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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Halo on May 03, 2007, 11:03:23 PM
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After you die, what do you want done with your corpse? People have such varying expectations for their burials. Some want elaborate monuments, some want to be buried in their home town, some want to be cremated and their ashes scattered over favorite places.
Where are you (i.e., your earthly remains) going to spend eternity?
For example, I'd like my ashes to be scattered in a perfect wave about five feet high in glassy translucent tropical water near some gorgeous island. But that's too much time, trouble, and expense, so I'll settle for a pretty spot somewhere in the glorious green of Virginia, my adopted state.
As my wife wants for her ashes, a modest little plaque with name and dates of birth and death in a columbarium also would be nice.
What about you? Statue in a house of wax? Caisson with black horses and boots in the saddle?
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When I die you will find my body clean and shaved. Do not touch my genitals, if you are female!
Seriously though, I hope it gets chopped up, my organs donated to those who need them, and after that it doesn't matter much to me. Oh and if for some reason my organs aren't able to be used, being a cadaver is fine.
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When I die you will find my body clean and shaved. Do not touch my genitals, if you are female!
Really?
I want only nubile 20 year old women, lovingly washing my studly corpse and gaping in amazement at my naughty bits with lustfull eyes.
They will then pillow fight, while wearing only a thong and 2 pasties, over who gets to dress me in a classy tux.
Other than that, I don't care what happens.:D
RTR
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It will be used as the model for my android body.
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Hehe.. I won't be around to find out, but I'd say the same as Ted.
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If its ok with the rest of the family i would like to donate what i can and that my ashes would be sprinkled out in the ocean.
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I already have my will made out and I will be cremated and my ashes buried at sea with full military honors from a Coast Guard Cutter. It's the only way I want to go out.
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put me in my boat, rig a line up for me, push me out into the lake and pull the plug.
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i want to be cast in a solid block of clear acrylic and placed in the open above where my grave would have been.
preferably playing air guitar.
:cool:
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On my island, under my mountain.
(http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~rvohs/NSC2004/images/Sucia-Island.jpg)
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I wanna be burried in a B-17F. But since that isnt an option...
Traditional burrial. Nice quiet plot. Chances are though, theres not gonna be anything left to bury... Basically, your typical military burrial.
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Who cares..I will be dead.
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Wish to be buried intact. Because when the zombpacalypse comes I want to play too.
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I've already told my family to give mine to a medical school to train medical students. Money should be used for the ones that you left behind.
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Cremation. Ashes to be scattered on a clear, crisp fall day, in Cut-Off Creek bottoms under hickory nut and white oak trees.
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My corpse will not be the big problem...........but adding that face to Rushmore is going to be expensive.
:aok
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Cremated and have my ashes put in a Skoal can and sprinkled in the hills of East Tennessee.
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I want to be decapitated so I can be the zombie who is always looking for his head.
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donate any body part that is worth the hassle by that time and burn the rest, spreading the ashes on a particular Sanibel Island beach
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I always wanted to go out the viking way. Be ****ed to death by some young slave girl just before I pass, and then she helps me get pushed out to sea on a burning sail boat. The catch is that she's on it as well.
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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
I want to be decapitated so I can be the zombie who is always looking for his head.
Have you ever seen a zombie movie before?:huh
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I want to be Soylent Green
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Minimal footprint: I want to be cremated and have my ashes flushed down the toilet.
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What ever they can harvest from my lifeless body, let it go to those that they may live longer.
It won't hurt me.
What remains cremate and spread upon the places that my Family and Friends have smiled at.
Just to have them remember me in good times and even in times when they feel alone.
Because by then I'll have been in the Arms of the Angel..
To be played at my Fly By. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CbAjj80NIM)
I promise to look over them all.
It's gotta be better on the other side.
:aok
Mac
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Whether its the Wife or myself, whoever goes last gets buried with the ashes of the other... including the ashes of our pets preceding us.
Interesting thread, here Halo.
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My wife says she'll have me incinerated and scatter my ashes in the aisles of Home Depot, since I spend a majority of my time (and money) there....
I told her that's fine.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
My wife says she'll have me incinerated and scatter my ashes in the aisles of Home Depot, since I spend a majority of my time (and money) there....
I told her that's fine.
"Clean up on Isle 5..."
Some pimple faced boy is gonna wipe you up in a mop..and toss off in the bucket in the Janitor Room.
Ewwww.. swimin with those that squiggles Rip?
