Posted by JD Seller on March 10, 2015 at 20:28:24 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Sign of the times posted by 37Chief on March 10, 2015 at 18:41:34:
I don't really care either way but I will be buried. I have the space right beside my first wife.
My second wife wants to be cremated. She wants half her ashes to be buried next to her parents and the other half next to me. This works for her as these two places are 650 miles apart.
As for visitations or wakes.
My Father did not want any kind of service. He did not even want to be buried anywhere. He always said to just donate his body to science and let them throw out what ever they did not use. That really bothered me. In the family plot there are SIX generations of my family buried there. If he was not there then there would be HOLE in the lineage so to speak. He finally decided to have a SMALL family service. Then be cremated and buried next to his Parents.
I think the visitation and actual funeral are NEEDED for the family and friends. It is a time for them to grieve together. It is a "closing" event/time for the survivors. I actually think it is harder on the family and friends when there are NO services. They don't have a "Official" period of grieving so to speak.
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