open or closed casket at your funeral?

As immature as this may sound, dead bodies freak me out. And they never look good. I would much rather remember the person when they were alive than having the last memory of them as a corpse. So, closed casket for me, I don't want anyone lookin' at me anyway!

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I think I will get cremated. Maybe a few pics up. And the song would be some sad Johhny Cash.

ha ha ... that would be bad.

 

Yeah, funerals are kinda freaky. I never really understood it... Everyone is staring at a dead body... It just seems really unnatural and I fail to see how it helps witht he grieving process, but I guess everyone is differant. If it helps someone else, it is good I guess. I just never felt very enthused or anything to go to funerals of people that I knew, even people I was close to. But I do go sometimes, but just for the family...

I don't know... I have thought about writting out something for an untimely death for things I want done at my funeral, int he case of an untimely death. Like instead of flowers, I want money donated to Greenpeace or somethign like that, and I want to be burried in one of my favorite t-shirts and barefoot. I want to pick out the songs that are played there, etc. I think I should be able to choose how I want to be rememebred.

But I guess probably open, since that's how every funeral I have ever been to has been conducted and it would be what makes my family most comfortable. I have never been to a closed casket funeral.

That was probably way longer than you expected or wanted a reply.

 

Open casket, hands down. I think people cry more at an open casket, and I like making people cry :H

 

cremated, after anything useable from me is harvested for organ donation.

So, closed I guess, at least until my ashes are scattered

 

Open casket..

But I want people to see me smiling...

... Now, how do I go about arranging for a smile to be put on my face a week before a depart this world?

 

I may want to have a closed casket with two different obitiuaries printed each saying I died in different horrible ways

 

Taht's not immature that's honest. When my first grandma died September 3,1999 I couldn't touch her body.(The casket was open) When my grandma died October 14, 2005 I made myself touch her body. (the casket was open)I wish I could have huged both of them. My grandma (dad's mother) look really sick and my grandma (ma's mother) looked peaceful. I couldn't help but noticed her boobs looked so big lol. I know that you aren't suppose to think of stuff like that but it took my mind off the fact that she was gone. WHen my great aunt past (ma's side) I didn't get to go and the casket was open. They said her eyes had rolled up in her head. I don't think I would have liked seeing that.

 

S-E-X

 

Let the whole world know I'm going on a sex binge (with xmudpuddle ), so that people will know I died the way I would have wanted, and given them plenty of notice?

*big thumbs up*

 

haha, when i went to this memorial for a marine from our area who had died in action his casket was open (much to our surprise) but damn, i was thinking shit, he was a damn hottie when he was alive.

 

This is gross an unrelated but I remember hear someone say this a long time in the past. There was this really gross person that had sex with a dead woman but the rigor mortis hadn't set in yet. Well, when he got finished doing his thing she...er...you can say, locked up on him. Needless to say that was an embarrassing moment for him when the police had to get him out of said predicament.

 

::washes eyes out with soap::

i really did not need to see that

<shudder>

ps, i dont care if it's open or closed casket. i'll be dead. let the pple left behind do whatever makes them feel better

 

I guess open unless I get all mangled then I want it closed. I've only been to 2 closed casket funerals... both my friends..one was in an explosion/fire the other in a car wreck so naturally they closed them

 

It depends how I die, like if I'm attached by bear, then definitely not. But if I still look relatively normal then yeah, why not.

 

I deal with the dead every day, Sometimes I help move em around, It's really eerie walkin in the prep room and seein these people layin around. I sometimes think their going to get up. I'll take an Open casket.

 

i dont think i'd care too much one way or another. but if i had a choice i would be cremated.

 

Don't feel bad, dead bodies freak me out too.

I don't know what I'd want. It's a toss up between a closed casket and a cremation. I wouldn't want loved ones seeing me laying there dead in a casket, what kind of last memory of me is that? I'd rather them remember me as I once was and reflect upon my time spent living.

And I don't want to think about this anymore, I tend to like to live in denial when it comes to death.

 

Well, the way they've done it at both my grandpas funerals was through the service, the casket was closed, then at the end, they rolled it to the door, then opened it so people could say their goodbyes. I hated it, I almost passed out when the first one died and they opened his casket. My boyfriend at the time had to literally hold me down so I wouldn't bolt. It freaked me out way too much and he said I turned almost white when I looked in the casket. At my other grandpa's funeral, I decided to look because I knew I'd be in denial the rest of my life if I didn't...he didn't even look the same, I thought I had looked in the wrong casket. In times like that, logic isn't exactly on the top of your brain. But, you know, some people need that closure. I think that for my service, I will request that they hold the casket opening until the very end and let those who can't handle it leave first. That's how they did the funeral of the girl from my 10th grade class that died. But I'm going to be cremated also, so it's going to be a semi-confusing arrangement. I'm sure the funeral directors can handle it, though.

 

burn the longboat! or "don't i look like myself"?

burn the longboat!

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