:: Dust to Dust? ::
Dust to Dust - Dorothy Winslade
Just a few lunches ago, out of the blue, I asked the Doct how he would like to be buried.
"Any requests?" I inquired.
"I don't really care. Do what you want," he mumbled.
"At least state your preference lah."
"I don't really care. I'll be dead anyway."
"No special requests like having your ashes scattered in the sea?"
Talking about special requests, I thought of Mr Sim's request.
He wanted one of Paul van Dyke's Trance pieces for his funeral procession.
That is interesting.
That would be very interesting, if it did happen one day.
"Actually I wouldn't really care how I would be buried as well," I added.
"In fact, I don't even need a wake; save some money."
The doctor retorted, "the funeral is not about you."
"It's about the people who're close to you," he explained.
Yeah, I know.
There he goes again, evading my enquiry.
That's the doctor.
Maybe I'll just play one of his memorable compilations.
That'll be House Number Six - with The Sound of San Francisco in it.
And for me?
Have a funeral if you want to, but not for me.
Just let me journey back
To the centre of the earth.
if anyone looks over my coffin at cadaver-me and say things like "he's just sleeping" i'm hell gonna wake up and scream "THEN BLOODY WAKE HIM UP!"
of course somebody better bring me to the grand canyon, somebody better bring me to venice, rome, paris, helsinki.......
i guess lots of people have lots of travelling to do.
for the living or the dead
I've wondered whether the funeral is for the dead or for the living.
To those who believe that his existence ends with death, then this is a rhetorical question.
For those who believe otherwise, perhaps you might reconsider your original opinion?
I know my dad would insist on the full Taoist ritual, with the X days of 24x7 joss paper burning and XX days of monks chanting etc.
Hmmm. I wonder how he will react when he is on "the other side" and sees things as it really is. Or will he see it as he truly believed when he was still alive...*curious*
Oh well. We can all choose how our funeral will be like, I guess.
But 'tis so much more interesting to choose how we live ...
Namaste
When I die, I want to be incinerated and have no physical memories of me lying around. No anniversary prayers and no pictures hanging around of me. They can throw away my ashes anywhere but I assume per tradition it will end up in the sea. I don't mind being rememberd in memory but that's that!
Incinerated and thrown into the sea?
How about being used a fertilizer? That'll be useful.
hahahah..
y dun u have a tuesday-with-morrie scene where you have the funeral wake before you die..? And celebrate life with all your close and dear ones? Tat's what living is all about... celebrating in the shadow of death.
we should start a movement, termed "Ashes to the Garden Project".
we'll grow a plant with each set of ash; that'll be meaningful.
what do you think?
what do you mean?
I can imagine people coming for the wake and saying,
"Oh what a big cock!"
*doh*
who wants to live forever?
when things last forever, they lose their purpose....