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Death Wish?

  • 18-08-2019 8:55pm
    #1
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭


    My Mam and Dad are elderly and have both requested cremation and the scattering of their ashes in locations they feel connected to. I will do my very best to honour their requests.

    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?


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  • #2
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    My Mam and Dad are elderly and have both requested cremation and the scattering of their ashes in locations they feel connected to. I will do my very best to honour their requests.

    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?

    Use a drone....

    Or a firework....

    Go out with a boom


  • #3
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,523 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    My Mam and Dad are elderly and have both requested cremation and the scattering of their ashes in locations they feel connected to. I will do my very best to honour their requests.

    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?

    is this pre or post death.


  • #4
    Spleerbun
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Spleerbun


    If he also gets cremated first then it's probably possible. Don't think you can just go firing corpses out of helicopters though


  • #5
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?

    Is "how does he want to leave" how does he want to die, or dispose of his remains?
    You both need to be a bit clearer I think.

    Both are very feasible. Might not be legal though


  • #6
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Use a drone....

    Or a firework....

    Go out with a boom

    He doesn't want to be cremated. 17ish stone of a man and a least a half of a mile up.


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  • #7
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    is this pre or post death.

    Looks like pre, going by the name.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Viking funeral all the way! Burning ship cast adrift in the ocean.


  • #9
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,794 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I want my remains to be scattered across the country. I also don't want to be cremated.


  • #10
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Spleerbun wrote: »
    If he also gets cremated first then it's probably possible. Don't think you can just go firing corpses out of helicopters though

    Ah really...
    Dang it....

    I thought the heading was a remake of death wish!

    It could be done like reality TV and follow those been shot out of cannons or thrown from helicopter.


  • #11
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    Hiring a chopper and pilot will eat a chunk out of the Life Assurance.


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  • #12
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    Is "how does he want to leave" how does he want to die, or dispose of his remains?
    You both need to be a bit clearer I think.

    Both are very feasible. Might not be legal though

    Disposed of. Apologies for my poor writing. Up Tipperary.


  • #13
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    What would Charles Bronson do?


  • #14
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,523 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    Bruthal wrote: »
    Looks like pre, going by the name.

    thats what im afraid of. poor divel could wake up some day at terminal velocity


  • #15
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Force Carrier wrote: »
    Hiring a chopper and pilot will eat a chunk out of the Life Assurance.

    Nobody thought of the pilot he must also be taken care of as you know witnesses are a bit too much.


  • #16
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


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    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    He doesn't want to be cremated. 17ish stone of a man and a least a half of a mile up.

    Well I can't think of any reason why this wouldn't be feasible.

    No siree, not one.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #17
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    My Mam and Dad are elderly and have both requested cremation and the scattering of their ashes in locations they feel connected to. I will do my very best to honour their requests.

    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?

    You have a busy week ahead of you...how are you going to kill them?


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    artanevilla wrote: »
    I want my remains to be scattered across the country. I also don't want to be cremated.


    I see Malcolm MacArthur has been out of prison for a while, odds on he might need a job so....


  • #19
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,018 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Heard recently that cremation only burns the “flesh” but leaves the bones. This takes an awful lot of fuel and is terrible for the environment. The charred bones are then “ground up” and the dust left over is swept into the urn.

    There’s one place looking into setting up a different “model” where the body is put in a type of acid bath, it may be alkaline, so that the flesh is removed in a more environmentally friendly way. Of course, the bones are dealt with the same way.

    I think I’d prefer that, after my organs have been donated. But, to be honest, I’m not too bothered about what happens, whatever is “easiest”.

    Regarding your dropping of the body into the sea west of Ireland, OP, I’m not sure that’s legal.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #20
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    artanevilla wrote: »
    I want my remains to be scattered across the country. I also don't want to be cremated.

    If we have two helicopters this could work


  • #21
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    You have a busy week ahead of you...how are you going to kill them?

    Hidden amongst the Tipperary celebrations!


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  • #22
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    Hidden amongst the Tipperary celebrations!

    There's enough experts around here , so we should have no trouble sorting you out .

    Just make sure you label the people you bumped off properly. An X on their foreheads or a label on their coats.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've already tempted fate skydiving. Don't need the adrenaline these days, cherish life more than death.


  • #24
    Greentopia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    Sky burial. Don't think we have any vultures in Ireland though? except bankers and politicians.


  • #25
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Why can't it be done? Some ridiculous bylaws?


  • #26
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    My Mam and Dad are elderly and have both requested cremation and the scattering of their ashes in locations they feel connected to. I will do my very best to honour their requests.

    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?

    Burial at sea, body intact, is allowed. There are regs to follow (body must be tagged etc.) but it’s allowed. Getting chucked out of a helicopter, I don’t know.


  • #27
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,796 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Don't recall ever hearing that it's written into the Irish constitution that a corpse cannot be fcuked out of a helicopter.
    Over international waters then maybe?


  • #28
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Burial at sea, body intact, is allowed. There are regs to follow (body must be tagged etc.) but it’s allowed. Getting chucked out of a helicopter, I don’t know.

    Thanks odb, his request not mine.


