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When I die - I want to be a DIAMOND and a PAINTING!
OK...
So before you guys go "HUH?" let me explain...
As we all have been faced with HCV we all have had to think about our own individual deaths.
OK - so death isn't all that glamorous --- especially now that we have an idea of how it's going to happen ---- or feeling like we are closer to death than most people.
It's kind of depressing - because you think of all the things you wish you could fit into an ordinary lifetime... And you realize that truly --- you probably will never get all of those things in --- and Godzilla is going to come stomping down your street before you actually get most of them done.
But --- Me --- well... I'm of the belief that everyone dies --- so there has to be something good about it.
Mind you --- I'm in no rush to get there --- but I'm not afraid of the journey...
LOL!
Anyhow... Having thought about dying a little more frequently in the last year... the fact becoming a little more of a reality --- than something far far off in the future... I started looking around at the options available.
You know... Some folks want to be buried in specific cemeteries... Some want to be cremated... Some don't care.... etc.
Well - at first, because I'm kind of artsy-fartsy, and I love to visit old crumbling cemeteries, and pencil etch old gravestones, and historical events make me feel nostaligic... I thought I'd want to be buried in a beautiful marble mausoleum.
Well - checking into the costs of one of those --- more expensive than most houses.... left me going --- ohhh... well I can't do that. Sigh...
Then I wanted to be a fountain... they make these awesome sundials and fountains... But the hubby said Birds will visit me --- and I thought... Do I really want to have bird poo for a century or two?
SO I went a looking and I found a couple of very interesting things --- and I've made up my mind on one of them.
Now --- hear me out --- before you go AGGGG!!!!
I WANNA BE A DIAMOND!
First off --- to be honest about it... I'm a woman... LMAO! And what's better than diamonds? Hmmmm?
Second --- I can be passed down from generation to generation... Ooohhh think "FAMILY JEWELS"... LOL!
http://www.lifegem.com
I was like --- WOWSER ---- way too freaking cool.
So today - reading Wyn's heartbreaking post --- I was looking for ways to possibly do that for pets, as well.
It's a bit expensive...
But WHILE I was doing that... (Looking around for pet alternatives) ... I found this guy who will paint pictures with ashes...
http://www.ashestoportraits.com/
OMG --- NOW I want BOTH!!!!!
Sigh --- I know... I'm really a woman...
But -- imagine a beautiful painting (and me - personally - I wouldn't have a picture of me painted unless he could make me look like that Marilyn Monroe picture on those red silk sheets with my face.... LOL!) that could be passed down from family members and on...
Being a part of their lives FOREVER.
And for you Sailing nuts out there --- there was one that makes your ashes into a reef... and they are kinda cool!
http://www.eternalreefs.com/
Anyhow --- I just thought I'd share with you guys...
It's maybe a little wacky --- but I think it's kind of cool at the same time.
And I really --- REALLY --- want to be a diamond... I've already told the family and they've all agreed... My daughter wants one from me (LOL - raised her right - I have... Girl likes pretty stones...) And the hubby agreed that if I died - and he remarried that he'd put me in the jewelry box when they got amorous. LOL!
What do you think?
Meki
So before you guys go "HUH?" let me explain...
As we all have been faced with HCV we all have had to think about our own individual deaths.
OK - so death isn't all that glamorous --- especially now that we have an idea of how it's going to happen ---- or feeling like we are closer to death than most people.
It's kind of depressing - because you think of all the things you wish you could fit into an ordinary lifetime... And you realize that truly --- you probably will never get all of those things in --- and Godzilla is going to come stomping down your street before you actually get most of them done.
But --- Me --- well... I'm of the belief that everyone dies --- so there has to be something good about it.
Mind you --- I'm in no rush to get there --- but I'm not afraid of the journey...
LOL!
Anyhow... Having thought about dying a little more frequently in the last year... the fact becoming a little more of a reality --- than something far far off in the future... I started looking around at the options available.
You know... Some folks want to be buried in specific cemeteries... Some want to be cremated... Some don't care.... etc.
Well - at first, because I'm kind of artsy-fartsy, and I love to visit old crumbling cemeteries, and pencil etch old gravestones, and historical events make me feel nostaligic... I thought I'd want to be buried in a beautiful marble mausoleum.
Well - checking into the costs of one of those --- more expensive than most houses.... left me going --- ohhh... well I can't do that. Sigh...
Then I wanted to be a fountain... they make these awesome sundials and fountains... But the hubby said Birds will visit me --- and I thought... Do I really want to have bird poo for a century or two?
SO I went a looking and I found a couple of very interesting things --- and I've made up my mind on one of them.
Now --- hear me out --- before you go AGGGG!!!!
I WANNA BE A DIAMOND!
First off --- to be honest about it... I'm a woman... LMAO! And what's better than diamonds? Hmmmm?
Second --- I can be passed down from generation to generation... Ooohhh think "FAMILY JEWELS"... LOL!
http://www.lifegem.com
I was like --- WOWSER ---- way too freaking cool.
So today - reading Wyn's heartbreaking post --- I was looking for ways to possibly do that for pets, as well.
It's a bit expensive...
But WHILE I was doing that... (Looking around for pet alternatives) ... I found this guy who will paint pictures with ashes...
http://www.ashestoportraits.com/
OMG --- NOW I want BOTH!!!!!
Sigh --- I know... I'm really a woman...
But -- imagine a beautiful painting (and me - personally - I wouldn't have a picture of me painted unless he could make me look like that Marilyn Monroe picture on those red silk sheets with my face.... LOL!) that could be passed down from family members and on...
Being a part of their lives FOREVER.
And for you Sailing nuts out there --- there was one that makes your ashes into a reef... and they are kinda cool!
http://www.eternalreefs.com/
Anyhow --- I just thought I'd share with you guys...
It's maybe a little wacky --- but I think it's kind of cool at the same time.
And I really --- REALLY --- want to be a diamond... I've already told the family and they've all agreed... My daughter wants one from me (LOL - raised her right - I have... Girl likes pretty stones...) And the hubby agreed that if I died - and he remarried that he'd put me in the jewelry box when they got amorous. LOL!
What do you think?
Meki
I wanna be a diamond too! Slap me in a ring and ingrave my name inside!! Maybe my grandson could use me as an engagement ring...would that be creepy?
"And......wanted me to shake the urn everyday "
Rock the heck on! What great people they must have been! Full of laughter and joy!! That is so very cool!
(Thank you for sharing that with me - I think that is super special!)
I, too, do not wish to be mourned... I want a full fledged Irish Wake...
Yeah baby!
Hugs,
Meki
Rock the heck on! What great people they must have been! Full of laughter and joy!! That is so very cool!
(Thank you for sharing that with me - I think that is super special!)
I, too, do not wish to be mourned... I want a full fledged Irish Wake...
Yeah baby!
Hugs,
Meki
Oh Elaine! your whole immediate family! bless you, I'm so sorry...I have thought about this, because my mother is 78 and kind of ill, my younger sister has advanced cirrhosis, but is doing pretty well considering....and my father will be 100 this coming March, and even though he's in relatively good health, he can't live much longer...that's my whole immediate family...I can only hope that I am as level headed and as much of a grown-up about it as you are, you have strength in your kindness...youre an example to me...the way youre so great to your son, everything, hugs to you Elaine...
Ha ! it would be cool to be a Mona Lisa and watch what people are doing in the future world!
I still wanna be a shining, sparkly, beautiful diamond.
By the way, my first post in this thread does not convey the jest with which it was written.
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