Hurl
Mac
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I mean, really, where else in the Internet ya gonna get imaginations like in these Aces High threads? :eek:
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under a 120 sq. ft elaborite stone tomb, somewhere near the alberta rockies. fully intact, with a good pocket watch, a compass, a bottle of holy water, 100' of hemp rope, and a couple gold coins.
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Think I'll go with cremation since time consumes us all anyhow. Not to hijack here but if you believe in the eternal soul or spirit, how will you appear to yourself and others when you leave your physical body?
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
My wife says she'll have me incinerated and scatter my ashes in the aisles of Home Depot, since I spend a majority of my time (and money) there....
I told her that's fine.
Is she going to wait until AFTER your dead?
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My wife worships the ground I'm going to be under.
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i want a Viking's funeral...put my corpse on a wooden barge,lite it on fire and push me out on a public lake.
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Originally posted by tedrbr
Is she going to wait until AFTER your dead?
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
(I hope so...(http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/images/smilies/icon9.gif)
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Eh, just lay me in a photon torpedo casing and blast away :)
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Originally posted by SirLoin
i want a Viking's funeral...put my corpse on a wooden barge,lite it on fire and push me out on a public lake.
Everyone always forgets about the hot young slave girl that gets burned alive with the dead viking.
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Just a brief comment; what is interesting to me about this thread is how popular cremation has become. At one time, the practice was almost unheard of in the West, in fact for centuries it was considered the ultimate insult to dig someone up and burn their remains. Only in the nations of the Far East was cremation generally popular. This was largely because most Westerners were Christians who believed that at the return of Christ their bodies would be resurrected and "raised incorruptible." Hence the words of Paul (you may recognize these from Handel's Messiah as well):
"So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
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Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed -- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. 15:42-43; 51-57)
It's tempting to speculate that this is due in part to the fact that belief in the resurrection has waned, and the beliefs either that material life is all there is or the eastern conception of the body as merely an outer shell or the "prison house of the soul" as Plato put it, haven taken hold.
That and the absurd and ever increasing cost of burial...
Anyway Halo, I'd like to be buried in a small church graveyard. They aren't as common as they used to be (I could speculate on why that is as well, but I don't have the time at present) but there are still a few around here and there. I'm content with wherever they choose to put me to rest, after all, it's only a temporary residence. ;)
- SEAGOON
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We had our two kids cremated. The ashes are in urns that we still have. We'd thought about scattering them up on the Vermillion River in northern Minnesota at their grandparents cabin as they loved it there, but we haven't moved to do anything yet.
My 15 year old daughter lived long enough after the accident to make it to the hospital so she was able to donate her organs. Someone got her heart, her lungs, kidneys and any number of other parts. We've been told that she helped upwards of 40 people.
I guess that's good, but it doesn't really help us much.
My choice would to be cremated as well. At that point it won't matter. It's just a shell which at that point is empty. Might as well use me for fertilizer.
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Well if they cermate me they going to be in for a surprise i have drank so much durning my life i will burn for 3 days:lol :lol
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What's the use of a corpse.. If anything, I'd like to ride a one-way rocket to something interesting in outer space during the last few months or years of my life.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
My wife says she'll have me incinerated and scatter my ashes in the aisles of Home Depot, since I spend a majority of my time (and money) there....
I told her that's fine.
Lol, she's a woman, she gonna dump you in a Lowes:D
btw, i'm gonna live forever:p
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I dont like funerals. I tend to remember that point in time more often then the other times I had with given person. So I dont go to them much.
With that thought in mind, when I die, I want all my true friends to party it up and to not attend my funeral. I want them to remember me as I was not lying in a box at some funeral home.
I want all the people who thought they were my true friends to remember me lying in the box at the funeral home. After its all said and done, my body can then be donated to one of those body farms for use in forensic science.
Course any usable organ will have been taken out and donated shortly after death in the hospital.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Lol, she's a woman, she gonna dump you in a Lowes:D
btw, i'm gonna live forever:p
HAHAHA! You know my wife too well! :D
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Originally posted by Guppy35
We had our two kids cremated. The ashes are in urns that we still have. We'd thought about scattering them up on the Vermillion River in northern Minnesota at their grandparents cabin as they loved it there, but we haven't moved to do anything yet.
My 15 year old daughter lived long enough after the accident to make it to the hospital so she was able to donate her organs. Someone got her heart, her lungs, kidneys and any number of other parts. We've been told that she helped upwards of 40 people.
I guess that's good, but it doesn't really help us much.
My choice would to be cremated as well. At that point it won't matter. It's just a shell which at that point is empty. Might as well use me for fertilizer.
