What are your burial plans?

 I know, this subject may be to personal for some, but out of curious, IF you feel like sharing, what are your burial plans for when the time comes?

Geri and I have just completed ours, after much thinking and debating. In my case, should I be buried here in Canada? Back home? Buried or cremated?

Are any of you making your choices based on religion or family tradition??

My parents are in a plot in Minnesota and there are spaces available in that plot for my bro and his wife, and for me and for my partner. My parents planned for that plot many years back thinking I would still be with my ex.

I don't want to go into that plot. Geri's family also is buried in Minnesota, and there is space for two in that family plot. So after much debate we have decided on cremation and taking the plots where her parents are buried.

I honestly didn't want to be in the ground either. But what to do with the ashes? The plot where her parents are does not offer an above ground vault, and she wants to be next to her parents.

Of course, the cynic would say this is all superstition since it's JUST ashes. But people need their comfort at the end. Amirite?

So we reached a compromise:

A cremation urn vault is a lined and sealed concrete receptacle designed to protect your loved one’s urn and cremated remains from outside elements such as water, and downward soil pressure caused by backhoes or other heavy maintenance equipment at the gravesite.

Also, we have made a decision NOT to be burned but instead:

The latest innovation in cremation is a process of alkaline hydrolysis, sometimes called  resomation . The process was developed in the United States in the late 1990s. The Cremation Association of North America describes the process as "a water-based dissolution process for human remains that uses alkaline chemicals, heat, and sometimes agitation and-or pressure, to accelerate natural decomposition".

Compared with traditional cremation, this process uses less energy and releases no carbon and no matter into the atmosphere.

Water cremation as an End of Life option is available in the USA in Florida and Minnesota. Thankfully!

So, weigh in if you are comfortable and talk about your burial or end of life plans.

Incidentally, we left instructions with our executors, those responsible for carrying out our final wishes, NOT to bury the urn till we have both passed away and can be placed in the same urn. 

Ain't that romantic? 😌