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I can't bear the thought of being cremated - I have insisted in my Will that I be burried. Although I live in Dorset now, I want to be burried back home in Somerset - preferably near my other family members. I like the idea of returning to the earth - I want a rose bush or a miniature tree planted on my grave, so that I grow into something beautiful. Kaye x

That's a nice thought, Kaye :) BC

Joe, Deep thinking. happy days

I'm to be cremated & youngest daughter [who took a course]is to put ashes in a very large, very pretty firework & set it off in a display at the end of a great family party. I love fireworks & can't imagine anything better Vivienne

Took a course ???? in cremating ? hope she didnt have any homework.

Joe, My wife did the same, although she calls it toast. happy days

Joe! LOL.... Vivienne, I think that is a great way to go off! XXBC

I have read an article which says that you can have ashes turned into jewellery. May get the other half turned into a nice brooch or necklace. What do you think? LOL Love and Peace Marianne. xxxx

I have organised everything and paid for it - morbid or what - its just that I want it done my way. Although I live in Wiltshire I will be going back to North Somerset in the family plot - would rather feed the worms than be burnt. Hubby is being cremated so he will have to wait to have his ashes put in my coffin if he goes first . I said he will be kept on the Co-ops shelf. LOL !!!! Liz

Marianne Love your finish - possibly the nicest on the channel - so I hope you won,t mind me making a parody of same. 'Make my wife into a brooch'. good idea, I married for love and since then have had no peace. (TIC) happy days

It's in my will that I am to be buried - even if it's standing room only. Can't bear the thought of cremation. I honestly could not incinerate someone I loved. My headstone has to have a suitably witty, sarcastic or humorous inscription - I'm racking my brains to find the perfect epithet.

Bendy - I want - 'now do you believe I'm ill?' Lucy x

Lucy, lolol. xx

Sorry Joe, Bad English My daughter took a course in pyrotechnics & laser display. She took courses in lots of things, just to prove she could once her dyslexia was diagnosed but I don't think cremation was one of them. Vivienne

I have this image of the firework going up, making a big bang and then everyone getting covered in your ashes LOL! Not sure how they would take that? K

It would be like star dust Kaye

They say you can't take it with you - but I am taking my collection of CDs and my mobile when I fall off the perch in a couple of years, maybe more or less. Then only problem I forsee with the mobile is getting it charged up wherever I may find myself (and sincerely hope it doesn't melt). So anyone wanting a call from the otherside form an orderly queue and keep it short so that others may get a turn. I asked the solicitor to put in my will that my mortal remains be placed on the compost heap down the garden - but he declined so it will be someone else's decision, not mine. I shan't care len

I've told my family when I go I want my dogs ashes to be with me, I lost him earlier this year. I've threatened to return to haunt them if they don't do it.

Vivienne, Seems you are getting the heat and then fireworks - why not have a large enough firework and have it ALL over in one go ? like Tesco - 2 for the price of 1.

'When I die, just bury me in the shade of a cider apple tree. Take me back to good old somerset' - The Wurzels