[Magdalen] Cremation (was A good idea?)

[Marion Thompson]

Perhaps as we advance in years we are more comfortable with the 
arrangements we are making ahead of the hour than our offspring.  We are 
being sensible and writing the rules according to our own desires, while 
they don't want to be reminded of their future loss and find such signs 
morbid.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 4/24/2016 12:15 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> I really never thought about anything but cremation, because both of my parents always said that's what they wanted. The irony, though, is that they bought two plots in a beautiful cemetery and put up a double headstone...and none of their ashes are there! My father said he wanted his scattered, and he had already scattered my mother's--somewhere. We tried to guess where hers might have been and scattered his there.
> So I actually own two lovely plots in Michigan. I wanted to donate them, but I have to have the headstone removed first, and I haven't gotten around to it.
>
> As for me, I made the arrangements and paid for cremation several years ago. It only cost $1500, and I bought what they call a "scattering tube" to put my ashes in. It's cardboard (looks like an oatmeal container) and has a picture of a field of sunflowers around the sides. I have it on a bookcase in my living room. I guess it's kind of a "memento mori." My daughter thinks I'm weird!
>
>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 10:56 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have wanted to be cremated for as long as I can remember. I had thought
>> to have my ashes scattered half in the ocean near where I was born, and
>> where I have always felt happiest, and half here in the Shenandoah, where
>> at least part of my family originated and where I've recently been
>> happiest. Recently I've heard about a process where your ashes are buried
>> in a biodegradable container with the seeds of a tree, and that appeals to
>> me greatly.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:03 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Changing the subject - I had visions of Roger going into Canada to be
>>> cremated. 8-)
>>>
>>> Marcy and I planned our funerals a little over a year ago, and the other
>>> day I did the final preparation by signing us both up with the Neptune
>>> Society for cremation and delivering our ashes (not at the same time, I
>>> trust) to St. Bede’s for interment in the Memorial Garden.  Marcy’s DoK
>>> cross will be interred with her and I’m going to ask a friend who does
>>> geocaching to note the exact spot so my ashes will, one day, be interred
>>> with Marcy’s.
>>>
>>> Alleluia!  Christ is risen!
>>>
>>> James Handsfield
>>> jhandsfield at att.net
>>>
>>>>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 8:23 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Very much the choice in my family. All 3 of my grandparents whom I knew
>>>> (not sure about the one who died long before I was born) and both of my
>>>> parents were cremated. My father's ashes are presently at my brother's
>>>> house in New Jersey awaiting the planned memorial/funeral service in
>>> Maine
>>>> this July, he having died in March in Florida. You can't do that with a
>>>> corpse, but cremation provides such options.
>>>