The Purpose of the Second Box

[Hohn]

I get a lot out of funerals now as I get older. Good reminder of what’s coming.

Indeed. We buried my grandfather 3 days ago. It was good for all of us.

 

[rosejm]

I don’t want my family spending money on my funeral when they can put the money to better use. Well. Unless if it’s for hookers and blow.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to jamil again.

<sigh>

 

[Spike Jones 5 2002]

The whole casket and vault is from grave robbers. it was so easy to dig up the body steal everything and just leave it to be buried again.

I had a big laugh (well inside me) when my dad died ( far S.W. Chicago). I was with my mom talking to the funeral director. He was attempting to talk my mom into a X$ bigger casket.
I asked him why. He said, "that my dad would be more comfortable".
I looked him in the eye and said, "he is dead". he does not feel a thing.

I was checking into my arrangements. I just want to be cremated and spread in my back yard.
I was told that could not be done. I my ashes might blow into someone else yard.
The plot for a ern is the same size as for a full vault.
Information from funeral and cremation place on Johnson road and US35 LaPorte.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I just want to be cremated and spread in my back yard.
I was told that could not be done.

It can be.

 (a) Cremated remains may be retained by the person having legal control over the remains or may be disposed of in any of the following manners:(1) Placing the remains in a grave, niche, or crypt.

(2) Scattering the remains in a scattering area.

(3) Disposing of the remains in any manner if:
(A) the remains are reduced to a particle size of one-eighth ( 1/8 ) inch or less;  and

(B) the disposal is made on the property of a consenting owner, on uninhabited public land, or on a waterway.



(b) The state department of health shall adopt forms for recording the following information concerning the disposal of cremated human remains on the property of a consenting owner:
(1) The date and manner of the disposal of the remains.

(2) The legal description of the property where the remains were disposed of.


The owner of the property where the cremated remains were disposed of and the person having legal control over the remains shall attest to the accuracy of the information supplied on the forms.  The owner of the property where the cremated remains were disposed of shall record the forms with the county recorder of the county in which the property is located and shall return the form and the burial transit permit described in IC 16-37-3, within ten (10) days after the remains are disposed of.

Although I doubt anyone is actually checking that the form is filed.

 

[Spike Jones 5 2002]

I was misinformed by the one who should know. They probably just wanted to sell another grave site.

 

[Indyhd]

I want to be creamated and my ashes flushed down the urinal at Syd’s Bar in Noblesville. Might as well go where a bunch of my money went.

After a month or so I want my wife and kids to rent the American Leagion and have all my friends and riding partners there for dinner and free beer for the guys and margaritas for the ladies so they can all get together and tell “remember when that dumb***” stories.

I do want the dinner to be cabbage rolls just so I can get one over on all the ladies later that night.

 

[Haven]

I’ve been telling my wife for the past 20 years, that I want to be cremated, packed into a firework and blown up as the finale to the wake.


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[Expat]

I want a Viking funeral, put me in a boat, push me out to sea and then light the boat up.

 

[jbombelli]

I told my wife to just throw me out the van door into a ditch and let the government take care of it.

 

[WebSnyper]

I told my wife to just throw me out the van door into a ditch and let the government take care of it.

Did you tell her to wait until you were actually dead to do that?

 

[jbombelli]

Did you tell her to wait until you were actually dead to do that?

Uhhhh... I may have forgotten that part...

 

[jamil]

You should always work out all the details of a plan before telling your wife.

 

[Wolfhound]

I am more concerned that I might be voting Democrat after I am dead than how my body is disposed of.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Dad is buried over in Ohio. His grave is next to my Grandparents, on a hillside over looking the town park. It is a three hour drive that I make once a year. I take a small camp stool so I can sit and remember the good times.

 

[Notropis]

I've asked that I be cremated and 1/4 grain of my ashes be placed in rifle rounds. My desire is for those rounds to be used to relieve the earthy sufferings of communists.

 

[Alamo]

This piqued my curiosity So I started searching through some history on burials. Something I didn’t know was that in embalming Became a Practice in the United States because of the Civil War. The army sent soldiers bodies back to their families to be buried But they were so far from home they had to be preserved to make the trip. The practice spread to civilian life after the war.

 

[rob63]

The purpose of the vault is to keep the casket from getting crushed by the weight of the soil above it.

 

[spencer rifle]

The Tree That Ate Roger Williams:
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2210

 

[Tactically Fat]

Another big reason for a concrete vault: Groundwater protection. You can contaminate a groundwater aquifer for a long time with decomposing bodies.

 

[spencer rifle]

I remember that from a hydrology class. Homeowners really liked their well water: said it made great coffee, tasted good, had "body."
Their secret - well downgradient from a cemetery.