Comments on: What a way to go

By: J.J.

J.J. — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:59:10 +0000

Daniel in Brookline: A winner, that one! 🙂

By: Daniel in Brookline

Daniel in Brookline — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:09:17 +0000

“What does Reincarnation mean?”
A cowpoke asked his friend.
His pal replied, “It happens when
Yer life has reached its end.
They comb yer hair, and warsh yer neck,
And clean yer fingernails,
And lay you in a padded box
Away from life’s travails.”

“The box and you goes in a hole,
That’s been dug into the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when
Yore planted ‘neath a mound.
Them clods melt down, just like yer box,
And you who is inside.
And then yore just beginnin’ on
Yer transformation ride.”

“In a while, the grass’ll grow
Upon yer rendered mound.
Till some day on yer moldered grave
A lonely flower is found.
And say a hoss should wander by
And graze upon this flower
That once wuz you, but now’s become
Yer vegetative bower.”

“The posy that the hoss done ate
Up, with his other feed,
Makes bone, and fat, and muscle
Essential to the steed,
But some is left that he can’t use
And so it passes through,
And finally lays upon the ground
This thing, that once wuz you.”

“Then say, by chance, I wanders by
And sees this upon the ground,
And I ponders, and I wonders at,
This object that I found.
I thinks of reincarnation,
Of life and death, and such,
And come away concludin’: ‘Slim,
You ain’t changed, all that much.'”

By: HR

HR — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:45:12 +0000

Could you also use the remains of an animal, say a cow for this?

Sure. I saw this kind of service advertised in a veterinarian’s office in 2009, and since then I’ve been planning on doing it with my pets. I’ve moved around the country a lot, so there’s no special place to bury or scatter them…plus it might be the only way to get them buried with me wherever I end up as a lot of human cemeteries don’t/can’t take animals.

But I wouldn’t do it for my parents, who believe in the Resurrection of the body (although I suspect if my sister wants this it will happen no matter what anyone else wants. Families, man.)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:32:53 +0000

I’m skeptical that significant carbon remains in the ashes of cremation. I just read an excerpt of an article on the subject. it mentioned that some of the organic compounds are converted to oxides and carbonates during cremation. The most numerous elements are phosphorus, calcium, sulfur and potassium. Read the link. http://www.scattering-ashes.co.uk/general/cremation-ashes-chemicalcompostion/

By: kcom

kcom — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:38:04 +0000

I’ve got a little bit of my brother up on a shelf in my living room. I never would have believed that before he died.

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:03:29 +0000

I did say our family is weird, didn’t I?

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:43:35 +0000

Sgt. Mom:

Wow.

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:39:06 +0000

I’m kind of mixed on this, myself … I think my mother would consider this for Dad’s ashes, if the price wasn’t so out there.

Dad’s canister of ashes actually resides, day in and day out, in the back seat of Mom’s car. She says that she likes to have him there, when she goes out and about.

Yes, our family is weird. My younger brother and I think that Dad would have liked his ashes on a shelf in the garage – his man-cave, as it were. Once, when the topic did come up, he said that he would like to have them scattered in the desert (unspecified) and I know of a nice stretch of the Mojave where he would feel perfectly at home with the desert and everything.

But Mom likes him in the back seat. A jewel-charm might be a little more portable, I suppose.

By: wilbeforce

wilbeforce — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 22:19:58 +0000

The swiss have quite a knack for making money from people being cremated.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 22:11:54 +0000

I dunno, it just doesn’t seem right to accessorize with the remains of a loved one, no matter how pretty and sparkly you can make them.