Conversation with the Hotband #4358972
I don't quite remember how we got on the subject. We managed to find our way to discussing what to do with our dogs once they die.
"Bury them in the backyard," my husband suggests.
"That's gross," I counter. "And what if we move? What then?"
"We'll dig the dogs up and take them with us."
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah. We can dig them up. I'll have them neatly in boxes and wrapped up so that we can take them out of the ground and move them to wherever we move!"
He sat there, beaming, as though this was the solution to world peace.
"We cannot dig up the dogs," I said. "What if it were 10 years from now? Would you still dig up the dogs?"
"Absolutely."
"Do you understand how gross that is? Why not just have them stuffed and sitting in our living room for the rest of our lives?"
I was being sarcastic.
"That's a GREAT idea," he yelped! "Then we can always have the dogs with us! I am going to look into that."
"No you are not," I said.
"Yes I am! And, I am also going to take a month off of work when Snoop dies. I won't be able to get over it."
"He's a dog, babe."
"Yes, I know that."
"So what happens when I die? Are you going to have me stuffed too?"
"I was going to have you cremated," he said. "And put you into a rhinestone covered pink urn."
He was so proud of his answer.
"So let me get this straight," I said. "You are going to dig up the dogs and take them with you anywhere you go. You may even stuff them so you can have them around. But me, you're going to stick in some jar somewhere in the house where I can get lost or misplaced?"
"No! Actually, I was going to take some of the ashes and have it made into a jewel so I can wear you all the time!"
"Oh, fabulous. And when you re-marry, you can give your new wife your ring with me encrusted in it!"
"Wow. That would save money! I should have thought of that."
So my question to all of you is this...what are your final plans for yourself? Buried or cremated? Do you want to be in your own backyard to be dug up 10 years from now? Would you rather be stuffed so you can spend your life in bed with your true love? And what about your pets? What would you do with them when they died?
Knowing my luck, I will end up in the litter box the day that the cats run out of litter.
"Bury them in the backyard," my husband suggests.
"That's gross," I counter. "And what if we move? What then?"
"We'll dig the dogs up and take them with us."
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah. We can dig them up. I'll have them neatly in boxes and wrapped up so that we can take them out of the ground and move them to wherever we move!"
He sat there, beaming, as though this was the solution to world peace.
"We cannot dig up the dogs," I said. "What if it were 10 years from now? Would you still dig up the dogs?"
"Absolutely."
"Do you understand how gross that is? Why not just have them stuffed and sitting in our living room for the rest of our lives?"
I was being sarcastic.
"That's a GREAT idea," he yelped! "Then we can always have the dogs with us! I am going to look into that."
"No you are not," I said.
"Yes I am! And, I am also going to take a month off of work when Snoop dies. I won't be able to get over it."
"He's a dog, babe."
"Yes, I know that."
"So what happens when I die? Are you going to have me stuffed too?"
"I was going to have you cremated," he said. "And put you into a rhinestone covered pink urn."
He was so proud of his answer.
"So let me get this straight," I said. "You are going to dig up the dogs and take them with you anywhere you go. You may even stuff them so you can have them around. But me, you're going to stick in some jar somewhere in the house where I can get lost or misplaced?"
"No! Actually, I was going to take some of the ashes and have it made into a jewel so I can wear you all the time!"
"Oh, fabulous. And when you re-marry, you can give your new wife your ring with me encrusted in it!"
"Wow. That would save money! I should have thought of that."
So my question to all of you is this...what are your final plans for yourself? Buried or cremated? Do you want to be in your own backyard to be dug up 10 years from now? Would you rather be stuffed so you can spend your life in bed with your true love? And what about your pets? What would you do with them when they died?
Knowing my luck, I will end up in the litter box the day that the cats run out of litter.
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So Sayeth CP at 9:49 AM
39 Comments:
I would love to stuff my dog, but I don't think Not A Grampy would go for that. So, he will probably end up cremated, in an urn, that we will move around in the house.
Me-cremated, then stuck in a wall someplace!!
I plan on burying my pets in the back yard--and no I will not be digging them up when we move.
I plan on being cremated.
We lost our baby Montana 4 years ago and the pain was so great we decided to cremate her and we bought a beautiful angel statute that had place to put the ashes in. When we lost our 21 year old cat last year, we had her cremated and we put her in the angel too. When the last cat goes, she enters there and that is my final pet for a very long time. As for me, I'll be dead, I pretty much don't care what you do with me :) I plan on donating as many organs as they can use so........cremation might be good.
i am aghast. in a humorous way.
when our dog died, she was buried in the backyard, where she belonged. when my mom sold the house, the dog stayed.
i'm going to be six feet under after i go. hopefully, wife will want to be buried next to me, but she's already sick of me as it is.
i guess baby, when he's old enough, can decide what to do with us next. a rock on the gravestone, i ask you, my son, is that too much to ask? oy, my son doesn't treat me better in death than in life! such ungratefulness!
