Re: What`s your taste in Funerals?

Thats something I have never thought about............

Re: What`s your taste in Funerals?

Family tradition was a regular Catholic Mass, open casket viewing and the usual get-together wake afterwards. I'm opting for cremation, ashes scattered in the garden.

Excellent thread!

Re: What`s your taste in Funerals?

Phew, never really thought. I wouldn't want an open casket but would be happy for family to visit me at the chapel of rest. I did with my Dad and Uncle and both visits, although I dreaded them beforehand, I found hugely comforting then and still do now.

I am seriously lapsed religious-wise so I'm not even sure if I'd like a church service. I would love to have my ashes scattered somewhere meaningful . . . perhaps on my allotment - at least it would be a practical ending!!

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Being a Pagan I don't want a church service. I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered in a bluebell wood.

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Closed coffin, traditional ceremony.. short as possible, and buried

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There have been a few "humanist" funerals here the last year or so, no clergy were present at these services and they tell me it's all done very nicely.

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I always used to say that I just wanted OH to take me to the crem wrapped in a sheet of a sack or something, let them do the deed and just bung the result on the garden, or downland, or woodland or something. Don't want any weeping and wailing etc.

Now, I am getting quite attracted to the woodland burial. Simple coffin of wicker or 'cardboard' and they pop you down deep enough to keep the foxes from having a look and, in time, you turn into a tree or flowers or (maybe) a thistle or poison ivy or ground elder The more time I spend on the garden the more appropriate that feels