h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'll tell you where I absolutely do *not* want to be buried - at my local movie theater.

This is my local movie theater, which really truly does have a grave in the parking lot. The pictures don't do it justice.
http://www.weirdnj.com/stories/_cemetery04.asp

Lil, is this the type of thing you fear might happen to your family plot?

Hmmm, seeing 'New Brunswick' in there, I got the feeling that it somehow related to my wife's home province ...

I guess it depends on the movie theater. If it's the local multiplex, forget it. But if it's a nice little art house theater with an alcohol license....sure. Why not? They can place a bag of popcorn and a glass of on my grave each time a new movie premieres.

I've always quite fancied being buried at sea. Just chucked over-board to be assimilated into weird sluggish sharks that live at the bottom of the abyss. Oh, and leaping clams. I'd quite like to be a leaping clam.

In my experience people hardly ever get buried these days, when my patients die I have to complete a extra form if there's going to be a cremation (to confirm no suspecious circumstances etc).

Cremations are much much cheaper apprarently - by rather an order of magnitude. We're running out of burial space.

In the two years since I've been doing this there's been precisly two burials, and I've lost count of the amount of deaths.

The 'hospital funeral' (the one you get if no one else will pay, or if no one will organise it, actually the hospital organises and either the 'estate' or the local council pay the bill) will still cover a burial if that was what the deceased wanted.

FG, if I had an extra room (and extra cash!) I would totally want you to come and cook for me. I love your cooking!

I know I want to be creamated, but I want a multitude of people to get my ashes, and to scatter them in various places...on the Meramac River right at Catfish Bend, at Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the spit in Homer, Alaska, the falls in Seward Alaska, on Kelly Island in Missoula, Skellig Michael, somewhere in Florence, somewhere in Rome. Lastly, I'd like the last of my ashes to be put in an empty Moose Drool bottle and set in the pub at UCI. Not sure how that's going to happen, however...

Speaking of multiple ash-scatterings, I still have some of my grandmother's ashes. She wanted them to be tossed in Hawaii, and I need to get there!

Send me a little bit of your ashes, and I'll scatter them somewhere in Sweden - how's that for diversity!

Most of my family was cremated. The ones who have passed on, anyway. I know a lot of people think it's more environmentally friendly, since ashes biodegrade, but keep in mind, as you burn, you release green house gasses into the air, contributing to global warming... I hope I have a long time before I have to decide what to do with my remains.

By coincidence, I was watching the first season of Dexter on dvd last night, and saw the episode where he scatters his father's ashes at the bowling alley where he spent so much time.

Poor Mary.

The Anderson-Freeman Visitors' Center and Museum, here in Lincoln, is built over an Apache burial site, and I don't think there was any attempt to do archaeological investigation or disinterments before construction went ahead. But times are different now: the state couldn't even put in a new septic tank for one of its historic buildings, because it would cost $56K to do archaeological studies before excavation.

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Built over an Apache burial site? Doesn't that lead to Jack Nicholson remodeling your front door with an axe?

Either that, or your children getting sucked into the TV...

*whispers ... go into the liiiiight !!! *

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So guess who has just shown up again after lo!, these many years?
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It's clouded over here from the conditions this morning.
In Britain, as well as the archeology, and taking precedence over it, is the possibility that the site might have great crested newts and need an environmental survey done.
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Slow weekend

[LP]