Which knife goes with you in your coffin?

Jeff Clark

Jeff Clark

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Discussions of knives for formal attire reminds me of funerals. I want to be planted wearing my regular clothes with at least my SAK in my pocket. I know I'm going to a better place and I won't be taking a knife with me, but I don't want them to display and bury a 'naked' corpse. Besides, I might be dug up by an archeologist and I want him to understand my culture. It might be nice if he also found a nice BG42 bladed folder as well.

How do you wish to be fitted out when they bury you?
 
Jeff, I have thought of this also! It's a shame that I don't trust the funeral guys! I figure they probably go thru your clothes while your family is not around and wouldn't allow anything to be left in there of value. I however will be cremated and my wife had strict instructions to put a Nemesis in the urn with me. I told her that I will come back and haunt her if she doesn't!
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Otherwise they would need a fork lift to bring the urn to the cemetary!
 
The only thing weirder than this question is the fact that I've actually thought about it. I recently acquired a beautiful knapped obsidian knife with half of a cougar's jawbone as a handle, which I told my wife I thought I might like to be buried with. The simplest materials, as might have been used by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago, executed beautifully in ceremonial presentation quality. Life, death, struggle.
I've always intensely loved the wild--that raw beauty unmanipulated by presumptuous human design. And the man who would have used a knife like this one would have lived in a world largely unaffected by his presence. If I were dug up some day, I'd like to think I'd be remembered as a man with a heart not unlike the one that beat in the chest of the hunter and warrior who might have wielded this knife.

My wife agreed. I do love her so.

--Will

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Somehow, Busse Combat took a photo of me in my coffin (in the distant future)with my knives
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Yours in Nuclear Time Travel
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Strabs
 
I ain't takin' nothin' with me!
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And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war: and they have laid their Swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
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Just in case someone made a mistake, I'd have to say my Steel Eagle so I can saw or pry my way out!!!
 
Ahhhh, to die like a Viking. With your boots on, and sword in hand. Well most of my knives I'll leave to my son(and hopefully grandkids) but I thought it would be cool to have one knife with me. Maybe just stick it in my right leg.
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Seems like a good idea. I'll know where its at, and my family can look in my coffin and make sure its still there.
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Jeff,

I never thought about it, but I like the idea.

I would have to say my Microtech Brend polished Nemesis and my soon to be small wood inlay Sebenza.

Thank you for the thread.


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James,

My NIV translation of Ezekiel 32:27 starts off with "Do they not lie with the other uncircumcised warriors who have fallen,..." which fits in with the fates of Assyria, Elam, Edom, all the princes of the north, and the Sidonians. He sure thinks that Meshech and Tubal are there and Pharaoh will be there soon. The warning is not to the faithful about burial practises, it is to the proud ruler of Egypt (perhaps to others with political power) about the vanity of arms and worldly power.

It would be bad to be buried with symbols of your arrogant self reliance and worldly agression, but a "wee pen knife" inscribed with Chai couldn't hurt. Maybe I should get my SAK engraved. It doesn't have room for much, but it could start out with "Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength." I always thought that had a nice ring to it.

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Hmmm. I'm sure on the better place so, my Cold Steel SRK and MT UDT. Hopefully I'll have a Busse SH-E and new 4" model before I go....




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Riley
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All of my knives will go to my son. Any knife special enough to take to the grave should definitly go to him.

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Well, at first I said my unused #20S DDR XL Apogee was going to the grave with me and I was going to leave the used #19S behind, but my twin boys already have their eyes on these. So, I guess I will be going naked!
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Speaking of funerals . . .

A couple or three years ago, a few of us officers of our congregation conspired to give the rabbi (who is a "knife person") a left-handed Dalton California Special (a CA street-legal switchblade, for those who haven't seen one). The first occasion he had to use it was at a funeral where he was doing the honors.

At a modern Jewish funeral, the immediate family of the deceased wear a little black ribbon, which is torn at the end of the burial service, as a symbol, among other things, of the tearing of clothing that people used to do out of grief. In this tradition, by the way, everybody goes out wrapped in a plain shroud, and if the custom of the country requires a coffin, it's the plain wooden variety, and it's closed. Taking valuables with you is what they did in Egypt.

Anyway, at this funeral, the ribbons were a little difficult to tear, so the rabbi pulled out his little switchblade - Schnick! (that little knife has more spring than it needs) - and cut the ribbons. And some people, who needed to, laughed a little.


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That's pretty cool James! Switchblades at Funerals! I bet some eyes popped out there!

Those Egyptians didn't know that their items wouldn't make it with them, the itmes made it to museaums instead!
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"THERE IS NO FEELING LIKE AN APOGEE FEELING!"
 
My Carson U2.In case I change my mind.

Cheers,

ts

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Well,

I probably should not be telling all you this, but...

I wear an Allen Blade MEUK in my coffin nightly. It especially came in handy when my last girlfriend decided to bite the hand that bit her. No wood stakes were handy.

BTW- Can they coat a blade with silver?

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Thought about this before the post ever showed up.

I have to take the same actions as James.
No reason to let a good knife rot with my corpse.
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NADA <---- Knives are met to be used. Some lucky fools will have a big pile to select from.
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What am I gonna do with it in 'Hell'?
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