Burial Rites? How do you want to go?

How do you want your remains treated? Burial in the ground or mausoleum? Shot into Space like Spock from a space torpedo? Cremated? Or burned like pagan kings of old?

Although I'm being a bit humorous, I'm also being quite serious. I shared by taste of dying and death, of friends, family and loved one's, for whom I still at times feel the pangs of regret, sorrow and pain.

For myself, I am inclined with those who favor fire, except that I would not like to burned in some crematorium stranger to me, but to be laid out in a boat of rushes in full priestly regalia, surrounded by friends and loved ones, given last rites and prayers by a priest, then set adrift with prayers and song, then let an archer send a flaming arrow over the waters to set my crypt on fire!!!

And it is my hope that when my time has come, that I might be able to say, as King Theoden in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings:


"I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed."

--Hix in the Morning (Jer-Bear Radio)