Eco-friendly funeral/burial

[gja1000]

Here is a link to a non-profit organization, AMBIS, the Austin Memorial Burial & Information Society (AMBIS) is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization of area residents dedicated to helping our neighbors make funeral and memorial arrangements that are dignified, meaningful and affordable.

It has really good information about affordable funerals.

http://fcaambis.org/

[Blueyes]

We have a running joke with our friends that own the ranch that we go to, Mark and Jan. If anybody gets deathly sick, we are suppose to take a pillow and blanket to the bucket of the tractor. If we get well, that's great, but if we die, our bodies will get dumped off a steep bluff. It's really a sick joke, lol! Anytime anybody complains about feeling bad, somebody tells them to just go get in the bucket

[Janet]

I know already that as soon as all this estate stuff is over with, I'm going to start planning a green service for myself. I know the people that handled my parents funerals well so I will find out all I can from them.

[Blueyes]

That's a great idea Janet. It will give you peace of mind, and when the time comes, Ricky won't have to do it. You are a wise woman!

[gja1000]

Betsi, my mom and her sister (who is gone now) always said that when they got old and sick they were going to ride the gondola to the middle of the Royal Gorge and jump out. That's not quite as morbid as a pillow and blanket in the bucket, but in the same vein. LOL! Gary sometimes says when he is too sick to be happy, he's gonna do like the old Indians did - just go out in the woods, sit down till he dies.

[Blueyes]

Go sit in the woods... Go get in the bucket... Some days around here Mike says he may just ride to the ranch and get in the bucket. Just his way of saying he feels really bad, and I bet Gary just says he's going to the woods. Frightening how similar they are, lol!

[DianaB]

Glen's Dad used to say that when he got too old to go duck hunting that he wanted the boys to take him out ONE last time.........so every winter they would ask him if this was the year!!!! We always got a big laugh out of that!!

We had a guy that lived out our direction years ago that got really old.....didn't have any family except a brother who lived with him........and he went on a death walk.......he hid his body and has never been found. A lot of people went out looking for him but he knew the land so well.....every well, hole, and whatever. No one ever figured out exactly what happened to him but it was known that he had taken care of himself somehow. No foul play was ever thought of. Very weird!!

Glen and I have both told each other that we'd like to be buried in our little cemetery. Baker's have a back hoe and we can be buried 20 feet deep if we need to be!!! I have no problems being buried in a blanket or whatever beccause I'm not going to be here to worry about it. What ever's easy and doesn't cost much!!! However I DO want a funeral service. I want people to hear that I was a Christian and how I'm going to be in Heaven......and how I loved Jesus with all of my heart. I want it to be a celebration!!