My grandfather was cremated, and the cremains (fave word!) were buried in a family plot.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2010 3:54:36 pm PDT #13060 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Zenkitty - Jul 16, 2010 3:57:09 pm PDT #13061 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
God, I wonder if there's a market for that -- tutoring homeschooled kids in my areas.
If not, you should create it. There have to be lots of rich folks who want to homeschool their kids without doing any work themselves.
Atropa - Jul 16, 2010 4:00:00 pm PDT #13062 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I adore Emperor Norton and the way the Bay Area cooperated with his worldview.
Emperor Norton is one of my role models.
DavidS - Jul 16, 2010 4:04:47 pm PDT #13063 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Emperor Norton is one of my role models.
If you lived in San Francisco you'd already be an Empress.
People left pennies on Norton's tombstone. The two shiny ones you see on the left are from me and Emmett. Tribute was given to the Emperor.
Pix - Jul 16, 2010 4:08:23 pm PDT #13064 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
I like graveyards but have no desire to take up space in one. I'd rather have a tree planted (with a plaque, if my loved ones wanted something written). Cremate me and toss my ashes in the ocean.
quester - Jul 16, 2010 4:11:56 pm PDT #13065 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Emmett continues to impress!
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2010 4:12:28 pm PDT #13066 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I like graveyards but have no desire to take up space in one.
Me too. Part of me would like to have my ashes shot into space, but another part of me sees that as a huge waste of resources.
I know! Use my ashes to fertilize catnip....
sarameg - Jul 16, 2010 4:13:35 pm PDT #13067 of 30001
My brother got this crazy idea somewhere that he wants a bench to be made of his bones (including skull) in a park or somewhere, with a vaguely pompous plaque that then invites you to sit your ass down on him. He wants to continue to unnerve and alarm people in death.
-t - Jul 16, 2010 4:14:03 pm PDT #13068 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
A lot of my relatives are buried down in Colma, which I only learned recently. Don't know which cemetery, though.
Having purchased my burial plot, I have gotten to lie on the grass where coffin will be buried and check out the ambience. FTR, it's lovely.
Love Emperor Norton. In favor of Empress Jilli.
Hil R. - Jul 16, 2010 4:15:51 pm PDT #13069 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I already have a grave site, in Massachusetts. The cemetery where my grandparents and several other relatives were buried was filling up, so my mom purchased six plots -- her own, my dad's, me, my sister, and our future husbands.