Speaking of, is this beating a dead horse, or some form of perverse horseplay/foreplay..............???
We pride ourselves on our hospitality, but we don't quite go that far. Although when I worked in Arkansas I did learn what a "stump broke" cow was. I actually saw an ad in the Little Rock paper, and had to ask an old rancher what it was. After a big laugh, he told me.......
I wouldnt have a problem being buried at home but you DONT want to have to cremate at home unless you have a real strong stomach and even then... When being cremated the heat tends to make the body set up and scream as it burns not to mention the aroma and less than plesant visual of the flesh melting and so on. The hole would be a far easier route on those left behind if done at home. Also that 650 lbs of wood would be doing good to even take the flesh to ash and would not be lokely to even come close to insenerating the bones so that means a LOT more wood or else grinding the bones. Oh and if you go to keep a body at home prior to burial (for a day or two) also be aware that the organs start to break down right away and generaly at some point in the first 24 to 36 hours the body will generaly moan as the lungs collapse and will often sit up as the muscles in the abdomen start to break down. Ive known several folks who worked in morges and such and am just morbid enouph to have sat around discussing some of this stuff with them. Its always a joke/initiation on the FNGs to stick them in the morge over night preferasbly alone and watch them freak out when the bodies start moaning and or moveing.
We had a guy in CT years ago(an airline pilot) who disposed of his wife by by using a wood chipper - rented no less. The found chips of teeth and small splinters of bone, just enough to convict him.
If my children have a real funeral for me ? I will come back and haunt every last one of them...and their children..and their childrens children.. Backyard burial sounds great ..I didn't know you could do that! Otherwise..Cremation... I kind of like John Prine's ideas... Please don't bury me Down in that cold cold ground No, I'd druther have "em" cut me up And pass me all around Throw my brain in a hurricane And the blind can have my eyes And the deaf can take both of my ears If they don't mind the size Give my stomach to Milwaukee If they run out of beer Put my socks in a cedar box Just get "em" out of here Venus de Milo can have my arms Look out! I've got your nose Sell my heart to the junkman And give my love to Rose Give my feet to the footloose Careless, fancy free Give my knees to the needy Don't pull that stuff on me Hand me down my walking cane It's a sin to tell a lie Send my mouth way down south And kiss my ass goodbye..
That is Alaskachick's preference... Viking Funeral... She already has the boat, now she is working on the Flaming Arrows....
I've told my wife to scatter my ashes in the rose garden. Every prick thereafter would remind her of me.
When my prepping days are over, and from this world i pass, have them bury me up side down so the politicians can kiss my @ss
Which Backwoods Home article was it? Did they say which states you couldn't do that in? Bet California's one of them.
Wife and I are to be cremated. Have a plot beside my Mom, grands, and other relatives. Will be a simple ground level stone containing the urns. One's life should be his monument, memories his legacy, and his guns his successors---LOL. Will be no sad singing at my funeral. Just a grave side service followed by a banquet in the fellowship hall with music. Going to a much better place.