That's a tough one, Guppy. Its tough to "move" because of the pain it brings back, yet it might also bring you "full closure" if you know what I mean. Good luck on your decision.
We often talk about heroics in armies, in survival, etc. but we never talk about the emotional "heroics" that a parent must go through when losing a child or children.
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Originally posted by Seagoon
Just a brief comment; what is interesting to me about this thread is how popular cremation has become. At one time, the practice was almost unheard of in the West, in fact for centuries it was considered the ultimate insult to dig someone up and burn their remains. Only in the nations of the Far East was cremation generally popular. This was largely because most Westerners were Christians who believed that at the return of Christ their bodies would be resurrected - SEAGOON
While I do believe in the ressurection there is little difference between being buried intact or cremated, given sufficient time. The One who is able to resurrect our bodies can do so whether they are dust reborn in a thousand trees, ashes spread across the seas, or even mere atoms spread across our universe.
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After organ donation to anyone who needs 'em.....
My wife already knows my wishes. Cremation and then she has agreed to spread the ashes off some nice, sunny, ocean beach somewhere.
68ROX
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Hi AKIron,
Originally posted by AKIron
While I do believe in the ressurection there is little difference between being buried intact or cremated, given sufficient time. The One who is able to resurrect our bodies can do so whether they are dust reborn in a thousand trees, ashes spread across the seas, or even mere atoms spread across our universe.
Amen and Amen. I did not mean to imply for a second that the omnipotent God who created the universe ex nihilo would have any problems reassembling our corporeal remains at the return of Christ..
However, traditionally what we did with our bodies after death was a reflection of our beliefs regarding the afterlife. To this day, for instance, Hindus practice cremation to show both that our material bodies are considered merely part of the Maya and to encourage the soul (the Atman) to leave and move on to the next incarnation. The adherents of most religions still dispose of bodies in a way that reflects their religious beliefs and for centuries this was why Christians buried their dead. Christ was the firstfruits, we will follow in his train, as Paul put it:"But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming." (1 Corinthians 15:20-23)
We believed that as Christ died, was buried, and rose again, we too should follow in that pattern, and thus should be buried there to await the redemption of our bodies. The Confessions of the Christian faith followed this pattern. For instance one of my favorite passages from the Westminster Shorter Catechism states: "The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection."
So while I have no great problems with cremations, and have probably done more funerals for those who have chosen cremation, I still consider burial a more fitting reflection of what Christians believe.
- SEAGOON
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Hi Yeager,
Originally posted by Yeager
Minimal footprint: I want to be cremated and have my ashes flushed down the toilet.
As I was reading this, it occurred to me that all of that smoke and gasses released into the atmosphere by cremation (not to mention the energy required to cremate a body) might actually have a more substantial environmental impact than being put into a coffin and then having that coffin sealed in a vault (which is required in most locales these days). A search on "Cremation" and "Impact on the Environment" turned up this on Wiki:
There is a growing body of research that indicates cremation has a significant impact on the environment:
The major emissions from crematories are: nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, mercury, hydrogen fluoride (HF), hydrogen chloride (HCl), NMVOCs, and other heavy metals, in addition to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP).
According to the United Nations Environment Programme report on POP Emission Inventory Guidebook[26], emissions from crematoria, although comparatively small on an international scale, are still statistically significant. The POP inventory indicates that crematoria contribute 0.2% of the global emission of dioxins and furans.
Persistent Organic Pollutants from cremation include Dioxins and Furans, PAHs, benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(ghi)perylene, Benzo(k)fluoranthene, Fluoranthene, Indendo(123-cd)pyrene, Benzo(b)fluoranthene, Benz(a)anthracene, Dibenz(ah)anthracene, PCBs (Nos. 126, 169, 77, 118, 105, 123, 114, 156, 157,167, 189), Hexachlorobenzene, Toxaphene, Chlordane, Aldrin, DDT, Mirex, Dieldrin, Endrin, Hexabromobiphenyl, Pentachlorophenol, Heptachlor, Chlordecone, Short Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (SCCP), Lindane.
- SEAGOON
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Human cremation might have a long way to go before it begins to affect the environment anywhere near the scale of bovine flatulism. :eek:
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I want them to put my body through an industrial size chipper shredder and spray the pink cloud over the ocean. :)
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Kinda like the movie Fargo only warmer?
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Exactly... but that machine was too small.
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Originally posted by RTR
Really?
I want only nubile 20 year old women, lovingly washing my studly corpse and gaping in amazement at my naughty bits with lustfull eyes.
They will then pillow fight, while wearing only a thong and 2 pasties, over who gets to dress me in a classy tux.
