Poll: Have you already purchased your own cemetery property?

[Nelson Bradford]

That place where some day, if Jesus tarries, your earthly body will be laid?

[Barb Bouldrey]

When John's father died, his mother bought a block of plots for the family. There is room for both of us.

Barb

[Dennis M. Scott]

Yes, and no. There are a couple family plots where I could be buried. Additionally, there is the family place at the lake in Vermont, where I have requested my cremains be used as landfill. I have finally stopped telling Linda to keep my cremains in a jar beside the bed. Age perhaps is making me a little less demanding. I'm more looking forward to a new body, and suspect the Lord will not be hampered by however I am recycled.

Some family members have said they want a place: a place where they can go to reflect on my life and our relationships. I guess that's one reason Vermont appeals to me. I won't be there, but I'd kinda like for them to be there, and remember me with that kind of good times. I'm not certain I want a cemetery setting to be where and how they remember me. Maybe somebody could plant a tree with one of those little metal labels on it. With any good fortune the tree might live a few decades, and by then anyone who might remember me would also be gone, and when the tree died, let it go. I don't want any kind of shrine.

All of that, however, depends on what other people want when I'm dead. That's the most important part for me.

For many people, funeral arrangements are a significant part of the grieving process. Having all the details all worked out takes the burden of doing all that away from them, but it also deprives them of that privilege. To each his own.

[Jim Franklin]

Nelson, I won't need any since I have donated my cadaver to the NNU School of Nursing and after they are done with it they can do with it whatever they wish, I won't be there. Old Bag of Bones made out of dirt anyway which means I will be recycled.

[Robin Hatcher]

Nelson, I won't need any since I have donated my cadaver to the NNU School of Nursing and after they are done with it they can do with it whatever they wish, I won't be there. Old Bag of Bones made out of dirt anyway which means I will be recycled.

Sounds like a cost-effective plan and recycling to the max :)

[Cecil Wallace]

Bought the lots a number of years ago, and purchased the grave markers in 2007.

[Paula Karr]

Would if we could, but we can't. We plan to have our cremains buried at the veterans cemetery in Cave Creek, AZ -- and it's not possible to pre-purchase the spot.

However, we are working on doing as much of the groundwork (excuse the pun) as we can before the need arises.

Paula

[Kevin Rector]

I'll probably be cremated and those who have a desire can do whatever it is that they want to do with what's left of me. So no, I won't be spending money on a burial plot.

[John Kennedy]

I, too, am seriously considering cremation. I thought about adding that it was not a real buring issue, but refrained. (Who could compete with Paula Karr's earthy approach to the matter? )

A friend of mine who left the small town we had both lived in years ago, decided to buy burial plots for himself and his wife in the little town's cemetery. His family had lived in the town for well over a century. He was meeting with the cemetery association's secretary to make a selection.

The cemetery secretary (just sort' rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?) pointed out some possibilities, but then backtracked by saying, "This one is very nice, but the groundskeeper tells me that part of the cemetery has a real bad drainage problem." After taking a look at the other site, she said, "I guess it would be OK, but you need to remember that your family never did get along real well with the family that owns the adjoining plots."

Several of my mother's cousins have, for years, owned mortuaries in several small towns in what I think of as 'deep east Texas'. A number of years ago, they formed a joint venture and built a facility in Houston.

It would only have an embalming facility and several viewing rooms. Their idea was that people who had migrated to Houston from the small east Texas towns where they had chapels might have lived and died in Houston, but were NOT going to be buried in Houston. They wanted to go 'home'.

[Zarina Simpson]

Yes I have purchased a piece of nature. I want my gravesite to be natural, wild, and development free. I had always planned to be cremated and spread near a family home in the mountains in CA but I have recently chosen to go the way of Green Funerals. Very eco-friendly and that will be my last effort, even in death, to help preserve the natural spaces we have left. I started a thread on this topic earlier tonight. I am going to write a little more about what made me decide to go green in burial, on that thread. :o

[Diane Likens]

Nelson, I won't need any since I have donated my cadaver to the NNU School of Nursing and after they are done with it they can do with it whatever they wish, I won't be there. Old Bag of Bones made out of dirt anyway which means I will be recycled.

I'm with you on this one! Whatever's usable -- take it. What's not -- burn it. By the time anybody knows I'm dead, I'll be in a new body anyhow.

[LoraineStanton]

No, we have not purchased our own burial site. They were a gift.

[Ann Smith]

When my husband's dad died, when he was 14, his mom bought a plot in the local cemetary. We will be buried there.
Ann