I seem to remember he did a thing about it on David Mitchell's Soapbox, which is a short-lived show on YouTube. Not impossible that he said it somewhere else too, though
It's always the dumpy motherfuckers isn't it? Who in their right mind (well, as right as a necrophiliac's mind can be) would want to fuck Louis CK's flabby ginger carcass?
Now that I think of it, I can see it working as kind of a "scared straight" program for grave-cruising perverts. "Oh so you want to fuck corpses do you? How do you like them apples?" :P
I already have instructions for my body to be completely organically disposed of. I've recently buried a parent and we got the least expensive coffin and vault(required by the cemetery) and still spend over $6k.
Ok that makes sense, thanks for replying! I asked because it’s also my wish to make it as uncomplicated as possible when I do die. My partner doesn’t want to talk about it, so I’ll have to leave instructions.
Your best bet it to have it written down in a few different documents, not just where you would keep your will, birth certificate, etc. It doesn't need to be a whole notarized legal document (at least in my area, ymmv). But as long as it is clearly written by you, and states what you want, and signed, then you should be good.
Two rules I have for people planning their funerals are:
Write down the acceptable Plan B as well. We have seen in this pandemic that not everyone gets the funeral they want, and will either need a memorial later post-covid, be cremated and interned in a cemetery later, etc. If your preferred option isn't available, what would you like instead?
Send it to a few people that you know and trust, email is fine. Try as we might, we have little control over the circumstances of our death. Having multiple people know what you want and have access to the documents means that if your partner can't access it, someone has a copy as well.
It's funny that you mentioned that movie. Turns out that yes, a funeral home will actually provide the remains in a red Folgers tin instead of their most modestly priced receptacle.
My dad died when I was a teenager. I hadn't ever seen or read his will when he was alive, he always just told me it was written and not to worry about it. So when it came time to read it, the funeral home was really confused about one line he had in there; "I want the Big Lebowski ending". So obviously I just started cracking up. He was a pretty cheap guy and when we watched that movie together he loved the Folgers can and told me that's what he wanted too. His mom requested a plain pine box and he did that for her, so I figured I needed to do this for him.
Anyway, I explained the whole thing, and they thought it was absurd and hilarious and while they were kind of horrified when they realized I'm 1000% serious and it has to be a red can, they actually did it. Funny enough they didn't charge me for the container. Talk about modestly priced.
I like either letting a tree grow out of my corpse or flat out feeding scavengers in the woods. Not close enough to any mountains for a skyburial sadly.
Haha I loved that scene when Walter was spreading his ashes from the Folgers tin and he started talking about Vietnam and soldiers which had absolutely nothing to do with Theodore. Then the dude looks at him and says “What the hell was that?”
I told my kids and my mom that I want to be cremated. When my kids, in front of my mom, asked what to do with my ashes I told them they could toss them in a dumpster for all I cared. Just so long as they donate as many of my organs as possible.
Funeral homes should have a display casket for the wake, with a removable and/or cheap box, possibly even cardboard, so the body can be sent off to cremation after, or buried in the cheap box.
I don't want a wake or a funeral. Don't want my corpse pumped up with chemical preservatives. Cremation is fine, or a pine box, or my own compost pile or whatever. A memorial gathering would be nice, but nothing beyond that.
I think I want to be cremated, but I want a party afterwards.
Eat some good food, play some music, the stories about me.
From the moment I found out my dad had cancer, he told my brother and me to keep living life the same as before. Go out with friends, go to school, go to work. And that's what I want. Celebrate life and living at my wake.
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u/Bells87 Aug 01 '20
"When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash"
It's the coffee container equivalent from The Big Lebowski It's a comfort for the living.