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[Amby 490]

this is very interesting...I also read a story about home funerals a few weeks ago. people keep the body at home and bathe their loved one, dress them, fix their hair and makeup, then the body is put on dry ice and kept in a bedroom or something and friends can come over and pay their respects. it's an interesting concept but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with a dead body in my house for a few days even if it was someone that I loved.

[Toshtishtash 1]

this is very interesting...I also read a story about home funerals a few weeks ago. people keep the body at home and bathe their loved one, dress them, fix their hair and makeup, then the body is put on dry ice and kept in a bedroom or something and friends can come over and pay their respects. it's an interesting concept but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with a dead body in my house for a few days even if it was someone that I loved.

Me neither I wouldn't be able to stay in a house with a dead body... No matter who's it was. I don't even think I could go and see an open casket either Things like that freak me out...

I still don't know about the whole funeral thing... I change my mind often. I don't think i'd like to be cremated because of the whole burning thing (I know you aren't alive... But i'm a weirdo and I think I watch too many movies) and I don't think i'd like to be buried in the ground either for the same reasons as above

I think I would like to be frozen

[Alhamdulillah 0]

My mom's neighbor has two babies buried in their back yard (out in the woods) which just happens to be directly across from my mom's back porch... how's that for spooky??

[Toshtishtash 1]

My mom's neighbor has two babies buried in their back yard (out in the woods) which just happens to be directly across from my mom's back porch... how's that for spooky??

[Mags 112]

Hubster will have proper military burial, as he deserves

there is always the option for burial at sea, just have a big hook on the casket

They still bury at sea near Malta. Often the bodies aren't weighted correctly and wash up on the beach amongst the sunbathers. The med isn't an open sea either so things always tend to turn up!

this is very interesting...I also read a story about home funerals a few weeks ago. people keep the body at home and bathe their loved one, dress them, fix their hair and makeup, then the body is put on dry ice and kept in a bedroom or something and friends can come over and pay their respects. it's an interesting concept but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with a dead body in my house for a few days even if it was someone that I loved.

When my Mum died last year we kept her body in the house until the funeral two days later. Her friend and I washed, dressed and prepared her for burial. She didn't want to be embalmed and only wanted a basic box. It wasn't spooky, it wasn't uncomfortable, it just felt right. If she'd have gone to the mortuary she'd have been stuck in a cold fridge. An hour before burial the undertakers turned up and placed her in the coffin and then we went to the local cemetery and had a small service which was written by her friends and family.

In Malta this is the way things are done, it's part of the way they handle burials. It's a small island and they just don't have the storage space for numerous bodies awaiting burial. *shrugs*

Edited October 18, 2007 by Mags

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I don't really care what's done with my body after I kick the bucket. Even if I did now, I don't think I will then.

[Ban Hammer 14,654]

I don't really care what's done with my body after I kick the bucket. Even if I did now, I don't think I will then.

we'll ship you to san fran so they can have a cold one there

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I don't really care what's done with my body after I kick the bucket. Even if I did now, I don't think I will then.

we'll ship you to san fran so they can have a cold one there

Point taken. I do care to a degree.