Kilted Burial?

[joecool]

I would like to have an open casket wake both sides open just not the top.
However I would be buried in a cheap MacDonald tartan kilt because they cut the back of the jackets and back of the kilts to dress you easier before putting you into the casket.

Would they really have to cut the kilt? It would almost be easier to just slide it underneath you, or better yet, lay you on top of it when they put you inside, then just buckle it up! Problem solved!

[BoldHighlander]

When I was younger I use to say that when I was old & ready to die, just leave me with my battle knife in grizzly bear country & I'll fight a good death

My uncle (an ex-Navy man & 1st generation American w/ Norwegian parents) wanted a 'viking' funeral....I suppose there are enviromental regulations against it. My mother works for the county health dept & told me that the state has stopped people who wanted to spread ashes over the Puget Sound for "health reasons".

Anyhow, if I could get away with it I'd like a kilted 'viking' funeral

[Brian K]

Well, rather than being cremated I would prefer to be ground up, emulsified, then fed to mother Earth's microbes and wee beasties. I wouldn't mind a catapult being involved too, but... I won't be too picky.

I like your idea, Ted. I usually tell my parents and siblings that they should just drag me out into the woods and let nature handle the rest. Generally they are horrified, but I figure whatever makes me me is gone and I'd rather contribute to the "circle of life." The funny thing about it is that I am the only religious one in the family (well, I have a sister who recently started coming to my church occasionally, but I've only missed a small handful of Sundays in 30 years) yet I am the one least worried about traditional style disposal of my remains. By the time I go, however, I hope I have a kilt or two I can leave to one of my nephews. I'd hate to waste such a fine, heirloom quality garment.

Let's hope it's a long time before any of this matters for anyone here.

Brian

[BoldHighlander]

Let's hope it's a long time before any of this matters for anyone here.

Amen!

...and in truth it wouldn't surprise me if I got chucked into a ditch somewhere (at least I hope I'm kilted!)

[ccga3359]

What, no rubber chicken sporran?

Rob

Nah all the other corpses would make fun of me. "look at the dead guy with a rubber chicken hanging around his nether regions, ha ha". Would lose the funny aspect after the first 150 years.


I hope to die peacfully in my sleep like my Grandfather and not screaming in terror like his passengers. Cue rimshot.

[BoldHighlander]

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

That has got to be the best one yet, & sounds like a great way to go!

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."

Jim, if my wife read my above comment about the red headed lass, I wouldn't have to worry about the jealous husband getting me!!

[beloitpiper]

I hope to die peacfully in my sleep like my Grandfather and not screaming in terror like his passengers. Cue rimshot.

Rimshot

[Lallans]

Buddhist cremation. Ashes at a monastery (apparently you can't legally scatter them in Canuckistan, and they put tags in to catch the offending parties). The kilt(s) stay(s) in the family until someone that wants one fits it- hopefully by the time I go there will be plenty of people who are now children who will then be of quite an advanced age They can have a contest.

[NewGuise]

My aunt had Alzheimers for a long time, and turned strangely hateful, especially toward my mother. Once upon a time, after dealing with a question about her from one of my kids, I said that – should I ever get like that – I’d like to be taken on a long walk into grizzly country and told just to keep walking. Smeared with honey, maybe. My then 10-year-old son nodded solemnly and said, “sure, Dad, we’ll do that for you.”

But no, not in a good kilt.

[Bing]

Buddhist cremation. Ashes at a monastery (apparently you can't legally scatter them in Canuckistan, and they put tags in to catch the offending parties).

Kind of rules out a Tibetan sky burial too, doesn't it?

Yes funeral directors/morticians do cut out the backs of jackets and trousers, so I would imagine the pleats would be cut out too. And there is frequently leakage, no matter how well embalmed one is so pick carefully because the kilt can't be cleaned and passed on to your favourite nephew.