Best way to go is cremation. Instead of having a visitation service at the funeral home (before cremation), have a memorial service at home after cremation. For the obituary keep it simple. So & so is dead, was cremated, memorial at home & the date.
I want to be cremated. I don't want to be laid out in a funeral home for people to come gawk at me. I've never liked going to funerals and seeing the person like that. I'd rather people remember me as I was when I was alive.
Plus it's so much cheaper.
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Read this very detailed description of what will happen to your body if you or your family unwisely decide to submit it to the loving labors of the ghouls in the funeral industry:
http://mcneill-bindon.ca/files...aldehyde-Curtain.pdf
The author of this piece wrote the classic, "The American Way of Death" back in the 1960s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...merican_Way_of_Death
She walked the walk:
"Mitford herself had an inexpensive funeral, which cost $533.31 – she was cremated without a ceremony, and the ashes scattered at sea; the cremation itself cost $475.[1] The funeral company was the Pacific Interment Service, which prides itself on "dignity, simplicity, affordability".[2]
Thanks for info and the links Contendah. Good stuff. I already knew a lot of this.