Granny - In an urn sounds like the way to go for a pet. Stuffed should only be for turkeys!
Mutt - So you would leave the animals behind? That is what I would do too...but the thought of that distresses my husband!
Sue - I'm sorry for your losses. I love that you put all the animals into one statue commemorating their lives. That's a great idea. We have four pets and I think that is the way we will do it too.
Bookfraud - But what if you go before the baby can make that decision for you? (God forbid). Do you have a final plan in mind?
CP
CP
I always thought I would be cremated.
But I'm fairly certain my husband will want to be buried back in our hometown by his family.
And I want to be buried by him.
No shit, CP. They can do some shit to your bones and make diamonds out of them! Watch the hotband girl, I think he's doing some research...just sayin'
WHen my previous dog, Baby a chihuahua mix, passed away I had him cremated and placed in a nice oak urn. I was able to set a picture of him in the front of the urn. When my current dog, Champagne also a chihuahua mix, passes away she will be cremated and placed in a similar urn. Baby's urn is under the TV in my living room. Sometimes Champagne will stand in front of it and bark. It's odd!
As for me, I don't care what happens to the meatbag I'm in. I think our true selves are our souls and that lives on forever. The body we are in now just returns to the earth. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust as they say...
Well lets see, while I have put much thought into the how of my death I really don't care what they do with my body. I guess I'll have to look into that.
As for my pets... The one I really wanted to have cremated and buried/scattered with me died at a time when we couldn't afford it, so she's buried in the back yard. I think when I die I want to be put with her. Our other two dogs that passed this year have been cremated and are sitting on my desk as I type this. We haven't decided what to do with them yet, so they're sitting together overlooking me as they would have when they were here.
I just buried our old cat a few weeks ago.. in the backyard. The land we live on belonged to my great grandparents, so there's no tellin' who or what else is buried out there.
We got ours at www.angelashes.com we got the original edition II
They have many different nice choices and work very nicely with you
Do I have a non-traditional thought process? I'd like whatever my loved ones want done with my body to be done with it. I'm dead, they're the ones who need to accept that and mourn my loss, and part of the mourning is how my body is handled. No? But I definitely should have the talk with the people I need to about this.
Yes. In 10 years I honestly will have forgotten I buried them there.
And seriously? People get buried in a cemetary for a reason. So we don't lose them.
heh.
I'm going to be cremated. I really think the body is just a vessel for the soul anyway, so once the soul is gone, the body has served it's purpose.
I don't even like to think about what I'll have to do for my dog when it comes his time.
Hell if I know what I'll have done with myself. I kind of planned on not dying.
His answer was GOOD though - about the shiny-jewlel-encrusted-pink deal. Awwwww.
My Dad shot a wild boar and had the ass mounted - hanging on his wall as wee speak. So that's always an option, mount that BOOTY!
Hell if I know what I'll have done with myself. I kind of planned on not dying.
His answer was GOOD though - about the shiny-jewlel-encrusted-pink deal. Awwwww.
My Dad shot a wild boar and had the ass mounted - hanging on his wall as wee speak. So that's always an option, mount that BOOTY!
I want to go Viking style. Load me up on a row boat filled with booty (we'll skip the virgin, that's just mean) and light it on fire!
cremated and i want parts of me sprinkled out into the ocean and the majority of me sprinkled on top of elvis' grave. ;)
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
*cleaning nostrils from diet coke*
Can I be in your living room with the dogs after I die?
I definately want to be cremated--I cannot stand the thought of being locked in a box and stuck in the ground. My spirit will be free--my ashes should be too. Scatter them to the wind.
When my first fur child died, we lived in a condo and could not bury him in the yard, so I had him creamated and we sprinkled him out at my mom's place that had a field he loved to run and play in.
With my current fur-child, well, he's just a puppy so I don't have to think about that for a while--I hope.
When I lost my beloved Burmese cat I thought it would kill me. I was delirious with grief when I let the DH bury her in the back yard. Of a house we now no longer own.
I gave serious thought to digging up her remains but in reality she lives in my memories so I'm cool with it.
When we lost our little pug Molly we had her cremated. She shares a tasteful 'people' sized urn with a kitty we had who died last year. When the DH remarked that there was still enough room for his ashes to be placed in there I just looked at him and smiled.
I want to be cremated. If someone buries this old bag of bones after I'm dead I will make them miserable for the rest of their days.
OK....so when my 1st dog me any husband owned togther died, we did bury her in the backyard...and when we moved.......yes he did dig her up. She was in a box made espacially for her and we then moved her to my moms property on 10 acres...where her dogs where buried. Kind a sick/gross yes, but knowing she is there and not dug up by some random people at the suburb house..makes me feel alot better! But would I do it again....probably not!
As for me.....cremated!!!
You can't talk about this stuff! Kin ahora! Kin ahora! Pooh pooh pooh!
