Mark, Your mentioning that you'd brought this up reminded me that I need to have this serious discussion with my wife. We both plan to be cremated too, and we'd both like to have our ashes scattered over either the Rocky mountains or the ocean. I hope to convince her that if I'm ever "lost at sea" that it will "cut out the middleman" and she won't have to write a check to the undertaker. I know it's a tough subject, especially for the potential survivors of the deceased, but it needs to be discussed NOW before the time comes when such decisions are really tough. Take, for example Rob Hall, the New Zealand guide who died on Mt. Everest in 1996. It was a beautiful thing that, although bittersweet, his wife was able to talk to him via satellite radio in his last breaths. I'm sure coping with his death was not easy (it never is), but she probably realizes that bringing his body back would definitely risk the lives of others, and, that he will "rest forever" in a place he loved. Shawn Mark wrote: >the discussion of this was quite heated in my house ... my wife said she >would want my body back at any cost ... when i asked her why, she wouldn't >answer... i told her, since we were already clear either of us were to be >creamated, that i absolutely would NOT want people to risk their lives for >my dead ass. of course i expected people to work like hell to RESCUE me, >but not to retreive a body. it may be a few days before she speaks to me >again ;-( but we're on the same page ... peter is right, talk to your >spouses, SO's families, etc... 0 ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Shawn W. Baker 0 http://www.missoulaconcrete.com/shawn/ Baker Brothers mailto://baker_at_montana.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 11:22:56 PDT
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