Posted on Aug 28, 2015
Cremation or Burial? Where are you on the plan for you?
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Cremation or burial..... what are your thoughts?
Me, I can not stand the thought of seeing my family pay the extreme costs of a casket burial,, for what is a dead body.. Having had to do this a number of times now I know the stress financial and mental on getting the task done.
My brother and I decided on cremation for our mother, ashes sent into the wind and water at a place she loved. If I ever feel the need to "visit" Id rather do it at that loved place and remember her, then in a cemetary..Do people still go to cemeteries sites often? If so, would you rather not go to a loved place of the deceased and "visit " then there?
My father was cremated as well and buried in a National Cemetery in Colorado... that I suppose is a happy medium, though still, I have no desire to go to a cemetery and "visit".
I have no right to be alive, my life thus far is a series of events and accidents the likes of which have proved fatal for many others, both in the service of our country and on the streets and race tracks across the country, and world. So at the ripe age of 50, still riding fast bikes, driving fast cars, the end can not be far, nor should it be, better men have died when it should have been I.
So the thoughts of how to make it easiest on those I leave behind are in the forethought of daily considerations...
Do you have a plan?
Me, I can not stand the thought of seeing my family pay the extreme costs of a casket burial,, for what is a dead body.. Having had to do this a number of times now I know the stress financial and mental on getting the task done.
My brother and I decided on cremation for our mother, ashes sent into the wind and water at a place she loved. If I ever feel the need to "visit" Id rather do it at that loved place and remember her, then in a cemetary..Do people still go to cemeteries sites often? If so, would you rather not go to a loved place of the deceased and "visit " then there?
My father was cremated as well and buried in a National Cemetery in Colorado... that I suppose is a happy medium, though still, I have no desire to go to a cemetery and "visit".
I have no right to be alive, my life thus far is a series of events and accidents the likes of which have proved fatal for many others, both in the service of our country and on the streets and race tracks across the country, and world. So at the ripe age of 50, still riding fast bikes, driving fast cars, the end can not be far, nor should it be, better men have died when it should have been I.
So the thoughts of how to make it easiest on those I leave behind are in the forethought of daily considerations...
Do you have a plan?
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SGM Erik Marquez Cremation because I don't want any remaing family to waste money on expensive funerals and burial at Arlington National (first choice) or a National Cemetery in Colorado (2nd choice), or just dump the ashes in the mountain off the back of a Harley Davidson doing about 75 MPH on a straight away! Yea!
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My father requested cremation and his ashes are on the old property. As a child growing up in Puerto Rico my father lost his sister in a fire. He was a veteran of Korea and all those years after the death of his younger sister remained on his mind. We held a ceremony were the house once stood, family and friends walking up the trail to find what was left of the old house after years of growth. There was a fruit tree growing in the middle of what was once my grandparents home. My father's ashes are there, it is marked and fenced. I plan to have my ashes there as well.
I have learned a lot over the years, but the last thing he thought me was how much he loved sister. I miss him tremendously, but I know he is at peace, along side his sister.
Felicito Marcial Tosado, Korean War Veteran, loving father and forever missed. God Bless You.
Te quiero, tu hijo
Ricardo
I have learned a lot over the years, but the last thing he thought me was how much he loved sister. I miss him tremendously, but I know he is at peace, along side his sister.
Felicito Marcial Tosado, Korean War Veteran, loving father and forever missed. God Bless You.
Te quiero, tu hijo
Ricardo
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I joke with my wife that I actually want both. I want my legs cremated, and the rest of my body buried at my wife's location of choice. Then, after the legs are cremated, I want them separated into two vials. One of those vials should be sprinkled on the turf inside Tiger Stadium so that at least some small part of me will be at all LSU home football games.
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LTC Kevin B.
SGM Erik Marquez - For sprinkling onto the new field whenever LSU eventually rebuilds Tiger Stadium!
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