ChristineHMcConnell / A Necropolis Christmas Contest!

okay i know this post is forever old but i personally love st louis no 1 cemtery in new orleans. its right on the edge of the french quarter, hauntingly beautiful, and allegedly super duper haunted. HOWEVER; i want to be turned into a gemstone and set into a cursed looking sword so i can travel and have spooky stories told about me for the rest of eternity and hopefully someone will name a D&D item after me/my sword. If im lucky i'll end up in a cursed items exhibit 500 years from now!

Leonhart House

2024-06-18 00:39:15 +0000 UTC

How cool!!

Kathleen Smith

2023-07-17 02:22:14 +0000 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3C2cN4ASKRmIwl2zjpDSAn Im sad that I missed the contest, but this is an ep of a podcast my friend and I do on cemeteries. I was going to submit these graveyards and the Comb grave style that originated around White Co. TN.

Elizabeth Goans

2023-01-18 23:54:43 +0000 UTC

My great-aunt is buried there and it is a truly magical place! And I have no doubt she'd be one of the ones up to mischief too :-D

Laura T

2022-12-21 23:25:54 +0000 UTC

Noooooo I misssssed it!! 🥺 best of luck to you all though!!!

Kari Fennel

2022-12-21 20:43:31 +0000 UTC

Slate hill cemetery, also called Old Slate Hill Burying Ground, in Yardley Pennsylvania. My close friend lives across the street from it and we have enjoyed strolling through it together (I’ve made a drawing of us together there for her birthday one year). It’s small and very old with the oldest grave dating around 1700, and is one of the oldest cemeteries in the county. It would be nice to be buried in a simple environmentally friendly wooden box maybe among friends and loved ones. Or in in a biodegradable pod that feeds a tree (but I’ve only seen that as a prototype idea so far). That’s one burial idea that appeals!

Jess Meister

2022-12-20 03:49:57 +0000 UTC

I completely missed the boat with submitting a funeral plan before the deadline. But I thought I'd share anyways. Because I actually just found out I have a spot in a family crypt. Soo exciting! Pretext, I just recieved a casket with a viewing window (in need of relining) & I also drive a hearse (as a daily driver) 💆🏻🧟Preparation: My plan is to be prepared here (BC Canada) by my friend if they're still working ATOD. Dressed in my forever ghost outfit I will have lovely hand made and placed in my casket I have relined. It has a viewing window (very princessy) I would like to be barred with some of my favorite things and the ashes of my most beloved pets. 🐈‍⬛ ⚰️🚙🚗🛻Transfer: Be drivin in my own hearse across Canada to Montreal where I will join the rest of my family in the family crypt if there's room or the extended family plot (where my grandmother is) I would strongly encourage and pay the way for my friends and family to join me on one last roadtrip. All convoy down together hopefully in all of their favorite cars. 📍Cemetery: Notre Dame cemetery Montreal. It's the second oldest cemetery in Canada. My maiden name is Archambault, my ancestors dug the first well in Montreal and we have one of those big old fancy crypts. (Fingers crossed is can get in there) I would prefer to be buried in the older part of the cemetery. If not there's still lots of room in the other family plot in that cemetery, in which case I will get a headstone. (P.S Christian there's room for 6 more if you'd like to join me!) 🪦Headstone: will include my most prized recipe. 💌Service: at my graveside service I would like to have a tickle trunk of all my Halloween costumes I've made and would encourage everyone to pick something to wear and keep. As well as hand out postcard sized Ouija boards as my "eulogy/Memorial card keepsake" and tell everyone to stay in touch. 🎵Funeral song: Dead Man's party by oingo Boingo ❤️Also I would like to incorporate the idea of having your heart removed to stay at your family home. That's such an incredible ideal. ❤️🏡

Sam Gajdos

2022-12-19 06:39:34 +0000 UTC

Hello!!! Thank you for the giveaway! My favorite cemetery is Calgary Cemetery in Milwaukee, WI! It’s located on an extremely hilly property in the city with a chapel located on top of the hill and a crematory built into the side of the hill. It’s stunning and I have family buried there from the 1800’s. My burial plans are a bit in the air, but ideally I will have moved to Cali and can be composted there, though I can also be composted in Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Vermont. If I can’t move to one of those places before I die, then I just want to be buried in the ground wrapped in nothing, but a shroud. I’m a “green burial” enthusiast, however … HOWEVER! My goth spooky little heart totally still wants a really extravagant tombstone in a historic cemetery and I would love to be melodramatic and have my heart buried there, haha! My heart already belongs to the cemeteries of this world, so I might as well actually bury it there, right?! Thank you again for this opportunity and for just you bring your beautiful, inspiring, wonderful self! Happy holidays!

Stephanie Riedel

2022-12-18 15:39:33 +0000 UTC

Merry Christmas Christine! 1. My favourite cemetery is Alloway Auld Kirk cemetery in Scotland. It’s a tiny cemetery that wraps round the ruins of a 16th century church. I visited it 10 years ago and it has stuck with me ever since. What made me fall in love was a tomb stone that had a large skull and cross bone’s on it and writes “here lies the corpse”. I don’t know why, but I had always thought that kind of gothic imagery only lived in Tim burton films and Hocus Pocus. I think this visit was the catalyst for a real love of gothic things. It’s also a special place as it’s a few doors down to the home of Robert Burns (the writer of Auld Lang’s Syne). His father and sister are actually buried in the graveyard. There’s also a poem written by Robert Burns called Tam o’ Shanter which is about a farmer who stumbles upon witches and warlocks dancing in the Kirk while the devil plays bagpipes. It’s a small and unassuming cemetery and Kirk, but nether the less was abundant with beauty and history. 2. I don’t want my funeral to be a sad occasion. I’d like it to be a little weird and full of humour. I’d love a gothic horse drawn carriage and a gothic haunted mansion wake after, with lots of roses and candlelight. I think I’d like to be cremated, but I can’t decide wether I’ll put in a recording of my voice saying “I’m not dead yet” or weather I’ll put corn kernels in the coffin so as everyone cries, you start hearing a popping sound. Also, if I could convince people to dress in Victorian black clothes I would, but I think I might be pushing it. It’s also highly important that I’m scattered with my pets, somewhere beautiful. Maybe in the ruins of a castle, so I can meet some sexy prince ghosts. There’s always hope for us single gals in the after life haha

Kirsty Marriott

2022-12-18 15:24:38 +0000 UTC

I’m late to the party, but the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona was really cool, sadly I missed the museum with all the funerary carriages

Raye watts

2022-12-18 04:42:41 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the Rawlins Frontier Prison cemetery in Rawlins WY. I was a tour guide at the Wyoming Frontier Prison when I was in highschool. The prison was the first penitentiary in Wyoming after it was granted statehood. The prison itself still has the gas chamber and hanging gallows in it. The cemetery is spooky, nestled in pine trees at the top of a hill overlooking the prison. Several of the graves belong to the inmates who were executed. So much history and so very spooky. 2. I would love to have my body composted by the company Recompose. They turn your body into soil and the soil is then used to help tree regrowth in areas damaged by wild fires. I love the thought of my body returning to the earth and helping to create new life.

Rebecca Armstrong

2022-12-17 23:30:49 +0000 UTC

There’s a cemeter

Jane French

2022-12-17 13:03:27 +0000 UTC

So bummed I missed the contest! It was a hectic weekend and I said I’d come back to this post later and alas! I waited too long! But I thought this was a great question and I wanted to share that I actually have all my burial requests already written down for whoever will be burying me. I’m a short person so I asked to have a longer coffin so I could fit some of my most precious possessions at my feet (that would otherwise end up in a dump). This includes the ashes of all my pets! I don’t spread their ashes when they die, but keep them with me, and I’d love to keep them in death too : ] 💜

Beckie

2022-12-17 04:34:14 +0000 UTC

I want to be buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. There are a ton of amazing people buried there so if I end up becoming a ghost, at least I know there will be a lot of interesting people to talk to. There are also a lot of famous people buried there, so I know my grave will always be taken care of. I want my casket to be like my Nana's: Cobalt blue with Celtic symbols on the corners (we are of Irish heritage). I want everyone to wear bright neon colors. No black anywhere. My best friend has agreed to wear a grim reaper costume and to stand in the corner staring at people. There will be only one sad song: The Parting Glass sung by The Three Kings. It will be played before the non religious funeral is concluded and everyone will have a shot of whiskey and there will be a shot of whiskey on my casket so I can share a final drink with my family and friends. The rest of the music will be cheerful. The wake will be an Irish wake where everyone is sitting around laughing, drinking, eating good food, and telling stories. I also want a tablet or something made where I can send future archaeologists on a wild treasure hunt that leads absolutely no where. I would also like to somehow have a retelling of my life buried with me so future archaeologist will know who I am. I am an archaeologist and I always wonder about the peoples' lives were like that I am digging up. I also kind of want to mess with future archaeologists. And my grave stone will be a bench so people can sit and visit their loved ones comfortably. There will be something written on it like "Come and sit and be with your loved ones." I find cemeteries beautifully quiet. If you just sit and listen, it's like you can almost hear the residents telling their stories.

Samantha

2022-12-17 01:50:16 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery that I have seen as of yet is Llano Cemetary in Amarillo Texas. My grandparents, mother and brother are buried there. It has Graves that date back I believe to the late 1800's. It has old crypts, many statues and in my opinion is a beautiful cemetery. I am unsure of my personal burial plans, but I would love to have my ashes spread at Disneyworld in the Haunted Mansion even though I know that's probably illegal. I just love that ride and the park is such a happy place to me.

DeSpookyGal

2022-12-17 00:56:55 +0000 UTC

The only think I really have planned in my head for my “burial plans” is to request that everyone come to my memorial or funeral or whatever dressed in their favorite colors. I can appreciate the drama of all mourning black for sure but I adore color and would love to have people remember me as a bright rainbow. My spouse and I have talked about being cremated though but where my remains end up after that is still in decided. We have appreciated sharing a joke about having which ever of us passes first turned into an hour glass so we can participate in game nights. 🤣 I don’t know how realistic that is though.

Laura Brubaker

2022-12-16 20:18:32 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetary is Symonds Street Cemetery in Auckland, New Zealand. I stayed near there for a few months a few years ago, and would take walks through and try to read the old, worn out headstones. I'd like to be buried in either a "green" cemetery, where people are interred without any embalming, wrapped in a shroud, or I'd like my body to be donated to a research centre/"body farm", where my body would be left to be scavenged by creatures. I just want to be returned to the earth!

Glynis W

2022-12-16 20:12:28 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery (well, it’s a graveyard) is Ballintoy Parish, Church of Ireland. It’s a little ancient church on the very north coast of Northern Ireland, sitting on top of the cliffs overlooking the Irish Sea (on a clear day you can see the Scottish highlands). The church was originally connected to a castle built in the 1600s - so you know it’s haunted. There’s only about 100 graves - so it’s an exclusive party. Some of the gravestones are so old, they’re illegible. We have folk tales about mermaids and ghost fishermen, and at Christmas there’s a candlelit carol service on the spooky grounds. My plan, when I die, is to be buried with my great granny who I was named after, under 3 giant oaks in another ancient graveyard. Those who outlive me have been instructed to plant Black Dahlias, Corpse Flowers and acid green Ivy to keep it looking as spooky as possible. A group of monks will be employed to chant mournfully.

Sara Sweeney

2022-12-16 18:41:29 +0000 UTC

I love Lexington Cemetery in Lexington Kentucky. Close to me and very old graves there and at my one in Danville, Bellevue cemetery. I think I want to be buried (green as possible) in one of the Victorian era cemeteries above (naturally) with a big ass creepy tombstone

Karmell Mazurek

2022-12-16 16:14:29 +0000 UTC

Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY is my favorite cemetery! They have moonlit tours and there’s somehow always a new corner to turn to find a fascinating mausoleum. I hope to be cremated and pressed into jewelry to pass down my family line (or among friends, and eventually end up in a consignment shop and passed along!)

Wren Ford

2022-12-16 15:52:24 +0000 UTC

Oh what a pitty, I thought is this sunday. Anyway just for the fun: I would go for Monmartre as well (could change if will I ever visit the St. Louis). In fact I'm still expecting a vampire to make me immortal, so I would call a Mausoleum my home. In the unlikely event there is no vampire coming for my soul, my Mausoleum will look like an egyptian tomb from the inside. I am an actual Egyptologist (yes I studied this), so I would go for an egyptian burial to prepare my body for my afterlife. There would be hieroglyphs on the wall, four Kanopen (without my organgs, just for decoration) and sarcophag with my body. But all inside the Mausoleum, like an unexpected interieur.

Antoinette du Bleumourant

2022-12-16 15:52:13 +0000 UTC

My favourite would be the Clowne Cemetery (UK) because it’s where I grew up and they had these cool trees at the back that had split open like boats on the trunks so you could climb up and sit in them :) I think I’d like to “become a tree” when buried, preferably something beautiful like a magnolia or cherry tree

Megan Sennett

2022-12-16 15:42:45 +0000 UTC

I know it sounds really weird but honestly I'd like to have a funeral "suitcase" lol let me explain My mom passed away almost 2 years ago and I inherited a few of her vintage suitcases. She was cremated and my father has her urn which he had to put away because their cats kept knocking it over (I think they knew she was in there and missed her). I have a cat and I thought she might do the same to me if that same situation came up. Looking at the vintage suitcases I thought how awesome it would be to somehow create the inside so I could put my ashes inside (I want to be cremated as well) as well as some small moments, letters, pictures, as well as the important papers that go along with cremated remains. I don't know how I'd decorate the outside to let people KNOW remains were inside but hopefully I'll have a long time to figure it out!!!! Much love to you and your family Christine XOXO ~Priscilla

Prissy Witch NJ

2022-12-16 14:53:23 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery would have to be the St. Louis cemetery in New Orleans, LA. I grew up just east of New Orleans and would visit the cemetery often as a kid. The intricate marble work of the mausoleums always impressed me. My burial plan would be ideally just wrapped in a biodegradable cloth and given back to the earth, love the idea of giving back to an earth that gave me so much!

Conner

2022-12-16 02:37:21 +0000 UTC

My favorite Cemetary isn’t very aesthetically pleasing- it’s the one my grandparents and aunt are buried in: New Lebanon Church Cemetary in Reidsville/Bethany NC. As far as my own burial plans I hope to not end up in a cemetery(despite my love for them, too many other corpses seems too social), I plan to be cremated and hopefully placed in a lovely urn whilst also being spread about in my favorite places- specifically the woods behind where I grew up. Though I used to say I wanted some of my ashes baked into a cake and served at my funeral and am hoping whoever is in charge of my remains makes that happen!

Caroline Quincy

2022-12-16 01:40:01 +0000 UTC

I live near the Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River, MA where Lizzie Borden is buried. Not the fanciest looking cemetery but the company is unique! I'm interested in an eco-friendly burial. Something like Capsula Mundi which is a seed shaped burial pod. As the body decays in the pod, it nourishes a tree planted on top.

Bonnie Strebel

2022-12-16 00:54:42 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, Ga. It is the largest cemetery in the southeast and has an amazing mausoleum which is the largest ever built of its kind under one roof and contains over 11,000 bodies.it also houses over 70 stained glass windows. The founder of Coca-Cola is buried there. It is thought that the Burford Holly Bush originated in Westview. I believe the land is 577 acres in total with so much to explore!

Trevor Howell

2022-12-16 00:03:51 +0000 UTC

Oh, I didn't know there was more than one! Cool :)

Christina Rodriguez

2022-12-15 20:15:23 +0000 UTC

Christine! This isn’t a submission. Have you seen cabinet of curiosities on Netflix!? It’s wonderfully creepy. If you haven’t it’s a must. It’s an anthology series and each episode is created by a different director. I’m only 3 episodes in but I’m in love. Guillermo del Toro is the host a directs an episode. So fun!

Ashley Lucero

2022-12-15 19:45:25 +0000 UTC

I know the submissions probably meant the past Sunday but I still wanted to answer. 1. I like Old Burying Point Cemetery as I visit Salem when my mom comes to visit. We usually pick historic places to visit every times she up so I think it's less of the appearance of the cemetery and what I learn. Last yearn I learned about Hawthorne and how his writings were influenced by the events of Salem and how he changed his name to detachment himself from his father's wrong doings. 2. I have a few ideas as far as burial. I would either like to be. Turned into a mushroom... I like mushrooms, it's a circle of life, and also I could be eaten by a forriager or animal and maybe move around. If I am a ghost I don't want to be stuck in one location... I don't know how ghosts work and which theory is right... whether they haunt locations or people. Not that I would haunt people... maybe just make their house smell like fresh bread all of the time. I could also be turned into a diamond. I have always thought it would be interesting to have like a large family beautifully carved clock that has gem sockets on it to hold gems of family members and pets who have become diamonds. ITs fantastical but could be passed down generationally. And thirdly and more recent... buried on or near my property. My dream my whole life was to build a place and my partner and I are finally getting the opportunity to and we are building it ourselves to look like a fantastical tavern so all of our friends and family can come together. I love old eccentrics like Hammond (from Gloucester) and the idea of being able to make the ultimate project is amazing so I'd like to be able to be there and use the things I have learned from watching your creations.

Dracokiro

2022-12-15 18:38:06 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is The Jacksonville Cemetery in Jacksonville, OR (My hometown which is historically preserved) It's an old pioneer Cemetery where my dad was buried that I grew up right next to. 2. My burial plan is a natural burial in a biodegradable wicker coffin, but in the meantime, I want to get human composting and open air cremation legalized in my state for other people's good deaths.

Joy L Fithian

2022-12-15 18:11:01 +0000 UTC

Here is my Burial plan. Cremation, with a twist! Take your ashes and have a glass artisan incorporate them into beautiful colored glass tiles and then have a stain glass artisan recreate a beautiful life size stain-glass image of you that can be installed into your incredibly beautiful New York home where you can remain forever young, forever beautiful and forever keeping a watchful eye on future residents!

LT Schulte

2022-12-15 14:24:20 +0000 UTC

Christine, While my burial idea doesn't necessarily include a cemetery my all time favorite one to visit is Cave Hill Cemetery located in Louisville, Kentucky. Sheis a 296-acre (1.20 km2) Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum! Stunningly beautiful and worthy of long walks during every season!

LT Schulte

2022-12-15 14:23:45 +0000 UTC

Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, SC. It’s a gorgeous cemetery with spanish moss draped live oaks and a beautiful view of the water. There’s a lovely bridge to walk and some incredibly unique crypts and tombstones, including a pyramid & one soul named Muckenfuss! As for my death, I want my body to be cremated, but that’s not the fun part. I want to host a post death murder mystery event for all my nieces & nephews (I don’t have children). There are 16 of them, and they can compete for their inheritance in one amazing weekend adventure with a host, catering, & actors. We’ve always enjoyed playing games together, so it seems a fitting exit. ; ) Hollie Williams

Hollie & Lance Williams

2022-12-15 13:23:06 +0000 UTC

Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland. One million people buried there (or so they say), the setting for a section of Ulysses byJames Joyce, the burial site for some of the most important Irish figures, and it literally has a watch goer that was built to spot and atop body snatchers in the 18th and 19th century. My ideal post death situation would be floated out on a large body of water and set ablaze like a glorious Viking but saving that I would settle for cremation and having my remains tossed into the Atlantic Ocean and being in my natural piscean state.

Siobhán Kenny

2022-12-15 12:44:34 +0000 UTC

I choose Lafayette Cemetery no. 1 not for the location popularity but its proximity to the gorgeous mansions along this area with fantastic, rod iron fences. I have never visited New Orleans(In this life) but I plan to in the next few years. My burial plan does not include being entered anywhere. I have chosen to be cremated and spread over the Virginia Dare Bridge along the North Carolina coast line. This place is very special to me. I would, however, love to have a fantastic sendoff in the form of a memorial. I am part Native American and I’m studying Reiki healing. I would have a Native American Shaman/healer at my memorial dedication. I’m also Scottish. I would need to have a bag piper nearby for an erie sendoff as my soul wanders around taking in the last sights and sounds of this mortal coil before I move on to the next stage, what ever that might be for my soul’s journey.

Dawn Hutchins

2022-12-15 10:57:14 +0000 UTC

I love the Greyfriar Kirkyard in Edinburgh. So many of the old tomb fronts and memorials have wonderfully creepy skulls and skeletons and intricate details that would be a perfect place for me to be memorialized, for anyone that knows me, to come and be comforted because it feels like who I was in life. I took lots of pictures of my favorites during my recent visit. But since it's pretty full up, as a lot of the inspiration for names went into the Harry Potter books, I'd be better off with a viking type funeral, pushed out on a beautiful lake, with Wednesday Addam's launching an arrow to light my corpse up. However I'd sign my bestie up to sneak in some fireworks to really blow everyone's socks off.

Andrea Schultz

2022-12-15 07:51:04 +0000 UTC

Hope I'm not too late! 1. My favorite cemetary in the US so far is the Sleepy Hollow Cemetary in New York. Outside the US, it would be the Highgate in London. Both are just so beautiful and full of interesting potential neighbors. 2. For my burial, I have always wanted to have my casket brought in by way of a glass hearst carriage like the one parked outside the Haunted Mansion. I would also love for those attending my funeral to send me off with a bang by way of a second line dance with parasols and jazz music!

Erica Oliva

2022-12-15 04:47:49 +0000 UTC

https://oldgraycemetery.org/home

Brandy Lambdin

2022-12-15 03:47:37 +0000 UTC

2. I am donating anything that can be used to anybody who needs it. What's left of me I'd like to be used as fertilizer to plant a willow tree. I don't want my children to have to visit a cold stone. I want to have arms to hold them instead. My name can be carved into the tree. This is my dearest wish. I used to seek refuge in my neighbors willow growing up. It's arms always comforted me. I think my willow will be do the same for my children and someday grand children. ❤️

Brandy Lambdin

2022-12-15 03:37:34 +0000 UTC

1. Old Grey cemetery in Knoxville TN. I've been many times to take pictures with the many angels and headstones. Its beautiful.

Brandy Lambdin

2022-12-15 03:33:00 +0000 UTC

Hollywood cemetery in Richmond, VA. It overlooks a river with cliffs. It's just genuinely beautiful to walk in. And my plan is to be composted hopefully, but it may not be legal in my state yet. The plan is to move to Washington or Oregon by then.

Deanna Zermeno

2022-12-15 02:40:08 +0000 UTC

Yosemite Cemetery, it’s a small pioneer cemetery in Yosemite Valley with very old graves. I had some super fun, spooky, and eye opening experiences there, both as a teen and as an adult. There are lots of bats there, too! I want to have a natural burial. No coffin or casket for me. I want my body to return to the earth, be food for animals and organisms, and become part of the earth again, where I’m meant to be.

Melissa Cina

2022-12-15 02:15:43 +0000 UTC

Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah! It’s perfection. A mushroom coffin would be cool, I’m still figuring it out, but I know for certain I want my body to be eaten by something! Maybe pigs if possible?

Meredith

2022-12-15 00:58:15 +0000 UTC

Museo Panteón de Belén (you can google that way and you'll find it)My burial plan has a lot to do with this cemetery, because there is a legend about a tree that grew from a a tree that grew from the stake that a vampire has driven into its heart. So I want the same for me, i want to be buried with a stake through my heart so i can also have my own tree at my tombstone.

Rex AM

2022-12-15 00:55:09 +0000 UTC

Thank you for the awesome Christmas card. As always, very unique.

Jorja Thomas-Murcia

2022-12-15 00:39:06 +0000 UTC

Green-Wood Cemetery is super unique. The grave of Charles Adolph Schieren and his wife. Schieren was the mayor of Brooklyn in the late 1800s. There were 26 mayors of Brooklyn before it officially became a part of New York City. 23 are buried in Green-Wood. The sculpture is of the Angel of Death. I will be cremated but imagine a different ending where I get a ride to Heaven on a golden coach.

Jorja Thomas-Murcia

2022-12-15 00:34:32 +0000 UTC

1. Olšany Cemetery - especially the parts where important people from past are, as the oldest part is the most atmospheric. 2. Not yet sure, I am not sure if we have any other minimalistic option than cremation. And I believe my little urn will fit into our family grave :) Will change plans if any of the greener options became awailable in the meantime.

Kateřina Urbanová

2022-12-15 00:22:26 +0000 UTC

As generic as this choice may be, my favorite cemetery is Père-Lachaise, in Paris. As for my burial plan, I would like to be cremated (via hydro cremation).

Korra Faust

2022-12-14 21:58:36 +0000 UTC

1. Bosque Eterno in Puebla Mexico, there are no graves, just a forrest. 2. I want to be cremated and bury there, under a tree. The whole family can be buried under the same tree, instead of a family grave, it's a tree. I want that.

Alejandra Centeno

2022-12-14 21:53:42 +0000 UTC

I loooove thé Christmas Card!!! Thank you. Would love to have it in a Print!!!

Logan Ersatz

2022-12-14 21:45:53 +0000 UTC

1) St Michael and All Angels Church in Haworth, West Yorkshire England. The Brontë sisters are buried here too. It’s graveyard is straight out of a movie set, so atmospheric and beautiful. 2) A Snow White glass & gold coffin and I’m perfectly preserved in it….”even in death, the dwarfs could not find it in their hearts to bury her. They fashioned a coffin of glass and gold, and kept eternal vigil at her side”.

Caroline Draper

2022-12-14 20:09:49 +0000 UTC

1) Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado, was founded in 1890. Seriously google the little Ivy Chapel! They also have great mausoleums! 2) Buried in a plain wood coffin and in all cotton clothes so my body can decompose naturally and not destroy the earth. The gravestone epitaph will say “Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.”.

Julie Knowles

2022-12-14 17:42:13 +0000 UTC

The graveyard/ cemetery that I love is Kilmun Graveyard, in Argyll Scotland www.historickilmun.org Historic Kilmun is located in the village of Kilmun, Argyll, Scotland on the shores of the Holy Loch. The history of Scotland has been associated with this area for thousands of years. The earliest known peoples settled here around 3500 BC; the Vikings explored here; there was a thriving mediaeval community; and the Victorian wealthy built their villas. People have been making their mark here for centuries. Not only is this graveyard on the edge of the prettiest mountains and lochs it also has red squirrels and deer running around. Also some very cool people are buried here, so lots of mischief to be had while haunting!

Katie Edge Mellor

2022-12-14 10:20:59 +0000 UTC

I just googled it - it looks so beautiful!

Curious Crittie

2022-12-14 07:00:37 +0000 UTC

Omg yes! I love this cemetery! I remember being so shocked how small Sleep Hollow was in general!

Curious Crittie

2022-12-14 06:59:08 +0000 UTC

Yes! I love this cemetery!

Curious Crittie

2022-12-14 06:56:40 +0000 UTC

Omg noo I’m so sad I missed this 😢 I know that I won’t be in the competition but I’ll still post! 1.) It may not be a true cemetery but I would say the Granary Burying Grounds in Boston. Before discussing why I love it, I will mention that the information stands need to be updated to respectfully reflect/honor the enslaved people who are buried there (I can go on for days about this but I’ll leave it with that comment). Outside of that, I do think this resting ground has some of the most interesting head stone carvings that truly show case the art at the time and it’s fascinating reading the language they used back then to recognize the dead. It has tons of information about it as well AND you can grab a Samuel Adams across the street in the pub while you drink in front of Samuel Adams corpse, so extra bonus points! There is just something very eerie about that place and how it’s just smack-dab in the middle of the city. I definitely felt lost in time while there! 2.) I have some major anxiety centered around what will happen to my body after I die (I didn’t find out that I was more scared of what will happen to my body versus actual death until I did my dissertation on fear of death/dying and I took the assessment haha!), so I think I truly just want to be cremated and get it over with hahah! I do not like thinking of my body remaining underground pumped full of chemicals to remain intact BUT I also feel scared toward my body rotting in the ground. Idk why…it makes no sense, I know! To each their own though! I just want to become ash and I want my loved ones to spread my ashes on ancestral grounds and other places around the world I love or have always wanted to see.

