Me, I'm going for the scatter the ashes on the ocean thing.
My dad, a US Army veteran who was a Super Frugalista, arranged to have the US Army take his and my mom's ashes in a military cemetery in our state. I paid for a very nicely made wood urn I found on Etsy— it was worth it to me for the brief ceremony of placing it in the ground (doubt my dad would have agreed about that, though). Otherwise their burials were all free. I sincerely appreciated his thoughtfulness in this regard. I wasn't in much of a state to consider all the many decisions and expenses I would have had I needed to deal with a funeral home and a civilian cemetery.
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Re: Cemetery plots and not waiting
Date: 2025-05-17 10:50 pm (UTC)Me, I'm going for the scatter the ashes on the ocean thing.
My dad, a US Army veteran who was a Super Frugalista, arranged to have the US Army take his and my mom's ashes in a military cemetery in our state. I paid for a very nicely made wood urn I found on Etsy— it was worth it to me for the brief ceremony of placing it in the ground (doubt my dad would have agreed about that, though). Otherwise their burials were all free. I sincerely appreciated his thoughtfulness in this regard. I wasn't in much of a state to consider all the many decisions and expenses I would have had I needed to deal with a funeral home and a civilian cemetery.