  • #29
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,932 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Friend of mine is a top...
    When he goes, he wants to be cremated and have his husband sprinkle some of his ashes in a curry...
    So he can dribble out of his ravaged arse one last time ;)


  • #30
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,645 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Already told my kids

    No black at my funeral

    Cremate me

    As i go through the curtains i want Nelly Its getting hot in here playing over the speakers.


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  • #31
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Already told my kids

    No black at my funeral

    Cremate me

    As i go through the curtains i want Nelly Its getting hot in here playing over the speakers.

    Your name would be perfect for getting flung out of a helicopter.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #32
    Sharp MZ700
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Already told my kids

    No black at my funeral

    Cremate me

    As i go through the curtains i want Nelly Its getting hot in here playing over the speakers.

    You won't be so cool then though.


  • #33
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I've already tempted fate skydiving. Don't need the adrenaline these days, cherish life more than death.

    Skydiving is as safe as houses,dude. Not exactly taking crystal meth in the projects in Baltimore sort of stuff.


  • #34
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    I remember reading that the crazy one out of the Beach Boys wanted to be buried at sea but was refused because the body was too toxic. Probably an urban myth but if its not true, it should be :D


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Not exactly taking crystal meth in the projects in Baltimore sort of stuff.

    You can obviously relate from experience, I'll acquiesce to the armchair general.


  • #36
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,018 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    I remember reading that the crazy one out of the Beach Boys wanted to be buried at sea but was refused because the body was too toxic. Probably an urban myth but if its not true, it should be :D

    Dennis Wilson, yeah, he drowned after a lengthy drinking “session” and diving for personal belongings he’d thrown away years before.

    They had to get permission from the President to have him “buried” at sea, regardless of his “toxicity”. Think only members of the navy were allowed go that way up to then.

    He did record a really nice album called ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ that is well worth checking out.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • #37
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    You can obviously relate from experience, I'll acquiesce to the armchair general.

    Don’t get me wrong, dude, it’s a great thing to do and all that. Well done. Skydiving is as safe as houses though. Hundreds of thousands of people do it every year. Sure my down syndrome nephew has done 8 or 9 of them at this stage for charity. Hiking or cricket probably have a higher fatality rate


  • #38
    Ecce No Homo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 129 ✭✭Ecce No Homo


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Skydiving is as safe as houses,dude. Not exactly taking crystal meth in the projects in Baltimore sort of stuff.


    crystal meth is fine too, just got to make sure your diet is decent. plenty of milk, cheese, supplements, basically just keep eating and you will be fine


  • #39
    MeTheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭MeTheMan


    I've always said I want a viking funeral. The lake beside us, wooden boat, bed of sticks bit of diesel maybe? Crack a match send me off and head to the pub. Of course the response is ''it couldn't be legal'' but who's is going to swim out put out the fire and drag me back to shore.

    There was a woman on the TV lately who buried her husband in the back garden. When asked was it legal she said "no, but who's going to come and dig him up!"


  • #40
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    My Mam and Dad are elderly and have both requested cremation and the scattering of their ashes in locations they feel connected to. I will do my very best to honour their requests.

    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?


    Well someone thinks a lot of himself now doesn't he?


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Already told my kids

    No black at my funeral

    Cremate me

    As i go through the curtains i want Nelly Its getting hot in here playing over the speakers.

    Similar but Highway To Hell by ACDC for the curtains part.


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  • #42
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I don't want a funeral. Weird things. People can find out i am dead when i don't respond to their texts.


  • #43
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Force Carrier wrote: »
    Hiring a chopper and pilot will eat a chunk out of the Life Assurance.

    Get a Groupon deal :)


  • #44
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Being fired off the coast from a giant catapult would be cooler than a helicopter.


  • #45
    soups05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭soups05


    When I seen the thread title I thought it was how you want to die, my mistake. For me I would like to die peacefully in my sleep like my father, not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus.













    I'll get my coat...


  • #46
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Buried in a Catholic cemetery.

    Just a brief graveside ceremony conducted by a Catholic Priest would be my wish.


    I could do without the Mass but it probably won't be up to me anyway.


    I'm never going to discuss these kind of things with my family.


  • #47
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    All good so far like but, I made the mistake of asking my husband how he'd like to leave this world. His answer is being thrown out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean over some part of the West of Ireland. Is this even feasible?
    Ah, the Osama bin Laden package! ;)

    A cousin of mine told me about a woman who had come to his area in the west of Ireland to scatter her sister's ashes into the sea, but got swept out to sea as she was doing it, and drowned.


  • #48
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I'd like to be cremated but before that happens I'd love if my corpse starred in a remake of Weekend At Bernies.


  • #49
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    I'm in the process of registering with Trinity for my body to be used to teach medical students. Once the college is finished with it, they pay for the costs of either cremation or burial in Glasnevin Cemetery.

    That's only if my organs aren't donated though, obviously if they're donated, my body will be of no use for dissection.


  • #50
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    They say you can't bring anything with you.

    I'm saving up C4 as we speak, when the time comes I'm bringing the feckin nursing home with me.


  • #51
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    We have Paul on the line. Paul, welcome to the show
    Tell us Paul, would you like to be buried or cremated?
    Paul: "Oh, buried Gerry."
    Gerry Ryan: "And where would you like to be buried?"
    Paul: "Up to me balls in Bibi Baskin"


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