Curious Crittie

2022-12-14 06:52:57 +0000 UTC

I’m so disappointed, I didn’t see there was a contest until it was too late ☹️ Anyway just in case Christine reads this... I’ll say the Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, Romania. They have these beautiful, brightly painted tombstones with art depicting the persons life or the way they died. You can sort of laugh at death there. As for my funeral, I don’t really have anything witty or interesting to say. I just want to be buried next to my husband, my Love. Will probably be at a military cemetery, where maybe they’ll put a flag on our grave every Memorial Day

Donna Blue

2022-12-14 04:22:52 +0000 UTC

Hello Christine and friends, Firstly my favourite cemetery is Saint John's Catholic Cemetery in Waubaushene, Ontario because my grandfather is buried there. Strangely enough, I'm his namesake (his name was Clarence and I was supposed to be born a boy) and he died on my 7th birthday. I have pleasant memories of running my fingers along the pebbled marble and laying offerings of sweetgrass and bacon on his grave. Secondly, I plan to be pressed into a diamond and tossed into the Caribbean Sea, just like the old lady did in that movie we all know.

Clarissa B

2022-12-14 04:12:13 +0000 UTC

Hello, I hope I'm not too late! 1) So, for my favorite cemetery, its the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris! 2) As for a burial plan, my wish is to become a piece of art! I love to make sculpture with the items I found in the street, trash and whatever. They look like skeletons and insects (I call them my vegan taxidermy :)), and my plan was to make one human (like a self portrait) in a coffin coffee table with a glass to see the sculpture and my ashes would be kept in its heart! My only problem is that I finally had the courage to talk about my plan to 4 persons, (my mother, two of my closest friends and my therapist), and only one of them are reacting very positively at my plan, another one is neutral and the two last one very uncomfortable and try to convince me, nicely, its a bad idea.

MecaniqueFairy

2022-12-14 02:56:11 +0000 UTC

1. I’ve spent a fair bit of time walking in Brompton Cemetery in West London. It is one of the “magnificent seven” an informal term applied to seven large private cemeteries in London. It is one of Britain’s oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries and is a haven for nature. There are two centuries of graves with beautiful old gravestones and funerary art. It is still open for burials. I would also like to mention the mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton (not the actor) in St. Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake. It is a genuine London curiosity, you can climb an iron ladder to take a look inside. It is shaped like a tent and is complete with coffins and artefacts of their lives and travels. 2. This is painfully on my mind, my heart is broken. My Dad died just last week. I want to be buried with him. I’m having my body flown back from wherever I am to Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada to be buried with him. I want to be buried in a wicker woven (like a basket) coffin covered with flowers. And have a headstone carved in limestone from Manitoba - the stone my Dad worked with as a bricklayer.

Vicky Neish

2022-12-14 01:21:01 +0000 UTC

1)slc cemetery in Utah. Also known as the final resting place of Lilly E Gray 2)I've thought about having my body turned into compost and then being used as soil for a garden. I've also thought about being used as food for mushrooms but that's a newer concept and isn't generally common. I simply wish to leave no trace! Other than all my artworks 🖤

Riley Sharp

2022-12-14 00:15:29 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemeteries are Greenwood in Brooklyn, NY and the Unitarian Churchyard in Charleston, SC 2) I have toyed around with a couple different ideas of my final resting place. I either want to be buried on my homestead and start my family cemetery there. Or have my ashes turned into diamonds and made into antique style jewelry for my daughters, or turn my ashes into a paint and use that to paint my portrait and have it hung in the hall of my house on my homestead and still overseeing all of the daily activities 😉. Still deciding 🤔

Katie Hunter

2022-12-13 22:59:30 +0000 UTC

Thorp-Heald cemetery, which is a very small family cemetery down the road. It exists in front of the ruins of an old castle. There's a lot of stones that have no engravings on them or they've been washed away with time. Very overgrown and definitely has a creepy vibe.

Meggan Shepard

2022-12-13 22:20:36 +0000 UTC

I've been waiting for this contest for months but I think I'm too late to answer. I misread the directions and I thought that the submission was going to be on 12/18/22. I guess I will give my thoughts anyway. 1.) My favorite cemetery is Kirchhof von St. Elisabeth (St. Elizabeth I Cemetery) in Berlin, Germany. It is a beautiful place that is located right next to the Berlin Wall Monument. Here's a link - https://evfbs.de/index.php?id=248 2.) As for my burial plan, I just want to be cremated and whoever has the duty of picking up my ashes from the crematorium can do whatever they wish with my ashes, as long as they DO NOT bring me back to my home state of Tennessee. Thank you for all that you do!

Stephanie Esman

2022-12-13 22:18:33 +0000 UTC

O0o0o0o0o I like these questions. My favorite cemetery is St. Mary's Cemetary in Watkins Glen, NY. It's super old and located right in the middle of the Watkins Glen Gorge. They have gravestones dating back to the 1800s and it's an absolutely gorgeous place to walk in the Fall. As for me, I want to be put back into the earth. No embalming. No chemicals. Just given back to the earth to fertilize and provide new life 😊

Lisa

2022-12-13 21:49:13 +0000 UTC

I missed the cut off because I got covid, but I'm telling you anyway. Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago. They used to host movie night during the summer, so you'd just go and sit by some graves and watch movies. Luckily, I work for a funeral home, so I know exactly what will be happening to me when I die. I've known since I was 15 that I wanted my body donated to science, and I want all my diaries buried in a grave. That's where my real life and existence is: in every thought and emotion I scribbled into a page.

Kim Miedema

2022-12-13 21:35:37 +0000 UTC

I’m still searching for my favorite cemetery… but I would love to have a mausoleum of sorts in an old historic cemetery. I really loved any of the cemeteries in New Orleans - anyplace with really old tombstones and mausoleums.

Mandy Arnold

2022-12-13 19:58:13 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. It has a ton of cool mausoleums, James A Garfield monument, Elliot Ness's grave, and my personal favorite the Haserot angel! https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-haserot-angel-cleveland-ohio https://www.lakeviewcemetery.com/ I don't have any burial plans yet, other than possibly cremation, but I would love to be decomposed by mushrooms and become part of the earth's mycelium if possible!

Jessica Hissem

2022-12-13 19:53:33 +0000 UTC

Oh man did I miss the cut of for this one? I'm still going to post mine because I think the graveyard I'm suggesting is fascinating. I was going to suggest Friars Bush Graveyard in Belfast, also known as "Plaguey hill" It's Belfast oldest Christian burial ground but is believed to date back to pre Christian times. The victims of Belfasts massive cholera outbreak are burried under a mound dubbed "Plaguey hill" it is also recognised as Belfasts official Famine site witch a plaque stating so on the ground near the entrance. During the 18th century it was used by Catholics for secret masses as Catholicism was banned at the time. In 1828 the marquis of Donegal provided extra land to extend the graveyard and it was also enclosed in an 8 foot high wall to deter graverobbers who had been pilfering bodies from friars Bush on the regular. Legend has it that St Patrick once built a church on the site and blessed a well there. It is currently closed to the public but you can book private tours of it and I would say there might be ways to convince to council to allow you to be burried there even though they stopped burials. As far as burial plans, me and my boyfriend have a few different ideas we like to toy with, one of which is buying a house with a big plot of land and getting planning permission for our own family mausoleum. Alternately he would like to be mummified and displayed as a family heirloom! But I'm not entirely sure where to go for mummifications, if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them 😅

Sarah Kane

2022-12-13 18:42:49 +0000 UTC

I missed the cut-off, but will share my hometown cemetery because it’s so cool. Historic Congressional Cemetery in DC is “home” to several lesser historic, but no less important people in US history. https://congressionalcemetery.org/ The cemetery allows dogs to run off-leash, hosts a book club called Tombs and Tomes, makes and sells honey they call Rest in Bees, hosts a 5k run called Dead Man’s Run, has a Death Cafe hosted by a Death Doula, hosts an annual Halloween tour called Soul Strolls where an empty crypt is turned into a bar, goat yoga in the cemetery and more. It’s a truly one-of-kind, special place. There’s a woman buried there underneath a replica of her favorite wardrobe. I love this idea and would do something similar. Maybe a stone replica of a Victorian wardrobe with me propped up inside in my favorite evening dress and photos of my cats and family on shelves inside. Outside would be carved with images of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (one of my favorite books), quotes from the book and some of my favorite poems and recipes. I would have daisies planted all around it 🌼

Jane Roser

2022-12-13 18:03:03 +0000 UTC

I don't know which "Sunday" it was (the last one or the next one?), but I'll give an answer anyway! 1) Without any doubt, the sleeping cemeteries of Caen : https://www.caenlamer-tourisme.fr/experiences-a-vivre/parenthese-bucolique-dans-les-cimetieres-dormants-de-caen/ ! With a particular fondness for the creepy atmosphere of the Saint Jean cemetery, with exuberant vegetation taking over, old rusty gates and ancient tombs, dilapidated steles blending into the scenery... 2) I would like to rot in peace! No cremation or embalming, but simply to be incorporated into the earth, and that my remains serve to nourish a tree thanks to the technique of "humusation".

Marie

2022-12-13 16:27:59 +0000 UTC

I don't think I want to be buried in a cemetery, my dream is to have my body placed in a forest where I will return to the earth. OR to have my friends be able to take a bone from my body for safekeeping ahaha they can make jewelry and just have a piece of me.

Tiffany

2022-12-13 16:20:48 +0000 UTC

Favourite cemetery - google: staro nisko groblje. It's an old cemetery in my town where people aren't getting buried anymore. It was a difficult pick between this and the old Roman cemetery in the town centre. I chose this one because it's "creepier", the other one is incorporated into the park inside the town fortress and is very cheerful, a lot of people don't even know it was a cemetery. (in case you are curious about that one google: rimsko groblje nis tvrdjava; short red brick wall holding tombstones and a one or two stone caskets, there are very few pictures online too...). I chose this one because it shared a fence wall with my high school. A lot of us had to go though the cemetry to get to school every day and in the winter, at night (we went to school in afternoon shifts too) when we would be returning home it was so eerie and beautiful. The cemetery isn't in very well taken care of so a lot of the graves, statues and chapels are covered in vines. When the snow would fall, or even just during the fall when the trees would lose their leaves, especially, it looked like the set of a film. And then when the moon was full, imagine... A lot of the students were scared but it really was wonderful if you are into spooky stuff. I have a lot of memories from there, just walking through or playing. We would go out during the break in the winter and have snowball fights. A classmate even once brought a sledge and we went out and went down a slope that was by the corner of the cemetery. It's a monument nowadays and our school is very associated with it to the point that locals call it 'The Gravedigger School' and all the students who go there - the gravediggers. It's kind of an inside joke and whenever someone from out of town hears about the gravedigger school they get so confused 😅. As for my burial plan, I want to get cremated and have my family scatter my ashes somewhere very beautiful. I don't have a place picked out yet, but it's going to be in nature, not in a city. The sea, a mountain... Something like that.

Ivana

2022-12-13 15:20:00 +0000 UTC

I didn't get the notice and missed the cutoff (if this Sunday was last Sunday!), but I enjoyed researching this topic, so I'll add my answer too! First, I discovered a few pet cemeteries where humans can be buried with their pets! The first, and my favorite, is the Paris Pet Cemetery: Le Cimetière des chiens d'Asnières-sur-Seine. The name mentions dogs, but all kinds of animals are buried there. Plus, it's famous for its (living) cat population. They leave out food and water near the graves so you can continue to be a Cat Protectress, even in death. The second pet cemetery is Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Schenectady, NY. Founded in 1896, it's the oldest pet cemetery in the United States and allows you to rest next to your best furry friends. I don't know what I'd do as part of my burial service, but I'd love to have a few vital organs made into diamonds. I know three companies (Algordanza, Eterneva, and Ionite) can make diamonds from cremated ashes. While I don't want to be fully cremated, I'd love it if my heart, eyes, and brain could be saved and used to create three diamonds and then be given to my loved ones (in a twisted Wizard of Oz-type way). I'd love to give my heart as a reminder to love wholeheartedly, my eyes as a reminder to look beyond the surface, and my brain as a reminder to act with wisdom. (Which would be ironic if I died doing something stupid, but let's hope that doesn't happen.)

Andie C

2022-12-13 02:04:31 +0000 UTC

I discovered my favorite graveyard many years ago unexpectedly, as most remarkable places and things are. It was a place that seemed to blur the lines between the present, the past, the hereafter, and the lit torch of legends. Years ago, in the early hours of New Years’ Day, I sleepily left the sun-bleached coast of Southern California for the mystically wild dampness of wintry Ireland to have an epic adventure and also to see where my ancestors came from (some of my family lineage still resides there (alive) to this day). Ireland surprised me as it proudly brooded with complexity, like a conflicted scholar on many cultural, mythological, religious, spiritual, and earthly levels. Our tour breezed my friend and I through stoic castles and thatched roof towns that were strongholds of distant histories that felt ever present, frequented long-standing pubs riddled with proud shiny-eyed men, eager to weave traditional charming yarns over murky beers, and we were surprised by the humorous undercurrents that only Ireland offered, such as the unhurried, stubborn sheep that adorably frequented the roads we traveled. I marveled at the mysteriously emerald hued land that birthed fearsome fables of leprechauns, fairies, and banshees (both mischievous and benevolent). It was also a land of enchanting mystical origins as well, one that is supposedly the birthplace of mystics, saints, artists, and visionaries. One particular site stood out as a place that surely held ancient secrets of depths not known, which was St. Columba's Church in Sligo (also known as Drumcliffe Parish Church). Alongside an Anglican church on the property was an 6th century ancient monastery that was founded by a supposed saint, which felt otherworldly in it of itself, but what stood out for me was the very small (but profound) graveyard nearby. In the graveyard there were respectful, almost superstitiously placed coping borders that surrounded the burial plots as if it were inferred that no one should rudely tread upon the dead, but allow them to rest in peace. Storm clouds thunderously poured as we tip-toed gingerly around the grave sites like well-mannered children during a stern church service. All of a sudden a grave caught my eye that was whispered about in hushed tones and brightened temporarily by camera phone flashes. It was the final resting place of the Nobel Prize winning poet W. B. Yeats. The message on the headstone sent a chill through me: "Cast a Cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by!” The quote on his gravestone were some of his final written words (authored from his deathbed no less!) from his poem, “Under Ben Bulben.” To have such passion and conviction and to march toward death with a pen in hand was (and is) truly awe inspiring to me as an artist/creative person. His words rang within me, and made me ponder the past, future, and death through his eyes; Yeats found those to be inconsequential cogs within the wheels of the realms of existence. He regarded the impressions we leave in the wakes of our legacies to live far longer than the amount of breaths we take, or the final breath that escapes us. Hopefully by the time I leave this earth I could say I created with gusto until my last breath like Yeats. If anyone should want to read his poem "Under Ben Bulben" here it is: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43298/under-ben-bulben

Jenny McKinsey

2022-12-13 01:38:17 +0000 UTC

1. As much as I enjoy walking and visiting cemeteries to learn peoples’ past stories and history, I don’t have a favorite. As a curiosity I’m sure there are a lot of love to see but as someone who is child free (and one of the last in my family tree) settling on a ‘resting place’ for myself never seemed to make sense. I’m not leaving anyone behind to visit. 2. Since I don’t really have a plan ‘for me’ so to speak I’ll say my plan for my parents/spouse. With their permission (assuming they go before me) I’d want to take some of their ashes and turn them into diamonds. I kind of like the idea of having a string of diamonds from my various relatives (or victims whichever!) and wearing a piece of jewelry that may be haunted. Even better once i pass on that such a necklace ends up in a vintage store somewhere and the next wearer may have their own portable cemetery around their neck.

Danielle

2022-12-13 01:13:21 +0000 UTC

1) All Saints Episcopal Cemetery on Pawley's Island in South Carolina. (https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/69392/all-saints-episcopal-church-cemetery) It's an incredible old cemetery with lots of amazing gravestones in a beautiful place. This picture is a good representation of the vibe: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x890030eeeb07302f%3A0xa342b2e0da406732!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMJf3ilU5wt9M7YTUVb8J1I0PneMvUS3QNnuaSh%3Dw260-h175-n-k-no!5spawleys%20island%20cemetery%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipP4R9-xrOfz4RYZtXsvVN-4nuTqqrUy2oHgNlRj&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwim5py6m_X7AhWjct8KHf52BacQ7ZgBKAB6BAgIEAI. There is a legend about a ghost named Alice in this cemetery (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7421/alice-flagg) and really detailed gravestones like this one, which describes an entire family that was lost in a storm (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119021336/arthur-belin-flagg). 2) I want to donate my body to science, but I'd like my ashes interred at an old cemetery called Lowes Bend. (https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/14894/lowes-bend-cemetery) It's in rural Tennessee, about an hour west of Nashville. I was taken to this cemetery every summer as a child for a "graveworking" day with my father's family. Up until the last few years, I knew my great-grandparents were there, but I didn't realize the true significance of the place. Through ancestry research, I discovered that the cemetery was started in 1828 at the death of my fifth-great grandfather! His grave is now marked with a stone marker and the original hand-carved sandstone headstones of he and my 5th great grandmother are mounted inside a wooden pavilion on site. Generations of my forebears are buried in this cemetery. It's incredible to drive in an electric car to a place where my ancestors' bodies were conveyed by horse-drawn carriages.

Chelsea Ashworth

2022-12-13 01:05:15 +0000 UTC

I thought this said “a necrophilic Christmas contest” and I was concerned for a moment. But I digress, here are my answers. 1. Highgate Cemetery in London, England. I think it’s absolutely beautiful and magical. It’s overgrown with beautiful plants and has catacombs and was even said to have vampire hunters or supernatural hunters lurk around. I think it’s one of the most peaceful and beautifully haunting cemeteries I’ve ever seen. 2. I want to be “buried” in a terramation, it’s the gentle transformation of turning human remains into soil. So your family can basically plant with your soil after you fully “compost.” A company called “return home” does it, if you are interested in looking that up as well.

Cora Kathlea

2022-12-12 23:39:32 +0000 UTC

All I can say is, this is going to be a hard contest, so many amazing ideas here…….i have nothing to add, but love reading these!!!!

DarkMoon

2022-12-12 23:19:06 +0000 UTC

Been looking forward to this contest for months and of course it hits when I'm out of town for the weekend so I miss the cutoff.

Sarah S

2022-12-12 21:54:14 +0000 UTC

1. Ferndale Cemetery in Ferndale, California. It's such a magical Victorian town. The cemetery was built in 1868 and overlooks the town. I especially love it because you can find the burial sites for previous owners of the Victorian inns that you can stay at in town. It's small but so peaceful and can even feel a little spooky when it's foggy. 2. My dream burial plan would be to buy a house built in the 1800s with a cemetery on the property. Then, I'd like to join the previous owners/ families that were buried there. If that doesn't work out, I'd like to do a tree pod burial. I'd love to know that my body gave nutrients to the ground where a tree could grow for hundreds of years.

Chelsey Moore

2022-12-12 21:34:03 +0000 UTC

Also late to the game as I was away from my phone all weekend, but would like to share. 1. The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY. I’ve been on several midnight tours throughout the country, but this cemetery is the most unique I have ever visited. Not only is it old, pretty, and filled with history and historical figures, but it sits along the Hudson and honestly has the happiest energy I’ve ever experienced. Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown is such an amazing place to visit so it would also be a cool place for loved ones to visit their dearly departed. 2. My plan is to be fired up to smithereens and then “laid to rest” with the all of my family, but not before there is a festive New Orleans funeral procession and Mexican style celebration of life that lasts at minimum a couple of days. 💀🥳

Paola Garcia

2022-12-12 21:23:05 +0000 UTC

1. Chestnut Hill Cemetery (AKA Killingworth Cemetery) in Killingworth, CT. Eternal rest here would be peaceful, and anyone buried there is in good company with others who have been laid to rest for hundreds of years. 2. What to do with a body when it's no longer needed in the physical? I suppose it makes the most sense to be dismembered: some parts can be donated, some parts can be cremated and those ashes can be turned into a diamond by someone who loves me, and the rest of the body parts could be strewn about as fertilizer for trees older than I was when I died.

Samantha Gerard

2022-12-12 21:02:16 +0000 UTC

I also have family at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo and I second the comments of Ren above!

Whitney Hotchkiss

2022-12-12 21:01:31 +0000 UTC

Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse and the Mexico Village Cemetery (I’ve spent a lot of time there visiting relatives and watering family plot flowers as a child). There is a stone bench headstone at one plot in the cemetery and if you crawl underneath it has a nasty word engraved on the underside! There’s a story about it my grandfather told me once, but all I remember is that it resulted from a tumultuous relationship…

Whitney Hotchkiss

2022-12-12 20:56:08 +0000 UTC

I've also missed the cutoff, I was too busy having belated birthday fun over the weekend! However, I'll give my answers anyway :-) In Scotland there was a tradition of having the symbols of your occupation carved into your head stone. There are some amazing headstones with carpenters or bakers tools, for example, carved into them although as a tour guide and curator I'm not sure what the tools of my trade would be! So instead I would like to be buried under an oak tree, the symbol of one branch of my family (pun not intended!) to be held for eternity in a tangle of roots, and if it were possible I would be buried in the cemetery of Dunfermline Abbey, Fife. The ancient capital of Scotland and burial place of Queens & Kings. I spent a lot of my childhood roaming amongst the headstones, you can feel the stories under your feet and if you sit quietly enough you can hear them.

Laura T

2022-12-12 20:55:00 +0000 UTC

Kid's is the "Black Angel Cemetary" in Council Bluffs IA- the view of Omaha from there is great as is the story of the Black Angel AND the model behind it (sad). from my youth, if you touch the Black Angel, you will see your own death. https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/the-history-and-haunting-of-council-bluffs-black-angel

Eric Griffith

2022-12-12 20:22:15 +0000 UTC

oh bummer, missed the cutoff. Welp, anyway my favorite cemetery is Forest Lawn cemetery in Buffalo, NY. It's so beautiful and lush, and some of the headstones are just incredible. Buffalo had a big economic boom at the turn of the century, so there are incredible Art Deco designs all over the cemetery. I've always wanted to be buried in a tree pod, so rather than a headstone, a lovely tree will grow and my body will be a part of helping it grow. But in my area they now have water cremation, which is more environmentally friendly than traditional cremation, and will allow me to become an incredible fertilizer my family can use on a tree in my honor.

Ren Manley

2022-12-12 20:18:34 +0000 UTC

Cool! We have a Greenwood Cemetery here in Orlando, too. I adore your burial plan. ;)

Anna McCambridge

2022-12-12 20:07:37 +0000 UTC

The Merry Cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Romania. It's famous for its brightly painted tombstones, each telling the stories of the lives (and sometimes the deaths) of the people who are buried there! I plan to be buried in a mushroom suit! The mushrooms are meant to absorb all the toxins my body has acquired throughout my life, and keep them from getting into the soil.

Anna McCambridge

2022-12-12 20:04:10 +0000 UTC

Only one place- Bonaventure Cemetery! And I plan on cremation.

Jessica Chauvin

2022-12-12 18:52:12 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Mount Auburn in Cambridge, MA. It’s stunning! One of the most beautiful cemeteries I have ever seen! I might even dig a hole and throw myself in there when my time comes. I don’t have a burial plan yet, but I know I want a rose gold casket and the ashes of all my pets will be tucked in there with me. Unless one of my pets outlive me, then they will be buried alive with me.

Theresa Clay

2022-12-12 18:35:06 +0000 UTC

1) Cementerio de Punitaqui, Chile. My family is indiginous, we're Diaguita, which means that my WHOLE family is there, mom and dad side, great-grandparents, grandparents, great uncles and aunts, uncles, etc, and is so small, I'm sure I'm related to half of the cemetery. Is so peaceful, but wacky, is like a maze. Half the time, I can't find my uncle. 2) I would wish to be buried at my family's land, without a coffin, just, be put back to earth, but unfortunately, that's not permited in my country, so the closest I can do is cremation and scather my ashes at my family's land.

Lissette

2022-12-12 17:42:37 +0000 UTC

I missed the deadline as well :( - Holiday rush in my Etsy shop has come VERY late this year! I will share anyway! 1) I would love to have an urn with my ashes buried at the Toronto Necropolis (there are not that many plots available, just flat stone plots but the place is STUNNING! https://www.mountpleasantgroup.com/en-CA/Locations/Cemeteries/toronto-necropolis.aspx# . It is actually quite haunted - https://hauntedwalk.com/news/6-graves-to-visit-at-torontos-necropolis/ 2) I would love to have some of my ashes turned into an uncut black diamond and have it set in my antique hourglass that is not in my possession yet :)))

Leslie Harry

2022-12-12 17:08:37 +0000 UTC

Well crapola I think I missed this but I'll submit anyway. My favorite cemetery is Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn! It's a rural cemetery and it's BEAUTIFUL (if you haven't been you really should, Christine. I know you'd love it). My burial plan is to be cremated and my ashes thrown in my enemy's faces :)

Christina Rodriguez

2022-12-12 17:05:14 +0000 UTC

I am not entering the competition, but I want to give a shout out to "Nunhead cemetery" in London. It's a Victorian ruin and now a beautiful forested cemetery that was neglected many years ago. Thought you might like to look it up! It's one of my favourite places and apparently a Jack the Ripper suspect by the name of Thomas Cutbush is buried there.

Rochelle

2022-12-12 16:04:45 +0000 UTC

Well, Christine, I have never been there, but I want to go-- so badly- on a southwest road trip and stop at Old Tonopah Cemetary in Nevada... across from the clown motel. They have a lot of interesting deaths (a historian compiled all the causes of deaths) and I can go down a rabbit hole reading about stuff just starting with that cemetary. I believe it was only active from 1901-1911. I just love all things old and namely wild west and Nevada, 1901, mining town... yup does it for me. 2) Either donate my body to science (if science even wants it) or I would want to be thrown in the ground with out a coffin to just let the dirt eat me up. An ethereal white cloth might be warranted, there are certain people that I do not want seeing me naked at my funeral. =)

Alyson Levy

2022-12-12 15:01:31 +0000 UTC

Dear Christine, 1)I live in Italy and my family is from Naples. The cemetery of my dreams (and I think you would love that too) is the "cimitero delle Fontanelle"(I'll leave the link here: https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimitero_delle_Fontanelle ) . It was built for victims of the great plague (1656). The thing that makes it unique amongst others is the fact that you can actually see the guests that have lived in that period. In fact this cemetery is known for having skulls and bones melted with the architecture of this amazing place. That's where I want to rest: among my ancient relatives. 2)The cerimony should be really informal and private with a very simple coffin. After around 50 years, being exhumed and placed in one of the spot of the cemetery. I hope you will consider my answer and love it as much as I did. Loving you from far far away Debora 🖤

Debora

2022-12-12 14:24:41 +0000 UTC

Is is too basic to say Père Lachaise in Paris? I had to write a paper on it when i was in uni and the architecture is marvelous and the anthropological aspect is fascinating. My absolute dream is to visit it and sketch the beautiful crypts and headstones in the shade of the trees <3 As for my burial plan... I'll have to see to everything myself, because no one in my family or friend group agreed to do it how I want it. My burial plan is to have a huge phantom of the opera/van helsing (2004) style masquerade as my funeral and viewing. I want full camp, full glam, open bar and FUN. Public ugly crying is encouraged.

Katrin Baumgarten

2022-12-12 14:04:21 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the one I used to live across the street from! Marlow United Methodist Church Cemetery in Summerdale, AL. Not as elaborate as a lot of these others, just a simple country cemetery. But having it facing my house was so relaxing. Quietest neighbors ever, never had a problem with them! I would like to be cremated and have that thing where my ashes are mixed with a tree pod and planted, with my remains fertilizing the tree.

Skylar Baxter

2022-12-12 13:51:16 +0000 UTC

1) Tomnahurich cemetery hill in Inverness ^^ I am convinced that when I visited a ghost/invisible creature grabbed my bum. 2) I would love to be buried in a Friedwald. They are forests in Germany where you can get buried without any fuss. You simply become one with nature.

Marielle Bodenheimer

2022-12-12 09:25:28 +0000 UTC

Hopefully I’m not too late! It’s 11:08 in Hawai’i right now so technically before midnight! 1) I know it is over done but the cemeteries in New Orleans are still my favorite! St. Louis No. 1, specifically by the musicians corridor, there is a beautiful statue that I would kill to be buried under. It’s a heavily visited cemetery so of course everyone would come to pay their respects to you. 2)When I die I am to be cremated. I have a bucket list and my brother has been instructed to “finish the list” with my ashes in someway. At this rate I’ll have ashes sprinkled at a gypsy camp in Ireland or dusted inside of the great pyramids! I’ll kill him if he dies first and leaves me to spread my own ashes! 😎 Happy Haunting I guess! 🤷🏽‍♀️

Alyse Kiyuna

2022-12-12 09:17:03 +0000 UTC

Rose Hills Mortuary. They have a wall of mosaics of religious relics and it’s filled with peoples ashes. One of them is a loved one. https://www.rosehills.com/ Honestly, when I die I wanted my body to be planted near beautiful flowers 🌺 and overtime flowers will grow out of my remains. And have a stain glass shrine over me so the sun rays will reflect the colors of the glass against my body. Sadly, that’s not going to happen, for reasons I can’t explain.

