All of your ideas are lovely and touching and I'm sure they will be of comfort to your friends and family.
I'm not trying to ignore the importance of the whole funeral and, by extension, the grieving process, but I honestly don't care what is done with my body after I die. If any of my organs can help someone, they're welcome to them. As for the rest of me; whatever.
My only stipulation is that I am NOT laid out in an open casket. The thought of me lying there while people pass by and gawk at me really bothers me for some reason. There will be some serious haunting going on if this is done to me!
As for Mr. KR, I got him all planned out before he left for the middle east. I'm going to have him interred at the Naval Academy, where he went to school. He says that spending the rest of eternity at the Naval Academy is his version of hell, but, tough cookies, I've made my decision!
Oh, and the widow is supposed to get the American flag that is draped on the casket. But I have a feeling my biotch of a mother-in-law would try to snag it so two of my best girlfriends have sworn to me that if she did, they would jump her and return the flag to its rightful owner....me
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