Comments on: What’s the alternative to a church funeral? http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: I'm gettinmg there fast http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-104240 I'm gettinmg there fast Wed, 04 May 2011 13:53:11 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-104240 I'd like my son to buy a coffin.Put me in and bring me to crematorium in his van. Collect the ashes and adjourn to a nice pub. drink my health ha ha. and scatter my ashes in the river where I spent my happy hours communing with nature hows that? I’d like my son to buy a coffin.Put me in and bring me to crematorium in his van. Collect the ashes and adjourn to a nice pub. drink my health ha ha. and scatter my ashes in the river where I spent my happy hours communing with nature hows that?

]]> By: michelle http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-72144 michelle Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:59:28 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-72144 yup at greencoffinsireland.ie or .com not sure lovely array of coffins..I'm going for a banana leaf or water hyacinth.look good I'm going to burn in that then scattered off sherkin Island.nice yup at greencoffinsireland.ie or .com not sure lovely array of coffins..I’m going for a banana leaf or water hyacinth.look good I’m going to burn in that then scattered off sherkin Island.nice

]]> By: Helena http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-64434 Helena Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:10:32 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-64434 Where can you purchase a wicker coffin in Ireland? The huge elabourate brass-handled wooden ones are so over the top! Where can you purchase a wicker coffin in Ireland?
The huge elabourate brass-handled wooden ones are so over the top!

]]> By: bomer http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-60514 bomer Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:24:41 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-60514 http://www.cracked.com/article_16858_6-coolest-things-you-can-do-with-your-dead-body.html http://www.cracked.com/article_16858_6-coolest-things-you-can-do-with-your-dead-body.html

]]> By: Martin http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-59705 Martin Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:13:48 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-59705 http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/june/glue-soc-digger http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/june/glue-soc-digger

]]> By: Ugi http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-59644 Ugi Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:22:29 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-59644 We lost my brother to skin cancer a couple of years ago, aged 31, and he requested a "green" burial. He's at Herongate Wood (linked above) which is currently a field, but is becoming part of the bluebell wood it borders because along with bodies they are planting trees (we planted a damson he had bought for his wife). They have little stones too but they don't stand up and spoil the view, they just lie flat on the ground. The Herongate people organise everything themselves (no funeral directors etc) and you do whatever you wish. They have a building for services, but it's not consecrated and we had our "service" outside on the grass. They helped us find someone to lead a non-religious service. I spoke, and some of his friends did too, then we wandered out to the field and had the burial there in the field. All unhurried, and with you in control. There should (and indeed may be) more such places. We lost my brother to skin cancer a couple of years ago, aged 31, and he requested a “green” burial. He’s at Herongate Wood (linked above) which is currently a field, but is becoming part of the bluebell wood it borders because along with bodies they are planting trees (we planted a damson he had bought for his wife). They have little stones too but they don’t stand up and spoil the view, they just lie flat on the ground.

The Herongate people organise everything themselves (no funeral directors etc) and you do whatever you wish. They have a building for services, but it’s not consecrated and we had our “service” outside on the grass. They helped us find someone to lead a non-religious service. I spoke, and some of his friends did too, then we wandered out to the field and had the burial there in the field. All unhurried, and with you in control. There should (and indeed may be) more such places.

]]> By: SeanR http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-59623 SeanR Sun, 31 May 2009 09:43:23 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-59623 When a relative, aged 85, of mine died two years ago, his instruction were simple and clear. Her was to be taken for cremation and his ashes interred. No ceremony, service, religious whatnot by a cleric who didn't know him, etc., and no mourners at all (incl. wife of), because the couple both felt it was too traumatic for the surviving spouse to attend. My own parents were a bit aghast by this, but I think it is intelligent. If you see coverage of the late building magnet John Murphy's funeral, it is quite a public ceremony for someone who was extremely private in life. I would completely go with the cremate route. I understand you can even go for cardboard coffins not wood, I mean what's the point of spending thousands on a glorified bonfire? When a relative, aged 85, of mine died two years ago, his instruction were simple and clear. Her was to be taken for cremation and his ashes interred. No ceremony, service, religious whatnot by a cleric who didn’t know him, etc., and no mourners at all (incl. wife of), because the couple both felt it was too traumatic for the surviving spouse to attend. My own parents were a bit aghast by this, but I think it is intelligent. If you see coverage of the late building magnet John Murphy’s funeral, it is quite a public ceremony for someone who was extremely private in life. I would completely go with the cremate route. I understand you can even go for cardboard coffins not wood, I mean what’s the point of spending thousands on a glorified bonfire?

]]> By: crazychic http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-59613 crazychic Fri, 29 May 2009 22:21:17 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-59613 Good idea about the church!! I wanna be creamated to the sound of AC/DC HeatSeeker and then my ashes Fecked off the Blackcastle!! Good idea about the church!! I wanna be creamated to the sound of AC/DC HeatSeeker and then my ashes Fecked off the Blackcastle!!

]]> By: Lenny http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-59577 Lenny Thu, 28 May 2009 17:23:59 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-59577 When I die. Please just throw my remains out with the trash. I wont care less. If I have to go to a church then I want someone to plant a bomb in my coffin to go off when everyone has left so that I can take a church down with me. When I die. Please just throw my remains out with the trash. I wont care less.

If I have to go to a church then I want someone to plant a bomb in my coffin to go off when everyone has left so that I can take a church down with me.

]]> By: firinne http://twentymajor.net/2009/05/27/whats-the-alternative-to-a-church-funeral/#comment-59559 firinne Thu, 28 May 2009 12:25:31 +0000 http://twentymajor.net/?p=2521#comment-59559 As far as I'm aware the local councils are responsible for the the cemeteries, not the church. This has been the case for a few years now, although there may be exceptions with the older graveyards. As far as I’m aware the local councils are responsible for the the cemeteries, not the church. This has been the case for a few years now, although there may be exceptions with the older graveyards.

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