Show us your grave site!
 

Ok, I thought this would be a good way to examine our individual mortality. My parents bought these graves from my uncle. They're not where most of my family is buried, so they asked me to see if they could be resold. I couldn't find any good place to sell them (would you believe that Ebay sells timeshares but not grave sites), so my parents gave all 6 of them to me.

The graves are in Haym Solomon. While the cemetery has some mausoleums, most of the gravestones are plaques set in the ground. I think this makes the place look nicer. It has trees and a nice rolling hillside. Famous residents include Jim Croce.

It's actually not too far from the original Cellar site.

Graves in the Cellar.

That should be a song title.

Haym Solomon the financial hero of the American Revolution?

I wanted to buy a lair in the local churchyard a while back as that's where I'm going, but you can't book in advance now. I'll just have to hope that there's space when my time comes (they are buying the field next door for expansion, so it should be OK).
I'll pop along and take a pic sometime ...

My current plan is to never leave.

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
--Woody Allen

Everything left of me will go to donation and research.
Nothing left to bury.

We did this with our Mom. Her body went to Fordham Univ. Medical School. They let us know that her corneas were donated to other people and the rest went to research.
They even picked up the body only 2 hours after she died at home.

Almost as good as getting a pizza delivered. :D

My parents bought me one next to theirs, but when I got married they sold it.

I don't like the brass plaques on the ground. It's done to make groundskeeping easier. My parents' graves are that way. I don't care if my gravestone is a PITA for the weed-whackers, thank you very much. :) I want a real gravestone. A nice ornate gothic one.

We've got a cemetery down the road from our house like that, with real gravestones. Some of them are quite unique. What's especially fun is that some people have placed solar LED lights on the stones and on the plots, so you can see the eerie glow of them at night as you drive by. Nice.

Something like this, but under a tree on a hill. No casket. Just shove me in, fill in the dirt, and go.

Just to be clear, you DO want us to wait until AFTER you die, right?


:D

Preferably.


:lol:

I'm not big on pre-planning.

I guess I should start thinking about where I'd like to be scattered.

I want to be scattered, smothered, covered, and chunked.

Sounds too much like Waffle House.

I'm with you! I want to return to the earth. No casket, no embalming, just me and the naked earth.

It kind of conflicts with my desire to be buried next to my brother, but since he's within the city limits I would have to be embalmed etc.

Really. Does that mean that there are no Jewish cemeteries within the city limits, since embalming is not kosher.