Burial Blades

While it may or may not be used for any spiritual journeys, being buried with a knife (or any other item) would be very interesting to anyone exhuming your remains a few hundred years from now.

And with Pelican cases these days, you could have some of the items that you treasured preserved very well.
 
adaman04 said:
Everything on this forum is a debate. :D

No disrespect was meant by any of the members here. Again, burial and death are a thing of tradition and personal preference that are as varied as the people here.
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Thanks, bro. Yup, to each their own. And like I said, plenty of knives and gear to go around at my house
 
Cremation here. Seems selfish to waste a plot of land with a granite stone and a memory that will be gone in 50 years. Burn me up, put me in a cardboard box (or a coffee can...) and throw my ashes somewhere that makes you feel like you did something.

Ive made it quite clear that do not want a wake, or a funeral. Talk about stupid, unnecessary expenses to lay down on those that are left.
 
I've actually thought about donating to the 'bodies' expo thing. Maybe if they could make me look like eddie from the iron maiden somewhere in time album cover....lol
 
DH1 said:
While it may or may not be used for any spiritual journeys, being buried with a knife (or any other item) would be very interesting to anyone exhuming your remains a few hundred years from now.

And with Pelican cases these days, you could have some of the items that you treasured preserved very well.
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Now you’re talking. Or the way some things are headed, maybe I want to be put in a Pelican case with a few AR, Glocks and a few thousand rounds of ammo. Now THAT would be worth digging up.
 
Return me to the ground from which I've walked, but now rather than atop, let me wander through the rivers and streams and earth amongst particles of life that once nourished me.

Please, do not dress me up, but rather, undress me, burn me and set me free on the farm that I may I rest where I lived.
 
I personally ascribe to the words of Job, naked I came, and naked I'll go. I didn't bring anything with me, and I certainly can't take anything out with me.

So, if the good Lord blesses me with children I'll leave my ESEE's to them or my grandkids (with specific instructions to throw them and baton with them, and to ALWAYS take the screws out to clean the handles, and make sure they're really tight when they put them back on MWAHAHAHAHA!)

God bless,
Adam
 
s7brad said:
I respect all your answers and have no problem with cremation. Dad was a decorated veteran and service officer for the VA as well as a member of a vets motorcycle club and he deserved the honor with which he was buried. As for placing items with him its a family tradition. There are a lot more of his knives now in my possession as well. Didn't mean for this to be a debate as to how things will be handled after death, just asking if there is a special blade that you would want with you.that's all.
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no criticism meant - you asked what we thought, I gave my answer.
I have absolutely no problem with the idea of grave goods -- if someone I care about had the tradition, I'd participate at their passing.
appreciate his service and your respect as shown to his memory.
 
Heh, in some 70-odd years when I'm old and cranky I'm jumping off a skyscraper with a back pack full of heavy fireworks and detonating in midair. I'm going in out in style, loud and colorful. Hopefully I'll also get some air time on the news.

I'll leave my knives to my children.
 
I'd choose to be buried with an ESEE 5 and have my casket made out of aluminum sheeting...y'know, just in case.
 
I'm leaving it up to those I leave behind, how I'm handled after I am dead reflects more upon those who do the handling than on dead me.
But my preference in general is "green" burial - none of these crazy-expensive caskets and plots and toxic chemicals, none of this massive wasting of fuel/energy and pollution of the air to incinerate my remains without even using the heat to warm a cold house in winter (I still am dumb-founded at the wastefulness of cremations). The only use I see to a cremation is to allow a distraught loved-one the possibility of carrying those remains with him/her from place to place until he/she is ready to leave them behind. Ashes are certainly more portable and less 'perishable than a dead body ;)

Social norms and health recommend the respectful entombment of remains as opposed to leaving them out for the beasts, etc. So, if the water-table allows, let them dig a good hole and lay me there to rest and resubmit 'my' nutrients to the earth from which they came (without burning off the majority that was useful or pumping me with preservatives). If the water table is too high, some rocks in the gut and a suitably deep river/lake,etc. will also suffice. If a box is required, fine.

If someone feels piously inspired to entomb some artifact along with the body, God bless him/her for the sentiment. I am skeptical as to whether the item will be of use or importance to me in the hereafter, but perhaps it will be important should a later person discover the remains, giving them greater context by which to understand and interpret the discovery. For example, my wife worked at an archeological dig in Ireland where they found a body buried with quite an expensive (for the time) assortment of items, and in the midst of an area known to have been quite poor at the time of the man's burial. Other graves evinced no such plethora of items, so why this man? From the artifacts located with the body, taken in context with those found in the surrounding village, they deduced that the man had been quite rich, but in friends rather than wealth - various citizens of the village had placed items from their own homes/jobs into this man's grave, according to the theory. Why? Perhaps to show respect or honor... :thumbup:
 
No knives, I won't need them. I could care less what somebody does with me when I'm done, take the usable organs and incinerate the crap out of me. After that flush me down the toilet, what am I going to care. As for funeral, I hate funerals and definitely would not want to be at my own, I told my wife to use that money and have a party with the kids friends and extended family or something. And in 60-70 years they will need that party putting up with me for that long.
 
I came into this Earth with nothing , I'm leaving the same way.

My son gets all the hardware :)
 
I hope to be laid to rest IN a knife. I plan on being creamated and turned into a diamond or two, and thus placed into a kris folder that I have designed, so that future generations can have a piece of me.
 
I know that some Vikings were put in boats and set ablaze. Some remains of those boats were uncovered and they had various weapons on board. Myself, I choose to leave my weapons to my survivors. "Avenge me".
 
hmmm...if the time comes when i'm too feeble to wipe me own butt, I'm going to a long slow walk deep into the woods, with a Bottle of 30 year old whiskey, a couple bottles of my favorite beer, a few cigars, a bag of hot pepperoni, some fine aged cheddar and a loaf of homemade crusty brown bread.

find a nice spot to sit under a tree, with a view, enjoy my spread, and wait for the end, be it in my sleep, or be it by a bear or cougar.

as for knives, whoever finds me body can have what i have on me. Hopefully it will serve them well! :cool:

bury me in the woods.

although i like the idea of a Viking funeral.
 
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