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Originally Posted by Raven
Good to hear, Serge!
Funeral jokes are always a good sign that you're going to be fine!
In all seriousness, if the law permitted, I'd like to remain NOT embalmed, wrapped in burlap and get planted in the back yard, along with a tree. Then, my ingredients will fertilise the tree and my life force will continue.....doesn't that sound all sweet and tree huggerish?
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Semi-funny story, my father in is younger days (he's 60) worked as a land surveyor. One day, he's working on the side (20 feet off) one of the biggest quebec highway, next to a fence. Behind the fence there's a bunch of trees and after that its only grass to the highway. There's a weeping willow just behind the fence. My father had heard that you could just plant a broken branch of weeping willow and that it would grow. So without much thinking aobut it he sticks a branch in the ground, on the grass side of the fence.
Well, for some reason, whoever was cutting the grass there decided not to chop the small willow, and to this day, some 30 years later, the mature weeping willow stands alone on his side of the fence.
I had thought it would be nice to bury my father under that tree, that he planted so long ago and that thrived against the odds. I cant go by that patch of highway without thinking of my father.
edit for spelling and being retarted