Your Carriage to Eternity.

It was a case of buy now, die later at the opening of Melbourne’s newest Mausoleum on Saturday morning. The Necropolis began selling the 1389 spaces at it’s $6.6 million Lucianno Rossetti Mausoleum at 7.30am yesterday. While most couples were able to purchase an eternal resting place for $40.000, they were also offering family accommodation for $486.094. By close of business, 100 crypts had been sold for a total of $3.25 Million

I always get mixed emotions when I think about stuff like this. I was at East Kirkby recently looking at the Spitfire remains in the hangar and couldnt help thinking what an end for such a beautiful aircraft to lay sleeping with its pilot for all eternity.

I realise sometimes family want the aircraft and pilot recovered and buried properly, and that some of us go on big searches for the missing in action, but I can’t help thinking if given the choice, I would have liked to stay with the Spit.

As that option for me is higly unlikely, they can stick me in the boot of my Jag, crush it, and drop it in a deep hole. I’ve worked hard enough on the thing that I’m going to keep it that long.

Come 300 years from now, there’ll be an over enthusiastic Baldrick type digging me and it up…

Regards,
Richard W

As my Mother in Law said she’d like to dance on my grave, I’m being buried at sea.

priceless mate 😀

me?. heck just cremate me and when it comes to winter there will be something to grit the path with :diablo:

Greg

Sounds like something the Beckhams would do! :p

An interesting topic.One I often think about.First I plan to set an unbeatable age record. 140 years old,at the very least.Preferrably 150.
First a lying in state for 2 weeks,so I don’t get buried alive & for the family tributes.
Then I’ll be mummified in the best & most efficient way.No expense spared.Then with the Egyptian method of an inner coffin,but made of clear,bullet-proof glass.Next an outer coffin made of gold,in the shape of me.Then another outer coffin made of stone,with my face & image carved on it.
Finally I’ll be stored in a lavishly decorated underground tomb with all my possessions,marked by a mound with a statue of me!!!
Expensive I know,but well worth it for future generations of the family to see a real perfectly preserved mummy!

Whilst I was setting up to cover an old firm football match at Celtic Park a few years ago, some guys snuck in with an urn intent on scattering someone’s ashes on the pitch.

As they were about to scatter, the head groundsman came storming out of the tunnel screaming at them to get off the “f*ckin grass”!!!

They more or less tipped the whole pile out onto one spot (near the goal mouth) and legged it.

That night as Celtic were trailing by 1-0 in injury time, a player was fouled in the box on that very spot and Celtic drew level with a penalty kick.

Divine intervention or what ??? :p

I want to be dumped in a forest in the undergrowth and let nature take it’s course

That’s what we did with our troublesome neighbour… Oops! 😮

I’d have to be cremated myself. That way, no little scumbag has the opportunity to vandalise a gravestone!

As for a coffin – just bung me in anything. It’s going to be reduced to ashes anyway.

And my ashes – they can be kept on the mantlepiece. 🙂

I want to be dumped in a forest in the undergrowth and let nature take it’s course

Cremat my dumb ass and put my ashes somewhere high and scenic in the Rocky Mountains here in CO….I’ll be happy with that.

Mark

I prepaid my Wife’s and my own funerals several years ago, she has family plot in the local cemetary, and i’m being cremated with my ashes to be scattered at sea

Peter, it’s ok.

I thought hard about deleting this thread. But I think Robbo is right, Steve would have had a damned good chuckle over this.

Regards,

kev35

Cremated and scattered from a plane over the sea, a la Steve McQueen.

E type jag roadster

Bruce

I know someone who’ll be sitting on a cloud right now having a damn good chuckle about this thread.

Rob

oops, I had not noticed the sticky (I always tend to ignore them). I hope my previous remark is not considered insensitive otherwise I’ll remove it immediately.

I know someone who’ll be sitting on a cloud right now having a damn good chuckle about this thread.

Rob

Was thinking exactly the same.

what would be your vehicle for the journey to eternity?

Probably my 1988 VW Golf. If anything happens while I am in that p.o.s. I won’t survive it. 😮

I would like to be cremated,diluted in saline and injected into Kylie’s left buttock,these instructions have been left with Mrs lav.

I want to be mummified, put in a sarcophagus and have a pyramid built in my honour 🙂