Other than that, I don't care what happens.:D
RTR
RTR is teh winnar.
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I want Keith Richards to snort my Arse!
:D
Mac
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
I always wanted to go out the viking way. Be ****ed to death by some young slave girl just before I pass, and then she helps me get pushed out to sea on a burning sail boat. The catch is that she's on it as well.
to bad the vikings only wanted to die in battle, with there sword in hand, that was the only way to enter valhalla.
oh ya : burn my body,let the wind carry the ashes where they will.
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Originally posted by AWMac
I want Keith Richards to snort my Arse!
:D
Mac
this is about what to do with you after you are dead mac.
sheesh.
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Burn it and use it as fertilizer in a garden. It least then I'd be useful.
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Originally posted by Halo
After you die, what do you want done with your corpse? People have such varying expectations for their burials. Some want elaborate monuments, some want to be buried in their home town, some want to be cremated and their ashes scattered over favorite places.
Where are you (i.e., your earthly remains) going to spend eternity?
For example, I'd like my ashes to be scattered in a perfect wave about five feet high in glassy translucent tropical water near some gorgeous island. But that's too much time, trouble, and expense, so I'll settle for a pretty spot somewhere in the glorious green of Virginia, my adopted state.
As my wife wants for her ashes, a modest little plaque with name and dates of birth and death in a columbarium also would be nice.
What about you? Statue in a house of wax? Caisson with black horses and boots in the saddle?
Aftwer I die.
Take my body and dispose of it in the nearest dumpster.
I promise I wont complain.
Seriously. I've told my family I want my remains disposed of in the absolutely cheapest manner possible.
Do NOT piss away any more insurance money on my remains then you have to.
Take the cash. And throw a party or by yourselves something instead.
If they feel they absolutely MUST do something for me then I want. And Irish wake. Throw a big party and celibrate my life..or death (depending on your point of view)
Have me creamated, Have part of my ashes places in a fish and fed to a wild bald eagle and give me a Viking funeral with the rest.
If they REALLY want to honor me. they can do it Beau Gest style.
There are a couple of people my family knows about they can use for the dog
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I hear that, Drediock. It seems such a sad waste to spend a ton of money on some fancy funeral.
I want my organs to go to people who can use them, and I make sure everyone around me knows that I DO NOT want my body to be drained of fluids, "prepared" in any way, makeup to be applied, nor do I want my body to be manhandled into a tux. Just throw me in a cheap box and bury me as I am. If I'm naked, throw me in some jeans and a t-shirt or something, but don't let any dull funeral home people touch my body.
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I want to be launch into deep space forever floating thru the stars or at least until some super advanced alien amazonian like women find me and revive me and make me there leader and and use me as new "genetic" material to help continue their race :cool:
ofcourse i will have to reintroduce them to "doing it" the ol fashioned way :O
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Originally posted by Engine
I hear that, Drediock. It seems such a sad waste to spend a ton of money on some fancy funeral.
nor do I want my body to be manhandled into a tux. Just throw me in a cheap box and bury me as I am. If I'm naked, throw me in some jeans and a t-shirt or something,
Yup I feel exactly the same way
I'd rather not have a viewing. And I've sworn I will come back and haunt in a very nasty way anyone who tries getting me all dressed up.
Nobody at any price was able to get me into a suit and tie in life.
And it was the rare day anyone saw me in even "dress casual" clothes.
I typically hate getting all dressed up in life. Why would I want to spend eternity that way?
If you absolutely must have a viewing. I dont want ot be laid out in a box.
Prop me up in a chair. With a beer mug full of beer in my hand and a watermelon eating grin on my face. Place a keg of beer next to me and have one last one with me.
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Went to a funeral the other day. Traditional, service in chapel, cemetery next to it. Another long cancer struggle.
This was a bit unusual in how meticulously the woman planned her service down to the tiniest detail. Worked two years on her funeral, according to family.
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I guess i'd like a traditional funeral, nothing fancy. I'd bet my bottom dollar that whoever eulogizes me is gonna say, "man, that Mike sure loved to fly", and then something corny along the lines of "he's flying right now" lmao.
Seriously though, there is a poem I would like to have read at my funeral
"Miss me, but let me go".
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When I come to the end of the road,
And the sun has set for me...
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little but not too long,
And not with your head bowed low
Remember the love that we once shared
Miss me but let me go.
For this is a journey we all must take,
But I’ll not be alone.
It’s all a part of the Master’s plan;
A step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick of heart,
Go to the friends we know,
And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds.
MISS ME, BUT LET ME GO"