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Dec 18, 2018 - 7:25 AM
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jackfu
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Curious as to your thoughts on burial, etc. If it’s too morbid, just delete it.
Been reflecting on the subject lately as in the last three years, I’ve been involved more closely with funerals, burials, etc., than in the sixty of my years previous, with my father, father-in-law and some of my wife’s family passing during this brief time span. Funeral/burial arrangements can be very time-consuming, expensive, exhausting and stressful, really. At least have a decent life insurance policy to help your survivors defray the cost of your burial.
I’m just not sure where I stand on burial, really.
Our state requires casket and vault for burial or use of a mausoleum. It’s expensive, plus embalming, then putting the deceased into a casket, then into a vault - I don’t know. The old way of just using a wooden box for burial has a certain appeal to me. The body decomposes and provides nutrients to the soil.
With the embalming, casket and vault, I don’t even want to think what is left after several years in the ground. I can see it if there might have been a suspicious death and later exhumation and examination is needed.
I’m okay with cremation; my Dad chose that option for his remains. Personally, I wouldn’t want to keep someone’s ashes, not that anything’s wrong with it.
I really don’t like the headstone/monument thing, again not that it’s wrong. I’d prefer just a simple marker that can be seen but won’t interfere with the lawn care of the cemetery. This is what my wife and I have arranged for our burials.
I look at our church’s cemetery and there are some very large headstones that are over 100 years old and I wonder if anyone is still around from that family to even notice.
Any thoughts?
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