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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
The thread reminds me of this. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I just think that to spend 80 odd years on this earth and not leave a permanent marker somewhere that you existed is a bit sad. Nobody is putting me in the ground I am being cremated, but hopefully there will be some evidence somewhere that I passed by, did whatever, and moved on. Hardly much point bothering otherwise. Maybe that's what I am doing here, Chris. Seti shall be my marker. Does it make a little more sense now? "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65745 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Here's one I just thought up, "I've gone on to look for ET". The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
The only problem is, the funeral and burial is not paid for, and that is ridiculously expensive. The funeral parlors want to sell you gold caskets, and impermeable vaults. I've told them to just throw me in the hole, but even that isn't without a price. ~They charge for digging it, and filling it, plus there's the stone on top. I don't mean to sound that negative; it's just a racket industry that plays/preys on a lot of people. Any business will try to sell you the most expensive product they think you can afford - that's just good business. But the impermeable vaults are, in the USA at least, required by law or government regulation. Something about groundwater polution and disease control. And yes, nothing in life, or death, is truly free. The gravedigger has to feed his family..... Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I am working on getting a marker stone for Squirrel. After 18 years and 8 months of total devotion to me, I think it's the least I can do for her. I suppose it's more for me than for her. I do go back to the back yard and talk to her every now and then. I am sure the neighbor wonders once in a while who I am talking to back there...LOL. No matter how many more years the Lord grants me to stay on this earth, that kitty shall always be by my side. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
The only problem is, the funeral and burial is not paid for, and that is ridiculously expensive. The funeral parlors want to sell you gold caskets, and impermeable vaults. I've told them to just throw me in the hole, but even that isn't without a price. ~They charge for digging it, and filling it, plus there's the stone on top. I don't mean to sound that negative; it's just a racket industry that plays/preys on a lot of people. I do see the point about groundwater contamination. In fact, I'm surprised they didn't use that in their sales tactics. They gave me three choices on the concrete liner the casket goes into, and I sneered at the idea, saying nothing is permanent, and am going with the cheapest one, and a pine casket. I do plan to have a hat placed on my head, as I think that's a classy way to go. ;~} The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I am working on getting a marker stone for Squirrel. Mark, I totally understand, and will want the same for my two rabbits when they pass away. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I am working on getting a marker stone for Squirrel. This is where I think I can get one for a reasonable cost. I am sure they have some for rabbits. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I am working on getting a marker stone for Squirrel. Well, those certainly are reasonable prices to me, but I think I'll look locally first, even though a custom-made stone done locally would probably be more expensive. I honestly don't know where the local pet cemeteries are, but like you, I want my friends close to me, so my mom's backyard is where they'll be when that time comes. My house's backyard is too small, and I will be spending most of my time at my mom's when I finally get her home from the hospital, and it's really my real home, too, since I was born and raised there. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
The finality of my kitty passing was a hard thing for me to grasp. I don't think I have really processed it all even yet. I have her 3 stepsisters here and it is gonna kill me when the first one of them goes. Tigger II has been getting rather clingy. And that is what Squirrel did when she was preparing. They know. Animals just know. As Joan Baez once sang, they just prepare. Bandit and Purrball seem to be OK, but Tigger II is starting to tell me something I don't wish to hear. I can see in her eyes that she is getting sad. Not a good thing to see in a kitty. Maybe I am wrong.. I pray that I am. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
The finality of my kitty passing was a hard thing for me to grasp. I understand. I don't like the passage of time, the older I get. I'm working on slowing things down. I'll share the secret if and when I find it. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
The finality of my kitty passing was a hard thing for me to grasp. I am still looking for it............ Dear Mary said it best. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Scarecrow Send message Joined: 15 Jul 00 Posts: 4520 Credit: 486,601 RAC: 0 |
"I told you I was sick!" |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
"May you be in heaven an hour before the devil realises you're dead" |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30649 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
"You are Next!" |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I came into this world kicking and screaming, I hope I was just as stubborn on leaving this world. [/quote] Old James |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
What will it all be worth in one hundred billion years...... My epitaph is my life. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
What will it all be worth in one hundred billion years...... No matter what I may accomplish with what time I may have left, when the Great Book Of Life is written, I'm not even going to make a footnote! (Rather freeing, actually...) |
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