Bob/PKB
My mom was a registered nurse, but she spent less than 5 years in practice, and nearly 40 as the bookkeeper for my dad's trucking company. Yet, in a form she filled out at the funeral parlor who prepared her remains for burial, she put "registered nurse" as her profession.
THAT was something she felt important to be remembered/reminded.
What would you want people to know about you, "after the fact"?
ME? I would want my sons and their families to know they were the best part of me....being a mom and grandma.
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lindilou
country bumpkin
jhharlan
terryfossil 1
hector5559
Clonge
Ducky
nomdeplume
Here is a poem by Oscar Wilde probably in memory of his sister:
Requiescat.
............................
Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow.
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust.
She who was young and fair
Fallen to dust.
Lily like, white as snow
She hardly knew
She was a woman so
Sweetly she grew.
Coffin board, heavy stone
Lie on her breast.
I vex my heart alone,
She is at rest.
Peace, peace she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet.
All my life's buried here.
Heap earth upon it.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
Tommyh
JDB
This is my plan.. 
| 8 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Let’s convert cemeteries into forests!
The Bios Urn is a fully biodegradable urn designed to convert you into a tree after life. Mainly composed of two parts, the urn contains a seed which will grow to in the name of your loved one. Bios Urn turns death into a transformation and a return to life through nature.
I used my uncle's ashes when planting a tree in my "new" back yard several years ago. I had to sell the farm, and only hope the tree has been nurtured.
