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Post by FWS on Dec 12, 2012 12:13:28 GMT -6
12-12-12 The 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year, there won't be a sequential date like that again for 100 years and we can say with certainty that none of us will be alive to see that. You'll be dead, and whichever cemetery you were buried in will probably have been taken by Walmart using eminent domain to build a new supercenter. That is, if you were buried and not cremated or recycled into a nutritious green wafer or ground up for shrimp feed.  |
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Post by trappnman on Dec 12, 2012 12:36:44 GMT -6
ah come on- I plan on living forever, and so far am meeting my goal........................
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Post by Jarhead620 on Dec 12, 2012 12:48:51 GMT -6
There may be some kindergarten or elementary school kids on here that will prove you wrong. I may have my ashes put in an hourglass to I can keep moving, though dead of course.
Larry
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Post by FWS on Dec 12, 2012 12:54:31 GMT -6
And you can with reincarnation, as you have with all of your previous lives before this current incarnation where you're doing penance for whatever you did previously. Hopefully you'll not be a banana slug or something the next go round.
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Post by trappnman on Dec 12, 2012 13:01:57 GMT -6
I must have been a saint in my past life...................
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Post by FWS on Dec 12, 2012 13:12:15 GMT -6
There's another option, the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham had himself preserved and put in a wood cabinet with a glass front, and kept by one of his students until given to University College London where he's sat on display since 1850.  Not a bad concept and it could be kept in the family, they could wheel you out and put you at the head of the table for Thanksgiving, or other holidays. Hopefully your great grand-daughters wouldn't want to play dress up with your mummified remains though. |
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Post by Jarhead620 on Dec 12, 2012 15:44:44 GMT -6
I would make a nice conversation piece if I do say so myself. My widow would probably see it as conflicting with her chances to remarry though.
Larry
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Post by PamIsMe on Dec 12, 2012 17:29:17 GMT -6
There was a place, in Missouri I think, advertising to load cremains in shotgun shells. I would think anyone could do it.
"My widow would probably see it as conflicting with her chances to remarry though."
Maybe that would give her something to use those shotgun shells for target practice on? LOL
Cheers
Pam
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Post by FWS on Dec 12, 2012 19:57:24 GMT -6
That's why you'd build a double wide cabinet with an empty chair right next to the one you're mounted on. She'd know that was hers and was a sign of your devotion.
What'd be really cool is putting in a set of animatronic eyes with a motion sensor that would let them follow whoever was around. Maybe even wink at them if they looked at you. That'd be really entertaining for guests who didn't know.
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Post by mmwb (Andrew Parker) on Dec 12, 2012 22:45:49 GMT -6
Make sure you've a really good taxidermist lined up...
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Post by Jarhead620 on Dec 12, 2012 23:06:32 GMT -6
I like your concept John. If my widow grows weary of it the Smithsonian might find it of interest.
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Post by James on Dec 13, 2012 1:24:20 GMT -6
My wife wouldn't want to spend the money to keep me in a full-body mount. She'd probably settle for just a head mount.
Jim
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Post by mustelameister on Dec 13, 2012 4:44:35 GMT -6
You'll be dead . . . if you were buried and not cremated or recycled into a nutritious green wafer  |
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Post by RdFx on Dec 13, 2012 6:04:48 GMT -6
Hmmm, DP bait!!
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