cuttsie Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Sounds lovely. Personally, I quite fancy an open funeral pyre, just drifting away in the smoke. Don't think it's legal though. Best about it we paid for our plots on't never never but it looks as though the undertaker has won as we are fully paid up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Daffs and me have bought a plot in a wooded meadow we have staked it out and planned what kind of tree will be planted to grow on top of us. We have picked the coffins and told the family to take us straight to our chosen place when the time comes as we don't want any religious service but we wold like some one to say a few words [all good] in the nearest pub afterwards. We have stood in the meadow on a nice summers day and spoken to people who have loved ones buried there ,the piece and feeling off well being that this gave was unbelievable and took away any fear that the final curtain may bring. Not for every one I Know but as far as we are concerned the whole process has just become part of life and taken away all the mystery. Curious, surely a side effect of being dead is not being aware of what happens afterwards, so why does it matter where you are buried? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossyrooney Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 So the mind then? I'd agree with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I'd agree with that. Yet the mind cannot exist without the brain, so where does it go after death? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Curious, surely a side effect of being dead is not being aware of what happens afterwards, so why does it matter where you are buried? Well as far as we are concerned to be part of nature is quite appealing as our place has no visible headstones and is covered in wild flowers as well as trees ,as you say it does not really matter to the departed but the thought of say any grand kids visiting such a nice spot is dead right;). due to the absence of the actual traditional cemetery outlook. ---------- Post added 09-12-2014 at 15:21 ---------- Yet the mind cannot exist without the brain, so where does it go after death? Perhaps you can enlighten us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Perhaps you can enlighten us? I asked a question, hence the ? I certainly don't hold the position that the human mind is separate from the human brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossyrooney Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I asked a question, hence the ? I certainly don't hold the position that the human mind is separate from the human brain. Now I see, you are being logical while I have been indoctrinated by mumbo jumbo. Yours is a valid point and maybe you have pondered on this far more than I have, I was a product of an Irish mother and an Italian father and I was brought up Catholic, I was lucky enough to pass my eleven plus and win a scholarship to a Catholic boys school that took great delight in thrashing me and telling me that Catholic was good and nothing else could match it. Very soon I made my mind up they were wrong and I developed my own belief which is ... I believe in my god and pay him due respect and I live in the hope that he will recipricate, in a fix he is the one I call to first and I try to remember to thank him for my blessings. Soppy? ridiculous? I really dont know but I can say that we have gotten on wonderfully by respecting each other since my early years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Now I see, you are being logical while I have been indoctrinated by mumbo jumbo. Yours is a valid point and maybe you have pondered on this far more than I have, I was a product of an Irish mother and an Italian father and I was brought up Catholic, I was lucky enough to pass my eleven plus and win a scholarship to a Catholic boys school that took great delight in thrashing me and telling me that Catholic was good and nothing else could match it. Very soon I made my mind up they were wrong and I developed my own belief which is ... I believe in my god and pay him due respect and I live in the hope that he will recipricate, in a fix he is the one I call to first and I try to remember to thank him for my blessings. Soppy? ridiculous? I really dont know but I can say that we have gotten on wonderfully by respecting each other since my early years. Why does your god deserve respect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookingfat50 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Death scares me witless. Since losing my nan then my Dad it scares me even more. Same but why am i so scared of it i hope it is i don't want think of not seeing my tgree boys again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Q: why fear death anyway? True, few look forward to it. Many try to stave it off for as long as possible. But- in conveyancing terminology- we're all just leaseholders; and we don't know our own lease's length. Get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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