Have you made any plans for your death?

TeddyTedson · 17-02-2014 02:31AM #1

I'm relatively young at 27 but having lost yet another friend again recently it makes you think how you really never know what's around the corner.
I have some investments that I won't see a return on for a few years but when I die I'd like to have the peace knowing that the money will go to where I wanted it to. I assume it would just go to my family but there are a few other places I'd like some of the money to go.
Also I'd like to make my funeral a very happy occasion. I've been to some funerals where everyone is properly celebrating the life of that person and telling old stories of them and being very content. I'd really like everyone to enjoy themselves, not pop into work after lunch. Maybe a Saturday night funeral would be an idea. I've never heard of it done before but I'm sure people do it somewhere in the world.
I'm going off on stupid tangents as usual but basically I'm asking what people have planned for their own funerals.
Do I need to contact someone to ensure this is actually done?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 17-02-2014 02:34AM

You may start cooking meth.

jane82 · 17-02-2014 02:34AM

Everytime I come across a good song I tell someone to play it at my funeral.
They can all fight over the prescription pain killers Ive saved up over the years.
Theres not much else.

Washington Irving · 17-02-2014 02:35AM

I'll probably just lay underground in a wooden box of some sort and do whatever corpses do.

Cantremember · 17-02-2014 02:39AM

The Facebook funeral cartoon should be compulsory reading for the 15-30 age bracket.
http://www.greatcanadianjokebook.com/view-all-cartoon-jokes/men/1816

wazky · 17-02-2014 02:39AM

To be mounted on a plaque and hung over the fireplace beside the picture of Pope John Paul.

Duggy747 · 17-02-2014 02:42AM

Blown up with all my money and possessions so none (if any) of my family are fighting and falling out with each other over who should deserve my stuff more.

Mario95 · 17-02-2014 02:51AM

I am kind of hoping to stay alive until 2050, hopefully by then someone will invent a cure for getting old or dying in general.

Smidge · 17-02-2014 02:51AM

I'm planning not to be there when it happens

stmol32 · 17-02-2014 02:52AM

jane82 wrote: »

Everytime I come across a good song I tell someone to play it at my funeral.

I used to do that but the problem is you keep getting older and they keep releasing new songs.

For example, I no longer think "here comes the hotstepper" is appropriate for a funeral.

BetterThanThou · 17-02-2014 02:55AM

For now, I'd like to be cremated and made into fireworks, I've made sure both my mother and best friend would make this happen if I did suddenly die. If in the future I have enough money to throw away on it, I'd like to be cryogenically frozen, but it's nothing I have any real faith in and I would not get into debt or struggle for it.
Being 17, I haven't got many poccessions, if I died tomorrow, the only issue that could arrise is who will look after my dog, but I'm sure my mother would do that.

Smidge · 17-02-2014 02:57AM

stmol32 wrote: »

I used to do that but the problem is you keep getting older and they keep releasing new songs.

For example, I no longer think "here comes the hotstepper" is appropriate for a funeral.

It is if you are being cremated :pac:

zetalambda · 17-02-2014 03:00AM

I'm practicing being a smelly bastard on a daily basis if that counts.

The Backwards Man · 17-02-2014 03:04AM

Yep.

I plan on postponing it for the forseeable future.

hfallada · 17-02-2014 03:07AM

Yeah I wasn't everything to go to the local catholic church.

Only joking but the amount of oaps that leave their homes to the church is ridiculous. It's not like it's tight on cash or helping the vulnerable

Temptamperu · 17-02-2014 03:10AM

Yes, I have a signed DNR and i want my body to go to science. No funeral just a bit of a party or whatever to celebrate life.

Ruu · 17-02-2014 03:11AM

Yeah, dieing like Murdoc...or so you think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzv_TxJLzRw

Really, just being an annoying cunt who won't go away.

Pimlico · 17-02-2014 03:54AM

I'm 30 and I have all my funeral plans made. I have a drawer with all the necessary things in it, etc. Copies of Life assurance Policies, Credit Union Acc's, Bank acc's and last wishes and a copy of my will, I also have my will with my solicitor. I certainly don't have a whole lot to leave but I have enough to bury me and a good party afterwards.

