When my time comes, I don't want to have the typical lay in the coffin funeral. I've decided after a lot of thought that I definately want to be cremated. I have several sound reasons for this.
I want to be buried in more than one place. I have several places I want to be at once, and it would be rather messy to ask to be dismembered for this wish to be granted. Not to mention, it just would look bad on all those tombstones...
"Leg of Juel..."
Left arm of Juel...
"Head of Juel..."
You get the jist.
I want a small gravestone at each place where I would like to have part of my ashes buried. My final internments will take a long long time, and while this is odd, it's not impossible.
I want my ashes divided into 12 equal parts, then a twelth of a teaspoon taken from each of those parts, which is to be placed into a locket and given to Sarah to be sent to the place I've prearranged for her to send it. The 12 remaining parts are to be placed in 12 urns, to be buried as follows:
Grave 1: Hutchin's Cemetery, next to my grandmother. For obvious reasons.
Grave 2 through 5: Four urns kept someplace dark and quiet, put away until the deaths of my grandchildren, then buried close to their own graves, some 75+ years from now. I've promised to always be with them, and I intend to keep my word.
Grave 6 and 7: Kept for burial in the future close to each of my daughter's graves. For obvious reasons.
Grave 8: Below my mother's grave. For obvious reasons.
Grave 9: Close to my sister's grave. For obvious reasons.
Grave 10: Private location disclosed to Sarah.
Grave 11: Private location disclosed to Sarah.
Grave 12: Private location disclosed to Sarah.
On the front of my 12 tombstones (marked at the top right engraved very small the numbers, 1 through 12) I'd like my name and birth/death dates... on the other side, one simple word on each stone.
Stone Number 1: "They
Stone Number 2: always
Stone Number 3: said
Stone Number 4: she
Stone Number 5: wasn't
Stone Number 6: all
Stone Number 7: there
Stone Number 8: and
Stone Number 9: now
Stone Number 10: she's
Stone Number 11: really
Stone Number 12: not!
Let some cemetery hopper from the future read these stones and try to figure out what the hell they mean.
*smiles*
I'm not kidding.