"How could you lose that wedding ring? It was your grandmother!"

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My daughter suggested putting both my wife's and my ashes in the same jar so we "could be together for ever". There followed an unseemly row over which of the children got us or whether they could work out some sort of time-share arrangement. Morbid little buggers...

Why not just divvy the ashes up?

That was one of the options...

cynic,

"they take a few ounces of ashes, process it into graphite"

No offence intended but there'll probably be enough for more than one diamond won't there? My kids will have enough to make earrings pendants, rings ... :)

I'm going to make the Hope Diamond when I die.

My wife wants her body donated to science, which strikes me as somewhat anticlimactic - just throw a body bag on someone's desk at a university and walk away?

Philo

You can also get a portion of your ashes shot off into space.

Just don't run out onto a football field & scatter them about during a bowl game. The police get upset when you do that.

Your wife's body could cure cancer. :)

I still fully intend to have a fireship burial along the River Severn. My ashes and those of the ship can then exit down the estuary.

I love the smell of burning human flesh in the morning.

"My wife wants her body donated to science, which strikes me as somewhat anticlimactic - just throw a body bag on someone's desk at a university and walk away?"

My grandfather did this.

When he died the university people brought a refrigirated coffin with glass top to the house, so he could be on display for a few days. (what's the more dignified word for that?)

Then we went to a little ceremonial room at the hospital for the final farewell.

It was all quite tastefull. All expenses were payd for by the university - but that was not the reason to do it.

I am considering the same arrangements.

"All expenses were payd for by the university"

That's one reason my wife wants to do it - she doesn't want to be a burden to anyone after she dies.

Philo

Absolutely! You want to be a burden while you're still alive. It's no fun if you can't see them suffer and have to do every last trivial thing for you for fear of being disinherited. Make 'em suffer while you can still enjoy it!

Oh she is DEFINITELY doing that.

"Your wife's body could cure cancer. :)"

Or more likely she could be used as some part of a practical joke buy the 3rd year medical students.

++I still fully intend to have a fireship burial along the River Severn.

Dude is that where they put you in a little boat, push it off, and set it ablaze in a ceremonious way such as a flaming arrow?

Nice death.

I want Led Zeppelin's version of "In My Time Of Dyin'" to be played at my funeral, with my son playing drums along with the CD track.

What a way to go.