Samantha Varela

2022-12-12 08:12:51 +0000 UTC

2) Something that could be elegant and a bit spooky would be to have a scan of your skull and then a sculpture of your skull your head done: Your body, or even just part of it, could be cremated and some of the ashes could be mixed in resin. Then an artist could sculpt a replica of your skull or a stylized sculpture of your head that has a part of you in it.

WaterNai

2022-12-12 06:54:37 +0000 UTC

1) I am such a fan of checking out old cemeteries. If you love checking out ones from all over the world, check out https://www.youtube.com/@HollywoodGraveyard. I can't wait to visit ones in Paris and England! For now, I'll stick with one that I have been to for this answer - which is Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Whenever I go there - it is such a weirdly romantic experience. Built in 1899, the cemetery itself is Hollywood history where the crypts and headstones have their own stories. From Rudolph Valentino's lady in black to the cemetery cats, to having Paramount Studios as the backdrop, it is just iconic. 2) When I was younger, I wanted to make death less scary. I also thought it would be funny to try to show my sense of humor from beyond the grave and jokingly suggested rigging my body up like a puppet that puts on a show if someone hits a button with music and all. Hahaha. Since that doesn't seem likely and also terrifying, I have instead wanted to think of something different. Since cemeteries have been a calming place to me to explore, I think it would be fun to create a mini victorian house where my remains would reside along side my pets and some of my favorite things. I came across Nadine Earles' doll house grave and thought it was so interesting. (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/little-nadine-earles-doll-house-grave-lanett) Kind of like a spooky time capsule of sorts.

Tiffany Harrison

2022-12-12 06:50:48 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Père Lachaise in Paris, I spent a rainy November day wandering it looking for Maria Callas’ grave. Second to that is the graveyard my paternal grandparents are in. It’s called Spires Cemetery in Damascus, AR. It’s a rural area surrounded by pastures with an ancient tree and a smattering of old and new gravestones. When I die I want to be cremated and I hope to have set aside enough money to send my surviving family on a trip to spread my ashes in my favorite places. Damascus, AR with my grandparents, Yosemite Valley, Maui, and if there’s enough left, Paris.

Alexis Payne

2022-12-12 06:14:08 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Columbia Cemetery and is one of the oldest around, it is in Columbia, Ca and even has a very old school right next to it (no longer in use, except for field trips). I visit there often, especially at night. Columbia, Ca is a protected state park and a living history town. Founded during the gold rush, it is now frozen in time (around 1850) but still a working town. It’s my favorite place to go take pictures and to stay in the oldest (and most haunted) hotel in the area. I often get to have the whole hotel to myself since most people don’t stay there in the off season. I also like to go dressed in era appropriate mourning clothing. I’ve made friends with many of the locals and they sometimes refer to me as the “Ghost of City Hotel”. Haha Here are some of my posts from trips. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdZyGxnLI9x/?igshid=YTY2NzY3YTc= https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdbz_qwvtZz/?igshid=YTY2NzY3YTc= https://www.instagram.com/p/ClK1DOhLKZ2/?igshid=YTY2NzY3YTc= I have pictures of the cemetery as well but they are not posted publicly. 2. I come from an extremely old clan originated in Ireland. I will hopefully have an old Gaelic celebration in my honor, then be scattered honorably by my kin. Then, they would host a big and wonderful celebration to honor my life, and tell my stories and any accomplishments of mine to the generations after me, to keep my spirit alive forever. Side note: my profile picture here is from Knights Ferry Cemetery, my second favorite. I did a “death to my twenties” photoshoot here with one of my best friends who shares the same exact birthday as me, and that is when I took this picture. Here are those pictures. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUVFEyIlRe4/?igshid=YTY2NzY3YTc= It’s still before midnight on then west coast, so I hope it’s not too late. 🖤

Merissa Monroe

2022-12-12 06:06:23 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetary is the Lake View Cemetery in Seattle. It’s a beautiful location in Capitol Hill next to Volunteer Park and it’s filled with the who’s who of Seattle’s history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_View_Cemetery_(Seattle) My plan when I die is to be composted, now that it’s an option. It’s the most environmentally friendly option and would be rewarding to be returned to the earth in a way that could nourish the growth of something else. https://recompose.life/our-model/#environmental-impact

Lisa Law

2022-12-12 05:55:53 +0000 UTC

1) Hollywood Forever, I fell in love with it when I attended Cinespia for the first time back in 2006. 2) I am being cremated, separated into 7 and sending my 3 daughters around the world to spread my ashes at 7 different locations.

Ashley

2022-12-12 05:42:45 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is none other than Lafayette No. 1 in New Orleans. It is a beautiful amalgamation of beauty and the supernatural. It's been the inspiration for tales of all that is dark, mysterious, and beautiful. 2. My burial plan, once fully legalized, is the burial pod concept. Wherein, one is buried in a decomposable, bio pod, directly under a tree. To become one with nature, and my partner in the adjoining tree, is my ultimate burial wish. Happy Holidays!!!

Carlos Ponce

2022-12-12 05:40:59 +0000 UTC

1. Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, NC is by far my favorite cemetery. Its 87+ acres of tranquil gardens, mountain boulders and ancient trees, filled with incredible mausoleums (built by the same craftsmen who worked on the Biltmore Mansion!) moss covered angels and headstones (some made by author Thomas Wolfe's father, who inspired his novel "Look Homeward Angel"). Some of the headstones are works of art, some are even boulders! Ever since I first visited Riverside I've daydreamed about living there like the kid in Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book". One of my favorite residents is photographer George Masa. I wish I was better with words so I could do this cemetery justice, but you really have to visit it in person. I realize its not as opulent as some of the others in the comments, but for me it can't be beat. 2. I fell in love with the idea of human composting, but it's not legal yet in North Carolina. However there is the Forensic Osteology Research Station (FOREST) that was established by Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. FOREST is a human decomposition research facility and I'm looking into becoming a donor. The idea of being consumed by nature and nourishing the earth as my final act is something that is very important to me. Once a body is fully decomposed, the skeletal remains are added to the John A. Williams Human Skeleton Collection, so I'll be hanging out with a bunch of other bone heads for the rest of eternity, which sounds like a good time to me!

Fudgy

2022-12-12 04:58:05 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is located at the Saddell Abbey in Scotland. There is something so ancient and special about that place. Great standing stones with carvings of Knights past, ivy covered iron gates, and moss-covered everything. It felt so still, tranquil, secret, and strangely quiet there - yet very much alive. The mossy trees almost seemed to hum. 2) First, I’ll want to leave behind a few pieces of mourning jewelry – deep sapphires or dreamy pearls circling a beautiful, haunting cameo. I like the idea of embedding mourning jewelry into a music box or clock- perhaps the jewelry could act as the key to an ornate lock! I want to be buried at the foot of a giant tree with a beautifully carved headstone nestled in the twisted roots and brambles. I’ll leave detailed instructions that a large swing should always hang there so that I can join any unsuspecting person for an afternoon swing together.

Kellie Kimble

2022-12-12 04:30:41 +0000 UTC

1. Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montréal, Québec where I grew up! It’s really gorgeous and a place to visit if you ever come !! 2- I want a celebration where my friends and family would eat great food and listen to great music very important! My friends and I always joke that we need a playlist!

Julie Chagnon

2022-12-12 04:19:44 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is definitely the Old Burial Hill cemetery in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It’s one of the oldest cemeteries I have to and I love that it’s a filming location in Hocus Pocus. 2. If I could have it my way I’d have a Viking funeral!

Katie Faught

2022-12-12 04:14:01 +0000 UTC

1) Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. So historic! Over 700 trees! Walking tours on Halloween! 2) I’d like to be buried in a mushroom burial shroud, which is embedded with mushroom spores that help to decompose and detoxify one’s remains. Fungi are frickin’ incredible in so many ways, and life on Earth would not have developed as it has without them. The location: as close to forest in my beloved Pacific Northwest as possible.💚

Carrie A.

2022-12-12 04:07:15 +0000 UTC

1. The hauntingly beautiful Okunoin Cemetery (over 1200 years old) in Koya, Japan which is lit by thousands of lanterns surrounded by tall cedar trees (make sure to google images of this cemetery at night too, it’s so eerie but stunning). Some fun facts about it: it is filled with unique memorials like giant spaceships erected for the former employees of an aerospace company and a pesticide company put up a a monument to commemorate termites. 2.Burial plans: 1) Donate organs and get some of my hair made into a Victorian hair art piece that my surviving family can keep (here’s some examples of how beautifully ornate the pieces were!!! https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-curious-victorian-tradition-making-art-human-hair) 2) I’ll leave this up to my family whether they want to keep my cremated remains until they are ready to part with me. Grief is a process so if they are not ready to spread or put my ashes somewhere then I’ll be happy to stay with them on the mantle for as long as they’d like! 3) Instead of a funeral, have a fun celebration of life party with all my favorite foods (there must be cake and ice cream!), people must dress up in costumes (preferably from my favorite shows or time periods)

Kristin A

2022-12-12 04:01:57 +0000 UTC

1. Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum Dayton, Ohio It’s gloomy in the most beautiful way, surrounded by 300 species of trees and myriad bushes, some flanking tombstones and even obelisks. "tree" markers with "stumps" that signify interred children are especially interesting. So many stories lie beneath your feet. 2. I have said for years I want to be buried with my grandmother in her grave..morbid I know she was my person. In reality, it would be amazing to be buried in an old safety coffin the strings linking my body hands and feet to an above-ground bell. So I could let my loved ones know I’m there when they come to visit.

Penny Willis

2022-12-12 03:58:14 +0000 UTC

1) I think my favorite cemetery would be Orleans Cemetery, in Orleans, MA. It's not the biggest or fanciest one out there, but it's where my grandparents are. 2) Ever since I saw Ask A Mortician's video about human composting, I've been very interested. It's not legal most places, but ideally I have enough time before I die that maybe it will be more widespread! Also, I really liked that they pointed out that if you aren't actually dead, you will not compost, and so there is just one additional layer of protection there ;)

Rebecca P.

2022-12-12 03:30:21 +0000 UTC

1- the Woodland Cemetery in downtown Des Moines. So peaceful 2- I saw a tiktok and the voiceover said “if your relatives are cremated, you can put their ashes in an hourglass so they can still participate in family game night.” So, that.

Riley H

2022-12-12 03:26:22 +0000 UTC

1) Union Cemetary in Easton Ct. It has graves that date back to the 1700s and is said to be one of the most haunted cemeteries in the US. The famous CT demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren have claimed to see "The White Lady" ghost there and also wrote a book about the cemetery called "Graveyard" 2) I would want to be buried with the ashes of my cat Oliver who passed away 2 years ago and who was like a best friend to me for 16 years. I also always loved the idea of funeral jewelry and would love to have some of my hair turned into that for my loved ones. <3

Lizzie

2022-12-12 03:18:41 +0000 UTC

1) Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. 2) Bear with me, please. My place of rest would be inside an ornate stone mausoleum next to the Richmond Vampire. I would like to be mummified, but my larger joints would be kept articulated as to make myself into a human marionette. Marionette me would be programmed to be activated with a motion sensor so when the kids in Richmond inevitably hop the fence into the cemetery at night looking for ghosts, they will stumble across my little mausoleum, open the fantastical ornate wrought iron door, trigger the motion sensor which would lock them in, then I would have my marionetted remains come out of a hidden alcove lunging at the kids with my arms outstretched and grabbing to catch them as they futilely try to escape. Preferably there would be a fog machine that would turn on when the motion sensor is tripped and I would have red led lights implanted in my eye sockets for maximum effect. Then my remains would go back behind the hidden alcove, the door would unlock, the kids would run away screaming, and I would remain lying in wait for my next visitors.

Elena Maria

2022-12-12 03:16:12 +0000 UTC

2. I’d love a traditional New Orleans second line—the joyous parade after burial. I’ve heard it said that it’s supposed to show that people are sad that you’re gone, but happy to have known you. (Sorry this came in bits and pieces. My first time posting and I accidentally hit post twice. 😣

Stephanie McCarthy

2022-12-12 03:09:33 +0000 UTC

2. I want to be composted and turned into a tree - I want to find a nice old cemetery and now there are compostable pods bodies can be buried into that decompose, I’d like to burial a tulip tree

Sandra Guerrero

2022-12-12 03:08:57 +0000 UTC

so it is filled with marble tombs and statuary, and is the sight of many supposed haunting (and the resting place of Anne Rice).

Stephanie McCarthy

2022-12-12 03:06:19 +0000 UTC

1. Metairie Cemetary in New Orleans is absolutely beautiful. Burials in New Orleans have to be above ground

Stephanie McCarthy

2022-12-12 03:05:06 +0000 UTC

1. St Roch Cemetery #2 New Orleans, Louisiana. Before Hurricane Katrina there was a small altar room that had ceramic sculptures of hands and feet hanging from the walls and a statue of St. Lucy holding a plate of eyeballs. There were also many leg braces and crutches that people have left over the years. Truly a magical place. 2. I would like to incorporate my ashes in to a diorama box that holds miniatures of the things I love that defined my life. My pets, my favorite things and the food I loved.

Rae

2022-12-12 03:01:40 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery has to be Highgate Cemetery in London. The sense of calm you feel when walking amongst the stones is wondrous. This cemetery feels otherworldly that you can see why films have been made here.

Rachael Gater

2022-12-12 02:58:31 +0000 UTC

My favorite graveyard is Hingham Cemetery, located behind the old ship church in Hingham, MA. 2. I would like my body burned on a pyre but my bones recovered and used for every day things and have my teeth turned into jewelry and such.

Selene Achille

2022-12-12 02:55:20 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a beautiful rural cemetery that opened in 1831. It is such a peaceful place to be at rest, surrounded by nature. 2. My dream funeral would be at night. Once the hurst arrived at the cemetery, I would want a horse drawn carriage carrying my casket to its finally resting place. My family and friends would follow closely behind holding candles while the song Angel Band plays. Large candelabras would be all around my plot. I love the glow of candlelight. It brings feelings of peace that I hope comforts everyone I’ve left behind.

Diane McCarty

2022-12-12 02:41:00 +0000 UTC

1. Maple Grove Cemetery, Baltimore, Ohio. I use to walk there as a child with my father. He taught me how to rubbing from markers. 2. I want to be creamated, placed in a biodegradable bag & thrown into the creek in my favorite hiking area.

Barghest

2022-12-12 02:32:25 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh. It's one of the oldest examples of a garden cemetery in the U.S, and it is a peaceful place to walk and think. Also there are amazing and creepy old mausoleum's with stained glass windows and sculptures. And you can't visit without stopping at the "titty sphinx" (google it!) 2) I love old tombstones and mausoleums, but I think that for me, I would love to be buried in a tree pod so that my body could nourish a huge oak tree. I love the idea of a forest cemetery where the trees are your loved ones.

Kristina

2022-12-12 02:23:26 +0000 UTC

1) Favorite cemetery: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY 2) Burial plan: I would like have my cremated remains combined with concrete to be molded into a living reef structure under the ocean, helping to support certain marine life and to build an ecosystem.

Cherie Wheeler

2022-12-12 02:22:40 +0000 UTC

Branita Bright I,m going for #2 . I would like a "Weekend at Berine's" situation. Go to as many parties that my cohort and I can manage to get away with before anyone figures out that I REALLY am stiff. Be cremated and place my ash's on my property ( I'm in a neighborhood filled with antebellum homes), so needless to say, I love where I'm at now! I already have a granite headstone ( They are currently being used as stepping stones to my front door). I live in the Deep South so, nothing goes to waste here!! LOL Engrave my stone and plant me under the Magnolia tree! Haunt my own house.

Dolly Smalls

2022-12-12 02:21:10 +0000 UTC

This answer is spectacular!

Kathleen Markham

2022-12-12 02:20:37 +0000 UTC

The Knights of Pythias Cemetary outside of Central City Colorado. I worked at the opera up there for two summers. All the cemetaries are outside of town at this crossroads. An aspen grove has grown up in the Knights of Pythias Cemetary. I guess they were an order like the masons. But they have beautiful carved tombstones, some like trees, some with open books, and the trees have grown up in and amongst them. Its creepy in the most beautiful way. I would like to be creamated. Ideally on a pyre and my ashes scattered. I do however want a lovely tombstone/memorial. Maybe an obelisk.

Elizabeth Moss

2022-12-12 02:11:24 +0000 UTC

1. koyasan graveyard in Japan so that my children would feel like they are in a studio ghibli movie when they visit, this is unlikely because I live in colorado and have never been to japan. 2. I would want a burial that would allow me to decompose into the earth and grow into a tree so that there was a physical living thing to mark my grave. There are ways that include burlap sacks or something like that, I saw it as a targeted ad once and never looked into.

Kimberly

2022-12-12 02:09:58 +0000 UTC

1. Sleepy Hollow cemetery in NY. I have been there and it is so lovely with so many tombstones with beautiful designs from the 1800's, and many beautiful unique names. My favorite one has the name Edward Lavender on the tombstone. :) 2. My burial would have me enclosed in a beautiful casket with a brass edging/glass (imagine stained glass type construction) cover (for the service display of the body) with beautiful etched ornate designs into the glass near the face. (for added beauty and elegance of the display of the body ;) ) -The burial dress would be white, lovingly made with all kinds of antique lace and victorian style. Long and elegant for the final rest in a beautiful glossy dark green casket with gold detailing.

Heart W

2022-12-12 02:01:14 +0000 UTC

1. Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery is on my list of places I need to visit. From the mausoleums, statues, and headstones to the trees and historical lore! Everything about it just calls to me. I hope to be able to visit someday. 2. Whenever I go, I would love to have a casket with intricate engravings that represent my life. (Ex: needle and thread, eyes for when I got my optical medical certification, paw prints of my beloved dog, etc) with black and white striped interior. If Im going to be in for all eternity, I want it to be something I'm proud of that represents me.

Tiffany Tresemer

2022-12-12 01:55:23 +0000 UTC

Vale Cemetery in Schenectady, NY is historic, lush, and leafy with (allegedly) ghostly singing on quiet spooky nights. But the best part? The cemetery supports internment with your deceased pets. Sign me up for an eternity of rotting with my beloved tabby Henry. Let's just hope he doesn't decide to pee in the corner of the casket! If I kick the bucket having accumulated any wealth I'd like to donate my fortune to the small town I grew up in, with the stipulation that maybe my gilded-skull gets tucked in as an ornaments in the big Christmas tree in the town square, spooking the occasion person who isn't sure they can trust what they're seeing :)

Kathleen Markham

2022-12-12 01:53:41 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite is Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York. It's like an Art museum with all the amazing sculptures and mausoleums on 90 acres of wooded hills. 2) I would like to be cremated and put on top of Roan Mountain, TN. It's home with beautiful panoramic views from the balds. My spouse just informed me that if I go first that she will not be hiking to take me to the top and that she will either hire a young person or use my drone to deposit me.

Bev Steele-Tzakos

2022-12-12 01:49:48 +0000 UTC

1. Goldfield Historic Cemetery in the ghost town of Goldfield, Nevada. Nothing grows there. No one really visits. And it's got an emptiness I find absolutely breathtaking. With so much noise, nuance, and excessive pleasures in life, I find peace in the space and silence Nevada provides above ground as much as it would below. The old West shallow graves outlined by rocks and dust somehow feel as fleeting as the desert town itself; like spirits are up and walking around with me. 2. I want something hands on after death. A burial plan that includes touch and closure for my family. Assuming I die from natural causes/old age, I would have my family and/or close friends wash me, handle me, hold me, feel that I'm cold and gone to help with the grieving process. I'd have them clothe me, button me up, tie my shoes, help me with my jewelry, brush my hair, just as they would before. This way they're free to collect hair for lockets, or take photographs. I want them with me every step of the way, then placed in a living urn or "burial pod" so the earth may benefit from the natural process of decomposition. In the end, I can't take anything with me, including a fancy casket. It would be my way to continue living and giving, the way I did before.

Grace Courvoisier

2022-12-12 01:45:42 +0000 UTC

1. Pinecrest Cemetery in Gautier, MS because that is where my sweet Mother is buried 💕 along with several other very special family members. 2. I would like my ashes from Aquamation to be combined with the ashes of my beloved fur babies. We will then be released together off our families pier into the Gulf. Home Sweet Home on the water

Courtney McCanlis

2022-12-12 01:37:34 +0000 UTC

1. The cemetery at Juan Fernandez island in the pacific. It’s a small island where Alexander Selkirk was left alone, which inspired the Robinson Crusoe book 2. Since I’m not allowed to make my own coffin, I’m going to turn a segmented pieces vessel/urn for my ashes. And I have a couple of pieces of music I want to be played, one of them being “Outside the Wall” (last song on the 2nd disc of Pink Floyd’s The Wall)

Gonzalo Plaza

2022-12-12 01:36:59 +0000 UTC

1. Laird (Leard) Cemetery, Pocola, AR. I've been lucky enough to explore large cemeteries in Savannah, forgotten cemeteries in Appalachia, and historic ones in Boston. But the cemetery closest to my heart is a little one on a back dirt road on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas. And I mean literally on the border, some graves are in Arkansas and some are in Oklahoma, depending on where the hole happened to be dug. When I was seventeen, I lost my parents and moved in with a sibling. Young and alone, I wandered county back roads trying to find a quiet place to read, explore, and sit in my grief. This little out of the way cemetery rarely had visitors and if I went to the back corner, I could hop a barbed wire fence and trespass (or explore, depending on your mindset) over into a wide, empty field. Near my fence-hopping corner was a set of particularly old, particularly worn down gravemarkers with pennies on top. The largest, most prominent stone had in a font bigger than anyone's name, "First Generation Freed". Hence the pennies - I realized it was because they had Abraham Lincoln on them. So when it finally came for me to move to bigger, more exciting adventures in my life the last thing I did was leave a penny on the tombstone, as a tribute to people whose lives and struggles I could barely imagine, and maybe in a way as a thank you for the comfort and companionship they unknowingly gave me. 2. I'll keep this short and sweet - through a drunken miscommunication my friend thought I truly in my heart of hearts wanted a sky burial (Tibetan style) where scavengers could dispatch my remains across the land. It was two years later when I was working on something life insurance related that the topic came up again and she proudly told me, "It won't be legal, but if the worst happens you are getting up on a platform!" To which I responded with, "Why would I do that? I'm terrified of heights?".

Kim Pate

2022-12-12 01:21:39 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Highgate Cemetery in London, England. Even though I’ve only seen pictures, I think it’s absolutely other-worldly. It was opened in the 19th century and the intention was to give Victorian Londoners a “garden cemetery” to escape the smoke and dirt of their city. When the cemetery became overgrown due to WWII and illness and no one left to tend the grounds, it fell into lots of disrepair. It was even the backdrop for a Hammer horror film “Taste The Blood of Dracula” with the best Dracula (in my opinion) Christopher Lee in the 60s. :) 2. As for burial plans, for this answer I’d just like to take an opportunity to mention human composting. In the US there’s lots of legislation going around right now about this. It heals the planet by moving away from current toxic funerary practices and creates soil health. It can also reduce the financial burden on families in end of life planning. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/07/world/human-composting-natural-organic-reduction-scn-lbg/index.html Thank you! Happy holidays to everyone!

Hayley Anders

2022-12-12 01:14:28 +0000 UTC

1) Give the name and location of your favorite cemetery... and please make sure it can be googled! ;) The answer I'm going to give has no doubt been given more times than you can count by now. However, I shall say it again, because what I must say about it is true. Sleepy hollow cemetery is the most beautiful cemetery I have ever had the pleasure of going to. It sprawls for what seems like miles as old tombstone's roll over beautiful hills and into dense forest. The craftsmanship on some of the stones are incredible, and I could imagine spending days wandering around and simply saying hello to all of the residents. In fall I can only imagine the beauty that can be seen in the forested section. Picturing all of those fall leaves with that meandering stream, and those antique markers for the dead, it makes my little heart thrive with joy. 2) What is your burial plan? This could be an element or an idea you have for your end or just one you think is neat! The plans for my own burial have changed dramatically over the years. Originally I wished to be cremated. But now, I think I would rather be buried. I would love a coffin in a beautiful dark cherry, lined with the soft burgundy velvet. I would love to be dressed in the fanciest gown that I have, almost as though I was going to the Ritz. I want to be buried with my favorite possessions, my stuffed cat from when I was a child, my dog, who I have just recently lost. When I am buried, and the dirt has been placed over me, I would love for a beautiful antique stone to mark where I sleep. I don't much care for those flat markers that they have nowadays. I want something that can only be found in old cemeteries now. I would love for a tree planted not far away from me, and this might be a lot to ask for, but I would love a beautiful view. I might no longer have the eyes to see it, or the heart to enjoy it, but I'll know, and I will love it. However, above everything else, I want to be buried with my family. We are far too closely knit to be separated, even by death.

Maggie Proffitt

2022-12-12 00:55:57 +0000 UTC

1. Favorite cemetery. Trinity Church Cemetery, New York City. Surprisingly peaceful place to rest amidst the hustle and bustle of the city. Some well known people buried there. In the winter it nearly looks like the scene out of Batman Returns where Penguin visits his parents grave, so it’s very picturesque. 2. I want my ashes spread in the flatirons Rocky Mountains in Boulder Colorado along with my Mom. It was a very meaningful place for my whole family, because we grew up near there. Last year we spread her ashes all along the trail. Now every time I see that mountain ridge it’s like looking at a headstone for my Mom.

Wendo Calrissian

2022-12-12 00:55:39 +0000 UTC

1.) Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, MA (I live in AZ and want to experience all the seasons properly. The thought of fog, rain,and fall colors seem so romantic with all ancient residents. 2.)I hope explode into glitter and bats when I pass. I want to be interred under a very old tree with the multitude of animals I’ve rescued. I want my family to have a celebration of life for me. My future plans include flying across the moon on my broomstick on Halloween. My wish would be that everyone carve an extra jack-o-lantern on Halloween in my honor.

Sandra Martinez

2022-12-12 00:49:09 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery, although small and quaint, is the pet cemetery at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado. It contains the remains of some pets of staff dating years and years back. The Stanley Hotel is the hotel Stephen King stayed at where he got the inspiration to write The Shining. It is very haunted, and overall beautiful. I believe unfortunately that they recently dug it up to make room for some renovation, but I think they were relocated and are still on the property. Very spooky, and animals hold a very special place in my heart. 2. My burial plan would include a mysterious plot, I would leave instructions in my will for how everything should be dictated. In order to ease a (hopefully) grief stricken family I would leave a set of clues as to where my body is hidden. I would let one family member in on this secret before my passing so they could properly conduct it. The riddles would end in eventually finding my body in the most obvious spot possible, my bedroom in an old illustrious estate. Where they would have time to say their goodbyes before the vintage hearse (a la the Addams family) arrives to take my body to the middle of the forest. I will be buried in a simple shroud in a shallow grave, so that I may become of use to the local flora and fauna in the form of food.

