I told my wife to put my urn on the headboard and think about me every time it rattles. If it falls off I joined in!

Wonder who could stop someone from doing it.

My wife and I both wish to be cremated. She wants hers to be spread out in the Caribbean. She doesn't care where just someplace we liked going. I said put part of mine there and part down where I hunt. It's where my Dad's are and one of my dogs.

My Dad got his wish as that's what he wanted. He grew up very close to where he's at and hunted that entire area all his life. My Uncle took a scrap piece of aluminum and engraved it with his name and a heart and "we miss you". He put it on a red elm that has since fallen over so I put it on the side of the log. I stop there and sit for awhile quite often when I'm out hunting or just out for a walk down there. I'd rather be talking to my Dad down there in a place that's peaceful and both of us liked to be than in some cemetery where no one would visit very often.

My Mom is buried in a cemetery and I stop by a few times a year but I know no one else does. IMO cemeteries are not a place anyone likes to visit. There are millions of burial plots that no one has visited in years. It's pretty sad when you think about it.

I myself don't want to be locked up in a casket, stuck in a vault and buried underground. I'd rather be in the wind seeing what's going on and maybe annoying some people. I guess in the end it won't matter because I'll be dead anyway.

Spread my ashes where I lived my life not where I’ve never been or wanted to be at in some jar to burden others.

I will be cremated

Ideally I would like my ashes spread somewhere out in nature, rather than sit on a shelf in an urn a few generations until someone dumps me in a flower bed or the trash

cremated, and spread where I trap and hunt

I have told my wife I wanted to be ground up and used as bear bait. We can go on one last hunt together and we both love bear hunting. She is not real keen on the idea, LOL. Option 2 I wish to be cremated with some ashes spread on a few places, on our properties. My wife wants us buried side by side. We have not figured it all yet. We better soon. I figure the only people that will come to see me is if Kathy is there next to me.

I'm with you.

We're always cutting and piling up brush at the farm. I always told my kids to save the money and just burn me on a brush pile. Bonus points if they played Freebird and started the fire with a flaming arrow.

I however changed my mind as I got older, learned more and my faith got stronger. I want a full Catholic funeral Mass and burial. The Church now allows cremation and burial of ashes in a sacred place, but I just want a burial. If people want their family to spread their ashes, I am cool with that. Not my call. But for the State to say no is crazy.

Note: I now tell my kids to not blow a bunch of money on the casket.

I was talking with some friends , they were at a funeral for a friend of theirs that passed , he had been huge in prairie restoration probably one of the more influential people in prairie restoration in the Midwest

he was divided up into many small containers and given out at the memorial , for all who had a prairie restoration to spread on their prairie

I plan to be cremated, to me it simplifies things and lowers cost. No need for me to add a bunch of hoops for survivors to jump through at my passing and after. I may make a suggestion but in reallity my family survivors may know better than me what best to do. After all they will be the ones living past my time.

Bryce

I can understand wanting the full Mass and that requires burial on Catholic approved ground , I was catholic
and I have thought about the buy one plot and have it sub divided into as many Urn plots as that can make I would figure every square foot and if you did it right you could stack 4 deep easy enough by my math 128 and if you figured out how to stack 6 deep 192
it certainly seems a better use of space


I have been thinking about the Effigy mounds there are many placed around WI but especially Wyalusing State park high on the bluff overlooking the convergence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi.
Man that would make so much sense
collect up all the cremains for the year in a vault on location , then in the middle of May when the frost is out of the ground have a burial where all the temporary urns are emptied making an addition to the mound.
store all the cremains in paper bags in the temporary metal urns so that at the start of the ceremony each urn is filled with water to keep the dust down , we don't need bunch of ashes blowing around. then a couple inches of soil is laid over the years cremains and grass and wild flowers planted
you could continue without running out of space for centuries. you could keep an archive of all who were buried there , people would have a place , the ground could be blessed by the many churches.

it certainly seems a better idea than concrete vaults and cemeteries that go on for miles

I've donated my body to science, will be cremated , and my ashes will be given to my children.
I told them plant a tree, spread my ashes around the tree, that way they'll always know where I am.
I really want, if I know and am capable to get in to a place in the wilderness, that's where my body would be.
Let nature take me back, like life intended.

My thoughts on this changed quite a few years ago. I was a traditional thinker and had planned for a traditional burial. Was at a national park, WAY off grid and observed a small group spreading ashes from a rock outcrop in the mountains. I came away from that thinking that I would much rather have my grandbabies look out into nature and think of me than going to a cemetery and looking at a granite headstone. Now after paying for two recent funerals with a family discount applied, I don't want my family to carry the cost burden. Those that carry memories of me will either have them in their heart or in their nightmares. I don't need a cemetery plot for that!