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Posted: 4/4/2008 9:43:48 PM |
anything poking out you like
Can you do a trouser elephant?? That would be hilarious for an open casket funeral!! | |
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Posted: 4/4/2008 10:38:08 PM | | LOL Like I said Dark Stanley, anything is possible when your dead and I mean anything.. I should start a thread on what really happens when you die....cause that kind of question and associated trouser elephant questions come up alot when people ask about passing on and what really happens in a mortuary... | |
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Posted: 4/5/2008 2:15:48 AM | My mobile, 6 pack of bundy cans, bar of chocolate and photos of my kids.
My boys have already been told of this request and i do have my doubts of the full cans of bundy making it. told em i would haunt em if they dont
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Posted: 4/5/2008 2:30:08 AM | Jeeze Bewitched ..., if I was a pervy sick puppy
...., I wouldnt mind coming to your funeral...., providing it was an open casket jobby !! | |
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Posted: 4/5/2008 2:37:21 AM | | Bewitched....I'm busy the day of your funeral...Do you reckon we could catch up next week instead.......you can wear the same stuff, it's OK, I won't tell any of the mourners to spoil the surprise... | |
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Posted: 4/5/2008 3:41:37 AM | A builder friend of mine buried his father last year, who was also a builder. He built the coffin himself, much to the undertakers dismay. Because his father had seen the progression from hand tools to power tools in his life time my friend fixed a hand saw and a circular saw blade to the lid of the coffin. I didn't attend the funeral but was moved by the story, and since hearing it I've been considering doing the same for my father.
Pookie is this something that happens very often? Building your own coffin I mean,not bolting power tools to them...Actually he probably should have fixed the saw to the inside, incase he wanted to get out  | |
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Posted: 4/5/2008 4:29:19 AM | Hey JulianX - aka as Eddie Vedder...its the hair you know
Yes I knew of two cases where a coffin was built specifically...the first was by a artist who wanted a pine coffin and wanted to mosaic the coffin....this person was sadly dying of I think if I recall correctly cancer..and wanted her friends and family to help her make the coffin and to stick the tiles on it...apparently she had like a wake prior to her passing and people spent the day kinda partying and tiling the coffin...by all accounts it was a beautiful day. The coffin was bloody heavy though, let me tell you !!
The second I saw this with my own eyes....a very well known local eccentric died in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown. He requested to be buried naked and in a perspex coffin. And thats exactly what he got. I wasnt involved in the arrangements to have a perspex coffin made but I did see it, it was impressive...like Snow White's glass coffin and it was quite legal.
You can make or design your own coffin, PROVIDING it meets with the Dept of Health requirements...so in these coffins, we just make sure that when they have been completed we then come in and do all the sealing of the interior of the coffin, this must be done for health reasons - I wont tell you exactly what they are but yes you can do anything you want regarding your box.
So theres two cases that I know of.
Another big trend is for people to decorate their own coffins like above but by , painting etc. There is a company in Sydney that specialises in these types of coffins with beautiful l pictures and designs on them...stunning.. but pricey...but you can get a nice plywood coffin for about $600 and decorate yourself in anyway you like..no laws as long as the inside meets the Health standards which the funeral director will do for you anyway....and another more common thing I see now is if a young person dies, normally a white coffin is arranged by the family and friends and they all write their goodbyes on the outside of the coffin in black texta...that can be incredibley emotional to watch people doing that and then to read..
I think what your builder friend did was fabulous and people will talk about that funeral for a long time, a lovely way to honor his Dad
I have to reassure all...we usually dont "box" them - funeral director jargon - until they have actually die !!!...we usually get a piece of paper to prove they have passed on, so we are pretty confident we've got it rite... ...and we have our own ways of double checking.....................nope dont go there !!!
Ok yeah there was that case in NZ a few years ago, but no embalmer talks about that one !! Trust me !!! | |
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| So What Would you Take ?
Posted: 4/5/2008 11:47:56 AM | | assuming some archeologist in the future finds me, i would choose to have a sign placed apon me. it would read "i'm glad you're here, i haven't had a root in ages" | |
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Posted: 4/5/2008 2:32:25 PM |
Rolling on the floor here!
