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[ozzycat]

aint gona happen to me cos i aint gona die well if i do i want to push up the daisys

[Rog]

I have already chosen 3 songs to be played at my cremation, First one is the Ramones, Pet Sematary, second is Rancid, Time Bomb and finally Dropkick Murphys, Forever, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkaBGz0hQKI  I find this track quite moving. It won't be to everyones liking here but all 3 songs have great meaning to me.

Here's my outro . . . . . really, I want this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn01nSG4cvU

      

[Elite Pete]

I spent 3 days surveying South Essex Crematorium a few years back, what I saw put me right off being toasted

[Lizzie_Zoom]

When did crematoriums first appear in Britain?. I'm wondering if two world wars prompted their appearance.

I believe the vikings first introduced it Opti 

Hmmm...........not exactly the answer I was looking for, Mr STMO. And besides, with all that rape and pillage they were untrustworthy foreign johnnies.

It was the Romans who certainly carried out both burials and cremations, with some ancient Brit tribes also using cremations, whilst other used burials, and being laid out for the birds in a sacred place.

You're  right, Lizzie. But on a commercial scale I think it was probably a Victorian innovation.

Oh no Opti, the Romans had commercial cremations, as the Romans did nothing for free, with major pyres constructed at a price for their generals who died in battle. Even common Romans were dispatched with some ceremony by their form of undertakers.   However, cremations for the Romans, and many Christians fell into decline as the belief in an afterlife considered you had to go with your complete body.  People who the Romans considered enemies were either fed to the lions or burnt to death. That really transpired in the latter half of the fourth, beginning of the fifth century as the Western Roman Empire started to collapse.  You are then correct Opti that it really was the Victorians in Britain that reintroduced the cremation process. 

[Selseybill]

You could always be frozen. After 6 heart attacks,2 bypasses, ive knocked on the pearly gates a few times and the bugger still won't let me in. When i do go the wife is going to put me in a box and send me with Yodel so i can travel the world and find all the lost packages they lost for me.

[mantahatch]

I have already chosen 3 songs to be played at my cremation, First one is the Ramones, Pet Sematary, second is Rancid, Time Bomb and finally Dropkick Murphys, Forever, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkaBGz0hQKI  I find this track quite moving. It won't be to everyones liking here but all 3 songs have great meaning to me.

Here's my outro . . . . . really, I want this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn01nSG4cvU

      

Cool 

I attended my first non religious cremation about 5 years ago, In a strange way I enjoyed it. All the guests where told to wear what they wanted, "no suits" 

[paul.lovejoy]

I want to be shot into space..

If only your Dad had been a little quicker with the old withdrawl technique Aaron then perhaps you could have been

  tears are rolling down my face cant stop laughing thanks MR O excellent

[paul.lovejoy]

I am a strange women on this one!

Cremation for sure.....................but there would be nothing better than my body being placed in the firebox of West Country Pacific 34016 Bodmin on the Mid Hants Railway and whilst running up to Alton my ashes allowed to be blasted up the chimney whilst pulling a train of Pullman coaches!

Of course the authorities will never allow it (mean barstwards!!), so I must come up with a cunning plan!

something simple then Lizzie

[PhilRich]

Burnt and turned into a diamond

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You're a Diamond already Paul!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I am a strange women on this one!

Cremation for sure.....................but there would be nothing better than my body being placed in the firebox of West Country Pacific 34016 Bodmin on the Mid Hants Railway and whilst running up to Alton my ashes allowed to be blasted up the chimney whilst pulling a train of Pullman coaches!

Of course the authorities will never allow it (mean barstwards!!), so I must come up with a cunning plan!

something simple then Lizzie

Oh yes, very straightforward.......................especially for me as I will be dead!

[STMO123]

I am a strange women on this one!

Cremation for sure.....................but there would be nothing better than my body being placed in the firebox of West Country Pacific 34016 Bodmin on the Mid Hants Railway and whilst running up to Alton my ashes allowed to be blasted up the chimney whilst pulling a train of Pullman coaches!

Of course the authorities will never allow it (mean barstwards!!), so I must come up with a cunning plan!

And as the train steamed past, people would be saying "For some reason I suddenly fancy a kebab".

[paul.lovejoy]

i just want to get my house finished before i pop my clogs could rest in peace then maybe

i would prefer burial seriously wifey could plant a nice rose bush out my bottom and for once it would smell of roses.

Burial is good you have somewhere you can go to pay your respects etc burning to me seems so final

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I am a strange women on this one!

Cremation for sure.....................but there would be nothing better than my body being placed in the firebox of West Country Pacific 34016 Bodmin on the Mid Hants Railway and whilst running up to Alton my ashes allowed to be blasted up the chimney whilst pulling a train of Pullman coaches!

Of course the authorities will never allow it (mean barstwards!!), so I must come up with a cunning plan!

And as the train steamed past, people would be saying "For some reason I suddenly fancy a kebab".

 

[Rods2]

Burial for me, in Ukraine where it is normal to have a picture of the person on the gravestone. That to me makes it much more personal, where you can relate the name to a real person. 

Cremation to me is to impersonal and there is nothing left except dust, at least with a burial there will be some bones for a future generation to dig up! 

[hotel21]

Big burning fire for me then ashes into a rocket/firework to be launched from the top of my favourite nearby hill that my hound and I walk regularly. And you can see pretty much all of fife and a fair part of beyond from the top as well as the river forth, Edinburgh and the highlands, dependant on the direction.