Sam Routzon

2022-12-12 00:42:09 +0000 UTC

1. Maple Grove Cemetery Ravenna, Oh. First burial in 1813. It’s a gorgeous cozy spooky cemetery with its huge oak trees that change a vibrant red and orange in the fall. Being in the north gets lots of snow so turns it to the eerie snow covered graves and dead trees in the winter. Also residing at the front is a Gothic receiving vault. This is my home town and 4 generations of my family are buried here. 2. I always loved the look of paper lanterns floating through the sky. To have a party go out on a lake or pond and release dozens of paper lanterns in the sky in memory to be seen by anyone in the area

Melissa McCrummen

2022-12-12 00:27:19 +0000 UTC

The Ha Ha cemetery (local) because I'm a gremlin and want people to double take my resting place. Personally though I wanna be chopped up for parts. Research, donation, articulate my Skelly and the rest just straight in the dirt to decompose :D

Miggea

2022-12-12 00:16:01 +0000 UTC

1) I'll take any opportunity to share my love for Agramonte cemetery (in portuguese: cemitério de Agramonte) in Porto, Portugal. It's a large urban cemetery, first built in 1855 to accommodate the dead from a cholera epidemic. I like to visit every couple of months to get a sense of how the cemetery changes with the seasons. I always spend a couple of hours wandering up and down the paths, but there are two particular spots I never fail to visit: - The monument to the victims of the Baquet Theater fire. The Baquet Theater was a popular venue in the city of Porto, but it was destroyed by a tragic fire in 1888. More than one hundred people died that night. The monument is built out of the wreckage of the building itself, and I always feel a great sense of connection to the victims when I visit: https://www.alamy.com/memorial-to-the-victims-of-the-baquet-theatre-fire-of-1888-at-he-cemetery-cemitrio-de-agramonte-in-porto-portugal-image208009377.html - The communal mausoleum. It's a massive oval building with a metal-and-glass skylight. It looks somewhat like a temple, somewhat like a greenhouse or conservatory. The dead are entombed all around the inner perimeter, then locked in with heavy duty doors. The light is absolutely stunning in there, and you can actually climb a spiral staircase up to a walkway close to the skylight (where you'll find even more tombs). There's also an underground level with a radically different vibe: not quite as bright and airy, but just as beautiful. It's one of my favorite places to visit, and I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it: The ground level: https://imagens.publico.pt/imagens.aspx/1272730?tp=UH&db=IMAGENS&type=JPG https://www.flickr.com/photos/conte/32273464750 The underground level: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thecureforpain/9600059523/ --- 2) A couple of years ago, we held a 24-hour wake for a family member in a tiny, isolated little chapel on a hill. The chapel was incredibly cold, the weather was the kind of damp that seeps into your bones, and I kept having to get up from my pew to go close the door after people. This one time, I was struggling to get the door closed because the wind kept forcing it open, and I just had this moment of clarity, like "this is it, my one job tonight is to keep this door closed, my one job tonight is to make sure the people in this chapel can mourn in peace without any interference from the outside world." I realized then that the purpose of a wake is to sit with your dead, press pause on the world for a little bit, and just be. All of this to say: I don't have any particular plans for my burial or cremation, but I hope my loved ones get the opportunity to sit with me when the time comes, and I hope it helps them through the loss.

Rafaela Ferraz

2022-12-11 23:41:39 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Bellefontaine Cemetary in St. Louis MO. It is also an arboretum. It is absolutely stunning, massive with winding roads to wander and get lost, and one of the most peaceful places I have ever been. A bonus is that dogs are allowed! I love to walk my dog there, especially in the fall. 2. I want my burial to be as green as possible. My dream is to be buried in a "mushroom suit", a shroud with mushroom spores laced into it. I am fascinated by mycelial networks and how they connect plant life. I like the idea of my cells being returned to the earth to support new life.

Sam R

2022-12-11 23:37:26 +0000 UTC

My favorite cememtery is Highgate cemetery in London. I lived near it for a few years and used to go frequently. Many famous Victorians are buried there, particularly Lizzie Sidall who was beautiful red haired model for the Pre-Raphaelite painters, especially Dante Gabriel Rossitti who finally married her after keeping her on a string for most of her short life. When she died of a laudanum overdose at the age of 33, he buried her in Highgate with a book of poetry. When he became famous, his agent, a Mr. Howell---arooo! -- asked him if he had those poems and when Rossetti explained that they were buried with Lizzie, they dug the poor woman up and found the rather moldy book. The legend says that she was perfecly preserved an and her beaitiful red hair had grown, filling her coffin. The cemetery is much overgrown with ivy growing around the angels, and many grave stones upheaved, Its also right next to a beautiful Waterlo park, very green with lakes and a wonderful cafe. I think you would like it there if you could be buried in England. I would like to be there and in my fantasy, a full Victorian funeral with a horse drawn hearse taking me there followed by mourners in long black veils reciting prayers for my soul. Maybe sober drums and horns playing. But in reality, it would be worth getting cremated and my ashes strewn over the place, resting on the many angels and maythorns.

Alyne Whiteswan

2022-12-11 23:32:19 +0000 UTC

1. I'd want to be hidden. away in Coggeshall Burial Ground in Newport RI, also known as Historical Cemetary #1, oldest dated stone in Rhode Island. I may not be able to live in peace, but I can rest in peace, or pieces. 2. I'd be mixed with all of my beloved cats cremains, as we'll as chinchillas and a bearded dragon named Little Dude. We can all enjoy scenic Newport for all eternity since nobody will visit the oldest cemetary in RI.

Brenda Karnes

2022-12-11 23:04:29 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the Alton City Cemetary in my home town of Alton, IL. Alton has been called one of the most haunted small towns in America which always added a little more eeriness to the cemetery I felt. The coolest thing for me is the Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument found in the cemetery. It has a stone whispering wall bench that wraps around the monument and you can hear people whispering on the opposite side of it. Always added a bit of spookiness to a place that already felt spooky to me. 2. As for a burial, I never really cared what happened to my body afterwards. If it was legal in the USA, I would opt for an old form of burial called a sky burial. I read about Tibetan monks who would leave their body out on a hill for carrion birds to eat. I believe there is no need to preserve the body, as it is now an empty vessel and would better be used as food for living creatures. I would probably do a tree pod burial or a mushroom suit though as I would want my body to go towards providing life for something living.

Daemon Addams

2022-12-11 23:00:18 +0000 UTC

My favourite graveyard is St Michael's Church in Salwarpe. It's very small but I have happy memories of sitting in the graveyard with my late husband. We grew up together and he would take me on walks to explore the graveyard and the river that runs behind it. Lots of happy memories in the summer. I want to be cremated. No service just cremated and then scattered at Elan Valley, Wales. My husband's ashes are there already. Its extremely beautiful and steeped in history. Who wouldn't want to be at the top of a mountain with the stars above and surrounded by spectacular views.

Michelle Tuffley

2022-12-11 22:59:58 +0000 UTC

1. Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol UK is a gorgeous Victorian garden cemetery that opened in 1839. It's full of interesting potential neighbours and plenty of wildlife to keep you company, plus a Natural Burial Woodland for green burials. https://arnosvale.org.uk/discover/ 2. I want to be buried as part of a time capsule for future archaeologists to find! As an archaeologist myself I feel it's only fair to become what I study and continue the cycle.

Tatchiana

2022-12-11 22:56:59 +0000 UTC

1. I would love to be buried in Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus Ohio. It's a beautiful and historic cemetery. I've lived in several places in my life but I live for many years in Ohio and consider it my home. https://www.greenlawncemetery.org/ 2. I have the ashes of all my very loved pets. As they have passed over the years, I have had them cremated and put into beautiful wooden urns. I have loved each one with all my heart and since I sleep better next to my fur babies, I would like to be buried with all of their wooden urns on each side of me. I hope to see them all on the other side. On the unusual/creepy side, there is the State of Ohio Asylum for the Insane Cemetery https://thedaintysquid.com/2017/09/state-ohio-asylum-insane-cemetery.html

Christy Abercrombie

2022-12-11 22:38:48 +0000 UTC

Oakland cemetery in ATL! Not sure, honestly it gives me the panicky sweats thinking about it o.o

Kaylee Stafford

2022-12-11 22:35:09 +0000 UTC

1. The Oak Hill Cemetery in DC! From doing ancestral research, I discovered I have non-famous ancestors buried there and am fascinated by that. 2. Honestly, I have no need to be buried or cremated. I’d be happy to have my remains sent to a body farm for research (particularly if it could be used in an experiment where I’d be left outdoors in an environment to study decomposition rate and such…forensic research for the win!). 😊

Ashley Jones

2022-12-11 22:11:04 +0000 UTC

1.) Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, MA. 2.) I’m going to be cremated so I love the idea of my ashes being added to a big, beautiful firework so that I can light up the night one final time and go out with a bang.

Jennifer Treviño

2022-12-11 21:54:33 +0000 UTC

1. St Mary’s churchyard in Whitby. Beautiful, old, and full of Gothic charm. Ocean views, plus the Dracula connection. 2. I’ve read that being freeze-dried is the new sustainable alternative to cremation. Maybe that. If it’s allowed I’m so going to have a LOTR themed gravestone. The gates of Moria, ”Speak, friend, and enter”? What do you think, too much?

Anna Salonen

2022-12-11 21:42:29 +0000 UTC

2. I’d like to have my hair turned into a Victorian hair wreath - I have a small cross scarification on my chest that I’d like cut out from my body, dried and framed - Cremated on a Wednesday (the saddest day of the week) - I’d like my ashes to be mixed with and turned into animal food blocks so that I can be with nature

Elle C

2022-12-11 21:37:45 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the Pioneer Cemetery in Idaho City, ID. 2. I would like to be composted when I die. But I am an organ donor and would donate my body to science or the body farm so if that happened I might be cremated after and thats cool too!

Rexington Funk

2022-12-11 21:30:49 +0000 UTC

Favorite cemetery is Fellowship Baptist Church in Bacon Level, Alabama. You can literally walk to the back of the cemetery and trace my family’s lineage back up to the front of the cemetery. I come from a 200 year legacy of pottery makers and they are all buried in this cemetery. They are known as some of the best turners in the country! I went on a beautiful crisp fall day, wind was blowing, leaves were rustling and it was magical. My burial plan is to of course be next to my husband but I’m going to have his stone left blank and mine will say “I told you I would get the last word” Side note: if I go first, my husband is getting me cremated and he’s going to have my ashes put into tattoo ink, then he’ll have my lip prints tattooed on his butt! 🤣 We’re crazy but we’re 30 yrs going strong! 🪦🪦

Carmen McCord

2022-12-11 21:20:42 +0000 UTC

1: Evergreen Cemetery in Berwick Maine is so pretty and has such a lovely flow to it.🖤 2: If my son feels comfortable keeping me when he's older then I'd love to be cremated and displayed next to my mother on the mantle. Preferably with an urn that has pumpkins and bats in it.

Tegan Desjardins

2022-12-11 21:19:20 +0000 UTC

1.) Fergus Falls State Hospital for the Insane cemetery. My grandfather used to take me out on a tractor ride down to visit the graves. Some were so old, I doubted that anyone still went to visit. 2.) Thank you Christina for making me realize without children of my own, nay nieces or nephews or any 2nd generation of immediate family to perhaps fill my burial wishes means I should probably make a plan and write it down. I now have a wonderful feed to look through and get ideas. Thanks again!

Lindsey Giese

2022-12-11 20:54:45 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is Mill Fork cemetery in the mists of the arid Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah. It is the only remnant of the Mill Fork ghost town- an old abandoned mill town that became abandoned when the trees of the area ran out by the 1900s. There are 17 people buried in the cemetery and 7 out of the 17 died tragically- leaving many to believe that the area is haunted. 2) I would want my burial plan to be a mushroom burial. This is where you get buried casket-less directly in the ground wearing a cotton cloth laced with mushroom spores. When the mushrooms start to grow they decompose your body and bring your nutrients back into the soil to promote growth of new life.

Delaney Strandberg

2022-12-11 20:54:24 +0000 UTC

(1) Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s a Victorian cemetery in my hometown filled with lots diverse plants and trees :) (2) I’d like to be buried with a tree, so I can keep growing and give people a beautiful spot to visit for years to come.

Sophia M

2022-12-11 20:49:17 +0000 UTC

1-The worlds oldest 2,000 year-old pet cemetery in Egypt buried with my cats Confetti and Puma (and you and Mr. Biggles and the rest of the clan are welcome and we can frolic with all the cats for eternity) 🐈‍⬛🪦⚰️ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archeologists-discover-ancient-pet-cemetery-egypt-180961292/ 2- Placing my ashes in a fire pit at the top of a lighthouse continuously burning and releasing into the night sky over the ocean ⚱️

Kristin Parks

2022-12-11 20:45:32 +0000 UTC

Oakwood Cemetery in Sharon, PA. I've attached a clipping about a famous queen buried there. I apologize for the terminology used as it is now offensive, but an interesting story for a town in Pennsylvania. https://www.sharonherald.com/community/royalty-among-us-gypsy-queen-lies-in-unassuming-grave-at-oakwood/article_4797e303-662d-51d3-9c49-e4184fff05a7.html In terms of my own burial, I want to either be turned into a tree or be buried in some other biodegradable way. Whatever way I leave the least negative impact on the planet.

Amy

2022-12-11 20:41:20 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is the Östra Cemetery in Gothenburg, Sweden (my hometown). The masonry is beautiful but also the trees, topography and design. It is located next to a busy public transportation junction which seems like it would diminsh it but honestly passing it almost daily feels nice (memento mori) and at least I feel very calm getting to look at it often. It's a place where you want to be, even just for a walk (in a respectful way of course). Here's a link to it's Wikipedia entry but I also recommend looking at pictures on Google Map. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96stra_kyrkog%C3%A5rden,_Gothenburg 2) Honestly I kind of don't have a burial idea since I feel that when I'm dead I'm gone and whatever happens to what's left is up to the living that might care. I would like my innards to go to people who can use them if possible though (I'm a donor) and just whatever can be used for science. ...Or at least I used to think that BUT it just so happens that I had a conversation about taxidermied pets today and NOW I would love to be taxidermied. Just like a pet and put on the couch like I'm just sleeping or something in the house of a loved one or some other eccentric person how would want me. I think that would be neat (but maybe illegal?).

Ellinor Flood

2022-12-11 20:39:02 +0000 UTC

1 & 2 are the same for me because of the story I’ll recant below. It’s Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin Ireland. In the 90s my lovely Irish Grandad died and my English born Father decided to act on his wishes and go to Ireland to see the place and the people that we are from. So while our house in England is up for sale my folks, me, 3 large dogs and a fluffy cat called Jessica Grimly bundle into a car and drive to see Ireland on holiday (after this event I’ll describe the house sold and my city slicker parents bought a Irish farm and total chaos ensued) One of Dads first calls in Ireland that holiday is to go find what we think will be the small family grave of our family in Dublins HUGE Glasnevin Cemetery. We look for hours, it’s getting cold and everyone is loosing hope. We’re about to turn back to the gates and give up with little bouquet of flowers in hand and Dad spins around and marches off, he later says he felt someone tell him to turn around and head towards the massive, famous monument in the middle of the place. No chance we would be there - the family was poor or we thought so anyway - and we drop down into a sunken circle of these stunning Victorian vaults (if you Google the O’Connell Circle and vault you’ll see what I mean) and bemused we walk around and stop, slack jawed at Crypt 13. There it is. Our name and the right date. We didn’t have a long lost family grave - we had a long lost family crypt. Full on Movie style crypt at that, black metal door and the works. No one knows where the key went - and there’s an assumption that there’s likely money owed in upkeep but one day, when I have something in the bank I’m claiming the key and I’m being buried there, holding a copy of the key just Incase I’m not as dead as I should be…as a bonus note just when I was asking for a sign in life myself last month the exact same crypt appeared unexpectedly on my IG feed when someone who tattooed me was photographed outside it with no clue it was anything to do with me. I’ve taken it the nod I was hoping for. Sometimes the dead I suspect just want us ‘home’

Rachel Guy-Whittle

2022-12-11 20:10:09 +0000 UTC

Evergreen Cemetary in Santa Cruz, Ca. I haven't been in a long time but it's beautifully overgrown and a LONG time ago ( late 1980's) a friend and I were there and a balloon followed us around for what seemed a long time. I'll never forget it. Colma Ca has a lot of lovely cemeteries. (it's known for them) My grandparents and other family members are at Oak Hill in San Jose, Ca. It's very beautiful and there used to be peacocks, I lived down the street and you could hear them "screaming" at night. I should have a plan, but I don't... Other than make sure that my pets are ok. <3

Anna Wilson

2022-12-11 20:05:14 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery in El Dorado Hills, California. May family and I visit often, it is full of historical graves and a wonderful bench to sit in peace with the dearly departed. https://sierranevadageotourism.org/entries/mormon-island-relocation-cemetery/56dd3a8f-df1c-411a-a55d-693c563ec10c 2) I want to cremated and put in a biodegradable earn. Then I want to be buried on my families property with a dogwood tree. That way there is a beautiful place for my loved ones to visit.

Athena Pennington

2022-12-11 19:53:30 +0000 UTC

Hope I'm not too late. Here in NYC, there's Green-Wood Cemetery. The place is cool for a few reasons: It's a very elevated spot in Brooklyn, so the views of the city from there are pretty cool. It's a lovely walk with a lot of older stones that look pretty cool, and there's a lot of history there too. A few famous folks are buried there. Tied for that is where my parents are buried, as it's a small and very old cemetery, but I'm not about to give up that address. My death plan is organ donation. I do not want to be buried, cremated, or whatever else. I want my body donated to science! Give my organs to folks who need them or use my body as a teaching cadaver. I don't care, as long as it's used well in a science or medical field. However, I want a party for my funeral. Preferable at the Freak Bar in Coney Island. I love Coney Island and the Freak Bar is part of Coney Island USA, so the sideshow and museum are also in that building. So I want my funeral to be a party where people can drink, enjoy the sideshow, maybe walk to the beach or ride a few rides, etc. It'll be a cool, fun time.

Oh boy, it's Kate!

2022-12-11 19:50:26 +0000 UTC

Neptune memorial reef in Florida I would like to be cremated and put in the sea, I always had the belief that maybe I will turn into a sea creature, maybe a mermaid

Dupont

2022-12-11 19:46:41 +0000 UTC

I think being buried in your own backyard would be amazing. You can be with all your animals and haunt the house together. You can also keep an eye on your beloved home and maybe have some say in decor and updates. I plan on being buried in basket casket and nourishing the earth. I would really like a tree planted above me as well. I would also like a stone ouija board as headstone so people can contact me. The laws are not very strict about being buried in your own backyard. I live in Florida, and the laws are super loose here. "New York law permits any person to dedicate land for use as a family cemetery, as long as it does not exceed three acres in size and is not located within 300 feet of a dwelling. This land must be registered with the county clerk."

Crystal Nuthall

2022-12-11 19:45:39 +0000 UTC

1) The most beautiful and memorable (to me) cemetery I’ve been to was in Castle Combe, England. It’s the St. Andrew’s Church yard and it has beautiful and very old head stones. The village is also said to be the most quaint beautiful village in England so the backdrop is just peaceful (not super touristy) and mysterious as well, which I love. It makes me think of The Smiths song “Cemetery Gates” and the lyrics, “ So we go inside and we gravely read the stones All those people, all those lives Where are they now? With loves, and hates And passions just like mine They were born And then they lived And then they died It seems so unfair I want to cry”. 2) I just want to be buried next to my husband, that’s all that matters to me. I’ve lived in a quite a few places and on two different continents even though I am only 27, so I don’t really feel that I have a “home” in a certain location, but wherever my husband is, there is my home. ❤️

Kate Hamman

2022-12-11 19:45:07 +0000 UTC

Oak Grove Cemetary in Bath, Maine has some of the most amazing crypts, rolling hills, bridge with iron gates and most of my family 🖤. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Grove_Cemetery_(Bath,_Maine) My plan is to be buried here in a crypt that is decorated with Edward Gorey images and has a Victorian coffin bell. The coffin will be crafted from the wood of the sunken ships that were once built in Bath. A lot of the wood is scavenged on the beaches in the area.

Marnie Kaler

2022-12-11 19:08:41 +0000 UTC

Buffalo's Forest Lawn cemetery is without question one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the country if not the world. It's enormous - 269 acres of rolling hills, ponds, and lush trees, with herds of deer roaming the grounds. The colors in the spring are unbeatable! There are some famous residents including pop stars and Presidents, but my personal favorite is Victoria Sutherland Craw, a famous Victorian singer and hair model (seriously look her up.) My favorite thing about Forest Lawn is the art - the place is like a massive sculpture gallery, and it's a popular outdoor attraction for locals and tourists alike to spend an afternoon strolling around. The Birge Memorial is especially beautiful, and the Blocher Memorial is also a must-see - be sure to read the tragic love story associated with that one! There's also a Frank Lloyd Wright- designed mausoleum. I could go on and on but I'll just say you need to come visit and see for yourself. Take a tour, and keep an eye out for my favorite headstone, which reads simply: "I told you I was sick." If it wasn't obvious - my plan is of course to be interred at Forest Lawn cemetery in Buffalo, NY, in a plain box without any embalming so that my body can return to the earth as quickly as possible, to feed rather than poison it. Though human composting is not yet legal in New York State, I hope that the bill will pass soon!

Rachel

2022-12-11 19:04:27 +0000 UTC

1. The lovely cemetery at St.Olav`church in Telemark Norway is my favorite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Olav%27s Church(ruin) a lot of my ancestors are buried there. 2. I wish to be cremated and launched into the universe.

tove knutsen

2022-12-11 19:02:46 +0000 UTC

When I pass (and not before), I would like my earthly remains/ashes to be generated into three diamonds, one for each daughter. If my husband survives me (in more ways than one) make it four diamonds, please. Kindly see: https://www.eterneva.com/. As much as I enjoy cemeteries, I’d prefer to sparkle and be near my family. So, with the remains of the remains, I would like to be in a private tiny cemetery as follows: my remains should be interred inside a small ornate stone garden ornament placed in the back of our yard under a Magnolia tree, next to a fountain, surrounded by purple hydrangeas, wild violets, and English ivy. Upholstered white cast iron furniture should be arranged around a tiny copper fireplace—the perfect reading and dreaming spot. Aside my ornament should be a black Galaxy Granite plaque, inscribed: “See you in the twinkling of an eye, Loves”. I think it would be appropriate for you to also sparkle like a diamond, and then if you don’t care for the remains of your remains to be in a private cemetery reading and dreaming spot in your yard (perhaps under a Tulip tree), you might consider the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York. My husband and I were there one crispy October Halloween Eve. We read Washington Irving’s legend as we drove the route of the headless horseman “in the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson”. It was great fun and would make a fantastic funeral procession route. The historic cemetery on a hillside is hauntingly fantastic; and the neighbors (the Rockefellers) are not too shabby. I recommend reading Washing Irving’s tale about the superstitious schoolmaster with “an unequaled appetite for the marvelous” to help you decide. https://a.co/d/eP3lRD4 Blessings, dear Christine. May you have many lovely years to perfect your decision. http://sleepyhollowcemetery.org/ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow

Kim Doogan

2022-12-11 19:02:16 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is in New Orleans, Louisiana - New Orleans Cemetery No. 1 where Marie Laveau is buried. 2. My dad was recently buried at sea (he had served in the Navy and wanted to be cremated and have a Navy burial) and I thought that was a really beautiful way to be laid to rest. I, however, kind of want to either be cremated and have my ashes shot into space so I can become cosmic dust again or just rot away in a giant glittery casket. I haven't decided yet ;)

Samantha Daniels

2022-12-11 18:22:09 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Green Mount cemetery in Montpelier, Vermont, close to where I grew up. Surrounded by picturesque Vermont scenery, it is home to some really beautiful funerary art and sculpture, including some carved granite stairs and a tree stump carved into the shape of a throne. Most notably it is home to a supposedly haunted statue called “Black Agnes”; a bronze figure draped in cloth and appearing to lean back in pain and anguish. Local legend has it that sitting on the statue under a full moon will bring either bad luck or death within seven days. 2. Inspired by the above cemetery, my very unrealistic burial plan is to be cremated and have a statue made over my remains similar to Black Agnes. The original is so beautiful but also terrifying to look at; my dream would be to have an equally awe inspiring statue that over time becomes decayed and decrepit and eventually becomes its own local legend. I would love to serve as an inspiration for ghost and horror stories long after my death in statue form, bringing terror to local youths like black Agnes did for me and my childhood friends.

Gabriela Rhinier

2022-12-11 18:16:10 +0000 UTC

1. Munson cemetery in Bailey’s Prairie, Texas. There is a local ghost legend of Brit Bailey (who the town was named after) walking around the prairie with a lantern looking for whiskey. This is in my local area and I grew up being told this story. A local newspaper did a story on it a few years back. I grew up going to many cemeteries in Texas with my grandmother but this one is my favorite. https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/a-ghost-story-the-legend-of-baileys-light-lives-on-in-brazoria-county/285-190557662 2. I have never wanted to be buried underground so a mausoleum it is! I would like it to be made of a dark or black stone gothic style. Stained glass windows with pictures of red and pink roses. Of course my beloved pets would be with me. I would like it to be a quiet place with old trees and wildlife.

Ashley Thomas

2022-12-11 18:10:26 +0000 UTC

1) The central cemetery in Vienna is really beautiful. Always worth a visit. 2) I want my body to be composted and then used to plant a Tree in the woods

Franziska Kesselring

2022-12-11 18:08:51 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is right behind our home. It's Milton Cemetery, Weston Super Mare, UK. There's graves old and new, trees and bushes and greenery of all kinds. But my most favourite thing about it is, I can sit on my favourite bench and watch the wildlife pass by, I'm friends with the crows and squirrels, and most favourite of all are the Deer, who come down from the woods and wonder around. I take them all food and just sit with them come rain or shine, it heals my soul just a little bit sitting there in silence just surrounded by nature and the beautiful and dystopian graves. 2) my plan for my funeral is to be buried above ground, in a Kiss coffin (yes the band) dressed in my best gothic outfit with all my pets ashes surrounding me. Pulled by big black shire horses with huge deep purple plumes, in a gothic black hearse! I don't want anyone in black, unless that's what they usually wear haha I want them all to celebrate my life in my style. So a flamboyant Gothic week of my Wake! Lots of music dancing and drinking, being merry and remembering me with fun and laughter!

Ali Whitehouse

2022-12-11 17:39:57 +0000 UTC

1. Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia is a beautiful place with so many cool headstones and monuments. The winding paths are so nice to walk and explore and there is so much to discover. And they host cool events like horror movie viewings where you sit amongst the headstones. 2. If the tree pods, where the body is used to enrich a sapling at the burial plot, is an option when I go, I think I would opt for that. Choosing a willow because, as Tyler Gaca put it, willows are "a little twisted, a little mysterious, and the right amount of sad."

Andoni

2022-12-11 17:12:28 +0000 UTC

1. I love cats to keep me company, so it's hard to resist Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles which is home to more than 60 wild cats who roam throughout. The cemetery provides shelters, food, and water....and lots of lovely spots for kittens to hide and play! 2. I have always loved entertaining visitors....and I would certainly hope that I'd receive a lot of visitors to my gravesite! To host them properly, my gravesite would provide a stone table, stone chairs, and an elaborate stone tea set, so that friends and family can make a tradition of enjoying tea and sandwiches whenever they visit!

Stasha Rosen

2022-12-11 16:47:01 +0000 UTC

1) I know this won't be very helpful for your final resting place, but my honest answer for my favorite cemetery is in Wailuku, Maui at my house. Where all my past animal friends have been laid to rest. 2) They don't let you donate your body to science in Hawaii at least not on Maui and you have to be cremated or buried and pumped up with all those chemicals. So my plan to avoid all that is to take a boat out to sea when I am ready to leave and off myself and give my body to the ocean. I know that's a bit morbid but that's what I've come up with!

tiffany

2022-12-11 16:44:56 +0000 UTC

That really sounds like a cemetary for Chistine with cats and al!

Anna Hillman Forsberg

2022-12-11 16:33:42 +0000 UTC

In Lycksele in Lappland Sweden there is a place called Gammplatsen in Swedish, "The old place". It began in 1606. https://www.sametinget.se/131941 Its a beautifull and smal cemetary that was for the Sapmi people in Lappland Lycksele. So probably difficult to be buried there now but wanted to share a beautifull and historic cemetary. I think i want to be cremated and i would like my ashes to be spread in the Lapplandmountains on the border between Sweden and Norway. We´ve done that with our dogs.

Anna Hillman Forsberg

2022-12-11 16:31:01 +0000 UTC

1. I’d have to say my favorite cemetery would have to be “Harmony Grove Cemetery” in my home town of Salem MA. It was designed in the late 1840s and is sprawled out over 35 acres. Large and unique headstones are tucked away artfully among large tree routes and hidden in mossy groves. Large mausoleums and unique weathered statues pepper the property too, giving it a very Gothic/Victorian ambiance. When the fog rolls in, its the perfect to imagine Barnabas Collins or Angelique floating by!2. I think my Husband and I will probably be cremated or whatever the most eco-friendly way for us to be reunited with the earth. However being made into a “catacomb saint” would be the ideal “post-morten makeover” (great name for an Indy band). In approximately the mid 1500s, Catholics exhumed the bodies they deemed saints - their skeletons were lavishly decorated and bejeweled by the finest craftspeople (usually sisters of an Abby) . These skeletons traveled through Europe or were placed permanently in cathedrals to draw in pilgrim tourism. Many survive and can be seen today. If you’re not familiar I HIGHLY recommend looking them up!!

