turn onto your stomach! Not being able to get leverage to even push hard on the top of the coffin. Man that would be hell. In double jeopardy the movie, just being stuck in a coffin and not underground would be bad.
Of course this is disputed and said to just be made up after the fact to explain the saying.
On topic though, when I die I plan on being near the surface so that I can feel the rain
But I also plan on having a big headstone saying something like "this man died heroically saving his wife and children from their sinking yacht.
Originally posted by addabox
My headstone shall read: "See, I told you I was sick."
Mine will most likely read "Help I'm stuck in a headstone factory"
Originally posted by ast3r3x
I am not sure how you'd confuse someone being dead or not even without technology...feel for a pulse, check for breathing.
My wife is a trained elderly care nurse. When she worked in a nursing home, they had a few cases where somebody was declared dead and brought to a cold storage room in the cellar where they woke up. She told me an explicit case of a blind woman who woke up there. She was lucky that she couldn't see and recognize her surroundings. She woke up and called for a nurse and unknowingly scared the sh*t out of a nurse who was in the anteroom.
I did my social service in a nursing home. Part time I worked at the front desk. I remember a woman who was declared dead at least three times. I got the call from the nurses and started the cross the name out in the phone list etc. Sometime later, I got a call that it was a false diagnosis, so I had to reverse the entries. When this happend the third time I waited for some more hours until I did the changes again...
I want to be cremated.
From dust we rose, to dust we shall return.
And since I'm a fire fighter, I might save the family the bills for the cremation process.
Allah akbar!!!
Was that in bad taste? Probably. But I don't care...
That puppy thing sounds fun though....