I desperately want to be made into one of those LifeGems when I die. Then I want to have a large party where everyone gets at least one glass of Thraequila, and one of the revellers drinks me. They won't know which glass I'm in: I'll have been placed in the bottle of tequila prior to mixing, and the hired third-party bartender will have mixed up all the cups. Eventually, somebody will take a swig and go, "Oi, I think I just swallowed Thrae." If I'm too large to have that done (ie, I show in the bottom of the cup), then I'll simply have myself cut into smaller pieces that hide a little more easily. That way, five or six people can drink me. :D

I want to be cremated and have my ashes used by some company like the franklin mint to make collector plates with my likeness on them. It would be the ultimate limited edition.

I want booze, A fight or two and nekkid people! Someone better be getting drunk and laid at my wake or the haunting will begin.

Put me in the ground and leave me alone.. This is supposed to be rest. Take the insurance money and make certain that my children get well cared for and well educated. Forget the shell that is my body, and remember the things I have done.

no funeral.

sus and mimi know putting me in a trash bag and out with the garbage is fine with me.

no ceremony. forget me.

Irish wake, i want everyone to get fucking pissed and act crazy and have fun and celebrate the fact that i lived, not mourn my absence.

I would rather not have a funeral, but instead cut up into pieces and fed to siberian tigers.

If they went behind my back and had one for me, I would raise back up from the dead and kill everybody there who cried or who wasn't drunk. And if he is still alive when I pass on, I want Gilbert Gottfried to give my eulogy.

I want people to be told that Im dead, then to be incinerated and spread out somewhere.

If someone else wants to hold a funeral or a party for me, let them.

I'm not a big fan of funerals. I think I'd just like family and a few really close friends to have a little get together. I'm still debating on whether I want to be cremated or burried. My mother always said "the land is for the living, not for the dead". If I was burried I wouldn't want it to be in a cemetary. It would have to be somewhere in the mountains under a cool tree with maybe a rock as a headstone or just plant some wild flowers on top of me. Also, if I was burried I woudn't want a big elaborate cascate... just a nice wooden box would work. Basically, I want little to no money spent on it, I don't want it to be a big who-ha, and I don't want people to sit around and be sad or sulk about me dying...it's all just part of the process.

Black, shiny coffin, with Hotrod flames, and chrome sidepipes... Highspeed funeral procession. We're talking hayabusa outriders, to clear intersections, highspeed, pro-driver piloted, hearse(sp?), you get the idea.... And then a really big party after...where everybody has to hand over the keys at the door :)

I want my funeral to be like a bachelor party. Lots of people, lots of alcohol, good music and strippers rubbing titties on my coffin.

i want to be blown up with a ton of dynamite like a beached whale...

or maybe just cremated and have the ashes kept in a pepper shaker in a random restaurant somewhere.

Viking burial. Undoubtedly.

I've just been to a funeral for a family member recently. I was amazed at how quiet everything was.

I could care less what happens to my body after I die. I hope I've used it so much its completely worn out.

I just don't want any money spent on it. Do whatever needs to be done to dispose of it and move on with your life.

Assuming that I am buried, and not cremated, I absolutely, positively do NOT want a flat headstone. I don't care for the way cemetaries tend to just mow right over the top of them. It seems a little disrespectful, somehow. I was a pain in the ass alive, and I'll be a pain in the ass dead. Someone, somewhere is going to have to mow around me for the rest of eternity.

when it happens take my body off somewhere and just dump me in the woods or something. Let the animals eat me. Then I want everyone to fucking rage for as long as possible. I dont care if the people knew me or not. The most important thing I can see comming from my death is for as many people as possible to make memories. Not necessairly about me but I want for people to be talking about the party that followed my death for a long time.

This is really fascinating. I am most interested in those people who have already chosen the music. This is somthing I ponder occasionally, so the fact that you have already decided is neat. I personally still have not decided what the music should be, so I guess I should drive carefully until I do. Otherwise, cremation. I was raised Catholic, tho am not really thinking that way now. I saw too many open casket funerals as a child and just think its so odd. I mean, gee, these people are cold and gray; that's not how I remember them. Anyway, Big party, lots of music (all my favorites) and my immediate family is to spread my ashes on the Washington state coast and the Maui coast. That way they get a vacation out of it.

Another thing, while we're on this morbid subject- whats with those people who take out a plan on paying off their burial plot? I knew someone who did that, like the whole funeral, stone and six-by-2 section of land was theirs when they kicked of, for a monthly payment.

Bizarro! I can understand having insurance etc so your family isnt left destitute when you kick off, but isnt that a bit sick?

Or is it just me?

I want to be turned into a LifeGem as well, and passed on through the family for generations.

"Lila, you're 16 now, it's your turn to wear GreatGrandma Emily. Take good care of her, and don't wear her in the shower."