Garrett Vitanza

2022-12-11 16:08:05 +0000 UTC

1, My favourite cemetery that I’ve ever seen is in Portmeirion Wales, it’s a dog cemetery, it has tiny little headstones for all the lost loved pets. It’s so lovely, it has a carved dog statue at the entrance. It is at the top of a woodland walk in Portmeirion’s grounds. It’s beautiful. 2. I want to be buried at our local cemetery, my lovely dad who we lost last year, 2 uncles and my Nan & Grandad are resting there. Probably our whole family will be eventually. I go every week to sit and spend time with my dad. Next to this newer cemetery there is an old cemetery where we seen the oldest headstone was from the 1700’s it’s very spooky in the evenings, all the headstones here are sunken and tilted which gives it a creepy film vibe.

Victoria Gates

2022-12-11 15:58:38 +0000 UTC

Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY is a hidden gem of a place. It is full of history, haunted tales, eternal love, concerts in catacombs, and the monk parakeets that live at the entrance. I just love it. As to what I plan to do with my body. I really am hoping to be able to compost it. It's not legal in ny yet so I would have to go to Seattle or somewhere else but my dream would be to have to composted in NY and put in the earth in New York and a little in the Galway, Ireland.

Casey Killoran

2022-12-11 15:46:35 +0000 UTC

I would have to say the bonaventure cemetery in Georgia.with all the Spanish moss and beautiful statues there is something so magical and creepy about it. I think I would want my ashes scattered on the coast over looking the ocean In bodega bay. The birds is my favorite Hitchcock movie. And there’s just something about a sleepy lil sea side village with fog and roaring waves.

Melissa

2022-12-11 15:29:43 +0000 UTC

The cemetery is a turn of the century cemetery (and some are much older) very near my house where I used to live in Ojai, California. It's the Nordhoff Cemetery. You can find it and some photos on line. Although, a lot of those photos show over grown, unkempt graves. But when I was last there, (admittedly 7 or more years ago), the cemetery was being maintained by a group of local volunteers. They had a program where you could 'adopt' an ancestor and take care of that grave. I hope that is still the case. The cemetery even made the 365 Days of Terror on Tumblr in 2014. Although, I think most of the ghosts are friendly. No room for new inhabitants I'm afraid. But you could probably make day trips. As for my burial plans, option #1 is to donate my body to medical science. If they'll have me. I don't think medical schools get many female cadavers. And, let's face it, funerals are outrageously expensive. I believe we paid more than $30,000 for both my parents in 2005 and 2006. I don't have that kind of money, or the money for an insurance plan to cover anywhere near that much. I'm single at 66 years old, no children of my own to burden. And medical science will bury you (or cremation) for free when you've out 'deathed' your usefulness. Option #2 is a 'sky funeral'. Leaving me on a hill top somewhere to be taken away by nature. Option #3 would be a natural burial in Joshua Tree in California. Options 2 & 3 are thanks to Caitlyn of the Order of the Good Death. I'm sure you'll be getting some wonderful suggestions. But you could just be buried there in your own garden. They can't really stop you.

Patricia Kelly

2022-12-11 15:21:16 +0000 UTC

1. Protestant Cemetery, Rome - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Cemetery,_Rome This beautiful cemetery is the final resting place for well known authors and artists, which should make for an eternity of good conversation and debate. Additionally, the cemetery is known to have a large population of cats that bask in the sun on a warm day next to the tombstones. It seems like a nice peaceful place to spend eternity. 2. I think a bit of context is necessary so that this doesn’t sound like I am imparting morbid thoughts upon my young daughters. I am an avid gardener, tomatoes, peppers, flowers, and the occasional carnivorous plant. There is an old cemetery near our home that we drive past frequently. Since we see the cemetery quite often it can lead to interesting conversations in the car. My youngest daughter (7 at the time) asked if we would be buried in that cemetery one day. I told her probably not, I think I want to be cremated. Once I explained what that was she immediately had the idea that I could then be sprinkled in her tomato garden when she is older. My other daughter (8) of course said that she wanted half for her garden. After a bit of arguing they settled on half and half. Which then led to them figuring out they would eventually “eat” me with spaghetti and garlic bread. I believe the conversation concluded with them pretending to be zombies and whispering, “braiiiiins” as we pulled into our driveway.

Joslyn Hullihan

2022-12-11 14:40:01 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is HighGate cemetery in London-it has a vampire legend, crypts from Victorian times and was overgrown into twisting vines and creepy pathways-come on! 2. I want to be buried at the base of a tree and grow into the tree-my last name is Wood-I have to do this!

DeeDee Wood

2022-12-11 14:27:19 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite burial ground/cemetery is HighGate Cemetery

DeeDee Wood

2022-12-11 14:24:58 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Hope cemetery in Rochester NY - resting place of Frederick Douglass and Susan B Anthony 2. Cremated, my estate will go to human rights, animal welfare and environmental causes, and I hope to have a memorial bench at a local park. 🖤🖤🖤

Nicole B

2022-12-11 14:07:12 +0000 UTC

East of Atlanta is a monastery in Conyers. (We had a friend who was a monk there who was a stained glass artist.) It is in a woodland area and has a large area for green burials. Here is some information. https://www.honeycreekwoodlands.com/faq Another cool place to be buried that is quite gothic is Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Perfect if you want Spanish moss dripping off enormous live oaks!

Janet Metzger

2022-12-11 14:06:31 +0000 UTC

We visited the Glasgow Necropolis in Scotland and LOVED it...it sits up on a hill and you can see it from all over the city. It was a joy to visit. Very "Tim Burton".My plan is to have my ashes scattered at the Storm King art center in upstate NY. Specifically near the Richard Serra piece "Shunnemonk Fork" One of my favorite places on earth! Y'all should go!

Filomena Jack Studio

2022-12-11 13:55:40 +0000 UTC

1) Bonaventure Cemetery in Georgia. Southern Gothic cemetery covered in Spanish Moss. It is quite busy since it is a "must see" place due to the beauty, but still peaceful. 2) like many others, cremation. I'd like have my ashes mixed and used to make an painting of myself with my dear fury companions to hang up in a family members home and passed down with the requirement of the urns of my furbabies always close by as we are not to be seperated or else...

Angie Loyd

2022-12-11 13:52:22 +0000 UTC

Hello Christine! You should look at Oak Grove Cemetery in St Mary’s River in Georgia. It is GORGEOUSLY SPOOKY! It was laid out in 1788. Has 29 American Revolution soldiers, French Acadians, Sea Captains, and much more. I on the other hand would like to be put into a tree pod! This is the most eco friendly option of burial. You are placed in a biodegradable pod attached to a tree sapling of your choice and PLANTED! My daughter is totally freaked out by this because she says this is how you get haunted forest which I m for! https://g.co/kgs/nL2iUW

Stacey Rowell

2022-12-11 13:50:26 +0000 UTC

Cave Hill, Louisville KY My current burial plan is cremation since there are no green cemeteries in Kentucky. Should one become available I will choose a green burial.

Suzanne Bloom

2022-12-11 13:32:24 +0000 UTC

Hope Cemetery in Salem, Ohio. It has quite a bit of history in it that fascinates me. A famous basket maker, a man hung because he believed all men were created equal, and the tragic death of Goldie Belle Taylor who licked Elderberry juice from an iron kettle and died of iron poisoning. There is a ghost story about mystery flowers linked to Goldie Belle. According to the Salem Historical Society, every day, Goldie Belle’s father would ride from his home to Hope Cemetery to deliver fresh flowers to her grave. Ten years later, Jacob died in 1896 and was buried in Hope Cemetery, but the flowers continued to come. Sometimes fresh, sometimes artificial, but for more than 100 years Goldie Bell always has her flowers. I’ve never seen her grave without flowers with any of my visits. I’ve always had a desire to be turned into a tree. To use my remains as food for a new living thing. An Oak tree, much like the ones I climbed in as a child. I need no gathering or remembrance. Just a simple insertion into the ground with a seedling growing above me.

Justine

2022-12-11 12:41:02 +0000 UTC

Hello Christine, where were I live there is a very pretty cemetery it is very cool and old and you could make your stone how you please I think it look magical Danish graves aren’t the same as other part of the world and that make it interesting. https://www.google.dk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deadicated.nl%2F%3Fp%3D3094&psig=AOvVaw1YC4eKtwPZay8gnRSN9ymo&ust=1670846043930000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA4QjhxqFwoTCPDnhNzA8fsCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD Århus Cemetery Vestre Kirkegård And for the second question I just want to be buried in one of those new amazing tree burials projects to become a tree but in reality probably will be different and I don’t like to think about it just because I want to live a lot longer to be with my girl and husband This one is so tricky and it move me My husband and I have illness that can’t be cure so it is a be painful to think about those thing at the moment But that is live I hope you find interesting the cemetery Have a fantastic Holiday Xoxo Lorena Zitelli.

Lorena zitelli

2022-12-11 12:08:44 +0000 UTC

1. On a trip to Tasmania (I am Australian), I visited the Isle of the Dead Cemetery. This cemetery dates to the convict times of first European settlement in Australia. It is on an island that is actually called The Isle of the Dead. Convicts from one of our most infamous convict prisons were sent there to be buried. Unfortunately, it is no longer used for burials, but what a fantastically tragic and eerie place to be interred. 2. This sounds weird, but when I had my will done, our Trustee and Guardian Department made me plan my burial. This was a mind-blowing concept, but also rather exciting and liberating. I had never even considered my end. Anyway, I grew up in a mystical and magical place. Our old house was knocked down a few years ago and the bushland has reclaimed the area. But we still visit the site (it is owned by the National Parks). In the early 1900s, the local gravestone cutter had his cottage in the bushland. Our animals are all buried nearby. I am going to be cremated and my ashes placed in a jar and buried at the gravestone cutter’s old site. No funeral. Just a family gathering at dusk with lanterns. As I said…magical.

Gail Tilley

2022-12-11 11:24:20 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine, My favourite cemetery is Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End, East London. It is known as one of the great cemeteries of the Victorian era, and is incredibly magical to wander through. Contrasted by towering blocks of flats surrounding it, the cemetery park is a peaceful haven for local wildlife, a miniature woodland in the heart of the rugged and urban East End. Victorian graves and monuments line the main pathways, with statues of angels looking down over you. But the true wonder is when you head off the main tracks and into dense woodland scattered with stunning and humble Victorian graves. In those moments of exploring tiny pathways, I forget I’m in one of the busiest, most densely populated cities in the world. I walked through the cemetery every morning and evening on my walk to and from work, taking a photo in the same position each time. The beauty of the cemetery as it cycled through the seasons is a reminder to me of the passage of time, and a reflection on life, death, and renewal. My burial plan is all about show and the power of clothes and costume to transform. My husband and I have always been in the habit of gently coercing friends and family into costume parties year on year - themes like Decadence, Work of Art, Out of this World. At our wedding we even asked guests to come dressed in the vintage formal fashions of the decade they were born in - from my grandma in a 1920s flapper dress to 3 outfits each from the 80s. My funeral would be a tour de force of all the themes of the parties and celebrations of my life, asking guests for one final show stopping outfit from their favourite theme. And I will be put to rest wearing my favourite outfit I have created so far - a fuchsia pink satyr. I like to think of it as taking ‘wear bright colours’ one step further. Thank you, Christine and captive, for all the beautiful content that you create. It has been an inspiring tonic for us. Merry Christmas! Seb United Kingdom

Sebastian Bicen

2022-12-11 11:18:12 +0000 UTC

1) Highgate Cemetery in London. That is the greatest and most mysterious place. It's like a garden meet, a forest, meet Victorian architecture, it creates a unique atmosphere. Ad to that many legends, one of them is that a vampire lived there and scared the whole neighbourhood in the 60's ... It makes a lovely Sunday afternoon walk. 2) I'm not sure I want to be buried. If I choose to be, I would love to eternally stay in a garden, in an all wooden coffin, even the nails, so I decompose easily and nourish a beautiful maple tree, under it they would place a bench to stay chat with my gostly form. If I choose to be cremated, I don't want to be traped in a box. So I would pick a location in the wild to be spread, either in the mountains or in a forest. Either way i will nurture and travel through wind, water, roots, crawlers, wild animals.

Marianne

2022-12-11 10:55:26 +0000 UTC

1) Once I went traveling by myself and chose to visit one cemetery which promised to also have the most gorgeous funeral carriages nearby in the Museu de Carrosses Fúnebres. I spent around 5 hours all alone on the cemetery, called Cementiri de Montjuïc, popular in its nature it does everything to you when you are there all by yourself as you will in your final resting place. Some places are knocked open, some show the craft behind stonework in the most creative and absurd ways artisans had to offer but all of them tell a complex story. I sat down, I wrote, I wondered and read. I almost didn’t find it as when I arrived I was dropped of on a busy street without a side walk, but once I walked there was a couple on a bench, the girl smiled at me and had fangs- and I knew I was in the right spot (this is a true story). 2) Once I pass this endless stream of wonder, I would like to be burned and have my ashes put into the most beautiful handcrafted urn, which is intended to look like an owl with closed eyes. I have been referred to as an owl and have grown fond of this wise but mysterious animal. However, I do intend my surroundings to have understood me enough at this point that a celebration should take place- a celebration of someone having visited this earth. Once put into the earth, there shall be wonderful stonework with the name, dates and one engraving…“I was irritated.“

Gini Ginelli

2022-12-11 10:44:22 +0000 UTC

Père Lachaise cemetary in Paris - My favourite cemetary. Not only does it have famous figures such as Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. But it's also home to a Russian countess, Elisabeth Demidoff who promised the family fortune to anyone who would spend a year and a day with her in her tomb. After Demidoff died, her relatives were shocked to discover that her will included a provision leaving millions of francs to the person who would spend a year and a day in her elaborate white tomb alongside her body which is in a crystal coffin. Accounts add that the walls and ceiling of the tomb were covered in mirrors, so that "whichever way the watcher might turn, he or she would always be confronted by the spectacle of the dead Princess," A newspaper reported that: The tomb's living guest was not to have any diversion "except that of reading by the funeral light at the head of the coffin, and was condemned never to exchange a word with anyone during the 365 days, not even with the person who was once a day to bring the watcher’s food." Only in the evenings, once the gates of the cemetery were closed, or in the very early mornings, were they allowed to take a stroll around the cemetery grounds. While many people had attempted the countess's challenge, the request had yet to be fulfilled, probably because people were driven mad while trying by "unearthly and mysterious sounds"; at least one turned into a "jabbering idiot," the newspapers said.

Davinia

2022-12-11 10:19:01 +0000 UTC

1) "The hidden city of the dead" – the official name of the 19th century cemetery is "Südwestkirchof Stahnsdorf" at the gates of Berlin, Germany. You can find a nice description here: https://classicitaliancycles.com/stahnsdorf-cemetery-the-hidden-city-of-the-dead/ And some more formal infos here: https://www.significantcemeteries.org/2011/11/stahnsdorf-south-western-cemetery.html 2) to be buried in a compostable urn under a tree in a forest cemetery, preferably with a name tag, maybe even with the dates of my birth and death. Because I always wonder how old the buried grew if I don´t see any of those dates. Knowing them makes it easier for me to imagine stories of their lifetime and death.

Marcel and Kristin

2022-12-11 09:39:34 +0000 UTC

1. Merry Cemetery in Romania: https://maps.app.goo.gl/t5xfC9cVdRMcrJ3r6 The graves are marked with colorful crosses decorated with (humorous) poems and scenes about the person's death or life. I would've LOVED to see it in person when I visited Romania but circumstances conspired against me. Next time! 2. I've been honored to write a few obituaries for (older) family members and there's something very special about it. You get to follow their life's journey through all the stories you remember and all the ones you never heard before. You learn more about them from the people who knew them best. And it's just an incredible feeling when you figure out how to tell their story in a way that does them justice. I hope whoever writes my obituary enjoys doing it, isn't afraid to dispense with the traditional formula, and tells a story about my life that makes me sound super cool for all the strangers reading it in their local newspaper over Sunday brunch ;)

Roamingbun

2022-12-11 09:28:10 +0000 UTC

1. Solna cemetery in sweden/Stockholm. It´s a big cemetery with both beautiful kept graves and some abandonen. There are som scarylooking statues and som burial chambers that you´re not allowed to enter. In the springtime there´s a whole ocean of daffodils that just keep on growing for each year, it´s really beautiful.. 2. If i´m aware of when my time has come i wouldn´t mind just wonder out in the woods and find myself a cosy and mossy place under a big oak and lay down there for my final rest.

Madeleine Ytterberg

2022-12-11 08:51:44 +0000 UTC

2) I have been fascinated by the project called Capsula Mundi. They are attempting to offer a service where the body or ashes will be put into a biodegradable egg shaped urn, and as the egg and your body decomposes, a tree will grow as your living tombstone, or in this case a tombtree. The naturalist approach and symbolism really appeals to me. I like the idea of a more down-to-earth coffin that melts back into the world (notice my attempted funny) without needing new wood from killing another tree, and me turning into a visible new living thing from where I was buried. I can’t speak for how effective that plan will be. It’s interesting that project website FAQ explained how rigor mortis shouldn’t be in the way of repositioning the body into the fetus position in the pod for the service. Right now they are only offering a biodegradable egg for ashes though. I can imagine my ancestors spirits being confused by their spoiled city brat wanting to be buried in a paper mache Easter egg with some tree seeds instead of a proper carved fancy wooden coffin. They themselves were half cremated with their bones anatomically repositioned in a sitting position in earthware urns. My egg would probably be seen as a downgrade.

ing

2022-12-11 08:30:05 +0000 UTC

1. In all honesty, I don't have a favorite cemetery! Because my favorite kind are the small little spooky graveyards next to old churches. I find they are always the spookiest and just ooze those horribly haunted vibes! 2. The day my sweet little kitty Persephone dies, is the day I will also be meeting my end. We are soulmates never to be separated!! I would want to be buried with her and our tombstone to say 'here lies Pheobe and Persephone, Friends in their last life, Pet and owner in their current and sisters in their next' <3

Beepboop

2022-12-11 08:21:52 +0000 UTC

1. Hands down Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Of course, it’s an LA landmark, and it reminds me of home. On a personal level, it’s host to an annual Dia de los Muertos festival that I’ve been attending since I was 15. After losing some family ourselves, it has become even more meaningful as each year without them passes. 2. My family and I recently learned of a method that decomposes bodies into, essentially, mulch! You can then choose where to be spread and they’ve said they’d like to be in the same state park (Montaña de Oro) where we scattered both my aunt and grandma’s ashes. It sounds so peaceful, overlooking the ocean, I’m leaning towards it myself.

Hannah Stanley

2022-12-11 08:20:57 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery will have to be the one on Isola di San Michele in Venice, Italy. An island cemetery, in my favorite city in the world, that also used to be a prison and it's only a short distance from the island of Poveglia, the most haunted one in the area. I would be buried alongside Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev. 2. I have very "traditional" views about my own burial plan. I'd like to rest in a wooden casked, possibly lined in cream satin and elaborately carved with a vine and grape motif. I'd also like for my cats to be buried next to me and have their own headstone, like Peggy Guggenheim's dogs at her museum in Venice. I would also arrange for fresh flowers to be brought each fortnight: pale pink roses and calla lilies.

Alice

2022-12-11 08:01:57 +0000 UTC

1) I have three favorite cemeteries for three different reasons so bear with me. The first is Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee. On our honeymoon, May 2022, my husband asked me where I wanted to go on our road trip across the states. My only goal, a goal I’ve had since his passing, was to visit Johnny Cash at his resting place. He is my hero. The second is Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. On our honeymoon my husband surprised me with a stop at this massive cemetery! It was beautiful and the biggest one I’ve ever been in. I wouldn’t mind getting lost in there and having a picnic. The third and last cemetery I love dearly is actually the first that I ever really came into contact with. Near my home where I grew up was Workman Cemetery on Powerline Road in Harrisburg, Oregon. We were always driving past this little cemetery in the middle of farmland and what fascinated me as a child was that it sat in front of a regular old farm house. I desperately wanted to live in that house because of that cemetery. I still do. 2) I am willing to give any of my remains to someone in need, but if for some reason that doesn’t happen… My burial plan kind of involves my family more than myself. I want my family to have as much time with me as they’d like in the comfort of my home (given that I die in peace). I don’t want them to feel like they have to rush me to the morgue. Other cultures care for their loved ones body for days after the person has passed on. They bathe their loved ones, change clothes, and even provide offerings of food. I want my family to view me in a natural state (before decay of course). I don’t want them to fear death. Then I want to be buried, no embalming. I do not want any chemicals in my body and I do not want my blood drained. I just want to be placed in the dirt and consumed back into the earth. A casket will do fine, and my husband and I would like to be buried together if possible. Honestly, if I go first I don’t care if they dig me back up to put him in. If our children find that idea jarring, side by side graves will do. I want my family and pets placed close to one another, maybe in a personalized family crypt. Just somewhere where our bodies, ashes and relics can be placed and visited by my living kin. I wish that my loved ones are all set and don’t have to worry about where to place themselves when the time comes.

Jenna Myers

2022-12-11 06:18:49 +0000 UTC

Greetings! My favorite cemetary is Riverside Cemetary in Moline, IL. It was built in 1851 and at that time strolling thru cemeteries was considered good exercise and a way to get fresh air. The meandering terraces give you a chance to walk thru crumbly mausoleums and down wide and winding thoughroghfares up and down hills that line the Mississippi River. There is one shady part that few people visit, with gravestones so old only stumps remain like gravelly teeth sticking out of the grass. No names mark the headstones here, they have all been worn smooth by the decades. We have had many amazing animal encounters on this 5 acre cemetary, from snowy owls flying low overhead to majestic heard of deer among the foggy headstones. It is truly a place not to be missed on any cemetery exploring adventure! I would like to be cremated and have a tree planted on family land. There was an old settlers home in my hometown that we would visit in elementary school. They had a small family graveyard out front of the house, surrounded by a small white fence. I was always fascinated and a little spooked by the idea as a kid. Now, a little tree grove in the back of family land for all our trees to take root and grow, and our future generations to visit and climb in sounds magical.

Amanda Obeng

2022-12-11 05:58:32 +0000 UTC

1. Friedhof der Namenlosen or "The Cemetery of the Nameless" is my favorite because it's a location in one of my favorite movies, "Before Sunrise." Located next to the Danube River, it's the resting place for unidentified bodies that drowned or committed suicide in the river between 1840 and 1940. 2. My burial plan is to be made into a tree! I don't know what kind of tree yet, but I love the idea of being planted on family property, and cherished by my family for generations to come.

晶

2022-12-11 05:22:25 +0000 UTC

1. Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh, PA. It is the final resting place of the prominent millionaires from the Victorian era that helped turn the city into the hub of the industrial revolution. So much wealth and Gilded Age excess lead to some of the most elaborate personal mausoleums being built for their final resting places. And of course, lots of local ghost stories are told about Homewood Cemetery! https://thehomewoodcemetery.com/ 2. For my personal burial plan, I think I want to be plasticized and brought out for family parties so I can still join in the fun. Or my first love is buried in Homewood Cemetery. If plasticizing isn't an opinion, I'd like to be cremated and scattered on his grave.

Ashley McCauley

2022-12-11 05:12:54 +0000 UTC

1)Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 2) Salvage anything that might still be useful and the rest buried with a tree. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sleepy+Hollow+Cemetery/@41.0970009,-73.8638139,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2c01c21847fbf:0x3ea260f3868c9952!8m2!3d41.0969969!4d-73.8616252

Laura Atkins

2022-12-11 05:10:38 +0000 UTC

1) Give the name and location of your favorite cemetery... and please make sure it can be googled! ;) If I was to be buried I would want it to be somewhere like Leeds Cemetery, Leeds UT, on Cemetery rd. It’s a small town founded in the late 1800’s and the cemetery is just as old. What I like about it is that is hasn’t been modernized. While they do have some nice plantings of trees and bushes there is no “velvet grasses” to be mowed. Even today it looks like an old, western, Victorian, graveyard. The official webpage for it is here: https://wchsutah.org/cemeteries/leeds-cemetery.php And the page has a couple of really nice photos, Here: http://www.utahcemeteries.org/pimages/Leeds%20City/Main%20Gate.jpg And here: http://www.utahcemeteries.org/pimages/Leeds%20City/South%20-%20North%20view.jpg 2) What is your burial plan? This could be an element or an idea you have for your end or just one you think is neat! What I would like more then anything is a family mausoleum on family land; and since it is actually legal in Utah to bury someone in your backyard (with the proper permits) it is actually a possibility- assuming I suddenly, miraculously, became rich and could afford to build one. I’m a big fan of the Addams Family and like them I would love to be able to lounge in a windows seat, look out my bay window, and relax in the sight of tombstones (and mausoleums) for those of my family that has gone before; then join them myself when my own time has come.

Lady Barronmore

2022-12-11 05:03:42 +0000 UTC

As for my funeral plans, I would like to have a Sky burial, where your body is placed on a mountain top to fed upon by birds and animals and to decompose naturally. But as this is illegal in Australia I would like to be cremated and my ashes placed in my garden that I spend a lot of time in and love so much. Also my pets are buried there and we get hundreds of native birds visiting every day.

Simone Van Dorp

2022-12-11 04:59:41 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Fairmount in Denver, Colorado. My grandparents worked there as the florist and gravedigger. They had a house right outside the gates. My mom grew up in that cemetery and her and my dad got married in the Ivy Chapel when it was still covered in ivy. Now it’s a tradition for all of the women in the family to go there every year to decorate graves. 2. I want to donate as much of me as they will take and then I want to be buried in a local cemetery that does green burials. I want to be put in a simple pine box and wrapped in a cotton shroud. The green burial plot is just a field with tall grass. I love it.

Brianna R

2022-12-11 04:58:18 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Rookwood Cemetery (Rookwood Necropolis) in Sydney, Australia and is one of the largest in the world. It is a beautiful Victorian cemetery with old world architecture, mausoleums, crypts, churches and gardens. It had its own train station (Necropolis station) that was made with stone and had two trumpeting angels on each side of the entrance. This was later moved to Canberra where it was made into a church. The departed and their loved ones would be brought to the cemetery by train, most unusual. Necropolis station is still marked on the current train line maps. The current website does not have all the old photos of the cemetery, but a bit of google searching will show you some amazing old images. The cemetery is still in use and the gardens well maintained.

Simone Van Dorp

2022-12-11 04:55:05 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is my local on which is Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati OH. 2. I'd like to donate any organs possible and then be cremated. Assuming I outlive my husband, my kid can do whatever he wants with my ashes.

Summer Schmidlapp

2022-12-11 04:41:13 +0000 UTC

2. My burial wish is to have my organs donated if the situation allows. I want the rest of my body cremated and/ or composted and mixed with the soil for a newly planted tree. The dead giving nutrients to sustain new life, the branches giving shade and shelter, to help grow something that takes in the harmful but freely gives the breath needed to sustain other life. Being gone but able to contribute positively long into the future is something I feel is important, almost like "paying it forward" to the next generation. Trees are beautiful both aesthetically and conceptually, and we can never have enough of them.

Lincoln Markel

2022-12-11 04:15:49 +0000 UTC

2) My burial plan is very specific. First, my organs will be donated to science. I’d be honored if my heart or kidney can save a life or two. Second, I want my body to be naturally buried in a shroud and pine box. I want to avoid embalming if possible. I wish for the cremated remains of my mother, my aunt, and my precious animals to be included in the pine box. Finally, I want to be buried in a small stone gothic mausoleum inside Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. My epitaph will read: “The dead are dancing with the dead; the dust is whirling with the dust.” - Oscar Wilde 💀

One Chance Fancy

2022-12-11 03:53:52 +0000 UTC

2. I have not much opinion, I’ve told my loved ones to do what’s they feel like would give them comfort and closure during grief, but my one wish is that if I’m not cremated, I want to decompose (absolutely no embalming) I want to be worm food and go back to earth

Nicole Angel

2022-12-11 03:37:37 +0000 UTC

1. Is obviously going to be my local cemetery sunny side cemetery in Long Beach, CA. A little peace of nature surrounded my a city. They’ve done scary movie viewings at that cemetery with is pretty cool!

Nicole Angel

2022-12-11 03:36:14 +0000 UTC

1.) The coolest cemetery was discovered by Lucian Faggiano. He was opening a trattoria in Lecce Italy. In an effort to fix the toilet he dug a trench. Ends up he discovers an ancient Roman tomb. In addition, with excavation they were also able to uncover a Roman granary and Franciscan convent. 2) Building on this idea I think it would be amazing for you and the Captive to dig beneath your home to carve out a catacomb for your burial together. Place a hidden staircase behind an old bookcase to keep the project hidden. Who needs a permit. Since I am a simple person I wish to be buried near family in Calvary Cemetery but for you...go out big.

