I know someone who passed away recently, and this was the arrangement they had made. No funeral as such, just a memorial service. This wish of the deceased and the immediate family was only publicised to the non-family when the death was announced in the paper.

Andy wrote:

Like you mate I like the idea of it but I've recently said it's up to my wife to decide (or kids if she's deid first).

I know we should let out wishes be known but quite frankly I'm dead, I'm past caring.

If she wants to burn, bury or freeze that's her call as far as I'm concerned, whatever is easier, I don't think its right that they hand over my body to science because I wanted them too but they find it too difficult.

I'm going to a burial tomorrow, have only been to the crem in the last 20 odd years, so not looking forward to it tbh.

I think that's where i feel uneasy mate.

I'm gone.What do i care?It would be one of the best things i could ever do in my life to help someone else potentially maintain there's.

But there's also the thought of my son,wife,brothers,whoever sitting there thinking my bodies no even in the coffin and has been dismantled.

Sounds like a fucking daft thing to say but i'm not sure if i'll have the guts to do it.

All the best tomorrow btw mate.Always a very hard day.

I think I would/will go for a bit of a halfway house on this one. Will probably give permission for any organs demeed fit for use to be taken, but will draw the line there. I'm the same as you guys, want to help someone potentially, but something seems to be holding me back going full on. Sentiment perhaps, even though we will be dead? Hard for our minds to see past it sometimes.

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I'm "organised" for every usable bit of me, university can have what's left if they want.

I'm 77 years old, and recently took the steps necessary to donate my body. I have no regrets that for once I may be doing something from which other folk may benefit.

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Leedsy wrote:

I'm 77 years old, and recently took the steps necessary to donate my body. I have no regrets that for once I may be doing something from which other folk may benefit.

Respect,Leedsy.

What happens in regards a funeral then,if you don't mind me asking?

Do they cremate what's left of you and give the urn to your wife or what?
 

Leedsy wrote:

Sorry, forgot to answer your question until now.... Yes, that's right. They throw in a wee service, but I'm giving that a swerve!
 

Haha.

One of lifes great tragedies aint it?

The one time every bugger is genuinely nice about you and were no there tae witness it.
 

just re-newed my driving licence and ticked the box that they can have every inch of me if they want,the only thing is it may go to a bnb or a sevconian but hay-ho!