From AFP:- The eight most popular requests by people planning their funerals, according to research by the British charity Age Concern, which promotes the interests of elderly people:-
1. To be cremated with their pet's ashes;
2. To have a mobile phone in the coffin;
3. To ensure they are dead;
4. For a mirror to be held over the face to check for signs of breathing;
5. To be cremated naked;
6. To be buried in their own garden;
7. To be buried with their teeth in;
8. To be buried with all their savings.
What about the Amateur Astronomer:-
Bury me with my ED80?
Alternatively, cremate me with the mongrel reflector I could never collimate properly!
From AFP:- The eight most popular requests by people planning their funerals, according to research by the British charity Age Concern, which promotes the interests of elderly people:-
8. To be buried with all their savings.
I can do that for you, can I leave it as a cheque to give you room for your scope?
A lady died and her nephew bought a parking meter from eBay. She 'expired'
Has anyone tried to put a coin in??? and what would happen then?
I will share, as one does on the world wide privacy of the net, my idea.
I would like to be set in a reinforced sphere of cement on the top of my mountain so that when the Earth finally blows up..from either man's input or that of nature..I can become a little planet.
Take the meat off my bones first
. . . and then head back here again as Meteor dust and land in someones coffee
Ken, I would prefer to just keep going outward bound rather than come back again. A bit like Star Trek, "The Final Frontier" and "To go where no man has gone before" or in my case "no dust has gone before"
Stuff me into my 8" scope tube and fire me into space in the direction of the Andromeda galaxy. I'm sure someone over there knows how to bring dead things back to life!
??? and what would happen then
