When someone is buried in their finest, do they wear underwear or go commando? I mean, what would the point be? Trying to figure out which way I'd like to be buried. I think I'd go without, because then, though I was dead, I'd have one last secret that everyone else (save the folks that dressed me) was oblivious to to make me smile.

If there's an afterlife and everyone went there in what they were wearing, heavan would look like it was filled with penguins. If I believed in Hell, I'd wear the underwear. It'd provide an extra second's worth of protection from the flames. In fact, I'd ask for fire-retardant underwear.

My dad was buried in his dress greens, minus his insignia (we kept those; one of the Colonels at the funeral reminded us that we're supposed to keep them). As far as i know, he was wearing socks and underwear. At least, we gave the funeral home a pair of each.

I absolutely DO NOT want to be buried in a suit. I want to be laid in a black T-shirt, a pair of shorts or comfy cotton lounge pants, and my Birkenstocks. Will they let you do that these days, or do you have to wear a suit?

I'm going to be naked and clothed in flames.

Yep. Despite the fact that my families Jewish heritage forbids it, I want to be cremated. I'm not sure what I want done with my ashes, but I don't want to sit in an urn on someone's mantle. I refuse to allow my remains to be someone's home decor.

The only funeral I've been to for my family was my grandfather's.

He was buried in a suit. It was open casket, which I DO NOT recommend.

Since my baby sister was very young, she and my granddad had a funny game of untying each others' shoes. Randomly. In restaurants. Crawling around on their bellies to sneak up on each other.

The only chipper thing that happened at the funeral (after my whimsical and disrespectfully funny eulogy) was that my sister untied his shoelaces before they closed the coffin for good.

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Originally posted by Alaura Ephemera:
I'm going to be naked and clothed in flames.

Yep. Despite the fact that my families Jewish heritage forbids it, I want to be cremated. I'm not sure what I want done with my ashes, but I don't want to sit in an urn on someone's mantle. I refuse to allow my remains to be someone's home decor.

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Cremation's the way for me, too. I hate the thought of rotting away in a cemetary. Scatter the ashes at beach. I like that.

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Originally posted by Xine:
The only funeral I've been to for my family was my grandfather's.

He was buried in a suit. It was open casket, which I DO NOT recommend.

Since my baby sister was very young, she and my granddad had a funny game of untying each others' shoes. Randomly. In restaurants. Crawling around on their bellies to sneak up on each other.

The only chipper thing that happened at the funeral (after my whimsical and disrespectfully funny eulogy) was that my sister untied his shoelaces before they closed the coffin for good.

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That's really kind of sweet and cool.

I would also like to be cremated. Not for any spiritual purpose or anything, I just don't want to take up space with my dead body. Ideally, I'd be floated down the Mississippi on a pyre barge while the funeral followed on a riverboat casino. My loved ones would take turns trying to hit the pyre with flaming arrows, taking bets on who could get me to ignite first. My funeral should be a party.

Meh. Bury me in a party dress.

I hate funerals and I hate wakes. I get realy messed up. Particuarly when I'm being encouraged to look at the body. My great-aunt tried to force me into the room to look at my grandmother when I was 11 and I had to be taken away before I hit her. Evil oul witch.

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Originally posted by CancerDusk:
I would also like to be cremated. Not for any spiritual purpose or anything, I just don't want to take up space with my dead body. Ideally, I'd be floated down the Mississippi on a pyre barge while the funeral followed on a riverboat casino. My loved ones would take turns trying to hit the pyre with flaming arrows, taking bets on who could get me to ignite first. My funeral should be a party.

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That's kind of what I have in mind. Put me in a small boat or raft, light it and push it out into Lake Superior.
And then run like hell because we didn't fill out an environmental impact study first and the Coast Guard will be there soon.
And then a very large party with wild Celtic music if you please, and plenty of food and drink.

Every funeral i've been to has been open casket.

I actually prefer it that way, especially if the mortician does a good job.

I like being able to know that the body in the coffin is the body that it should be, and i like being able to see it one last time. I like the formality of it.

I also like that it gives me the opportunity to place something of personal significance in the coffin. With my dad, for example, he had actually asked me for a couple of things in advance--a letter making him some promises, and a piece of my last belt from tae kwon do. Both of which i was glad to be able to place in the coffin.

That said, i want open casket for me (if i'm not all mangled), and i want to be in a tee-shirt, jeans, Doc Martens, and maybe a sweater.

I'm not sure whether i prefer cremation or burial, though.

traditional burial for Jewish men is in a kittel, which is a simple white robe worn in synagogue on major holidays like Yom Kippur, and at one's wedding. so that.

I want my funeral to be something tasteful. Preferably with strippers dressed like nurses.

somehow, I always figured you prefered your strippers dressed. weirdo.

I definitely want to be cremated, then have my ashes spread in the Atlantic. And none of this holding onto my ashes in an urn or a little locket either, that is about the creepiest thing I can imagine. When I die I will be becoming one with the universe again, and that means all of me.

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somehow, I always figured you prefered your strippers dressed. weirdo.

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Oohhh yeah, baby . . . and have them, have them put on clothes . . . . Yeah, baby, wear that parka!

parka? so, you have a thing for Neil? or mugs?

Yeah, I hope 'Walker doesn't find out what I did in that mug.

I can imagine your screen saver. Naked woman. Naken woman. Mug. Naked woman. Woman wearing shoes. Mug wearing shoes.

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Yeah, I hope 'Walker doesn't find out what I did in that mug.

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You know, I'll be seeing Walker tomorrow.

For a few hundred, I'll make sure he doesn't hear about it quite yet . . .