Planning Your Own Funeral

Planning your own funeral, and how you want to be buried is difficult. It’s a balance between your wants and ideas, and what would be best for your family. In the end they're the ones who make the final decisions and who need to be comforted by the process but, I think it's also important for the wishes of the deceased individual to be recognized. It's also difficult to do at this age because you don't know who will be responsible for taking care of these arrangements. It could be your parents, but you hope it will be your children or grandchildren.

I don't really like the idea of embalming. It seems like a very invasive procedure and involves a lot of chemicals that don't seem very environmentally friendly. However, my family would probably

I really like the idea of returning your body to the earth in a very natural, kind of traditional way. However, I have been an archaeology nerd since I was a little kid and I've always thought it would be amazing if someday my body was found by an excavation, and I liked to think about what I could be buried with and what they would think that meant about me. In that case It would make more sense to buried in a traditional cemetery with a vault and traditional casket, for slightly better preservation. I also didn't like that at the green cemetery you couldn't have a traditional headstone. I do a lot of genealogy, and one of the most helpful things you can find is a tombstone because it gives you a wealth of usually and very accurate information (especially if the parents' names or the person's maiden name is given). I also just like looking at the tombstones and reading about the people. I looked at some other green cemeteries and they did seem to have varying rules about grave markers, but most didn't allow traditional stones. In the end I think I would choose to go with a traditional burial. I like the idea of being buried with objects that were important to me but I honestly can't think of any specific object that currently means enough to me that I would want to be buried with it. I've always thought it would be neat to be buried with some type of message, a

I would like an obelisk shape because I find that more interesting, and beautiful than a traditional tombstone. As far as decoration I was thinking some floral engravings, something simple but elegant. I would also like to put some information on the stone besides just my birth and death dates. I would like my parents' names, and depending on where I am in my life when I die, my spouse and children's names. I would also like a short bio on one side probably just some basic info about where I was born and died, and if it's interesting I might want it included how I died, or anything else really interesting or pertinent about my