will you take it with you in your casket?

[CAS700850]

At my father's funeral, the funeral director asked me to accompany him to the back, where the casket was opened, to verity that everything we requested to be in the casket was actually there. A watch, his wedding ring, glasses, clothing, some things my brother and I had written. Just before he closed and sealed the casket, I reached in my pocket, pulled out my knives (Victorinox Swiss Army and Benchmade mini-AFCK), and put them in his pockets. My thought was that when he gets to Heaven, he's going fishing with the men in the family who went before, and he'll need a good knife or two.

Personally, I like the idea of having a gun on my hip in a casket. A nice symbol of who I am. If you go to the afterlife as you go to the grave, it'll be nice to have something. PLus, someday, maybe they'll dig me up for an archeological project, and wonder what the gun was for. Imagine the theories I'll inspire...

 

[birddog]

Just because my usefulness has ended, doesn't mean any of my guns shouldn't continue on in their usefulness.

I recognize the symbolism, but it seems a shame to put stuff like that in the ground.

Maybe a better idea would be an open casket, where you can be displayed along with your stuff, then have the goods pulled out later to be distributed to loved ones.

 

[Dave R]

Burying a gun with me? Waste of a gun. They'll all be distributed in the will or sold.

 

[secamp32]

Just this weekend

(on the way to the hospital to visit dieing grandma-in-law) I told my wife to make sure and bury me with my SAK and Surefire e2e. Do you think I can get 123 cells in the afterlife?

 

[CAPTAIN MIKE]

Please Put Me In Your Will !!

Okay - I will gladly accept any such gifts from your Will or Living Trust.