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[Sunrise_Ray]

Both of my parents prepaid for cremation through Neptune Society. It made things so much easier at the time of death.
Dh and I want to have things prepaid for our kids. I am still researching, there are some natural burial programs that sound interesting, along with regular cremation.

Very cool that you shared the Neptune Society name since it is all over, and they have some good thoughts and ideas and also offer prepayment options for cremation and burial. National chain is what it looks like.

Ken

 

[iloveyoga]

We want to do a cremation and yet have a small burial plot for our ashes.

Is that possible these days? I have never shared this with anyone, but want to ask if any of you know, or want to do a similar thing.

I think buying a plot next to our seniors (mom / dad / grandma / grandpa) is excellent. We want to do this in the place we lived the longest even though we will move away to warmer climate within 5 years.

Thanks.

Ken

Our cemetery lets you bury two (maybe more) cremains in each plot. DH and bought one plot and got the headstone all done and in place.

 

[sengsational]

Very cool that you shared the Neptune Society name since it is all over, and they have some good thoughts and ideas and also offer prepayment options for cremation and burial. National chain is what it looks like.

Ken

I checked into them, and it looked pretty shady to me. I wanted to use them, but couldn't get past the shifty nature of the business.

 

[njhowie]

I checked into them, and it looked pretty shady to me. I wanted to use them, but couldn't get past the shifty nature of the business.

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[pacergal]

All I can say is that we had excellent service from Neptune Society for both parents. One call and they came to folks home to pick up bodies, cremains came back in the mail within two weeks for Mom and we picked up Dads at the local office. They died 7 years apart. Neptune kept us informed the whole time.

 

[jgrdarrash]

As a family historian I do prefer a permanent home for remains. We have a burial plot where my husband will be buried in a casket and myself in an urn. My parents were recently cremated and have a niche in an outdoor place with maybe forty others.

They can do amazing things now with ashes. My brother preferred mini urns that matched our parents that he keeps at home. I preferred the ashes be included in a glass angel sculpture. We found out after the fact that Roman Catholics ashes are not supposed to be outside of consecrated ground. But I enjoy the sculptures.

 

[braumeister]

Even though I plan to be cremated, just like my parents, I can never get this scene out of my head.

 

[punkinhead]

Even though I plan to be cremated, just like my parents, I can never get this scene out of my head.

A pilot friend of mine learned the hard way that you can't just toss ashes out the window. They come right back in and make visibility in the cockpit difficult.

 

[rembrandt]

I told my partner to put me in a black plastic bag to be picked up on a Wednesday. That is when they do trash collection in my neighborhood.

 

[Walt34]

A pilot friend of mine learned the hard way that you can't just toss ashes out the window. They come right back in and make visibility in the cockpit difficult.

It depends on the airplane. Some (like the Piper J-3) have doors that can be fully opened in flight and as long as you get the contents behind the door opening the stuff is not coming back inside. Yes there are eddy currents but not there. I've done it.

When my flight instructor first got his commercial rating his first "for pay" flight was to fly a guy over the Chesapeake Bay to dump some ashes. His airplane of choice was the Piper J-3 Cub.

 

[punkinhead]

It depends on the airplane. Some (like the Piper J-3) have doors that can be fully opened in flight and as long as you get the contents behind the door opening the stuff is not coming back inside. Yes there are eddy currents but not there. I've done it.

When my flight instructor first got his commercial rating his first "for pay" flight was to fly a guy over the Chesapeake Bay to dump some ashes. His airplane of choice was the Piper J-3 Cub.

Yes, I have a '47 J-3 and sometimes dump numbered ping pong balls for a children's scavenger hunt. I fly from the front (which I hate) and my wife plays bombardier from the rear by putting the balls in an old pant leg with one end sewn shut. She hangs the non-sewn end out the door with a twist in it and lets the balls trail behind the door. My friend who dumped the ashes did it from his Aeronca Champ. He was flying solo from the front and tried tilting the box out the window. It didn't work out.