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ChisolmTrailDem

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67. I love this! My mother passed away suddenly in October...

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 02:00 PM

Mar 2014

...and we buried her in our private family cemetery. The cemetery is in a forest in eastern N. Carolina and mom's instructions for when she was gone was always to be buried beneath the lowest branch of a tree that has matured beside the resting place of her father, whom I never knew because he died when I was very young. Back when grandpa died, the aforementioned tree wasn't much more than a yearling, but has grown into a mighty hickory. Mom needed to be cremated, to make it happen as she wished, due to room.

I personally dug the hole myself and placed her urn among the roots of that tree. It was an honor to do so and, though mom is not in direct contact with that tree, I like to think that she shines through it's leaves and branches.

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How would you like to grow into a tree after you die? [View all] Playinghardball Mar 2014 OP

Very much so. Thanks for the link, need to check it out. uppityperson Mar 2014 #1

Wish I'd heard of this earlier. At present, scheduled to go into a columbarium. Yup, communism! freshwest Mar 2014 #2

I couldn't do that, I've avoided groups all my life. HereSince1628 Mar 2014 #10

When you see a mighty tree sprout and spread beautiful leaves over a peaceful little plot... Orsino Mar 2014 #3

John Boehner would make a great weeping willow Blue Owl Mar 2014 #4

Or an orange tree... KansDem Mar 2014 #15

That seems more practical then wasting perfectly good land snooper2 Mar 2014 #5

Looked this up. Copied. Sent to the two who will be making the decisions! oldandhappy Mar 2014 #6

Live Oak for me please. nt B2G Mar 2014 #7

My chance to really become a nut. Philly Cowboy Mar 2014 #8

A chestnut! Mariana Mar 2014 #13

Almond, obviously. CrispyQ Mar 2014 #36

I met an almond farmer once AleksS Mar 2014 #56

Cute. CrispyQ Mar 2014 #57

What a "tree-mendous" idea! KansDem Mar 2014 #9

Oof! Kber Mar 2014 #44

My grandparents' ashes fed a blue spruce in our yard. Ms. Toad Mar 2014 #11

Thanks for relating that story - and truedelphi Mar 2014 #22

:) Ms. Toad Mar 2014 #45

I want to become my kids... yawnmaster Mar 2014 #12

Gross! user_name Mar 2014 #14

Just have 'em dig you into the vegetable patch. truebluegreen Mar 2014 #42

But then who knows what else may have me! gophers, squirrels, birds... yawnmaster Mar 2014 #61

Circle of Life, baby...we need to give back. truebluegreen Mar 2014 #68

That is so very awesome. Blue_In_AK Mar 2014 #16

I think I would like to be a fruit bearing tree, pennylane100 Mar 2014 #17

I'd like to be a vegetable garden Aerows Mar 2014 #18

I'm thinking Kudzu, or maybe English Ivy, but that's just me. Buns_of_Fire Mar 2014 #19

LOL Aerows Mar 2014 #20

Very good idea. Really good if it could be planted in a national park. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #21

How green is cremation? roody Mar 2014 #23

Do I have to wait until I'm dead? Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #24

I'd rather give my body to science and medicine. -nt- DireStrike Mar 2014 #25

They still have to dispose of you once they're done experimenting. Sheldon Cooper Mar 2014 #53

I think that I shall never see onethatcares Mar 2014 #26

I'd prefer to be a diamond. Jgarrick Mar 2014 #27

I wouldn't mind pipi_k Mar 2014 #33

Isn't that what happened to people who committed suicide in Dante's "Inferno" FSogol Mar 2014 #28

Id rather be buried naked 6 ft down and a giant red wood sapling planted on top of me...more Drew Richards Mar 2014 #29

Make it ashes and a Sequoia, and I'd like that, too. LWolf Mar 2014 #30

Unless they are going to be planted in a managed tree preserve, LWolf Mar 2014 #31

Talk about having a woody mindwalker_i Mar 2014 #32

That's cool, but personally I want a sea burial - no cremating, embalming, petronius Mar 2014 #34

I'd do it. "Speaker For the Dead" comes to mind. CrispyQ Mar 2014 #35

Why do I have this image of��. Bonhomme Richard Mar 2014 #37

Trouble it that I'd probably turn into Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Kablooie Mar 2014 #38

that's my plan frylock Mar 2014 #39

Seems a bit more complicated than necessary. scarletwoman Mar 2014 #40

Bristlecone Pine for me...at a high elevation. truebluegreen Mar 2014 #41

Nah, it might freak people out. edbermac Mar 2014 #43

I have it in my will Prophet 451 Mar 2014 #46

I put this in my paperwork as what I want done with my ashes LadyHawkAZ Mar 2014 #47

Thanks for posting this... Contrary1 Mar 2014 #48

Some Republican timber company would just come by and cut your tree down. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #49

As a wanna be artist.....I think I want to be 250+ pencils LostOne4Ever Mar 2014 #50

The life pipi_k Mar 2014 #59

This is the instructions for what to do with my butt when I die madokie Mar 2014 #51

Fascinating. Sheldon Cooper Mar 2014 #54

wait...where do they put the rest of your ashes??? eom yawnmaster Mar 2014 #62

Hell I'm all stinking ass madokie Mar 2014 #63

I really did enjoy the imagery of your first line regarding... yawnmaster Mar 2014 #64

The first time I read about this madokie Mar 2014 #69

My ashes will be scattered over a marijuana field. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #52

There is a chapter on this in the book "Stiff" Godhumor Mar 2014 #55

I have already planned to do so Tom Ripley Mar 2014 #58

i may have to change my plan to have my body interred in a dumpster. eom ellenfl Mar 2014 #60

honestly Islandurp Mar 2014 #65

We all do, eventually. n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2014 #66

I love this! My mother passed away suddenly in October... ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #67