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You Can Take It With You?!
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A bit of a strange one, this... My question is, will you have any 'favourite items' buried or cremated with you when you die? We know about the ancient Egyptians getting embalmed along with their cats and gold etc, and the vikings with their servants, and even in some countries today people are buried with food, drink and even cash!
The reason for my question was after a conversation with a friend who's father was an undertaker and had to do with the burial of Roald Dahl. Dahl was buried with a variety of his favourite pencils (he always wrote in pencil), some Cadbury's chocolate (apropros considering his most famous book), a full bottle of red, an electric saw complete with cable and plug, and his set of snooker cues. Quite a fitting, eccentric, and wonderful assortment!
Have you a relative, or heard of someone getting buried with their possessions? What would you take?!
The reason for my question was after a conversation with a friend who's father was an undertaker and had to do with the burial of Roald Dahl. Dahl was buried with a variety of his favourite pencils (he always wrote in pencil), some Cadbury's chocolate (apropros considering his most famous book), a full bottle of red, an electric saw complete with cable and plug, and his set of snooker cues. Quite a fitting, eccentric, and wonderful assortment!
Have you a relative, or heard of someone getting buried with their possessions? What would you take?!
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My Husband took plenty goodies with him, he hadn't requested this but family made their choices - especially the Grandchildre n. Drawings,toy plane and car, bubbles to blow so they may see them and a bit fat cigar - we weren't allowed to include something to light it with though. :-)
23:16 Mon 12th Mar 2018
Burned or buried with them is just as destructive, if not more Gness IMO. Who ever sees it again? No-one. Nothing mine of of any worth would be skipped and I kinow my family enough to know they would make the best use of me, starting with my organs,
If you want to bury goods with your loved ones go for it, but I would rather they had a continuing history.
If you want to bury goods with your loved ones go for it, but I would rather they had a continuing history.
Of course there is no need for marmalade in the coffin......or the shirt and copy of Which.....it was just MrG...our thoughts about him... comforting at the time and is something we chat and laugh about now.
I dislike the expression...fill your boots.... it wasn't something we wanted to do....
What we did at the time helped us cope with a death that shouldn't have happened...and tempered the sterility of death and a funeral...it made it personal to us.....and that is important.....x
I dislike the expression...fill your boots.... it wasn't something we wanted to do....
What we did at the time helped us cope with a death that shouldn't have happened...and tempered the sterility of death and a funeral...it made it personal to us.....and that is important.....x
we buried the other half in his gardening clothes, because that is how i saw him being more comfortable.
a friend of my mother wanted to put a bottle of gin in the coffin for her mothers sending off, only she was being cremated and anything inflammable was not permitted. how they laughed at that one.
a friend of my mother wanted to put a bottle of gin in the coffin for her mothers sending off, only she was being cremated and anything inflammable was not permitted. how they laughed at that one.