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[Tim the Beek]

http://www.huffingto...tm_hp_ref=crime

A $15,000 set of diamonds made from a 25-year-old man's cremated ashes went missing in Texas as they were being shipped to the man's family.
Algordanza -- a Switzerland-based company that makes the specialty gems for families of lost loved ones -- told Click2Houston.com that its Houston office lost Kyle Thomas' ash diamonds in transit to Australia, where the family lives.

Please, when my time comes, let my body go. Please.

[u.s.blues]

i truely don't care if i'm thrown in a dumpster out back.

[u.s.blues]

i suppose if this sort of thing makes the living feel better, maybe...

[Tim the Beek]

Nor do I.

But I'd prefer not to be kept around in gem form.

[Tim the Beek]

i suppose if this sort of thing makes the living feel better, maybe...

I suppose. Strikes me as unhealthy, grasping and wasteful, though. People do odd things when they're in pain.

[Jambear]

I would like to donate all my organs (well at least the ones i didnt wreck)
and then be cremated in a viking funeral at the beach with a clambake and an open bar and band for my friends.

[u.s.blues]

I suppose. Strikes me as unhealthy, grasping and wasteful, though. People do odd things when they're in pain.

indeed. i'd opt more for a celebrate the life party/get together, donation to a charitable cause, spread ashes in the wilderness sort of thing. funeral and burial costs are outrageous, and while some people have the money or save the money in advance, it is really sad to see people without the money overextend themselves to put an elaborate box in the ground.

[Tim the Beek]

Given my druthers, I'd just as soon have the usable parts yanked, and what's left tossed out in the woods to feed somethin'.

Since the second part won't happen, ashes of the remnants in the woods is my preference, too.

[MeOmYo]

ashes are pretty easy to make if you can get past the human part of it

[Tim the Beek]

ashes are pretty easy to make if you can get past the human part of it

Don't understand your point...

[gregoir]

I prefer good old fashioned Blood Diamonds

[Tim the Beek]

[TEO]

Hmm, sounds like an intriguing business opportunity.

[hoagie]

Nor do I.

But I'd prefer not to be kept around in gem form.

Whod wanna keep around a rhinestone anyway?

[Tim the Beek]

FTW

[Tim the Beek]

[unbroken_chain]

remember when you were young.....

[Dr. Lostreality]

I'd prefer to have my body strapped to the side of a cliff and be eaten by vultures.

[Tim the Beek]

I'd prefer to have my body strapped to the side of a cliff and be eaten by vultures.

Kinda what I'm sayin'. But a tree, and crows.

[cheeseweasel]

Like David Cross said, I want to be rented out to necrophiliac parties.

[insolent cur]

Please, when my time comes, let my body go. Please.

i truely don't care if i'm thrown in a dumpster out back.

i just filled out my advanced healthcare directives yesterday:

no extraordinary efforts to be made to prolong life.
take my organs if they work and someone else can use them.
cremate what's left.

now i have to go back and add...no "gems" with the ashes.

[hoagie]

DIY Burial at Sea leaves ‘floater’


A family from North Carolina tried to honor the wishes of their lost loved one, by performing their own burial at sea, only to result in their lost loved ones’ body being discovered as a “floater” by a fisherman in Florida!
When the body of 48 year old Daniel Lasky was discovered four miles offshore near Port Everglades, police initially suspected foul play. It was only through finding Lasky’s obituary that police identified what had happened. Lasky had finally lost his 2 year battle against ALS, and his family just wanted to see in off “in a fitting manner” to honor his life. And Lasky had loved spending his time holidaying in Florida and fishing……although having his body dragged out of the ocean by a fisherman is perhaps not what he hoped his final rite of passage would be!
Burials at Sea can legally be performed as a means of disposition, but there are strict guidelines to be followed to ensure circumstances such as these do not occur.
A body must be suitably weighted so that it does sink permanently to the ocean floor. A burial at sea must also be carried out a designated distance off the coast. Human remains that are not cremated must be buried at least three nautical miles from land and in at least 600 feet deep water.
The authorities are conferring over whether any burial legislation has been broken and whether any charges will be pressed.