But, I still want a grave and a coffin. Only, I want it to be motion sensored so that when people walk by, a fake zombie pops up out of the grave where I am supposed to be.

I'd like to be dumped on the side of the road, in a burlap bag.

I'd like to be exploded at my funeral and sprayed upon my unsuspecting mourners. That way they'll never forget me.

ooh I think that's how I want to go out too instead... :p

I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet?!
Huge orgy!

mariah carey music
a BIG LAN party
every1 confessing how they may have betrayed me and the tape being mail to me in heaven or hell

I want a big party... celebration of my life type of thing...

then (here's the wishful thinking part) ... I want to be sealed up in an airtight container and shot into orbit.. :)

tie me to a wooden platform, set it on fire, and push it out to sea

In my sculpture class, we had to build our own tombs, and mine was a full size old school wooden box...except it was gloss black with three color fade hotrod flames, a satin interior, murals of crosses, satan, and a winged heart, and black netting. I wouldn't mind having a professionally built version of that.

As for the party (and it will be a party), I'd like my funeral to be my last work of art. Just some crazy, memorable piece of performance art, preferably ending with me or my tomb permanently on display, rotating between the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Louvre, and John Stamos's house (just because).

I agree, but would like a closed coffin while my body is given to help young medical students become doctors after any of my organs that are useful have been harvested.

I am totally finding it hilarious to think of this rotting corpse, haning from the ceiling. i am terrible, but i gues the guy who thought it up is worse.

as for my own, i don't know. i'd like really good music, but i love so much music i can't really decide. i would like to think that i would do something really cool but seriously i am boring and my family wouldn't be original enough. one thing i like about where i live is that when the funeral procession drives anywhere in our province all traffic pulls over for them and is very respectful of the fact that your family is sad. it meant a lot to me when driving in a funeral procession with my aunt.

Nick Swardson has shaped most of my own ideas on what a funeral should be (for example, involving John Stamos in any way).

If only the things he suggests wouldn't scar the entire family. The idea of paying Uncle Jesse to just come, cry, and leave is a great one, though...just leave everyone wondering.

No trolling here, just something that struck me. If you did that, from a Christian perspective, wouldn't your soul get kind of "lost"? If your body was revived by Aliens a millenium later, would your consciousness continue without a soul? Or would your soul get "hijacked" from heaven, zipping back into your body?

I just thought about it when I read your post, and it strikes me as a bit freaky, at least in my dead-end mind. Knowing myself, I'll be thinking about this for a while.

My personal choice of funeral:
A field on a rainy day. A band is playing Pantera's "Walk", with a philharmonic orcestra. 40 exotic-looking dominatrixes are showing everybody to their seats. Friends and family watching, as my freeze-dried corpse, standing in a hot-air balloon basket, is smiling at them. The bomb technicians have finished rigging my corpse with 80 kgs of C4, one kilo for each year of my life. As the hot-air balloon with my explosive corpse sails higher up into the sky, the band stops playing. 10 kids from a local elementary school steps forward with saxophones, and starts to play "Little Spanish Flea", while lion-dancers and line-dancers clash in front of the seats.

When the balloon reaches 6000 feet, the crowd yells "GOODBYE YOU BASTARD" and throw their hats in the air. The explosives go off, sending my corpse in all directions.

Either entombed in a pyramid or jettisoned into outer space.

I simply want to be creamated. While Amazing Grace plays I want to be scattered into the Pacific.

my funeral would be at a six flags or something i would like to be cremated and have my ashes thrown by one of my loved ones as they enjoy them selves on a roller coaster or something

I want to be creamated, brought to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite, and scattered to the wind. That way, when anyone wants to visit me (as seems to be wont in the family I come from), they have to go to Yosemite. So beautiful.
Then I want everyone to go get pissed and party their asses off.

Two words : Astro Jump :D

I mean, really, who can be sad when you bouncing around on a big jumping cushion of air? I just dont think its possible NOT to enjoy yourself, no matter what has happened to me.

... ummm... donate my body to Necrophiliacs Anonymous?

*wicked, maniacal laugh... as I take a number to be first in line...*

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT! :thumbsup:

It's kind of funny 'cause I just got home from a funeral and was going to post a thread about it. I don't want a funeral but I know my survivors will do what ever they want. I personally believe we should celabrate the life of the deceased and not mourn their death. There is, of course, sadness in the loss of a loved one but remembering the good things certainly makes the passing easier to take.
I want to be cremated in a private cerimony without all the fuss, no viewing, no service, no graveside prayers etc... all that does is prolong the grief. Take the money used for the service and have a vacation on my behalf.

I'm really liking the cremated and shot into space idea.
It's nice to think my loved ones could look up at the stars and think of me, from time to time.
However, I think I'd just be happy knowing some people showed up for my funeral, if that's possible.