Thread: Going Out In Style...

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Read this in my hometown paper online - He loved carriages and always talked about gonig to his final resting place in a horse-drawn hearse...

Carriage lover ‘exits’ in horse-drawn hearse | Wilkes-Barre News | The Times Leader

Hey, I didn't know you were from the area. I read that story this morning when I got the paper, and I was actually gonna post it.

Anyway, it looks like such an elegant way to go.

Now THAT's "going in style".

I, for one, have requested a New Orleans Band for my funeral. That might be a bit tough on whoever is pulling it together, since I'm no where near New Orleans.

Craig

The band may be a little easier to pull off than my request of cremation and then shot out of a civil war canon....I pity my family if they took that seriously....The canon part anyway......ZR

NightRide - born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, now living in Maryland.

Were you around during the flood in '72? For sheer creepiness, nothing beats what happened to the old Forty-Fort Cemetery.

For the uninitiated, during a flood of the Susquerhanna River in June of '72, the pressure of the water against the dike undercut it, causing the dike to collapse and give way - right where the Cemetery was located. The river dug up about a third of the cemetery, and vaults, caskets and the remains, some over 2 hundred years old, were disinterred. Many were washed downstream, but because this was on a curve of the river, backwash and currents also pushed them UPstream, so when residents returned it was common for people up the river from the washout to find remains strewn in their yards as well. I remember a picture of a casket lodged between the second floors of 2 closely-built homes. Plus numerous pictures and stories...
National Guard reservists were assigned to collect and re-interr the remains, in hot, humid Summer weather. A horrible assignment.

Nah, im only 16, but I hear stories about it all the time.

That sounds creepy as heck.

Yeah, I have visions of that scene in poltergiest with the heavy rain and coffins and bodies popping up out of the water!...ZR

They should turn it into a festival, like Colorado did with the Emma Crawford Coffin Race.

As for me, I'ld love them to boil the meat off these ole bones and donate the rest to one 'o you fine folks.




















I've been told it's not happening....so youll have to come dig me up.

I'm pretty sure my kids will just stick me in one of my toe-pinchers so that the retirement checks will keep coming in