Anyone planned their own Memorial Service?

[willie_gunn]

Was regularly up in the Achness Hotel for stalking in Sutherland.
The hotel is (predominately) a hotel for fishermen.

I recall once seeing an old chap in the Oykel (you could see him from the hotel). He was a retired army Colonel and of very advanced years.
He was stood in the river and the rain was coming in at him horizontal. I do not know how he kept upright.

The staff in the hotel informed me that he had been coming up every year for the past twenty years. He had never caught a fish.

Now that (for me) is the real definition of a sportsman.

The passage of time tells me he must have died by now.

If there is a Heaven; then I hope they have rivers.

I pray he is fishing still.

The perfect afterlife should comprise of days spent on the banks of a spate river that is just fining down nicely. The weather will be overcast with a gentle breeze. The fish will be moving in the river. As well as my trusty old Orvis rod I'll have a full box of my favourite flies.

Knowing my luck I will instead find myself on the banks of a river that is reduced to a trickle. The weather will be scorching hot with not a cloud in the sky. The river will be devoid of fish. I will have a telescopic spinning rod with with nothing to tie on my leader but a Booby. Oh, and it will be midgy!

 

[User00025]

Round the corner coffin on a wheelbarrow to village churchyard. Requiem mass, burial after funeral the next day. Double hole ready for wife to go on top full monty lots of costs.
Patriotic hymns, 2 readings from Ecclesiastes and John 1 first four verses. None of my offspring to attend, all money to kid's hospice.

 

[Woodsmoke]

I believe in reincarnation, so funeral arrangements don't really make much difference to me as I'll be coming back anyway.

Trouble is though, with my luck I'll be coming back as me

 

[Jagare]

I'm leaving my body to medical science. Last chance I'll get to be poked around by a young medical student while laying there naked. If i get time before I die I want to video a farewell message to be played at the party to celebrate my demise. I'll have this on the video. .

 

[WH308]

I’ve said they can break me for any usable parts, then throw the rest of me under the hedge and come back and shoot foxes over me later. The wife was not impressed.

 

[mattic]

Hunting and the wild areas are definately part of my spiritual journey.

 

[long_range_rob]

I don’t know if it’s apocryphal but I hear the chairman of the HBSA arranged to have his ashes loaded into a cannon that sat outside their clubhouse and fired down Stickledown range at Bisley. Unfortunately this meant that they were required to secure this “firearm” as it was no longer classed as an antique.

 

[kimh]

When I go off on motorbike trips abroad I leave instructions that I should be cremated or buried as cheap as possible out there if I croak it on one of the bends. Waste of time having me back to bury me here.

I suppose I'm left with your guns selling them as cheap as possible over here to pay for Hovis's party

 

[slider]

yeap, instructions with my solicitor. Humanist cremation.
Opening track, Take my breathe away, closing track Stairway to Heaven (which I know is at odds with the Humanist thing!)

 

[slider]

yeap, instructions with my solicitor. Humanist cremation.
Opening track, Take my breathe away, closing track Stairway to Heaven (which I know is at odds with the Humanist thing!)

 

[kenbro]

Hi,
It’s alright leaving wills and instructions, but the person charged with carrying them out might change their mind and do something different, and, if like me you have children and Stepchildren it’s even more complicated.
Husband and wife can both make wills, but these can be changed without the other knowing.
We looked into this and setting up a fund and putting all assets except cash into it that would need managing probably by a Solicitor (So always costing) might be the way to go.

As for me, I’m off to Manchester.....if the wifey sends me, which she is against!

Shooting/Military buddy of mine bought the farm last week.....Monday will see Humanist service in private Chapel, leave him there (Hopefully they’ll make sure he gets to Crem. on time) and retire to his home towns’
Unionist Club where he left £££££ behind the bar for mates to toast him.
Cheers,Ken.

 

[ion]

A great friend with terminal cancer went into his local hotel in Scotland to arrange a slap up funeral lunch for his friends. Things were going fine until the question of the date came up!!

A friends wife has a fibre glass business. They branched out from building boats (which included a replica Chinese junk) to other mouldings. One of her husbands favourites is the hearse they built to replace a motor cycle side car combination.

 

[Wapinschaw]

My wife and I have loose plans for woodland burials, hopefully together which are gaining popularity here in our part of Scotland. No religious bull****, pomp and circumstance, resurrection or afterlife. It is lights out, end of. Hopefully we won't even know it has happened.

 

[zambezi]

I am utterly persuaded that this world and all of us are the creation of a loving God.

When he calls time for me, family and close fellow Christians may well shed a tear, but mostly they will be tears of joy in the knowledge that I am re-united with my maker.

That I am a son of God has nothing to do with anything I can or have done. As a Christian, I am a son of adoption because of Christ's work on the cross.

As to ceremony, I will leave that to the vicar. But I will want one particular hymn, There is a Higher Throne.

The lyrics echo the escatalogical promises found in Revelations and elsewhere in the NT.

 

[FrenchieBoy]

I am utterly persuaded that this world and all of us are the creation of a loving God.

When he calls time for me, family and close fellow Christians may well shed a tear, but mostly they will be tears of joy in the knowledge that I am re-united with my maker.

That I am a son of God has nothing to do with anything I can or have done. As a Christian, I am a son of adoption because of Christ's work on the cross.

As to ceremony, I will leave that to the vicar. But I will want one particular hymn, There is a Higher Throne.

The lyrics echo the escatalogical promises found in Revelations and elsewhere in the NT.

I now the hymn well but if I had to choose a hymn it would be "Jesus take me as I am"!

 

[bogtrotter]

My wife passed five weeks ago, she had a terminal illness and she was well aware of how it would end, unfortunatley it?
came sooner than either of us expected.
When she was given the diagnosis she planned her memorial service writing everything down so that there would be no
doubt of her wishes.
I carried out her wishes to the best of my ability though some changes had to be made due to Covid restrictions.
A simple but beautiful Humanist service.
I do envy those of you with faith it must be a great comfort.

 

[Husky]

My condolences Bogtrotter.

 

[Feugh]

My condolences Bogtrotter.

And mine.

 

[alberta boy]

Sorry to hear it brother , I hope you find comfort with the memories of a life shared .

AB

 

[8x57]

My very sincere condolences Bogtrotter. I appreciate how difficult it is particularly at the moment with the covid restrictions as my father in law passed away last month having spent the previous two months in hospital and no visitors allowed.