Trudy Simas

2022-12-11 03:34:20 +0000 UTC

1. After touring and photographing dozens of cemeteries from Prague to Paris to Mexico City to Los Angeles and New Orleans, I must say my very favorite cemetery is Highgate Cemetery in London. A coimetromaniac’s dream, Highgate is divided into two parts. The West Cemetery features Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon, both of which are architectural jewels and worthy of worship. The East Cemetery is overgrown with ivy, overrun by stray cats, and includes dozens of luminaries buried in its dirt. It is haunting, in a constant state of repair and disrepair, and filled with the most gorgeous tombstones known to man. Both sides of the cemetery are enchanting in their own right. Broken and open graves are common, as are exquisite sculptures only to be found within those cemetery walls. It is a destination not to be missed 💀

One Chance Fancy

2022-12-11 03:30:48 +0000 UTC

My favorite Cemetery is St. Louis Cemetery #1, in New Orleans where you can find the tomb of Marie Leveau. The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans... and if I have my way my death plan is to be composted at Recompose. Seattle's human composting facility!

Moth

2022-12-11 03:29:20 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is located in Lombard, Illinois. Named the Boeger Cemetery it is very small and stands in a grove of trees located in between the parking lot of Yorktown Mall and Butterfield Road, a major street in Chicago’s western suburbs. I call it The Tomb of the Unknown Shopper. It is a lovely tucked away place amid the bustle. Go past it too fast and you miss it…just like life, as Ferris Bueller says. I’d like a natural internment…don’t want to pollute the earth…just want to become a part of everything. My dad passed away almost 30 years ago…I still tell his stories and use his funny sayings. Being remembered with love and laughter is the best monument.

Kathy Ann

2022-12-11 02:49:01 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. It was created in 1869 and is modeled after Victorian and Edwardian garden cemeteries. It has a lot of beautiful architecture throughout in memorial monuments, statues and gravestones. The grounds are gorgeous with flowers in the spring (with a daffodil hill) and great foliage in the fall. I love old cemeteries and I'd love to see so many more! I haven't finalized my death plan yet but I have two options I really like. Option one is a natural burial, ideally just covered in a shroud with no casket at all but possibly still with an interesting headstone. Option two I only learned about more recently from a wonderful channel called Ask A Mortician with Caitlin Doughty. She's an amazing source of information! In a video from last year she covered the topic of human composting. Where your body can be completed brought back to nature and you can be used for useful soil. I love the idea! It's not legalized in most states yet but could be in the future.

Molly

2022-12-11 02:43:42 +0000 UTC

2- I actually had to write up a will that included instructions for if I died before I deployed to Afghanistan and my request (which still holds true) was: That first of all any organs I can donate can be donated, secondly if my body can be of any additional use to science or medicine, such as by being a medical cadaver it be used for that, and thirdly that if at all possible I would be endlessly happy if I could one day be a skeleton in a classroom.

Eric Bundy

2022-12-11 02:09:36 +0000 UTC

1- I'm stumped on this one

Eric Bundy

2022-12-11 02:05:42 +0000 UTC

2- I've actually given this a lot of thought since I grew up in a funeral parlor. I will have a 19th century funeral horse and carriage hearse take me to Hartsdale Cemetery in Westchester, NY where I can be buried with all my beloved pets who have pre-deceased me ( NY law now allows this) I'd love a jazz band to play as depicted in the James Bond 007 movie Live and Let Die and a playlist that varies from staples like Kansas-All we are is Dust in the Wind, Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here, Beatles-Eleanor Rigby interspersed with my favorite Christmas songs-Waitresses-Christmas Wrapping and Rocking Around the Christmas Tree

Barbara Brush

2022-12-11 01:50:18 +0000 UTC

1-Pere Lachaise in Paris, France is my favorite cemetery. We visited on our honeymoon to pay our respects to Jim Morrison. It is a beautiful garden setting with hundreds of famous graves and antique monuments.All the local older gentlemen who daily sit on the benches point you in the right direction to the grave you are visiting; Jim, Sarah Bernhardt, Edith Piaf, Chopin.

Barbara Brush

2022-12-11 01:40:03 +0000 UTC

One of my favourite cemeteries is the Glasgow Necropolis. We were there at dusk..the moss covered statues, the picturesque views, and its so big you can get lost in it. It has a beautiful, creepy aesthetic, which I adore. My burial plan is to be buried in my hometown of Ingonish at the St. Peter's Catholic Church Cemetery where all of my family is buried. I visit all my family in there whenever I am home, and it has the most lovely view of the harbour and Ingonish island. Generations of my family are there. (You can google St. Peter's catholic church cemetery Ingonish and see it)

Meghan MacKrous

2022-12-11 01:32:51 +0000 UTC

What I think would be most neat is to pick a cemetery that has an old, run-down section in need of care and offer to refresh and Christine-ize it. Fenced, restored, and all manner of CM creatures, with space for you when the time comes.

Gincredible

2022-12-11 01:06:04 +0000 UTC

1) Paris Catacombs Paris, France very cool! Has history and over 6 million people, so you can make a lot of friends :) 2) I personally like to be cremated and scattered far in the ocean, or decompose in those eco friendly caskets and be buried with a tree :D

Jolena T.

2022-12-11 00:15:10 +0000 UTC

1. The Southern Cemetery in Dunedin, New Zealand. Anything I've seen of it is just eery and beautiful. If you search itsblackfriday cemetery on YouTube it should be the first video that comes up. There is so much history to it and in the older parts there is gorgeous statuary, trees growing up through Graves and spots where the coffins/caskets shown through the ground. It might sound like its in disarray but to me it just seems fantastic. 2. I'd always wanted an elaborate coffi and had hoped to be buried on a rainy day with a creepy themed wake but my plans have become much simpler. I've lost quite a few family members in the last 3 years and it doesn't seem like its going to slow down. Ive found that even with a plan, the process of giving the deceased everything they wanted to be very stressful on the one carrying it out (in my family anyway).So my plans would be whatever is cheapest so that I could leave any funds behind to those that would need it, I do very much like the idea of being buried at the roots of a tree or something already established outside so no one would have to worry about caring for it though. I had a friend whose family member knew they were dying and decided to make a shopping list for the types of items that their grandkids might want or need for the first years worth of holidays and I thought that was extremely sweet. I want to be able to do something similar for friends and family but also make silly creepy gift cards myself before death with jokes about how I wish I could be with them but I'm having too much fun in the afterlife with insert random famous dead person here.

Marlo

2022-12-10 23:43:54 +0000 UTC

1. Hollywood Cemetary in Richmond, Virginia. A vampire is rumored to reside there! 2. I'm torn between being turned into compost or a diamond. I would love to be a diamond and have my beloved dog, Juju's, ashes combined with mine. I don't know who I'd leave the diamond to, because I don't have children. If I die before my husband, maybe we can be some sort of paperweight? And if I'm composted, then I can be sprinkled around the garden, or given out in small bags to guests at my memorial. Oh! Same for the diamonds. Let's be made into smaller ones and pass them out to guests.

Leah Sherman

2022-12-10 23:23:58 +0000 UTC

1. Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Mausoleum. As Wilhelm's webpage states, “We are not just a cemetery. We are a gathering place for our community.” 2. I would like my family to have something like an Irish-style wake. I should be wrapped in a shroud and decorated with ribbons and flowers. Half the room would be half decorated with all my favorite Halloween decorations and the other half with my Christmas decorations. There should be a lot of candles and soft music. The wake should last a few days and my body should never be left alone until it is in the ground. Men (and women if they want) will smoke cigars to keep evil spirits away. There should be a lot of good food and drinks. The wake should have a bit of humor. I would love my sons and husbands to tell their funniest stories of our life together--I have given them a lot to work with. I want to leave them with a little laughter.

Christine VanPool

2022-12-10 23:11:57 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Pleasant cemetery in Newark, NJ. It is Newark's oldest cemetery and has the most gorgeous Victorian architecture and mausoleums. 2. I've heard that your ashes can be pressed into a diamond, so I would like to be made into tiny diamonds and then (idk if this is possible) I want those diamonds to be put into an ornate looking snow globe that will serve as my grave marker. Then any visitors to my grave can interact with me by shaking the little globe lol. I would also like the scene in the globe to be a little collection of my favorite things (cats, books, roses, arts and craft stuff, etc)!

Tracy J

2022-12-10 23:08:42 +0000 UTC

1. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery because of the old headstones and how it looks around Halloween. 2. Being buried under a large, old creepy tree. Like an oak or sycamore.

Heddie

2022-12-10 22:33:24 +0000 UTC

1) The Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. It is a gorgeous garden cemetery. Jim Morrison and Chopin are buried there. I'm a big music person so that's a selling point for me for sure! 2) I think it would be neat to get put in one of those capsules that are specifically made so that your body becomes fertilizer for plant life. Here's a link for that: https://8billiontrees.com/eco-friendly-natural-products/tree-pod-burial/

Jane Good

2022-12-10 22:29:14 +0000 UTC

1) Unitarian Churchyard in Charleston, SC. I might have decided to go to college there because of that graveyard... I transferred eventually though. Don't choose a college based on their relative cemeteries.. 2) I want to be cremated instead of buried. If my future children wanted to keep me around on the mantle, I would be cool with that. But what I really want is a Celebration of Life party BEFORE I die. I want everyone to say amazing things to me before I go. My only other request is that I have an absolutely glamorous photo for my obituary.

Kristen Brugnoli

2022-12-10 22:20:48 +0000 UTC

Hey Christine, love these questions :) 1: My favourite cemetery is the one we live right next door to; Rutherglen Cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It's gorgeous in every season and we get some great views from our living room windows. Best and most peaceful neighbours ever. 2: I'm thinking the ideal option for burial is to have my ashes mixed with gunpowder and sent up as fireworks. Blow me up, baby!

Stephanie Sands

2022-12-10 22:12:53 +0000 UTC

My burial plan is I want to be cremated and turned into one of those biodegradable urns that grows a tree. I want to be planted somewhere where hopefully the tree can grow and live a long life. I just think the idea of returning to the Earth and growing into something new is so beautiful. ♥️

Michael McGinnis

2022-12-10 21:58:45 +0000 UTC

A funeral where everyone is dressed like Star Trek Next Generation, or their favorite monster, and gifted a tambourine upon entry to a gothic Catholic Church with matching red/burgundy taper candles to match the Captain Picard colors. Anyone who wants can recite their favorite thing I said, that made sense to them for a minute or two at the podium, or their favorite Star Trek episode, or scary movie. The whole service should be done in 30 minutes (people are .busy) and it’s over when The Squirrel Nut Zippers” song plays , “I got my own thing now.” The song will cut people off at the podium to make sure it’s only 30 minutes. People are encouraged to shake their tambourine and dance on the way out, in my honor! ❤️

Sufani Garza

2022-12-10 21:23:13 +0000 UTC

1. The Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb, Crostia or the Südwestkirchhof in Stahnsdorf, Germany (sidenote: it s not only beautiful, here are many amazing people buried, for example F.W.Murnau who was the director of nosferatu and they do movienights at the cemetery) 2. I would really like to be burned and my ashes should go to the ocean, because I m frightened to be buried alive. My family don t likes this idea very much and when they don t do so, I wish at least to be buried at one of those two cemeteries, because you ll have so many amazing people to talk with and I wish to have those little bells on my grave, so I can ring when I wake up (dead or alive :))

Katharina Welters

2022-12-10 21:16:38 +0000 UTC

1~ Cimetiere des Carmes Clermont Ferrand France (hometown ) OR Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Georgia. The Garden of Good and Evil ( would be a good fit for you ) 2~ Since you Christine had mentioned you do not like much being around people ( it may be the same even when deceased 😊) Bonaventure would be a great spot. Sophisticated with great History and big enough so you would have room for you and your loved ones including pets to all rest in charming peace. Perhaps growing a few rose bushes with sharp thorns around the family’s grave to keep the living at a good distance…. Personally I may go for purification by fire 🔥🔥🔥although I do love the idea of decomposing under a tree or how wonderful it would be to donate my skull to these artists to create Beauty such as these hand carved skulls! https://skullbliss.com/collections/shop-all/products/cow-skull-extra-long-horns-tribal-2-carving?variant=1022744919

Nel

2022-12-10 21:11:30 +0000 UTC

1) I imagine you being the most peaceful inhabitant of PET SEMATARY, where you'd be among your dear pets and the animals who you’ve said are more relatable than some relatives. :) Although fictional, the cemetery featured in the 1989 film is Mount Hope Cemetery in Maine. 2) What upsets me most about my own death is upsetting my loved ones. I want their memories WIPED so they won’t weep!

Avery

2022-12-10 20:54:02 +0000 UTC

Aannnd I'm not used to this platform and sent my message too quickly -_- haha. Here are my answers: 1) Mont-Royal Cemetary (Montreal, Canada) I'm not from the US but this my favorite one especially in the fall! It is filled with history and surrounded by tons of mature trees and nature even though its in the city. I love the monuments and the overall vibe it has. 2) I always I wanted my remains to be used as fertilizer to grow an apple tree :) Also I never understood why but I always felt really bad around churches so i would like to stay far away from anything like that haha (they apparently made me cry instantly as a baby and I was usually very calm).

Hayasa Kei

2022-12-10 20:47:56 +0000 UTC

Just looked up and it’s to become available in Ireland from January- how amazing and eco friendly!

Emma Baxter

2022-12-10 20:45:05 +0000 UTC

1. Graceland Cemetery & Arboretum in Chicago. It holds so much old history and beautiful monuments. One such monument is "Eternal Silence" which is a hooded statue of Death personified. Legend has it that if you stare into its shadowed face, you can see how you will die. What fun! I can't wait to go back when the trees are in bloom. 2. If composting is not yet available in my state, I would like to have a natural burial so that my corpse may rot as nature intended, since it uses much fewer resources than embalming or cremation.

Wendy Rose

2022-12-10 20:40:44 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine :) i'm new here just wanted to start by saying thank you for all of the inspiring content you keep on sending our way it's really amazing!

Hayasa Kei

2022-12-10 20:38:55 +0000 UTC

I’m not sure if this is what you’re meaning, but there is such a thing as Aquamation. I used to work at a funeral home that provides aquamation (or alkaline hydrolosis) and you would get back something similar to ashes but much finer and usually lighter in color. (They always smelled like tortillas to me 🤓) I’m not sure how many places offer it/where it’s legal but for sure it’s available in Oregon.

Courtney

2022-12-10 20:31:01 +0000 UTC

1. Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, BC, Canada. My favourite spot to spend time and photograph. It’s a Victorian-era burial ground with large ornamental headstones on an outcropping of land that overlooks the ocean under a canopy of old-growth trees. All four seasons are uniquely beautiful AND families of adorable deer are almost always on the grounds. Perfection. 2. I’ve spent too much time trying to convince my husband of this idea and I might just put it in my will to make it more likely: I want an open casket burial but with an optimally timed springboard that launches half of my body into an upright position at the most somber moment. Even better if I am wearing sunglasses that fly off of my face with the motion to reveal googly eyes on springs. One last horrifying laugh of questionable taste for my family and friends! :)

Johnny M

2022-12-10 20:30:42 +0000 UTC

1. Lexington Cemetery in Kentucky 2. I want to get some land to live on and have a family cemetery on it. From my understanding, if it’s on my own land, I can get around some of the rules for burial. Ideally, I’ll be in a pretty linen gown, not embalmed, and I don’t know if I want a simple coffin or nothing at all. Basically I want it to be easy for the earth to take me back. And a spooky little headstone. Maybe my family will live there for generations and I can haunt them. 🤗

Miranda Jarvis

2022-12-10 20:30:24 +0000 UTC

Old Macomb Cemetery in Macomb IL. Why? Because I am convinced that I saw Dracula sitting by a tombstone there writing a letter about 50 years ago. I was on my way to church with my family… no one else saw it ; I can’t get the image out of my mind. I wouldn’t hate it if my ashes where split up between 3 containers for each one of my three sons to have me with them forever. Lurking around.

Jan

2022-12-10 20:25:53 +0000 UTC

Oh man. 1: I think one of my favorite cemeteries is one that is only a couple miles away from my home. It’s the Eugene Masonic Cemetery in Eugene, Oregon. It’s on a hill and it’s heavily forested. There’s trails throughout it that people walk their dogs or jog through and it’s very peaceful. It’s pretty small and inconspicuous which makes it all the better. 2: I already knew I didn’t want to be embalmed and working in a funeral home has confirmed that 😂 I love the idea of human compost and they’re working on legalizing it in Oregon right now. But if I really had it my way, I would simply walk into the woods make sure I would fall asleep and not feel it (maybe strap myself with a bunch of meat or something and let the wildlife consume me. And make sure I wouldn’t be found… at least long enough for my remains to just be bones. Then if I had any loved ones alive (they would be aware of and cool with my plans) they could retrieve the bones (or have someone retrieve them) and grind em for a cute lil urn and memorial jewelry if they wanted. Or just sprinkle the ashes in a garden or the forest.

Courtney

2022-12-10 20:25:32 +0000 UTC

My Favorite Cemetery I grew up in Rhode Island, a place laced with old stone pasture walls and cemeteries dating back to colonization. As a child I loved nothing more than exploring the woods around my town of Wickford, and it was not uncommon to run across a lonely ancient gravestone or two, seemingly abandoned to the forest. In fact, at the end of my small neighborhood cul de sac was a small wooded area where the gravestones of an old sea captain and his wife jutted precariously out of the undergrowth. We kids always swore those woods were haunted and would avoid the area when walking to school, lest we hear the howling of the old sea captain’s ghost (which may, or may not, have been the wind). As alluring as these remnants of cemeteries and old gravestones were, my favorite cemetery has always been the Chestnut Hill Cemetery along route 102 (also called Victory Hwy) in Exeter, RI (http://rihistoriccemeteries.org/newsearchcemeterydetail.aspx?ceme_no=EX022). It is a small cemetery, just off the road, behind an old Baptist church that dates back to 1871. It is quiet and modest, and I love how unassuming and “not grand” it is. It has grown over the years and has both old and newer sections of burial plots. My fascination with this particular cemetery primarily stems from the fact that it the burial place of Mercy Brown, a young woman who died in 1892 at the age of 19, likely from tuberculosis. She is the center of one of the most well know vampire stories in New England, and the basis for RI being dubbed “The Vampire Capitol of America” at one point. A nice account of her tragic story can be found published in New England Today (https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/vampire-mercy-brown-rhode-island/). As a teenager, I would often drive route 102 to visit my best friend who lived in the next town over from Exeter. Each time, I would have to drive past the Chestnut Hill Cemetery and I would get goosebumps! I still do as my father, who is 76, lives in Exeter, less than 2 miles away. My Burial Plan I would like a “sky burial”. My husband truly wishes for a traditional Tibetan sky burial, where the individual is ritualistically dismembered and left for nature (i.e., ravens and vultures) to consume. I have a different idea of what sky burial should be. My idea of a sky burial, and what I would like to have done with my remains, is to have my ashes incorporated into fireworks and shot off into the sky over the ocean as a beautiful finale to a huge celebration that I will have arranged for my friends and family to convey my love and thank them for being part of my amazing life.

Kristin Wright

2022-12-10 20:21:08 +0000 UTC

1) I live a minutes walk away from my favourite cemetery- Laa Lau in Ballinderry, Ireland. It’s famous as the ancient ruins are still standing and you can still use the water from the Bullaun Stones (known for either cursing or curing people). 2) I would like to be liquidised (when that option is safely available in the future) and used as fertiliser for the trees I’ve worked with (I’m a forest pathologist!). Then my spirit can wander the forest happily (scaring anyone who walks on my path!).

Emma Baxter

2022-12-10 20:20:45 +0000 UTC

1) I don't actually want to be buried in a cemetery (more on this in part two) but if I had to be I would LOVE to be "buried" in one of the oven crypts in New Orleans. St Louis cemetery 1 would be awesome as its one of the oldest in the city. They were used in the 1800s and they were intended for one whole family and in some cases one would be used for the lower class who couldn't afford an elaborate above ground crypt like the ones seen in New Orleans. You would be places in a simple, degradable casket, and left in your oven crypts for a year and one day. Within that year the temperature inside the crypt would get so hot, this is new Orleans after all, it would speed up decomp and at the end of the year they would open the crypt and sweep you back and down into a pit at the back of the crypt. They would then place another body or member of your family for their year. It seems disrespectful in today's culture, but the idea if a whole family taking up one small space in the afterlife is so cool to me. I like the idea of ending up a pile of bones surrounded by the bones of the ones that past before and the ones that past after. 2) My real death dream would be to be composted. It's a relatively new thing here in the states and not yet legal most states including North Carolina where I live. But I'm a gardener and I love the idea of becoming food for the plants that nourish mother earth and us. It's a relatively quick process now and at the end of it your family members get a cubic yard of composed you to plant a lovely rose bush or something in. Hopefully by the time my clock runs out it will be more common place and my dreams can become reality!

Emma Berry

2022-12-10 20:20:38 +0000 UTC

1) I am a fan of old cemeteries, I particularly like ones that are part of church grounds, or have columbariums in the church building. Those are often the most interesting to me because they are more likely to get people walking through them, or children and animals playing among the tombstones. It can be pretty cool. Though I admit I don't have any in particular in mind, which leads me to my second answer... 2) I want to be buried in a shroud (that I plan on making myself) straight into the ground and have a young fruiting tree planted on top of me as my headstone, or grave marker. I would love to find a cemetery that does this, or else I will have to find someone with land who will be willing to care for my tree. But I really want to know I will be part of the circle of life, and that people can eat the apples or pomegranates that were nourished by my body. Part of me thinks that I should start my own cemetery that does this. Then the families can come and pick the fruit or the fruit can be given to local foodbanks. I also want to embroider my own burial shroud.

Shireen Baker

2022-12-10 20:20:19 +0000 UTC

1) For me it is more about the location. Albuquerque NM. Sunset Memorial Park has this lovely ossuary area that is so New Mexican, completed with wolf statuary (Lobos). I graduated from UNM, and became very attached to the Mountains out there. So it seems natural I want to go back. Well upkept, so a newer place. 2) I took a Psychology of Death and dying class when I was in college where we had to really go over our end of life prospects, and that included how we wanted to be handled upon death. Well for me that is Cremation, no viewing, and a celebration of life party. After that, well, I think a small group to lay me into whatever ossuary I have decided upon. (Right now, heavily leaning towards Sunset, preferably with mine facing Sandia Peak).

Kori Brittain

2022-12-10 20:15:02 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is the Fairview Cemetery in Rockford, WA. Rockford is a small, rural town and the one I grew up in. In my adolescence, my siblings and I would walk up there, often at night, and scare ourselves silly. Four years ago, my younger brother and best friend was buried there at the young age of 27. That cemetery was an obvious choice since that town is where all of his happiest memories occurred. 2) I want a dual plot next to my husband, and love the idea of family burial plots where you have generations buried together, so maybe I would buy a large number of plots and give them as an eerie Christmas gift years down the road. 😅

Brooke

2022-12-10 20:01:26 +0000 UTC

1) Favourite cemetery is Old Ipswich Cemetary in Suffolk, UK. There’s many different parts including a war cemetary and a crematorium. 2) I’d like to be cremated (skull saved) - the carbon from my ashes would be used to create two gem stones. Then I’d have the gem stones set into the eyes of my skull and handed down through the generations to sit above the fireplace to watch over everyone for decades to come. :^)

Holly Bowler

2022-12-10 19:58:37 +0000 UTC

1) I visited Highgate Cemetery in London a few years ago and it’s by far my favourite cemetery to date. It’s full of Victorian crypts and burial chambers. The most memorable part was the catacombs where one of the lead coffins has degraded so much that a small part of a skull could be visible! 2) While I love the idea of being buried with a large ornate headstone, the thought of bugs eating my corpse gives me the heebie jeebies. So instead I would like to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in the mountains of the Lake District in the UK.

Hollie Quinn

2022-12-10 19:53:28 +0000 UTC

1. This is not traditional and prob not the best but my grandmas ashes are at Descanso Gardens it was a really special place for us so we scattered her ashes there so my mom and I can drive down the street to visit her I hope that answer is ok she also has a memorial plaque there 2. I would want to be cremated and scattered at Descanso Gardens as well there’s a special bench right near the little stream that I always sit on and feel my grandmas presence

Ashleeta

2022-12-10 19:52:38 +0000 UTC

2) For my own burial I have always been interested in a mushroom burial suit. There is an Infinity Burial Suit that is manufactured by Coeio. It involves being buried with a biodegradable burial shroud that is made from mushroom spores. The spores help to biodegrade the body and filter out any toxins so that the plants surrounding the burial site are not harmed. Fungi and mushrooms are so beautiful and mysterious, it seems like a very peaceful way to be absorbed back into the earth.

Rosie Galanis

2022-12-10 19:52:14 +0000 UTC

1) Evergreen Memorial Park and Crematorium is a cemetery located in East Los Angeles. It is a small cemetery but each gravestone is unique and it is the oldest cemetery in Los Angeles!

Rosie Galanis

2022-12-10 19:47:39 +0000 UTC

1) The Roche Harbor cemetery that leads up to the McMillin Memorial Mausoleum on San Juan island in Washington state.It would be cool to be buried in the mausoleum, but it’s for family, so surely it’s not possible. You walk thru the cemetery to get to the mausoleum so maybe being buried in the cemetery would be possible. The cemetery is wooded and has meandering paths thru the trees with little picket fences around some groupings of headstones. Super cool and still creepy during the day! 2) I was recently reading about “The Lady in Red” who was buried in the mid 1800’s in a metal and glass coffin. The coffin was filled with alcohol and sealed shut preserving her remains. That sounds like a fairy tale burial! A coffin with a glass lid where your beauty could remain and be shared with the world!

Sonja Tompkins

2022-12-10 19:41:44 +0000 UTC

1. Neptune Memorial Reef -- I believe it's the world's first underwater mausoleum! 2. It'd be fun to create a game out of the burial. I'd ask my family to place my ashes in the Neptune Memorial Reef but force them to search for my last will and testament in a treasure chest hidden not too far away.

Kim

2022-12-10 19:39:08 +0000 UTC

so if i was to be buried, a seriously spooky graveyard called St Mary’s in Whitby, England would be fitting. If it inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula then I would want to haunt there. I would be dressed as the grim reaper(ess) and would just point slowly at people - once I was certain that person had soiled their undercrackers, I would skip merrily into town to party with the goths. (As for real life plans I want to be cremated - my ashes taken to the highest hill/mountain on a windy day and let me go where the wind takes me) Cast me to the air

rachael

2022-12-10 19:35:10 +0000 UTC

Hello! 1) Spring Hill Cemetery in South Charleston, WV. It's got beautiful scenery and just feels... peaceful? It just feels like it would be a nice place to haunt. 2) Ideally, I wouldn't be embalmed and I'd be wrapped in a linen shroud. No casket. Just me, in the shroud, in the dirt. And then maybe a tree or flower garden planted over me instead of a headstone 🤷🏼‍♀️I just want it to be chill and bring something people can enjoy.

Meredith Barbery

2022-12-10 19:26:33 +0000 UTC

Hello, 1) My favorite cemetery is the Abney Park Cemetery - England, which is one of 'The Magnificent Seven' cemeteries is London! I love the old and eerie vibes from it. (I also recommend you to look at the Highgate Cemetery which is also incredible! It was hard to choose between thoses two.) 2) For some reason, I am terrified of being incinerated. I just love the iidea of becoming a skeleton and imagine someone discovering some of my bones is actually funny. I wish to be burried under a little tree that will grow over time. (I also like the idea of having a grave in a shape of a swan.)

