will you take it with you in your casket?

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another Certified Old Fart and I were sorta shaking our heads over some folks we know who are around our age and still trying to pile up more money "so I'll have enough in my old age..."

My buddy commented, "Ya know, I never saw a Brink's truck following a funeral procession."

Most of my "stuff" is for using. Tools, guns, vehicles. Sure, there are some sentimental things and some collector items, but by and large I'm not much into having a lot of things. Too easy to get where things own you, you don't own them.

When I'm gone, I'm gone. Hey, that's what kids are for: To worry about what to do with all that stuff!

I gave up worrying for Lent, several decades back.

:), Art
 
Regarding the legal issues, I think you are allowed to do certain things if you are buried within 48 hours of death. I'm not sure if that includes being buried in a shroud. I think cremation is acceptable. I do know that in MN after 48 hours you have to be embalmed and all the chemicals in that necessitate a coffin and a concrete lined vault.
 
"But, you gotta be careful some unscupulous mortician doesn't snag your piece."

"joe4702 that is exactly what my mom mentioned to me when i told her about it. But then again i bet wedding rings are higher on their priority list. Which leads me to my next profession. the shady gravedigger!"

It's been a tradition in my family that somebody keeps an eye on things while the casket is buried, to be sure they don't crack the vault lid when setting it, and try to bury it like that. Would be a good idea to keep watch while the casket is buttoned up too if there's good stuff inside.


I have heard about a couple guys buried around here with a Colt SAA in hand.
 
read 50 freak's first post and maybe you have an answer to your question. Plus what if somebody close to you said they had a possession, like a small music box, or perhaps a trinket. Would you simply say "what's the point"?
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As I said you have no control over what someone may or may not do after you are dead. There is no guarantee that your request will be fulfilled and since the family don't close the coffin anything may happen. So I still say what's the point.
The original post was about would you want anything placed in the coffin with you, not about if you would carry out someone else's request.
 
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Never really thought about it before. I'm hoping my ashes are scattered up on the rim of my favorite deer hunting canyon. I guess I'd feel kinda naked up there without my aught six. :rolleyes:
 
I want a Viking funeral. Put me on a wooden boat, toss some gasoline or napalm over everything, use a flaming arrow to set it on fire. Sure, it's probably illegal, but if they wanna put my corpse in jail, I wouldn't care.

If for some reason I receive a normal burial, I intend to be buried with a bag of coins and tokens, a good knife, and a sword.
 
I've given this a little thought and the guns stay behind. I don't believe I'll be needing them. However, my pets that have preceeded me will all be cremated and placed in wooden vaults. Those vaults will be placed in my coffin when I am cremated. The ashes will be scattered at sea to rejoin the food chain.
 
Particularly appropriate, coming after RevDisk's post:
RileyMc said:
I would have thought you required a flaming ship pushed out to sea, your body aboard, surrounded by gold and weapons as the gods weep over the mischief that killed you.
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I'm working on that. Haven't gotten the ship yet, though. Might have to settle for a large, earthen mound. :D
 
I've thought that this would be the perfect circumstance to make good use of otherwise ruined firearms.

-Revolvers destroyed by overpowered handloads
-Weapons whose steel temper was destroyed in a housefire
-Corroded-to-death milsurps

etc. etc.

Minor aside: regarding Natural Burial, there's plenty of info up on the Net, such as the North American Woodland Burial Society, and other groups who favor a return to traditional funerals. My father is a preacher, and has a pretty pronounced dislike of funeral homes, expensive coffins and vaults, etc. The UK and NZ, whatever their other faults, are ahead of us in this category, with a pretty well-developed movement favoring woodland burial, cardboard coffins, etc.

Back to guns. I imagine the average gunsmith can keep an eye out for a "dead weapon" to accompany you to the afterlife. -MV
 
When I'm gone

toss me in the oven, and reduce me to ashes.

Guns are just tools. Some special tools have some magic in them, but by that time, I won't need it, and maybe, god/(s)/goddess/(es) willing, I'll have some children or great-grandkids that would be happy to have such.

And I'd be happy and proud to leave my tools with them. They are the future, and by that time, I'll be the past.

John
 
When we burried my sister I placed a sword of mine that she was fond of in her casket and a small group of our friends put small rememberances with symbolic value in as well. Having been a "fighter" all her life she'd have appreciated the gesture and the symbolism.

I expect my box will hold some of the same and a couple of my knives and sticks. I don't view my guns in quite the same intimate way.
 
I want my ashes ground to a fine powder and mixed with Black Powder, used in a Civil War reenactment at one of the actual battlefields.
 
yeah, i like the whole symbolism of taking one with you. I mean i plan on leaving my kids 49/50 guns as well as a nice fat bank account. I don't think they would hold it against me if i took one.
 
don't know about myself, but i was thinking about burying well preserved guns and ammo with one of my older relatives when the time comes for them to "graduate" for just the sort of shtf scenario mentioned earlier. even if some evil govt. organism found out about it, it would still be difficult for them to disinter my poor dead family member. lot of legal issues surround the prospect of exhuming a corpse if the family isn't too keen on it. i suggest we stick guns in every casket we can, while we can. call it an investment in the future.
 
I've already talked to my wife and told her she needed to put my Kimber in my hand in the casket. I'm going to be leaving enough for my family to enjoy. I know it is only a "thing" but so are shoes and I'll probably be wearing them too, even though I wont be needing them either.

It reminds me of one of my favorite songs by Cracker: "Can I Take My Gun Up To Heaven?".....

Can I take my gun up to heaven?
You know she's always been by my side.
So can I take my gun up to heaven?
I'll check it with Saint Peter at the gate...
 
No, I don't think it would do me any good. However, some of my heirs might get some good out of it on this earth.

I might want to take a fully charged cell phone, though.
 
ooh... how about a candy dish with little mints! right on my tummy.

hospitable to the last...

:)
 
I might want to take a fully charged cell phone, though.
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It might not work from underground and through the concrete vault liner. "Can you hear me now?"
 
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