After much thought and prayer, I have decided that our remains will be buried next to my parents remains in Cody, WY, and have selected a plot, fully paid for it, and will get a marker stone designed and set in place in the coming weeks.

May as well face your mortality someday, and clean up loose ends so others are not stuck doing so.

:DAB:

My condolences Doug :sadangel:

Wife and I have bought and paid for two niches for when we decide to move on the the next episode .....I also have asked my daughter to have a small amount of my cremains put into a small salt urn and drop it into the ocean .

That is great Doug. Yours and hers body can rest together on earth while you both rest in heaven.

A cousin of mines husband died a few weeks ago. He wanted her to not spend over ten dollars on his funeral. He wanted to be cremated and buried under a big tree along with some of their pets.

Ordered some fancy cherry wood yesterday, enough to make a very nice box for both our remains.

$335.70 worth of cherry. :slap: :DAB:

No mistakes!!!!

:faint:

My wife and I bought our final resting place/prepaid for final expenses about 5-6 years ago. Hella lot less expensive.

eh, may as well spend it and enjoy it.

Good cherry has always been pricy but wow.

Just approved of and paid for a marker stone for our burial plot. very similar to my parent's marker. will be situated right next to theirs.

Been a long year for you Douglas, how you doing?
Seems like yesterday some days.

:sadangel: :halfmast:

:sadangel: brother.

had a pretty good day. started the day at church with our weekly prayer meeting/bible study 730-900. then followed my friend back to her house to swap out her vent hood. eh, simple 45 min job.....3 hours later, including a run back to the shop to get tools and more wiring, got it done and it works well. then we and another gal went to lunch, good time visiting, and then some shopping at the grocery store and finally back home around 4pm. so long day away from home. talked to Linda's sister in the middle of the day briefly - good chat.

yeah, I miss her every day, but i have to live on. and i have found that helping others is a good use of my time and talents.

thank you everyone. :grouphug:

IIRC There are 7 stages of grief and no shortcuts, you have to visit each one before you can move on... Sounds like you are handling things as best as can be expected.

yeah, one of the books i got said that. i reject that theory.

:seasix::cert: hard to believe the year part. Glad you are well.

Doesn't seem like a year. Glad that you are managing okay.