[Magdalen] Cremation (was A good idea?)

[Jay Weigel]

For Judy Fleener
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBxZGQ1dJk

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This makes me smile.
>
> The ashes of a lot of target rifle shooters had their ashes scattered on
> the 1,000 yd firing point on Stickledown at Bisley.  In the end a formal
> area was set aside around the iconic Clock Tower at the much higher end of
> that range and I have attended a number of little ceremonies in that
> place.  Sic transit gloria mundi.
>
> Jim has willed his remains to the University of Toronto Department of
> Medicine, so I guess he won't join his friends on Stickledown, although his
> heart is already there.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 4/24/2016 1:20 PM, James Handsfield wrote:
>
>> My uncle, a great horse racing enthusiast, wanted his ashes scattered on
>> a race track.  When he did, a friend of mine was working for the LA Turf
>> Club and one day we all drove up to Arcadia, CA where Garay took us on a
>> “tour” of the track.  We scattered Don’s ashes on the back straight of
>> Santa Anita.
>>
>> Alleluia!  Christ is risen!
>>
>> James Handsfield
>> jhandsfield at att.net
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The wish of my mother's, to be scattered on Big Wood Lake, Burnett
>>> County, Wisconsin where the family spent pleasant summers I did not
>>> honor, and instead interred her ashes next to her brother and sisters
>>> in the family plot in my home-town cemetery.  So bite me.
>>>
>>
>>
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