Blog Entry 3-My Dream Grave Goods

I do not find the topic of talking about my own future death neither morbid nor scary. It is going to happen anyway, hopefully not for many decades, but I guess I am speaking as someone who has come to terms with their mortality so I find myself quite open to talking about it.

I have never really thought of the concept of grave goods for myself, seeing as I do not believe in an after life and have never wanted my body to be buried. The thought of worms and other such things breaking me down while I rot just does not paint a good picture, so inhumation is definitely out of the question.

Coming from a religious family I have always been adamant about being cremated, maybe at the beginning just to watch my mother squirm about how I would deal without a body on judgement day... :P

But ever since I heard about http://urnabios.com/ , I have come to like the idea of being cremated even more, would it not be awesome to become a cherry tree (one of my favourite plants) after death?


The problem then becomes that even if I chose to have grave goods, most of them would not last incineration, but I could probably have a plaque put on my tree after it is tall enough?

At this point in time I would choose to be incinerated with:

My basic personal jewelry, nothing too ostentatious.
My 2 favourite books , my vintage edition of Wuthering Heights and my first copy of The Prisioner of Azkaban (in Spanish).
Lots of chocolate!!
My iPod
If there was any message left to interpret after incineration, it would probably that I was a bookish chocoholic with a love for music and beautiful accessories.


I asked my creeped out fiance what he would incinerate me with and why, he got very emotional but I finally got it out of him:

Chocolate (chocolate orange if i can find the regular kind, not the dark one) Pride and Prejudice so you can watch it as much as you like, as well as Beauty and the Beast in Spanish, and Anastasia A picture of us and a letter from me telling you I love you and forever will A bottle of water in case we are not in rainy victoria and when you become a tree you get thirsty Some of my cologne - that's for leaving before me And your wedding ring, because I'm coming to find you and you better still have it on when I do

Other than forgetting my books,music and thinking there will be someplace for us to reunite after death there is not too much of a disconnect between his choices and mine for how I want to be portrayed at death. My fiance's choice's are mainly centered around our relationship and our inside jokes, so other than the movies and chocolate it would be puzzling for someone to interpret in the same way.