Sonesaksith Elodie

2022-12-10 18:46:33 +0000 UTC

2/2) HUMAN COMPOSTING For as much as I love the pomp and circumstance and architecture of imposing beautiful old cemeteries, I hate the amount of chemicals and damage to the environment that an embalmed body in a concrete vault can do. They are starting to experiment with alternatives to cremation in which the body is allowed to decompose naturally. There are "pods" that a body is put in with straw, flowers, alfalfa, and dirt, and in about a month you have become bone fragments and "about one cubic yard of nutrient dense soil." At first I thought this process sounded a little creepy or unhygenic, but the more I read about it it's completely safe for society. And as for me personally, Im not crazy about the idea of being interred forever in a suit I wore twice in life. But the idea of laying down on the equivalent of a forest floor and being allowed to fade into nature sounds solemn and natural. This is where I first heard of this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJSEZ_pl3Y

Gregory E Wolfe

2022-12-10 18:34:08 +0000 UTC

1/2) FOREST LAWN CEMETERY in my hometown Buffalo, NY (not super far from you). This is where Pres. Millard Fillmore was buried after being assassinated at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901, and his plot has one of the last iron railings in the cemetery as all the rest were pulled up to make ammunition in WW2. -- The Blocher monument is a huge granite tribute to a young man that died heartbroken after his father sent away the maid he was in love with. The monument has 4 burial spaces, only 3 of which are occupied by the family and there is a quit-claim dead for the 4th space meant for the maid, if she ever returns. It was poor form in Victorian times to show your feet, but all the marble statues in this monument of the family members have their shoes visible, as Mr Blocher manufactured fine footwear. -- Frank Lloyd Wright designed a prairie-style mausoleum that was never built, until 2004 when this cemetery finally pulled out his 1928 plans and constructed it. The "Blue Sky Mausoleum" isn't fully occupied yet, but public demand was so high all spaces were sold before construction even began. -- Rick James, the Fakir of Ava, and Irving Berlin's wife are also buried here. -- The cemetery is beautiful and there are tours available. It's in the middle of a nice, residential neighborhood and you can often find people running, walking, and having picnics on the shores of its many lakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Lawn_Cemetery_(Buffalo)

Gregory E Wolfe

2022-12-10 18:33:41 +0000 UTC

1) As the child of two very death positive parents who have taken me to picnics in hundreds of cemeteries all my life, I can say with certainty the most beautiful is Puritain Lawn Cemetary in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Multiple gorgeous fountains and bird baths, big stately trees, willows and elms, gorgeous flowers everywhere and lush. So full of life, with young rabbits and hundreds of songbirds. It is a place I dream of often with how serene and placid it is. 2) Being in such a death positive family, we all openly discuss what we'd like our burial plans to be. My married name is Coffin, and we have a farm with an orchard, so it's called the 'Coffin Farm' and we have all the paperwork for me to be buried on the Coffin Farm. I will have a biodegradable coffin, minimal embalment, and buried under the orchard so that over time I may nourish and fertilize the soil for the apples as is the cycle of life; the dead enrich the earth for the fertility of the living and so forth. It gives me immense peace and purpose to be a part of that circle once again. The trees will be my legacy.

TurpitudeAnnihilator

2022-12-10 18:31:30 +0000 UTC

I have been to so many cemeteries, as my spouse and I love to visit them on holiday trips. Even when we don't mean to, we find ourselves in a cemetery exploring. It’s hard to pick just one. I suppose my favorite so far is the Old Parish Cemetery in Rockport, MA. The gravestones are beautifully carved and are hundreds of years old. The best part of the cemetery is that it kind of appears out of nowhere. It's on a hill that overlooks a pebbled beach. If it weren't for the road placed between the beach and the cemetery, the cemetery would fade into the sea. It's the kind of view I imagine would comfort grieving loved ones and a sense of peace that we all belong to a greater energy. My burial plan is pretty simple. I have always found peace and solace in trees. The wind blowing through leafy branches, the cool earth at the roots. In the past few years, I also have learned to forage and eventually grow my mushrooms (shitake, oyster, etc) and I am fascinated by their communicative root system. All of this is to say that I hope to return to nature when I pass, to be a part of nature and bring the same peace and solace I feel under the trees to my loved ones. I would want my family to decide how they wish to mourn me, but for my burial, I wish to be placed whole (without embalming) into a soft burial shroud, dressed with flowers, and lowered into the ground. I don't want dying to be hard work for what's left of me, it's time to rest.

Brianna Miller

2022-12-10 18:26:46 +0000 UTC

Dear Christine, 1)I live in Italy and my family is from Naples. The cemetery of my dreams (and I think you would love that too) is the "cimitero delle Fontanelle"(I'll leave the link here: https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimitero_delle_Fontanelle ) . It was built for victims of the great plague (1656). The thing that makes it unique amongst others is the fact that you can actually see the guests that have lived in that period. In fact this cemetery is known for having skulls and bones melted with the architecture of this amazing place. That's where I want to rest: among my ancient relatives. 2)The cerimony should be really informal and private with a very simple coffin. After around 50 years, being exhumed and placed in one of the spot of the cemetery. I hope you will consider my answer and love it as much as I did. Loving you from far far away Debora 🖤

Debora

2022-12-10 18:25:21 +0000 UTC

1. Crown Hill cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lots of historical graves. Interesting statues. James Whitcomb Riley's tomb at the top of a hill is amazing. 2. I want to be interred with a blanket, a shell, and a piece of chalk. I was originally going to have a big traditional burial. But now I'm thinking of human composting after seeing the Ask a Mortician video about it. It actually seems more comforting. But the laws will have to catch up in my state.

Janette Perez

2022-12-10 18:18:50 +0000 UTC

1. The UK and Europe have the most beautiful cemeteries - I couldn't even choose. So I kept it to the US, and our most beautiful graveyard is Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia - it's lovely and picturesque, and draped Spanish moss. But since you're looking for your final place, Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester New York is very beautiful, and still taking new tenants! 2. As long as I can remember, when it was my time to leave this world I wanted to go into the forest and just lie down in the leaves and slowly disappear into the earth and roots and moss. However romantic that sounds, the reality would not be so pretty. The next best thing was to be turned into compost and sprinkled in the forest. This new process (available in CA in 5 years) is less romantic, but more practical. BUT I recently discovered Neptune Memorial Reef , where they mix your ashes into a cement that becomes a permanent reef in international waters. The best part is that your pet's ashes can be mixed with your ashes! So now I'm thinking of becoming a reef...

Aunt Debbie Halloween

2022-12-10 18:09:28 +0000 UTC

1. My cemetery of choice will be the beautiful Hillside Cemetery In Redlands Ca since it's close to my home town just incase I drop dead tomorrow I'm set⚰️ Plus it's the most haunted century in the inland empire so why not. Redlands Hillside Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in the area. It has interments dating back to the mid-late 1800s! Many people have reported strange happenings like car horns honking on their own, lights blinking, and even balls being thrown back after someone has thrown them over the wall.👻 why not join in on that fun in the afterlife 🎉 Fun fact the actress Wendi McLendon-Covey from the TV show the Goldbergs and bridesmaids and so many funny movies, has her own spooky ghost story from this cemetery since her family home is right across the street from the cemetery you should hear her story she tells it on a episode of celebrity ghost stories. 2. I would want a Victorian Mourning like In The Victorian Era The mourning process was strictly kept in Victorian times. A wreath of laurel or boxwood tied with crape or black veiling was hung on the front door to alert passersby that a death had occurred. The body was watched over every minute my look will be a gothic attire all black even a black casket not coffin, the day of the Funeral carry the casket in a carriage with a black Parade following behind me, I prefer to be Interred not buried, in a Beautiful spooky mausoleum, will be my very own creepy spooky Crypt, with enough room for my family and pets especially my dog to be with me when she passes, With a window for the dead to look out and I will Make sure to put a curse on my final resting place to all who doesn't respect my crypt with having something bad happened to them, so please always say Hi to me in my afterlife or I'll make sure you see me in your nightmares!💀 Season screamings everyone! Hillside Memorial Park 1540 Alessandro Rd, Redlands, CA 92373

Lilly

2022-12-10 17:59:06 +0000 UTC

1. My favorites cemetery is the Avenues Cemetery in Salt Lake city 2. I'd prefer to be cremated or donated because I don't want my final to be a burden, but I don't have much of a preference. The funeral is for the living. I've seen articles about people being buried in a pod with a sapling, so that my body eventually biodegrades and provides nutrients for the tree. I like the idea of living a second life as a tree, but I would be real disappointed if the tree didn't take and never grew. Lol

Derick Stephensen

2022-12-10 17:50:53 +0000 UTC

1) Camp Hill Cemetery in Halifax, NS. The cemetery is right across from the public gardens and shares many of the same trees and design features, while still maintaining its own independent sense of beauty and peace. 2) A couple years ago I came across something called a bio urn. Basically, it uses the ashes of the deceased to grow a tree. I would love to give something back and help add beauty and support to the earth for future generations. Plus, the idea of being a tree planted on a cliff overlooking the ocean and watching the horizon as the sun rises or sets, has a romantic/poetic vibe that appeals to me.

Alisia

2022-12-10 17:47:42 +0000 UTC

1. Vienna Central Cemetery in Vienna, Austria, is full of hamsters! I love when cemeteries can be refuges for wildlife as well as people, and I have a real fondness for hamsters so this cemetery stands out for me. 2. I want to have a green burial. No embalming, clothed only in natural fibers, and wrapped in a simple cotton shroud so I can return to the earth and let my component molecules nourish the ground. Instead of a headstone I'd like to have a fruiting tree or bush planted over top of me so I can continue to be part of something useful and life-sustaining. It's important to me to remain closely connected with nature and the cycle of life just as much when I die as I am while I live. I also want my kitty buried with me. If he goes first, I'd like his ashes to be held in my arms when I'm buried, and if I go first I want him added to my plot when he passes on. 🖤

Katherine R

2022-12-10 17:46:40 +0000 UTC

I think you would love would love Woodlawn Cemetary in Elmira NY. It's old and beautiful with many trees and old statuary. In the fall it is especially gorgeous. You would be in good company too as Mark Twain' s grave is there as well as Hal Roach Director of The Little Rascals. As far as my burial plan; I'm claustrophobic and hate bugs so I do not want to be buried and I'm afraid of fire so cremation is out. I've always told my family I want to be taxidermied and propped in a comfy chair with a good book surrounded by my taxidermied cats.

Amy Flaherty

2022-12-10 17:34:25 +0000 UTC

1) The Cimetière du Château in Nice, France is one of the most beautiful cemeteries I've ever visited. It's situated at the top of a big hill so it has amazing views all around of the city and the Mediterranean. The cemetery itself is full of elaborate mausoleums and statuary from wealthy and noble families one-upping each other. Photos really don't do it justice, it's awe inspiring. 2) While I've always found Mausoleums so romantic and always thought I'd like to be placed in one at my end, I've had a shift in perspective over the years. Rather than my body staying separate from the earth, I want to return to it as naturally as possible. To that end, I think the new human composting facilities are absolutely perfect. Let me quietly return to earth and give me as a gift back to nature.

Tilura

2022-12-10 17:29:02 +0000 UTC

1. Stockbridge cemetery in Stockbridge, MA is really beautiful and unique. You would love Stockbridge, I recommend staying in the inn there if you go check it out! 2. I plan to be composted. I don't want to be buried, and cremation feels like my last act on this earth would be polluting it. It's currently not legal and regulated across the US but I do my part to educate people and change that when I can! They're actually currently trying to make it legal in New York state, I wrote to your senator! Happy Holidays Christine, thanks for all the joy and creativity over the years

Tori Smith

2022-12-10 17:18:31 +0000 UTC

2) I would like my unaltered body to be buried in a cotton dress encased in a simple wooden casket under a tree. First, there should be a magnificent party with dancing, Viking funeral songs, and breakdancing pallbearers.

Jessica Smith

2022-12-10 17:16:51 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is a sort of secret. Spadra. It’s named after a railroad town that no longer exists and was absorbed by Pomona, CA. It’s closed off and you need to go behind a factory and a railroad to find it. It butts up against a hill. Very spooky at night. My friends and I used to sneak into it when we were teenagers since it’s not open to the public anymore. It was created for the rail workers in the 1800s that weren’t Catholic since they couldn’t be buried at the local cemetery (we saw lots of stars of Davids there). Most of the headstones were very old. Not only can you Google it, I highly suggest you do! The history is very interesting! I hope it reopens for tours one day and you can go visit when you’re back in CA. 2. I’d like to be buried at a “body farm”. A forsenic lab in an open area where they study the decomposition of the human body to advance the knowledge for the sake of catching criminals who murder people. It’s nice to think my death could somehow aid in a family finding some closure in the loss of a loved one. Plus I wouldn’t be pumped full of embalming fluid.

Valerie Macias

2022-12-10 17:10:38 +0000 UTC

1. Green Hill Cemetery in Greensboro, NC! I love it because there's such diverse wildlife and greenery. Every tree/plant is labeled so you can learn a lot on your stroll through the cemetery. There's also a resident groundhog who I adore. And at nighttime if you're lucky you'll see bats fluttering across the sky. This cemetery is my truly my happy place. 2. Human composting is a fairly new practice and I've decided that it's probably the option I'll go with when I pass. I like the idea of being soil that can nourish other life. To me this sounds the most peaceful.

Taylor Branson

2022-12-10 16:57:28 +0000 UTC

1. I fell for a beautiful cemetery in St. Mary’s, GA called Oak Grove cemetery. It reminds me of Bonaventure in Savannah but much smaller. So much character. The old beautiful twisted trees with the Spanish moss hanging off their branches. Creating canopies. The spirits are abundant there. As you walk the paths it almost feels like something out of The lord of the rings. The regality of the place is humbling. 2. I either plan on being cremated & having my ashes scattered where my mom & sister are, which is high on a mountain in Roan Mountain, TN. Then again I like the idea of tree pod burial. To think I could be part of a creation like a tree is very cool.

Shaunna Huntington

2022-12-10 16:52:45 +0000 UTC

1. I grew up in a small village in the north of England. The local cemetery is full of victorian graves, and during winter often covered in snow due to the village being on top of a mountain. (Queensbury Cemetery) It was also right next to my high school so I have good memories of sitting on the grass in summer (a respectful distance from the graves of course) and eating lunch and laughing with friends, which I like to think would cheer up any lonely ghosts! https://flickr.com/photos/chairman8/5469760621/in/photostream/ 2. I hope to have an eco burial! specifically, I hear there are places of natural interest that you can be buried in and by doing so prevent the development of those areas. A simple shroud and some pretty flowers tucked in first speaks to my inner hippy. Failing that I would choose my body to be left to science, but they tend to cremate you afterward which isn't as great for the environment.

Poppy

2022-12-10 16:45:20 +0000 UTC

1. Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland California. 2. I would like to be buried under a nice tree in an environmentally-friendly way.

SensualSocks

2022-12-10 16:34:13 +0000 UTC

Truly wonderful of you to do a contest again! 1. My favorite cemetery is the Unitarian Church cemetery in historic downtown Charleston, SC. We fell upon it accidentally, seeing an iron entrance and a somewhat mysterious shaded path, and it felt like we'd gone through a portal. It's overflowing with a mix of Spanish moss, palm trees, crawling ivy, and the pathways are all different in every direction. A wonderfully surreal little place. 2. As a teen, my group of misfit friends adopted this nice older lady who lived in an ivy covered house in our downtown. She shared her art, wisdom, tarot card readings, and wonderfully home made food with us. She said when she died, she wanted to be cremated and have her ashes split into vials, one for each person in attendance. The attendees would find meaningful places to leave her ashes, encouraging travel, and allowing her to see more of the world when she's gone. It was so beautiful and has stuck with me almost 15 years later.

Amanda Arnold

2022-12-10 16:12:42 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Saint Francis Seminary Woods Cemetery in St. Francis Wisconsin. It is located in a forest by my house and I was surprised to stumble across it one day while hiking. It is creepy, haunted feeling and beautiful. 2. I have always loved to be in nature and in forests. I want to be buried in a beautiful forest, like seminary woods, and go back into nature.

Kari

2022-12-10 15:48:02 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is Templebreedy in Cork, Ireland. I found it looking for a Pokestop. There's an old ruined church there and the most glorious view of the ocean. I have seen some of the most spectacular sunsets there as it isn't far from my parent's house. There is a mixture of very old and new graves there so there are often people around not just visiting loved ones but there's a walk that skirts around the graveyard which means you can nearly always have a brief chat with someone if you feel like it. They don't keep it very manicured - just keep the weeds at bay so that during the summer it is filled with butterflies and bees and all sorts of wildlife. If you look at it on Google maps make sure to put the little yellow dude down to see the view. It's not obvious from the map that the church is on the top of a hill making the vista spectacular. My current burial plan is to be a tree. There is a new resomation facility in Ireland, the first and hopefully not the last. Far more eco-friendly than my second option which would be cremation. I want to be dressed in a silk dressing gown, shrouded in wool, and the flesh melted off my bones. If those dealing with my remains are a bit squeamish about that they can put my remains in a cardboard coffin. After aquamation/cremation I want to go into a bio urn, stuck in the ground and a tree planted on top of me. But I have told my family that those are my wishes and if they aren't comfortable with them when the time comes they can do as they wish with me. I won't be in that body and at that point, their comfort is far more important than mine.

Naoise O Donnell

2022-12-10 15:41:23 +0000 UTC

1. Sengakuji Temple in Tokyo. It's where the legendary 47 Ronin are buried/ enshrined. They have a yearly festival to commemorate the day the 47 Ronin avenged their master where they do reenactments and fun foods. The temple was right near my university and was nice to go and visit on a lunch break ☺️. 2. I'd like to be cremated and my ashes buried with an oak or willow tree seed. Grandmother Willow from Pocahontas is my afterlife goals.

Viki Winter

2022-12-10 15:36:37 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is actually kind of boring but my grandpa and a childhood friend are there so it’s important. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/funeral-homes/victorville-ca/desert-view/9591 it’s not all that far from where you used to live so maybe you’ve seen it before. Honestly, I don’t care what happens to me. I’ll probably just be cremated and shoved into someone’s closet or garage. Hahaha! I have no desire to have a funeral.

Betsy .

2022-12-10 15:17:22 +0000 UTC

1. Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. The ornate gothic entrance is just amazing. I haven’t had the chance to visit but the next New York vacation, I would love to tour and photograph it! 2. My “ideal” burial plan would be being laid to rest in a victorian gothic style garden mausoleum with a companion crypt, where my husband and I would be together, side by side. Many other cemetery lovers could view and appreciate its beauty as well. But being a creepy loving, maximalist, that’s not it! (Have you seen the “Fantasy Coffins” that carpenters create in Ghana? Coffins in the shapes of shrimp, corn cobs, packs of cigarettes!) For a little creepy, over-the-top pizazz, how wild would it be to have a cockroach shaped coffin?! But a more elegant approach than the fantasy coffins, detailedly carved out of wood, finished with a dark walnut stain. Two elegantly creepy cockroach coffins in a companion crypt, sign me up!

Brittany LoDico

2022-12-10 15:12:19 +0000 UTC

1. Highgate Cemetery in London- totally and strikingly gorgeous. They even have bees there making cemetery honey- it’s magical. 2. For my burial plans I’ve told my boyfriend that I would like to be buried with the seed bulb of a magnolia tree with no chemicals whatsoever so that my body can go into the ground and grow with the magnolia tree. He now calls me his magnolia tree. Magnolias are so beautiful, I used to climb them as a kid and have come to find they symbolize so many wonderful things like enduring love, strength, and poise. A fun fact: they’ve been around for 95 million years- before bees!

matilda gaona

2022-12-10 14:54:20 +0000 UTC

1) The Woodlands Cemetery in West Philadelphia. It started as the country seat of an amateur botanist who created a beautiful English garden estate and then was turned into a cemetery in 1840 to preserve the beauty of the landscape. It was a popular destination for a Victorian outing and today is a lovely escape right in the middle of west Philly. They have all kinds of events like performances and bat watching so you’ll never get bored. They also have a volunteer group called the Grave Gardners who maintain the Victorian cradle graves. It is a lovely and inspiring place! 2) The Netflix series Midnight Mass had the most beautiful description of death I’ve ever heard: “When I die… my body stops functioning. Shut down. All at once, or gradually, my breathing stops, my heart stops beating. Clinical death. And a bit later, like, five whole minutes later… my brain cells start dying. But in the meantime, in between… maybe my brain releases a flood of DMT. It’s the psychedelic drug released when we dream, so… I dream. I dream bigger than I have ever dreamed before, because it’s all of it. Just the last dump of DMT all at once. And my neurons are firing and I’m seeing this firework display of memories and imagination. And I am just… tripping. I mean, really tripping balls because my mind’s rifling through the memories. You know, long and short-term, and the dreams mix with the memories, and… it’s a curtain call. The dream to end all dreams. One last great dream as my mind empties the fuckin’ missile silos and then… I stop. My brain activity ceases and there is nothing left of me. No pain. No memory, no awareness that I ever was, no… that I ever hurt someone. That I ever killed someone. Everything is as it was before me. And the electricity disperses from my brain till it’s just dead tissue. Meat. Oblivion. And all of the other little things that make me up, they… the microbes and bacterium and the billion other little things that live on my eyelashes and in my hair and in my mouth and on my skin and in my gut and everywhere else, they just keep on living. And eating. Uh…. And I’m serving a purpose. I’m feeding life. And I’m broken apart, and all the littlest pieces of me are just recycled, and I’m billions of other places. And my atoms are in plants and bugs and animals, and I am like the stars that are in the sky. There one moment and then just scattered across the goddamn cosmos.” So based off of this sentiment I would go for a natural burial so that “I’m serving a purpose. I’m feeding life. “

Elise D’Avella

2022-12-10 14:41:26 +0000 UTC

1. I have always loved Lakewood Cemetery in Cooperstown, NY. I've spent a good deal of time in the cemetery although I have no loved ones there. It's a beautiful, quiet place to walk. There are many old pines with boughs hanging above the gravestones. Ancient oaks, hydrangea, and even what the cemetery caretaker says is an American magnolia tree can be found there. The cemetery sits on terraces overlooking Otsego Lake with all gravestones facing east to catch the morning sun. Besides James Fenimore Cooper being buried there, there are heroes in Lakewood: Mr. Authur Ryerson—He and his son stayed on the Titanic so that women and children could be saved. He has a grotto dedicated to him with large a Celtic cross; a minister’s daughter who drowned while saving a child from the same fate; and Henry Nicols, a student from Cooperstown who disclosed his HIV status in the 80s so that others could learn about the disease. If you wish to learn more, here’s the website: https://cooperstownlakewoodcemetery.com/ 2. I’ve always found gravesites with interesting stones to be the graves that make people stop and take a moment to consider the person buried there. I love the stones that resemble a wood stump to blend into the landscape (by the way, you can find some in Lakewood). But I think the most clever is to have your best recipe carved on your stone. I’ve been told I’m a great cook and I think I may have something like my strawberry cupcakes recipe made to last the centuries.

Kimberly MacLeod

2022-12-10 14:22:19 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the Catacombe dei Cappuccini in Palermo, Italy. My absolute favorite, not only because it's a bone ossuary but the monks were mummified and sometimes placed in glass tombs. The bones are placed standing and dressed in outfits. This was a particular practice in this part of Italy so the bones come from many different centuries. There are even mummified children in there. 2. This correlates to the way that I would like to be buried. I would like a catacomb in a cemetery that consists mostly of catacombs. When you enter mine you will find me mummified and standing in my glass tomb dressed in a white gown looking like a vampire princess. (Similar to Lucy's dress in Bram Stoker's Dracula) My coffin would resemble more of a shadow box, full of dried flowers and relics from my life. I would like to have gas lamps going when a visitor enters and granite carvings of witches, occult artifacts and voodoo veveys carved throughout.

Paige A Flash

2022-12-10 14:20:48 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Woodlawn Cemetery, near Winona, MN. It is in the Bluffs, near the Mississippi River and it is not only beautiful, but also very spooky. During college, I was driving back to Winona State University from my parent's house. I was cat sitting for my parents and brought the kitty, Meowmers, down with me to my apartment for a few days. Now this cat was the sweetest, most calm cat I have ever met. So we are driving along the river, and suddenly Meowmers makes the weirdest, long drawn out, meow noise I have ever heard. Scared the crap out of me! And I look over and I see her looking out the window at the cemetery up on the hill. So creepy. 👀💀🐱 2. I'm leaning towards Terramation (human composting) or Green Burial for my burial plans. I'm also totally down for Alkaline Hydrolysis, also known as "one final soak." Whatever is most eco-friendly and reasonably priced route for my family when I pass. And I would like them to play 'Where the River Meets the Sea', from Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas. Such a sad but beautiful song. 💜 And I would like to have my remains placed at the base of an oak tree, preferably a bur oak. I've connected with those trees for a while now. I have a shop at the MN Renaissance Festival and have a bur oak growing up through the center. It's pretty magical. Thanks Christine!

Nerdyfae

2022-12-10 14:03:22 +0000 UTC

1. Montmartre cemetery, Paris. Very beautiful old tombstones from the 1800s and beyond. There are often local cats wandering around and sleeping on them. Peaceful atmosphere, not many people there. Saw one crow bathing on one pond over a grave :'D. 2. I would like to have a nice grave in some old, forgotten garden of some abandoned house middle of some cool forest. Just wild appletrees and flowers and blackbirds around. I think it could be cool for the visitors also to cross some old forest to visit my grave. Some old wooden cross would be nice, and when it's rotten and gone, then that's it, and my grave would be just an urban legend amongst the villagers from then on.

Lindarling

2022-12-10 13:58:04 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Auburn Cemetery near Watertown, MA (outside of Boston).It was the first garden cemetery (as opposed to graveyard) in the US, and it is gorgeous anytime of year. Lots of hidden paths and nooks and crannies, different "neighborhoods" and secluded areas. In Octobers past, a local historical literature professor dresses up like Edgar Allan Poe and performs a reading in the old gothic chapel on the premises -- sounds like a fun opportunity to play a few pranks from beyond the grave! 2. Compost me! Traditional methods of embalming and cremation cause pollution and are harmful to the earth. Human composting isn't legal everywhere yet, but it's quickly gaining traction. Place my composted remains at my grave plot and let a beautiful garden take over -- there's something poetic about creating life from death. Christine, this may be your chance to flex a green thumb! [ah reading the comments I see Sanna beat me to the punch here! @Sanna let's start a post-mortem garden club!]

Caroline

2022-12-10 13:45:26 +0000 UTC

A fabulous cemetery is The Old Burying Ground in Beaufort, NC. Very old—circa Revolutionary War times—and wonderfully creepy, with long-limbed trees casting reaching shadows, and Spanish moss draped all round. As far as my own final resting place, I used to volunteer at a Raptor Center where birds of prey were rehabilitated and released (as well as being used for education if they could not be let go). The facility also rehabbed carrion birds, like vultures. My fellow volunteers and I, being inclined toward the natural world, joked that we’d prefer a “sky burial”: just throw us in the vulture enclosure when we died and let them take care of us. Sadly, it’s illegal in the US. Freeze drying my corpse is also an attractive option.

Alison Toney

2022-12-10 13:23:30 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is actually a tiny family one in my town of Concord, North Carolina. It’s the Meisenheimer Family Cemetery and is surrounded by a mall. The family has held the small part of the property for over 200 years even after selling the rest of the land over time. 2. As for my burial plans, I actually want to be donated to a university in western NC for forensic science courses. I like the idea of contributing to education and not being preserved but allowed to naturally decompose.

S Renae

2022-12-10 12:50:07 +0000 UTC

1. I'm gonna be basic and say Père-Lachaise in Paris. Famous, big, lots of statues and beautiful monuments. Must visit in Paris! 2. I’d love to be composted! After which the compost could be used to fertilize soil and plant trees <3 Unfortunately that’s not legal here, so unless the law changes, I’ll just opt cremation and scattering the ashes in a lake by my family's summer cottage.

Sanna Kettunen

2022-12-10 12:44:31 +0000 UTC

Hands down Greenwood Cemetery In Brooklyn New York. It's a gothic revival cemetery, In a historic area where I live.I think you would love it! https://www.green-wood.com. Fun fact : Part of it faces the school I teach in. I told my daughters that I want to be buried there so I won't be late for work.

