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Macabre or Realistic?
If none of you have ever seen an urn room, I'm providing you a sneak peek. This room is located at O'Halloran and Murphy Funeral Home on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul. Surprised at the variety, or would you settle for a cardboard box? It seems that more and more people are becoming proactive and are pre-planning their own funerals. If you might be interested in cremation, there are lots of urns from which to choose. Although I am currently not at all interested in this wonderful service, provided by one of my former students who is now a funeral director (stepping in his father's footsteps) I'm rather partial to the Rustic Sage myself.
An interesting question: I wonder how many bloggers have done this or are thinking about their own future service?
surprenante collection d'urnes...
ReplyDeleteI'm having one of my potter friends turn me into an ash glaze for a pot
ReplyDeleteThats a hard question, I need to think about it, but for my expectations, the little black one at right seems cozy and very portable!
ReplyDeleteNot a bad choice, I like it too. We are now allowed to disperse ashes at sea, which I would prefer to any urn.
ReplyDeletePass... hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I DO want to be cremated not buried. In Japan, very close to 100% of people are cremated if I'm not mistaken. Interesting post, Great Kate!
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in eastern New Mexico (strange place to me) I met a woman who told me somewhat gleefully that she had bought urns on sale and kept them in her garage. She always spoke of her husband as having one foot in the grave (er, urn), but when I met him he seemed pretty healthy to me.
ReplyDeleteWas it proactive planning or wishful thinking, I wonder?
Congrats to you, I haven't seen a blog post on this subject before!
Yes I have seen a collection of urns Kate, some really pretty ones out there, but to the horror of my family who are Scots, I've declared that I'd like my ashes sprinkled from atop the Eiffel Tower!! You can imagine hey! hahahah!
ReplyDeleteI am having my ashes sprinkled over the Perdernal like Georgia O'Keeffe.
ReplyDeleteHi Kate, Thank you for your kind comments about my blog.
ReplyDeleteThis is the second article I have read today on the subject of death. Hope its not a portent!
I am going to follow you on this blog. Hope we will both be around for a long time yet.
John.
My parents are in urns, but we did not choose a decorative one. They are interned in a place for urns in a Veterans cemetery.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the poem about kingfishers that you posted on my website today. I have enjoyed your inclusion of poetry on your site, but never imagined that you would add such a rich dimension to mine.
Umm, no, Kate, I have never visited an urn seller and that is the way I like it. My family has been told to give away any body parts that might be useful, cremate me, then sneak into Elizabeth Park at night and sprinkle me on one of the rose plots. People say I am full of bull****, so I should be good for fertilizing.
ReplyDeleteWe have our plans written out but have not visited the urn shop as of yet. I have wondered just how big of an urn does one need to accommodate a full grown person. My neighbor's husband was in the navy so she put his ashes in an antique cracker jack tin and had him buried at sea.
ReplyDeleteInteresting and thought provoking post, Kate.
Oh, and I loved the poem that you left for Dave!
I definitely want to be cremated but have not looked for an urn...yet. :)
ReplyDeleteActually I haven't planned anything regarding my own funeral, but I think cremation is a very good idea although I really don't care about urns. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell,
ReplyDeletesince you asked, I would like to be cremated.. I don't believe in taking up space once I'm gone. I don't prefer my relatives keep my ashes in an urn... that's kinda creepy to think... "uh, there's becky up on the mantle." an equally creepy thought was that someone could take some of my ashes & mix them in clay & make a bowl, or bear sculpture! (ha ha!) nah- i'd prefer they be scattered in high mountain places... BUT, preferably not for a LONG, LONG time. i have way to many things to do in this life!