I just saved you. You can thank me later.
I have the ashes of 2 cats at the house and will soon have my deaf great dane's ashes too. As for me, I'm a believer (just as someone said above me) that it is our souls that live forever....so burn me.
Long time no post CP, I missed you, but I'm BAACK!! :)
Kat
Brit - You are probably fireproof, dear. I would check into that first.
Queen - Yeah, it made me nervous that he knew so much about that!
VD - That is sweet that your one dog watches over the ashes of your other! That must make you feel good.
Fog - That is nice, just having them on your desk. It's like you have them at home with you all the time.
Mahala - I am sorry for your recent loss. That sucks.
Sue - I checked out the website! HOpefully we won't need it for a long time, but they do have beautiful things!
Poppy - That is a good way to look at it. My only problem is that I want to be an organ donor. My mother, the Jew Queen, won't allow it, so I can't rely on her to follow my wishes. I want all my organs gone and to be giving life or sight to others.
Mutt - That's a VERY good point!
JR - I believe the same way you do. The soul is what counts.
Dhor - I think I want my husband to mount my booty over our bed! I like that idea. His next wife may not be too thrilled though...
Zoo - That's an awesome idea~!
Yo - Over Elvis? That's one way of getting on top of him!
CP
Furbabies and I will be cremated.
I MUST be cremated since only I can put on my makeup properly.
I don’t care what’s done with my body: I leave that to my heirs.
I’ve buried one pet and that was in the back yard. Of course, that doesn’t count the goldfish that all got flushed down the toilet.
I really think you may do whatever the hell you want with me after I am gone. Cremation, set me out with the trash, donate my body to the local necrophiliac chapter...I don't care.
As for my dogs...they are going to live forever, so this is not an issue. (~Buries head in sand.~)
I think cremation & scattering of the ashes is the way to go for me.
For my bigger pets, too. The smaller animals (rodents, lizards, birds), we do actually bury them in the yard, but there will be no digging up to move. Ew!
Somehow, the idea of stuffing a person and having her stand watch over your living room is more disturbing than a dog coffee table.
SOMEHOW.
Oh, and I'm all for the pets in the backyard, or pet cemetery thing. They're gone. Whether their bones are nearby or not doesn't change that.
Ay, ay, ay. I want to be buried in a simple pine box with holes drilled in the bottom. I guess in a cemetery although I am not one to visit them.
I want a memorial service -- no funeral with rotting flesh laying out for all to see. That's gross and barbaric. I don't want my body there. Yuk!
As for my dogs...I have had them all mass cremated by the vet. Except for Lucky. I actually stuffed him in a FedEx box and threw him in the trash. He was a chihuahua. I know that's illegal or something, but that's what I did. He was hit by a car. My neighbor scooped him up for me and put him in a trash bag. I stuffed the trash bag in the FedEx box and put it in the trash can that was sitting out for collection.
When my Ex came home from work, he walked by the trash can, picked up the box and shook it. He looked at me and said, "That's Lucky, isn't it?" I said yeah and shrugged my shoulders. He loved that dog.
Yeah, don't leave me in charge of funeral plans.
Gotta be buried....Cremation ain't "kosher".
Girlfriend's dog just died, and although her family preaches the Heeb, the dog is getting cremated. I think it depends on the species.
Jewish Dogs -> Ok to be Cremated
Jewish Peeps -> In the ground
1) your husband is hysterically funny - you deserve every one of the answers he gave you (please feel free to tell him that)
2) i wish my body to be used for organ transplants and or scientific research, after which i wish to be cremated and spread on fertile farmland - i figure that at least in death i can be useful for something...
3) we had each our dogs and 1 cat cremated when they passed - they got spread on our farm (while we still had it). they always loved running around the farm, so we took them to the place they loved so much to always be a part of it. it was to honour their memory and the joy they had given us in life.
4) i'll take a pass on the backyard thing
5) pass on the stuffing thing as well
Me: cremated and scattered... cheaper than an urn and everything goes back to the source (dust to dust)
When I was married, we buried all our cats in the back yard and each spring the flowers were spectacular... good fertilizer. They stayed when we moved. Now the recent ones have a new back yard in my ex-husband's new house.
Actually "cremains" look an awful lot like cat litter.
Wherever the pets are buried is where they stay. I have little places that mark their burial spot. If I move then I will take the markers with me to remember them by...
As for me, bury me in a cardboard box and put me wherever. I really do not want to be creamated; however, the German does so I can sprinkle him in the Atlantic. That does not excite me in the least.
Well i must admit i really dig your blog as for the question ive always buried my pets in the backyard always seemed to make sense to me that we would bury them where they can be close to the family they loved
To save my kids from having to sort through all of my crap, I've planned a Viking funeral on Lake Michigan. Me, my stuff, a raft, and something flammable.
Doggies need to be buried in the back yard. You can take the headstone with their magic markered name with you if necessary.
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