My Brother will be passed two years at the end of the month, He was young and it was sudden, Massive heart attack, completely out of nowhere. He had no savings, no life assurance, no last wishes wrote down. We gave him the best send off we could and that we thought he wanted. My parents and myself and my other siblings had to borrow and all pool in together to pay for it, between the cost of a new plot and the funeral it was over €10,000. I had never thought it would be so expensive it die, but it is. Since that day I made sure I would leave enough money to cover my funeral and plot and a huge p**s up after it.A lot of people thinks its mundane to do so but it genuinely gives me peace of mind. I think everyone should have life assurance and I'm shocked at the amount of people that don't.

I would hate to leave my family in debt and I think regardless of age it's never to young to have some plans made!

sawdoubters · 17-02-2014 03:56AM

they will be flying bodies to mars

Richard Hillman · 17-02-2014 04:05AM

I want to have a Game of Thrones themed death bed. My blankets would be made of fur, lots of candles in the room with no Sunlight, I would wear a crown and everyone would have to dress up and speak as if they were in a Game of Thrones. My painkiller will be wine (with a hint of morphine) and everybody must address me as M'Lord.

looking_around · 17-02-2014 05:04AM

I want to sign off my body to medicine for when I die, but my partner doesn't very much like the idea of it.

So, no, I haven't. I don't have a need to. Nothing to fight over.

orangesoda · 17-02-2014 05:05AM

No but i know which field i will be buried in

MadsL · 17-02-2014 05:44AM

A friend of mine made me promise to destroy his laptop before his mother gets it.

Witchie · 17-02-2014 06:45AM

It is something I have thought of a lot considering my many brushes with death. Everything I have goes to my sons except my jewelry which is for my sister.

I have told them I wish to be cremated and as I go through the curtain I want Green Day "time of your life (good riddance)" played coz I hope I have had the time of my life. (I have so far)

Other than that, what ever comforts those left behind is what I want. Coz the way I look at it I will be dead and won't give a f**k but those who are left are the ones that matter. If my parents are still alive they might be comforted by a Christian style burial and I hope my kids will go along with that but if they are gone then a memorial with no religion attached will be more appropriate since have brought them up atheists. But as I say....whatever makes them feel comfortable coz I am gone.

seamus · 17-02-2014 10:52AM

It's something I wouldn't have bothered much with before having kids. Now that we have one, we're long overdue for making a will at this stage. Not only of course would it ensure that she would be cared for in the way that we want, it would mean that there's no anguish poured on what would no doubt be a difficult time for both our families.

While both families are reasonable people who would eventually come to a reasonable solution on what to do, it would be a long period of stress for them all. I imagine both sets of grandparents would immediately want to step in and become guardians for our daughter. Instant pain point right there.
So a will removes that; and while no doubt someone will disagree with our choice, they will respect it and it will result in far less pain and heartache than dying intestate.

Anyway, I don't plan on going anywhere until my daughter is at least in her 40s, so hopefully that will never has to be realised...

Davarus Walrus · 17-02-2014 11:49AM

I bribed a council official to get a premium plot in the local graveyard. It's the highest ground in the graveyard, and looks down on those bastards, the McCarthys and the Kennedys. But most of all, it will be overlooking where Jack Carty is going to be buried. This news has already aged the old prick. I've heard it is eating him up inside.

BrokenArrows · 17-02-2014 11:56AM

I'm plan to go out with a bang.
So basically a boards special, coke and hookers!

anncoates · 17-02-2014 12:16PM

Only financial stuff so my family get sorted out if I die early.

Also made a will since we had the kids in case both of us die before they're adults.

As for a funeral, I couldn't care less what they do but I do have in mind where I'd like to be buried.

IK09 · 17-02-2014 12:54PM

Read an article late last year that said the cost of dying and having everything taken care of is €15,000

westcoast66 · 17-02-2014 01:11PM

I'm going to write a script that will periodically post rubbish on random threads on boards long after my death...

Legs.Eleven · 17-02-2014 01:31PM

Not something I've really considered. I don't have any valuable possessions to leave in a will at this stage. I'd like to be cremated/organs given to science and my ashes thrown into the Irish Sea with a party after. Nothing fancy. My uncle had his ashes strewn on the mouth of the Shannon in Cavan (where all my dad's side is from) on a beautiful but blustery day and we all managed to get a mouthful of them but everyone saw the humour in it. He was a serious character: worked on building sites in Boston for years, great sense of humour, was a bit anti-establishment and possessed a real devil-may-care attitude, so it was fitting. I thought it was a beautiful tribute to him and indicative of the circle of life and all da. Definitely wouldn't want to be buried anyway and if even a hint of religion is snuck into it, I'll....well...nothing. I'll be dead. Do what you like.

Have you made any plans for your death?

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