On my many trip's back and forth and living in both Thailand and Australia, it got me to thinking where would I like to be when my time comes, here in Thailand or back home in Australia?

Of course, I would like to have my final resting place in my country of birth, next to family and friends and familiar surroundings.

I don’t think I am a very religious person, I think I am like the next person, I sometimes go to church e.g. wedding, funerals and christenings.

I frequent the temple with the little lady often, but wouldn’t say that I am drawn to the Thai Buddhist way.

Is there a heaven or Hell, guess I will find out when my times comes, just got me to thinking where would I like my final resting place to be…

Edited January 26, 201313 yr by POAK

Most probably on my back.

By the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond.

....or a rice paddy just outside Nakhon Nowhere more probably.

In the country where I have spent most of my life! Fingers crossed that will be Thailand which will give me another 30 odd years and I'll have survived to the ripe old age of 90!!

Couldn't care less. Whatever is cheapest and easiest for my loved ones.

Not judging anyone but I fail to see why it will matter unless there are some practical reasons; I can understand how NOW when you are alive you would have some sentimental reasons for wanting to be in a special place or near someone else who has already passed - but you'll be dead: either you will cease to exist and be unaware of anything at all or you will be in some sort of afterlife that I would think transcends such things as geographic location....

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Edited January 26, 201313 yr by SteeleJoe

When I die, I'll be past caring. Instructions to the other half, is do with my dead body as you like.

Who cares, I am dead, so .......

burn me and throw my ashes into a lake or the sea, depending on where I will die... and have two big parties, one in Thailand and one in Switzerland with whatever money my families deem ok to spend.. this way I will soon be where I always wanted to be... all around the world... and no, I don't care about the polution I will be responsible for

I really want a sky burial, but I don't think that would ever be possible for me, so it would be cremation followed by scattering of my ashes on Dartmoor. Not that this would be a worry to me, but at least I would leave my loved ones standing in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

i personally could not care less. though i will be cremated.

After that, up to you.

... what no scattering of one's ashes over the hallowed turf of Murrayfield ?

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Most probably on my back.

Upside down me, so everyone can kiss my butt!!

I love it here so this will be where I die although not for many years yet I hope.

Only thing I said to my wife, if she outlives, me is 'up to you' as far as any funeral goes as I am not religious.

I want my ashes returned to the UK and scattered in my favourite spot in the New Forest. So many happy memories of being there as a youngster.

Edited January 26, 201313 yr by edwinchester

I am mildly surprised that nobody has mentioned Soi Cowboy, Waking Street or Patong.

I shall leave instructions that a mausoleum will be erected in Hua Hin. My body is to be preserved so that throngs of my admirers may contemplate and grieve before me.

My body shall be placed in a transparent crystal sarcophagus and be situated in a long hall on a white stone platform and it shall be bathed in soft red light. Marble arched columns will line the hall. Visitors shall file quietly by and bow at my feet, then to my right, and then to my left side, after which they shall exit via the gift shop where they can purchase recordings of my greatest speeches, photographs of me in my heyday and other mementos of their visit. Income from the git shop shall help fund my everlasting memorial and serve to employ the beloved Thais who will be eager to work at the mausoleum.

My spirit will have left my physical body, but my physical presence will remain to help the people heal from their grief. As well, it shall continue to provide motivation for those that wish to follow a better path. The people need me.

This is my gift to the people.

As it is said, so shall it be done.

Mind you, this being Thailand, I anticipate that my body will get dumped in a klong while my domestic partner/girlfriend/wife or whoever was lucky enough to gamble on sticking around long enough for me to die, empties my Thai bank accounts and sells all my belongings. If I am lucky, one of my relatives will come looking for me to see if they inherited anything. If they find my bones, I anticipate that they would be sold on ebay as bone meal for the garden.

Edited January 26, 201313 yr by geriatrickid

burn me and throw my ashes into a lake or the sea, depending on where I will die... and have two big parties, one in Thailand and one in Switzerland with whatever money my families deem ok to spend.. this way I will soon be where I always wanted to be... all around the world... and no, I don't care about the polution I will be responsible for

Um, they don't grind your charred skeletal remains into a fine dust here, as is the case in Western countries. So they'll be slinging your bones off of the nearest prementory being careful to avoid any soi dogs

In an urn.

Dump me overboard and let the crabs have at it.

burn me and throw my ashes into a lake or the sea, depending on where I will die... and have two big parties, one in Thailand and one in Switzerland with whatever money my families deem ok to spend.. this way I will soon be where I always wanted to be... all around the world... and no, I don't care about the polution I will be responsible for

Um, they don't grind your charred skeletal remains into a fine dust here, as is the case in Western countries. So they'll be slinging your bones off of the nearest prementory being careful to avoid any soi dogs

Hmm.... actually... giving my healthy life style... if they would feed the bones to the soi dogs, at least that soi could be declared "dog-free" for some time

Most of my close relatives have been cremated and my wife and I scattered their ashes in the Pacific from Queensland in Australia. Since I have always enjoyed traveling My instructions are to be cremated and my wife will keep my ashes until she passes on, then she will be cremated and we will be scattered in the Pacific. That way we will get to travel together and some day meet my brother, sister and mother who are out there somewhere. I should mention I'm in no rush to join them.

Cremation sounds much nicer than being stuck in the ground six foot under. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out.

Barbecue, big party, space already reserved in our local Wat with a nice view. Wifey is nothing if not practical (or is she planning something? )

If I die here in Thailand my son says he is more than happy to pop over here and have me burnt to a cinder. That'll do me.

Most of my close relatives have been cremated and my wife and I scattered their ashes in the Pacific from Queensland in Australia. Since I have always enjoyed traveling My instructions are to be cremated and my wife will keep my ashes until she passes on, then she will be cremated and we will be scattered in the Pacific. That way we will get to travel together and some day meet my brother, sister and mother who are out there somewhere. I should mention I'm in no rush to join them.

Cremation sounds much nicer than being stuck in the ground six foot under. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out.

Then the worms get eaten by the birds and you are now flying free ...... until you end up in a pot and eaten by the locals

looking over my favorite fishing place ......... Lake Eucumbene New South Wales Australia

What a morbid bloody post....on Australia Day too....oh well bedda hav annuder one hey mate.

Ashes scattered at Punakaiki, NZ

... what no scattering of one's ashes over the hallowed turf of Murrayfield ?

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In the hope of one day seeing a win?

Either scatter my ashes over the Millerntor- Stadium in St.Pauli or in the sea near Khao Lak.

In the paupers grave in Nong Kai, with a bench and a small plaque facing the Mekong River.

The inscription will read " A good place to refect and enjoy a Chang."

Edited January 26, 201313 yr by Chittychangchang

I'm donating my body to science. That's why I need to preserve it in alcohol until they can use it.