Kilted Burial?

**yellowjacket** · 31st March 10, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by dutchy kilted

I will pick out a nice inexpensive kilt to be buried in.

BUT FIRST, I want to die in a kilt. Preferably in bed. With a redhead lass half my age.

My thoughts exactly, although I have a redheaded lass at home who is my age that might have a problem with that thought.

**Scotcop** · 31st March 10, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by beloitpiper

funny story, I told my friends that I wish I'd be around for my wake, so they threw me a great Irish wake! Best party I've ever had. They made a casket out of beer cartons, and did a satirical slide show of "my life". Then we drank a lot of whiskey, sang a few songs, and told stories about "that b@$#@rd Greg and how much we're gonna miss that SOB!"

I hope mine do that for me! I love the idea! ROFL

**dfmacliam** · 31st March 10, 10:26 AM

I, too, plan to be cremated. Ashes returned back to the water, preferably a running river... as for passing on my things to my kids.. They are Navajo, and there is a stigmatism about keeping things that belong to the departed. So I guess they will go to friends... I do not want a funeral, but a party with all the songs that meant something to me... starting out with "Danny Boy" the first song sang to me by my grandfather.. and I want "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd... Amazing Grace on the pipes, and Echo Taps... I hope there will no tears shed but joy and laughter... not mourning my passing, since it's inevitable, but a celebration of sharing my life with theirs! And like Barleyjuice's song "Dear Richard's Wake" I want to pay for all the liquor my friends can handle....lol

**thescot** · 31st March 10, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by dutchy kilted

I will pick out a nice inexpensive kilt to be buried in.

BUT FIRST, I want to die in a kilt. Preferably in bed. With a redhead lass half my age.

And her jealous husband standing over my dead carcus with a smoking gun shouting, "Take that, you 95 year-old home wrecker. How dare you show her what a real man is like."

**azwildcat96** · 31st March 10, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by thescot

And, there are strick instructions to pass around a bottle or two of some 25 year-old scotch since I'm too cheap to buy it in this life.

Sounds delicious! Can I come?

**azwildcat96** · 31st March 10, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by dutchy kilted

BUT FIRST, I want to die in a kilt. Preferably in bed. With a redhead lass half my age.

Perfect!

**EagleJCS** · 31st March 10, 10:31 AM

I wrote out a will a couple of years ago before I went on a trip overseas ("Be prepared"). I want my survivors to have a big wake and celebrate my life. My posessions will be distributed among my family and friends. A couple of them have first dibs. A couple of things are earmarked for certain people. After any/everything useful has been harvested from my remains (organs, etc.), the rest is to be cremated and spread hither & yon, per my directions - wherever it's allowed.

**azwildcat96** · 31st March 10, 10:33 AM

I've told my wife to do this to me:

http://thedepartingshot.com/index.aspx

I'm joking...not really...well sort of...

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 31st March 10, 10:35 AM

What's the line from the song in THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE? Something like...

Oh Ho Ho, What a comforting thing to know
There's a prearranged spot
In the Family Plot
Where my tired old bones will go...

Anyhow, that's me. Can't let the side down. Back to our roots...

**Steve Barclay** · 31st March 10, 11:07 AM

When my dad passed away last April I made sure he was buried in the Barclay Ancient Hunting scarf I'd given him for his last birthday. We also had Amazing Grace played at his funeral.

Shortly afterwards I sacrificed my own Barclay Dress tartan scarf to put on my grandad and nan's grave- Grandad was a true born Scotsman (Cleland, Lanarkshire), Nan was born in Coventry like myself and Dad but was the biggest "Scotophile" ever so no way would she object to any tartan on her grave, let alone the Barclay one!