And yes - that's my party hard outfit I'm being buried in - caught my last victim in it! Mind you, that was a while ago now - but I'm sure it brings back memories (prolly bad) for him when he sees me heading out in it now! | |
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Joined: 1/26/2008
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Posted: 4/5/2008 8:52:39 PM | | No.....but I don't think that matters. And definitely not in the context of this thread. If it makes people feel better, who does it hurt? | |
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Posted: 4/6/2008 12:19:58 AM | nope, i guess it doesnt hurt anyone.
at the moment i do not have anyone to pick out anything to put in the coffin, not that i have anything i want to be burried with. | |
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Posted: 4/6/2008 1:35:04 AM | I had to laugh when I read what people are taking with them.. my mother has been discussing what she wants when she dies and she is after a cremation ...nothing unusual there except she wants Ding Dong the witch is dead, Light my Fire (doors) and Smoke gets in my eyes played as she goes up the chimney lol
Think if I am going to take lots with me will need one of those little crypts instead of a pine box lol then can have all the music and books I want! | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 3:39:41 AM | 1 large bottle of wild turkey bourbon,  but dont forget the ice
my mob ile so I could call shell225 to give her the daily run down on all our friends in hell coz sure a its cold in antartica I am not going to heaven
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Posted: 4/7/2008 3:40:58 AM | I'm going to take everything I own that is of any value, including liquidating all of my assets. Because screw my next of kin.
Wait... wrong thread. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 8:20:42 AM | ~~ ~ Well here goes...
I love, love, love my sarong and all my family and friends know of the emotional attachment I have to it (see my profile to check out the beautiful colors) soooooo .. I would want part of it to be with me, however, I would also want my loved ones to be able to keep a little of it soooo... I would want it draped over my coffin and then a little cut off for all my family and friends to keep and the rest cut up and spread over the coffin.. (at the cemetry, after it was draped over my coffin) this is gory...... lol
I would want pics of my kids, a bottle of chardonney, a small jar of nescafe expresso (even though I dont have coffee mentioned for a 1st date on my profile.. lol) and a packet of Pall Mall 8mg smokes. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2008 2:15:59 PM | | AAAAAAAHHHHHH, Dark Stanley - you gave me my first one of the day. (Belly laugh that is!) You evil, evil man | |
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Posted: 4/8/2008 12:45:55 AM | well, seeing as so mant have posted something funny....
burry with me...
politicians, oil company bosses, globalization cartels, and all terrorists. | |
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Posted: 4/8/2008 2:12:08 AM |
You evil, evil man
Hey it's not me who's evil it's the evil snowman I just do what he tells me!! I thought someone would have come up with that one before me | |
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Posted: 4/8/2008 2:40:18 AM | | Well, before they seal the coffin, it'd be nice if they could take me OUT and put, say, some dead guy in there. Yeah, that'd be good I think. | |
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Posted: 4/8/2008 3:47:41 AM | A get out of coffin free card.......they have those don't they? 
If that's not available, my g/f / spouse. Nothing like good company.....
If they're not available; TV so I can see the world unravel around me.
If that's not available: then a periscope, so I can tell who and if anyone visits, and make sure they're not standing on my crutch . | |
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Posted: 4/8/2008 6:38:54 AM | My journals!
I've kept a journal since the age of 16. I figured if i ever had a daughter she could read it and realise her Mum wasn't that different to her! Being 37 and having no kids......... they're not the sort of thing my parents or brothers should read! My Chanel #19 would be nice . I'd like to be naked though.
We buried my Pa in his PJ's. He wanted a closed coffin and we ignored him. I would never do that again. They put way too much makeup on people & they don't look like anyone you remember! Trivia........ they call it " a wake because they would tie a string to the dead person's finger. The bell would be outside the coffin. Someone would sit there for a day. If the bell rang they would "wake" & dig up the coffin because the person was usually alive.
Cremate me!
I'm calustrophobic. I always wanted to be cremated . I don't want to wake up alive in a coffin! | |
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Posted: 4/8/2008 7:28:59 AM |
Cremate me!
I'm claustrophobic. I always wanted to be cremated . . . .
MissMilly, i am not sure if you thought this through, because when you are ash they tend to put you into REALLY small vessels like vases ... or Tupperware boxes ... or gypsygal's small jar of nescafe expresso.
Being hydrophobic as well as claustrophobic would come in real handy then . . . 
(the instant coffee would be the MissMilly 'Medium' blend - just add hot water and a widgy (?) board).
Hope you believe in reincarnation . . . | |
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