Nelia Torres

2022-12-10 12:38:19 +0000 UTC

1. My favourite and the one I am living like 10 minutes away is the beautiful Ohlsdorf Friedhof (Ohlsdorf Cemetery) in Hamburg, Germany. Its the biggest park-cemetery in the world, with several burial sites for different religions and styles. You can get burried near a lake or under a tree, near famous dead celebreties and so on. There are beautiful historical graves and crypts there, several memento mori´s and monuments, as well as military gravesides for the fallen soldiers of WW2. Its also a habitat for lots of animals like foxes and predetory birds, like owls. 2. I honestly would like to be burried there, and a fun thing I would like would be a victorian burial service. However my casket shouldnt be extremely ornate but one of those biodegradible Mushroom-caskets from the Netherlands! I think its so awesome to become a living Mushroom after death. But well If we consider extremely pricey Options that I will never ever achieve in life, I think my own ornate Victorian Chrypt on my private Cemetery on my private estate would be the next best thing lol. And of course I´d like to be burried with all my wonderfull deceased pets regardless <3

Pyromite

2022-12-10 12:36:58 +0000 UTC

Hello Christine, My favorite cemetery is small and old, near the place where i grew up. Google: Begraafplaats Dalweg 36, Wildervank, the Netherlands. https://www.online-begraafplaatsen.nl/begraafplaats/2336/Begraafplaats-Wildervank. It is located between the meadows. In the small town nearby was a tale that people who visit the cemetary sometimes see a ghost carriage with horses in front of it and a coffin in the back, like someone is going to be buried. Everytime i visit the cemetary or i drive by, i hope to see it. Every sunday a steam train (part of a museum railway) passes by. You can hear him flute. It gives you a special feeling when you walk there. I wish to be buried between these old graves. With an old tombstone on it with a weeping Willow. The weeping Willow is a symbol that you see on many old tombstones here. I wish to be forgotten in time. I wish you and the captive a Merry Christmas in advance. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Kimberly

2022-12-10 12:33:53 +0000 UTC

1. Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane. My sister in law has worked in the death care industry and is a photographer. She has shot some beautiful photos there (including some wedding shots). I fell in love with the spot through her. Beautiful trees. 2. I always liked the idea of donating my body to science or being an organ doner. I’d even be happy with being cremated in a cardboard coffin… but put a piece of me into some mourning jewellery by Margaret Cross and I’ll be at peace!

Blaze

2022-12-10 12:18:44 +0000 UTC

1. I think the most beautiful cemetery I ever visited was the central cemetery in Vienna! It's quite large, it features a few Art Nouveau style buildings. There are a lot of famous Viennese people buried there and I enjoyed strolling through the greenery there. Thinking that one might be buried in such a nice and historic place is just really cool! 2. I'm kinda split here - on the one hand, I don't want to be an environmental burden after I die, so a cremation or burial doesn't really make sense and I would prefer an aquamation. But on the other hand, I want to be buried in some really cool pieces of clothing - because when you're dead it doesn't matter if your clothing are uncomfortable! So give me that tight lazed corset and ultra high heels! But since aquamation is still not legal, I might just be buried looking as extra as possible!

Tamara

2022-12-10 12:11:57 +0000 UTC

Hrm...I'm really bad at picking favourites, and I was giving this a great deal of thought. I've been to some cool cemeteries, but I don't want to pick an obvious one like Père-Lachaise (even though it is a very beautiful place), and I can't really say an unconventional cemetery either, like a car cemetery, the catacombs in Paris, the bone church in Sedlec, or that sunken ship in Pearl Harbour, because I haven't actually been to those places. So my mind kept wandering back to East (Eastern?) Cemetery in Gothenburg, Sweden (Swedish: Östra Kyrkogården, Göteborg, Sverige)(https://www.significantcemeteries.org/2011/11/eastern-cemetery-in-gothenburg.html). It was founded in 1861 and it has some absolutely beautiful graves! One of the most photographed is a mausoleum with life sized bronze people outside, mourning. Another amazing tomb there is that of Arthur Seaton. It is a huuuuuuge monument with sphinxes and a big place outside the doors to the tomb, to just sit and hang out. And when you peak through the windows in the door, you can see something golden glimmer and shine in there. It is very hard to get an understanding of how the monument looks through pictures though, because it is so big. I spent an early morning there by the monument, sipping on a gin and tonic, and it was so peaceful! Yes, drinking gin and tonic in a cemetery early in the morning might seem a bit...decadent and macabre, but...YOLO. So I guess that's why my mind wandered back to that place. I also love the layout, that there are some cool people buried there (like swedish artist Ivar Arosenius), and also the creepy fact that a girl was murdered there in 1994. As it comes to plans, I don't have any definite yet. Though I know I want to be buried, not cremated. And I want two songs played: "I walk alone" by Jorn, and as they carry my coffin or casket out, or when they lower it into the earth or the sarcophagus, I want "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC played. xP If I can afford it I want a cool mausoleum or monument, or something for my grave. Afterwards I want there to be a big party where people can celebrate my measly life and mourn my inevitable death. I want there to be plenty of food and lots and lots of booze, so people can get properly fed and very drunk. And there would be a rule that you are not allowed to talk afterwards about what happened at the party. What happens at that party, stays at that party. I don't want people to be made to regret what they said or did, or feel ashamed or emberassed.

SaGu

2022-12-10 12:10:59 +0000 UTC

1. My favourite cemetery is the one in Altenburg, Germany. That‘s my birth town and we mostly plan to visit our ancestors there on christmas eve every year when the weather allows it. But that‘s not the only reason I love it. It’s the stereotypical old, veeery old but big cemetery that you could think of. There are mossy tombstones that are not straight anymore because they are in that ground for so long, there are tombs, there are some kind of family graves where there is a big rusty heavy metal plate with eyelets laid onto the ground and the names of the members are engraved in a big wall, there are other family graves with big tombstones and decayed statues, there are graves protected with an old rusty filigree fence with spikes, all of this in the most quiet atmosphere you could imagine, that’s why you can see there many squirrels. There is also a big old historical morgue that my parents and I got to visit last year. I was so overwhelmed, because everything in there was exactly how it’s been build a couple of centuries before. There is a big room with heavy rusty walls with doors in it to separate every embalming room. Firstly I thought that were super old toilet rooms. In some embalming rooms you could still see the tables they used to do that, but every room hat that perfect victorian colourful glass window. And of course there is also a historical funeral hall and in the mid kind of a decayed royal tomb which is as big as a smaller church and also looks like that. I wish you all could see it somehow. I love it so much there. 2. In addition to that my burial plan is to be buried on that cemetery with all my cats if this is possible at some time. The cemetery is in the same street where I went to school, where I worked some years ago and where I want to put six feet under.

Psycho Terror

2022-12-10 12:01:14 +0000 UTC

The Bonaventure Cemetery in Thunderbolt, Ga (just outside of Savanah, Ga) is just spectacular, and would be a beautiful place to be laid to rest with just the right atmosphere. Between the beautiful gothic appearing statuary and the Spanish moss hanging from the giant old oaks its no wonder that it has been movies and books (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil). I have been there twice and I just love walking amongst the graves and reading the headstones and thinking of the lives of the people buried there. So many stories. My second choice is St. Martin's Churchyard Caerphilly, Wales. This beautiful small town is very special to me personally and this lovely parish victorian church graveyard seems right out of fairytale with the moss covered headstones, some of them toppling into the earth as if they are ready to be buried themselves. My husband thinks I’m bananas, but he grew up not far away in Cardiff. Now for me I grew up hanging out in the Nordhoff Cemetery in Ojai, Ca. Alas they do not allow any more burials there-but goggle it anyway its extra special. I don’t have any elaborate burial plans, but I would like to have a recipe on my headstone, not that I’m known to cook, or at least a snarky epitaph such as “I told you I was sick!” Giggles from beyond!

Cecelia Breslin

2022-12-10 11:26:01 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is Waverley Cemetery in Sydney. It looks over the ocean. I went there as a child and really want to go back. My burial plan is to be cremated and my ashes to be ground into a fine powder so that my best friend can put them into clay and glaze and create a sculpture of a gargoyle with a little raven friend. I want her to walk the Bondi to Coogee costal path at Waverley Cemetery and cement down the gargoyle to the rocks that overlook the ocean on the cliffs of Brontë. She loves ceramics so i want her to be the beautiful bird always by my side.

Rebecca Kettle

2022-12-10 11:10:59 +0000 UTC

1. The Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina is amazing. I've never been myself but my dad went and took pictures and told me all about it. Everyone is buried in tombs, so it looks almost like a city. It's very special. 2. I am a dramatic and creative person, and I have always been so bummed about the lack of drama at modern cemeteries. Where are the Gothic crosses and weeping angels? I decides that this simply won't do. So, my plan is for my heart to be removed first, and buried with a tree (would love wisteria or weeping cherry tree but they are rare so I'd settle for a Palo Verde) at my family home, so I can grow in to a new life and my family can visit easily, and sit beneath me. As for the rest if my body, I want to be buried, with a throne over my graveside to gove people rest, and standing over the throne will be a life sized angel in my image, looking upon you with a soft smile on her face. It has many purposes. 1st, drama, 2nd it will creep out some people while also being really cool and beautify, but 3rd and most important, I hope my face can bring my loved ones comfort. I hope they will feel like they can talk to me, and that I am watching over them. And maybe I can possess it as a ghost haha. Don't think I'll ever have the finances to pull most if this off but if I could what a dream! Definitely want to do the heart tree thing regardless

Rayna Lily

2022-12-10 08:26:56 +0000 UTC

1. I have two favorite cemeterys, the first one is in vienna the Wiener Zentralfriedhof. The second one lies in Hallstadt named Ossuary, its the bone house for me. 2. I want my body to be gifted to the Medizinische Universität Wien, or if i decide otherwise till i'am 60, i want to be cremated, my ashes will then be scattered with my cats.

Stefanie Ehrenleitner

2022-12-10 08:00:56 +0000 UTC

I love the Pet Cemetery in San Francisco's Presidio. It brings me comfort that all of those beloved friends who provided such warm companionship to their humans were given dignified burials. The whole place has good vibes. It's small, not even a full acre, but it's in the Presidio so there's places to picnic nearby, and it's a good spot to visit for some peace and joy. And for my own burial plans, I would ideally like to not be embalmed so that my body can decompose naturally, preferably under a nice wisteria or live oak that will serve as my memorial. My backup, assuming that isn't feasible, is to be cremated and my ashes turned into some glass or ceramic tchotchke that my heirs will be asked to safeguard in some place within my gothic manse and create rumors of my restless spirit being attached to it. I like cemeteries but I never personally saw myself being interred in one.

Gwenndolyn Campbell

2022-12-10 07:57:20 +0000 UTC

1) Bolton Street Cemetery in Wellington New Zealand. It was one place I visited when growing up and one I'll always remember as it's just so beautiful. It's right near a highway and a lot of the headstones are amongst trees and it just feels so magical. 2) I would love to be buried with my cats so I'll always be with my darlings.

Alicia Harrington

2022-12-10 07:57:04 +0000 UTC

1. The Necropolis in Glasgow, Scotland! What better end than being buried among crumbling Victorian tombs all stained with coal smoke, overlooking the city and those beautiful golden Scottish evenings?? 2. I'd like my coffin to be transported to my final resting place in a carriage with black plumes. And then I'd like my body to be inoculated with mushroom spores.

Melanie Brauner

2022-12-10 07:23:07 +0000 UTC

Chico CA . Our historical cemetery still has plots. I hope to give historical tours there dressed in historical clothing soon too. I plan to have my own prepurchased gravesite on the tour with my own chosen headstone statue already there. My statue will be myself, in my once favorite dark angel Halloween costume surrounded by my pets I’ve loved in my lifetime, including my squirrels. It will look a little like a cross between St. Francis and Ace Venture. My stone will read “ Leave a message, I’m out haunting”. People can then wonder if their cemetery tour guide was a ghost.

Karrianne Sorrenti

2022-12-10 07:19:36 +0000 UTC

1. The Myles Standish Burial Ground (also known as Old Burying Ground or Standish Cemetery) in Duxbury, Massachusetts is, according to the American Cemetery Association, the oldest maintained cemetery in the United States. 2. First things first, donate my body to a “body museum.” If they return my body to family after that, then in my will, I’ll bequeath my worldly possessions to the one family member that becomes an ice cream driver and gives ice cream away…And sprinkle my ashes in punk kids ice creams.

Scribby Scribner

2022-12-10 07:12:07 +0000 UTC

1. I am not from nearly as glamorous or well-known of an area as many other people commenting but Woodland Cemetery in Quincy, Illinois is a beautiful historic landmark on the bluff overlooking the river. It is full of gothic architecture and they have haunted tours in the fall. My mother is from the area and always used to go with my great grandmother to wander through the gravestones and tell stories of people she had known that were buried there. 2. My husband is deadly serious and has put in writing that he wants to be cremated and placed in pepper shakers at fast food restaurants so he can season the meals of unassuming patrons. It tickles his morbid and inappropriate sense of humor. He has entrusted this task to a friend because he knows I’m too responsible to do it.

Alexandra Conrad

2022-12-10 07:10:36 +0000 UTC

1. The Eugene Masonic Cemetery 2575 University St, Eugene, OR 974032. 2. My plans after death are still not decided but a 90-year-old male friend of mine died recently and I find his after-death choice to be interesting. My friends church has its own small memorial garden right up alongside the building surrounded by a wall. About 10 years ago my friend stood in that very memorial garden scattering his wife's ashes and now he is gone, and his ashes are now scattered there. I find it kind of darkly romantic because he had remarried, they had 8 years together but now just in time for Christmas he is reunited in death with his first wife. I imagine the garden all Icey from the winter cold, Christmas carols playing behind warm glowing windows and the two spirits young again embracing under a winter moon.

Brenda Hunt

2022-12-10 06:59:22 +0000 UTC

1. The Salt Lake City Cemetery. Which just so happens to be the largest city operated cemetery in the US - and also a great place to have spooky hang outs at night. 2. I want to be cremated and I want my ashes made into a diamond. Then put that diamond into a ring so I can haunt whoever wears it. Forever and ever. I will be the cursed ring!

Emina Ibrahimovic

2022-12-10 06:54:40 +0000 UTC

Buried in Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone, AZ, Claudette Marco waits vigilantly with both eyes open six-feet under a stone marked, "Take not your life for granted." Laying in her wooden coffin, eyes glaring at the sky, people take pictures with her at her wake, coffin propped up and photographer draping his head before each photograph. Clutching at her Colt six-shooters both folded across her chest, boots on, she guards against crooks, thieves, and murderers of the Wild, Wild West. She met her demise as sheriff's deputy, protecting the innocent, bringing abusers to justice. To be buried in the ultimate cemetery full of souls that will never rest, unfinished business will take her into a new existence beyond the grave.

Claudette Marco

2022-12-10 06:53:07 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA- Hauntingly Beautiful Cemetery surrounded by Spanish Moss covered trees and beautiful Azaleas in the spring. A must see. 2. My remains will be interred in a pedestal- although I would love to have some of my remains turned into a black diamond and worn by loved ones so I can still be there with them on their journeys.

Dawn Campbell

2022-12-10 06:39:52 +0000 UTC

1) Redbank Cemetary in Clovis, CA because that's where my mom and several family members are laid to rest. Very peaceful out there. 2) I want to be cremated because I'm too vain to have people look at me when I cant control how I look (lol) and I want a celebration of life where people wear their favorite band tee as I am very much into music.

Amanda Seaberg

2022-12-10 06:31:19 +0000 UTC

Loftis Cemetery in ozark county Missouri, My dad is resting there. It is on of a mountain

Alaina Jacobson

2022-12-10 06:28:38 +0000 UTC

1. There's a cemetery in San Jose "Oak Hill". My sister is buried there and I never got to visit. But it's where she is. Some day I'll get the chance to go. 2. I want to be cremated and turned into a diamond, set into a pretty old ring and sold at a dusty, over filled, creepy old thrift store that has a one eyed cat. I've thought about this in great detail as you can see.

Lillith

2022-12-10 06:17:53 +0000 UTC

1. I couldn’t possibly choose a favorite cemetery! 2. I don’t have a burial plan yet. However, I plan to have a funeral for myself in the near future for my birthday in order to enjoy the festivities BEFORE I die. My friends already know I am planning to do this in the next year or two. (My birthday just passed — it’s on Krampusnaucht— so it’s not happening this year.) I have asked my loved ones to prepare eulogies and dress in appropriate funeral attire. I will be in a prop casket that I plan to build beforehand and after the eulogies I’ll be “alive” again so I can actually mingle with guests 😹 I got the idea to do a fake funeral for my birthday because when people die, others always have fun stories to tell or nice things to say and their dead loved one never gets to hear them. So I figured, I might as well be alive to hear the fun memories and touching things my friends have to say.

Tecelia Clark

2022-12-10 05:55:11 +0000 UTC

1. So far my favorite cemetery has been Highgate Cemetery in London. While I was studying abroad in England, I took a literature class focusing solely on gothic fiction and our class study trip was to Strawberry Hill (the inspiration for Castle of Otranto) and the Highgate Cemetery. The cemetery is split into 2 sections: the newer side of the cemetery is well maintained with clear, wide paths with a few notable residents like Karl Marx; and the other (and older) side was beautifully overgrown. For the older side of the cemetery, we needed a guide because of how unstable the grounds were. The day we went was overcast and had scattered showers throughout the day: perfect weather for exploring the cemetery. It was so quiet and much bigger than I imagined. One of my favorite places within the cemetery that I was able to tour were the catacombs. The guide led us through the Egyptian revival section of the cemetery to a locked building that held close to 800 bodies (if I remember correctly). Inside was so dark, we could only see with the help of flashlights. The catacombs were essentially one long hallway and had people entombed inside the walls from floor to ceiling. Because of its age, some of the seals were eroding and some of the coffins were visible. If I could, I'd have spent hours longer in that cemetery, and I don't even think we saw half of it that day. 2. So far my burial plan is up in the air, but I've always wanted my body to be cremated after a viewing ceremony. My longest standing idea is turning my ashes into a structure that will assist in regrowing coral reefs

Bella Molina

2022-12-10 05:42:40 +0000 UTC

Hiii! 1. My favorite cemetery would have to be Glenwood Cemetery here in Houston, Texas. It really is gorgeous. It’s a stunning 88 acres of nature and historical architecture. And it serves as the final resting place of more than a few notable Texans! Southern Gothic all the way. 2. This is not so much a “burial” plan but when I die I plan on donating my organs to science! Of the most interesting ways I’ve seen this done is Plastination, a technique created by Dr. Gunther von Hagens to preserve organs and body parts for educational purposes. I first learned about this at the Houston Museum of Natural Science at the Body Worlds exhibition. I think it would be so cool for a piece of myself to be immortalized and become a learning experience for other little death positive weirdos like us.

Karysa HorrorHoneysKitchen

2022-12-10 05:41:25 +0000 UTC

1 - DIY my/your own backyard cemetery; 2 - chanting to ensure that a virgin can light a black flame candle and summon me from underground

Sarah

2022-12-10 05:32:49 +0000 UTC

1. Greyfriar's Kirkyard - Edingburgh, Scotland - one of the world's most haunted graveyards that surround Greyfriar's Kirk (church) it is also the resting place of a little pup called Greyfriar's Bobby who never left his owner's side, even after his owner died, where Bobby lead the funeral procession and returned to sit by his owner's grave every day without fail. It also has underground vaults and an infamous mausoleum that is tightly locked up at night to protect the living from the spirit residing within. 2. I ideally would be laid straight in a forest so that the earth and animals can take benefit from my body. No one needs it anymore, so why not let the earth and animals make some use of it? I know that isn't exactly "legal" but donating my body to a body farm would also be good!

Natasha

2022-12-10 05:29:04 +0000 UTC

1. Layfette Cemetery 1 in NOLA. 2. Cremated and ashes mixed into paints for a painting.

Dacia Poissant

2022-12-10 05:28:34 +0000 UTC

1. I actually have two favorite cemeteries (if I can only chose one, go with my 'a' option) a- The first is in Cuba, my home country, in the very heart of Havana: La Necrópolis de Colón (search: Colon Cemetery), it was founded in 1876, though the first grave was placed on 1871, and it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to, not to mention one of the most important cemeteries in Latin America. It has over 500 mausoleums. My mom used to go there in search for "solitude" to write when she was my age and even younger, she says she needed some 'silence'... And also, Alicia Alonso is buried there, as a ballet dancer that's just... ah. b- The second option is in France. Cimetière du Père Lachaise, quite an obvious choice--I know-- but it's so haunting, beautiful, artistic, full of ravens, and has some of the most mesmerizing memorials I've seen in life. Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, Fredric Chopin, Honore de Balzac are all there, I think it would be amazing to share the ground with them--I'd be one happy corpse for sure. 2. I don't have any specific burial plan in mind, but I do know that I want the people who go to my funeral to have fun, I don't want it to be a sad event. I want them to celebrate a person who lived her life to the fullest, with no regrets; not lament the death of me, why lament it? it's the circle of life and I'll be smiling in my coffin because my life will have been awesome and I want them to think of that. I don't want crying, I want a party full of music and dancing (pets are more than welcome, I want them there!), happy people that are excited to be alive and to love, and to feel pain, to miss, to smile, to remember, to forget... Celebrate not only the life I lived, celebrate life as is, yours, theirs... ours, after all. That's all I know for now. (And this I saw on a meme but I found hilarious the idea of having bouquet for someone to throw and find out who's next 😂) 🦋

Via la Vie

2022-12-10 05:21:34 +0000 UTC

1. Greenlawn Cemetery in Salem, MA was a delight to visit. Historic and modern blended together in a fabulous setting, with the ocean nearby. 2. I intend to be cremated, then I'm tasking my family with dividing my ashes into small vials with numbers and a website label, to be distributed at my memorial to those who wish to take me with them. The website will instruct people to take me with them to a special place, and when they are ready, deposit my ashes there (legally). They then need to register where they left me on the website, so people can see where I've been left around the globe. The more places, the better! In every ocean, in cities, in nature, I want to be left everywhere!

Ali

2022-12-10 04:55:29 +0000 UTC

1. Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, CO. This is where I spent time as a goth kid growing up in the area. :) 2. I intend to do a natural burial- organic material shroud, put in the ground to return from where I came. No embalming to pollute the earth and no mercury released into the air from my metal dental work during cremation.

Val Van Alstyne

2022-12-10 04:47:07 +0000 UTC

1. There are a lot of cemeteries I've admired from afar but Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia is one of my favorites. If you're into mausoleums it's sure to impress. 2. My death plan, is to be composted. I love the idea of being allowed to just decompose into something my family can still take home. Green burial is nice, and aquamation is a close second choice, but human composting gives me the best of both worlds.

Averie K. Fraser

2022-12-10 04:34:10 +0000 UTC

1. Favourite cemetery I have visited is the Glasgow Necropolis. It is located in the heart of the city and surrounded by gorgeous old buildings. Tombstones and mausoleum dating back to before Canada was even a country. 2. After all of my useful bits are harvested for those who can use them, I would like a green burial. Return to the earth to decompose and contribute to new life.

Sarah Cringan

2022-12-10 04:22:32 +0000 UTC

1. La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina is one of the most beautiful (and creepy) cemeteries I have ever visited. Lots of beautiful Art Nouveau and Art Deco mausoleums and statues. It’s also huge, like it’s own city. Tons of stray cats wandering around the grounds. If you have never heard of it, give it a Google! 2. I’ve always loved the idea of a sea burial. After the body is in the ocean, some sea captains will circle the area counterclockwise 3 times to symbolize time standing still while loved ones say goodbye and throw flowers.

Sandy

2022-12-10 04:21:15 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is Hollywood Cemetery here in Richmond, Va. Very historic, established in 1847, lots of civil war soldiers buried there and a couple of presidents, beautiful monuments and mausoleums, gorgeous views of the James River, plus there are stories about it being haunted. 2) I really just want a natural, green burial - just wrap my body in a sheet and stick me in a hole in the ground, no embalming or fancy casket or anything. Alternatively, it would be so cool to be composted! I don't think it's legal here in Virginia yet, but hopefully by the time I die it will be. I also love the idea of a sky burial, where your body is left out for the vultures to eat. Too bad it's not actually an option.

SaraH22

2022-12-10 04:02:47 +0000 UTC

I don't have a favorite cemetery (yet!) but I do have a few ideas about how I wish to be buried! I've always thought being "donated to science" would be cool, but the more I learn about how ambiguous that statement really is, the more I re-think that decision. I do still think about having myself sent off to a body farm if I can be useful there :) everything about body farms excites me, and if I could contribute to helping solve crimes or expand knowledge of human decomp that would make me happy. Recently I learned about "bog bodies" which are quite literally bodies found in bogs. Apparently bogs have extreme preservative properties because 2000+ year old bodies have been found and look recently deceased jaw drop. Additionally, the bog environment will tan skin and turn hair coppery red (please look this up it's wild). All that to say, LAY ME DOWN IN A BOG. Maybe it's vain to want to become a color changing corpse but I think it would be pretty neat. If that doesn't work out I would like to be buried under a tree or composted. :)

Caitlin Kenny

2022-12-10 04:02:37 +0000 UTC

Good luck to everyone!

Chrissy Floyd

2022-12-10 03:43:51 +0000 UTC

My most favorite cemetery is located in Savannah, GA (my favorite town)! The Bonaventure Cemetery is historic, beautiful, and a little eerie. I personally would love for my body to be buried at the base of a newly planted tree. This way, I could provide life for centuries to come. If I were planted in Savannah, perhaps I could be one of the beautiful trees with Spanish moss adorning it! On the tree would be an ornate plaque with the information that is typically displayed on one's tombstone (name, years, perhaps a lovely quote).

Taylor Makenzie

2022-12-10 03:32:48 +0000 UTC

Hi from Singapore! I’m an expatriate Australian/Tuvaluan who has spent much of my life moving around the Pacific region and cemeteries are not really communal spaces in this region, family members are buried at their homes. So to answer your second question, I have never lived in my mothers country of Tuvalu, but my plan is cremation and to have my ashes scattered out to sea from its shores. Tuvalu will likely be the first country to succumb to climate change impacts and sadly, be a sort of modern day Atlantis. I find some macabre comfort in the notion of my final rest being with my people under the sea. https://youtu.be/lXpeO5BgAOM

Penelope Lemon

2022-12-10 03:26:45 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is St. Louis #1 in New Orleans. It is old, beautiful and filled with history My burial plan depends on how environmental death options progress. Ideally, a green burial is my preferred method. I love the idea of returning to the earth. If we're not quite there yet where I live, which is likely, it will likely be cremation and scatter.

Leslie R

2022-12-10 03:26:23 +0000 UTC

I would like to rest in the Père Lachaise cemetery (my favorite) in Paris in a mausoleum covered with ivy, roses and honeysuckle. I would be dressed in a sumptuous white gown like Sadie Frost's in Coppola's Dracula. Cats, foxes, birds, even a stray dog, are living in this cemetery, so they will be welcomed to come inside for a nap or sheltering if it's cold outside. Also, I'm an insomniac. So my epitaph would be "She's finally sleeping..."

Ingrid Baudine

2022-12-10 03:26:09 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Hickory Flats located in Saint Clair Township Ohio aa lot of my family is buried there, I live very close, and there is an awesome story about the hatchet man. The cemetery is very well taken care of by the township. My final resting place will be in Hickory flat Cemetery as well.

Wanda Jones

2022-12-10 03:14:33 +0000 UTC

1. Concord Massachusetts - Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Where all the great authors are buried. Louisa May Alcott, Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne and more). 2. Not too sure of my plan but probably cremation and be scattered in my favorite places - Savannah, GA, Concord, MA etc).

Joe Kuehl

2022-12-10 03:14:19 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Greenwood Cementery located in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 1883 and is one of the America's first rural cementeries. Back in the early 1900s people use to come to the cementery and visit their loved ones and stroll about and have picinics. Most of the well to do families of old NY were buried there. Even the first wife and mother of Theodore Roosevelt. The artist Jean- Micheal Basquiat is buried there as well. Greenwood offers maybe tours and even ones by candle light where they open up some of the old crypts and you can have a look. Its over 478 acres so they have working trolleys running through the place. I would like a green burial. Put me in one of those pods and plant a tree on top of me. I think it would be great to be part of the growth of a tree. Give back to the earth.

Maddie A

2022-12-10 03:05:34 +0000 UTC

1. It is very hard to pick a favorite cemetery. There are so many in the Boston area -- we've been dying here for a very long time. You can find ones that are historic, beautiful, decrepit, containing monuments weird and wonderful, all with stories. However, if I have to choose, I recommend to you Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. It was the first "garden cemetery" in the country and a beautiful place to visit. There are stunning trees and other plants, fountains and ponds as well as a large number of notable graves. There's a tower that affords some stunning views. You might encounter wild turkeys too. (And there's a very good Turkish bakery-cafe a short walk from the entrance.) 2. For myself I have planned a Jewish burial -- no embalming, no vault, a simple shroud, and a plain wooden coffin. And it's also a green burial! I do want a monument of some sort for my loved ones to visit and leave a stone. However, I'm also awfully intrigued by human composting. The idea of becoming soil so quickly is rather appealing. I have always loved to garden and grow things.

Mina Murray

2022-12-10 03:05:04 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Pere la Chaise in Paris. It's a perfect mixture of old and new burial styles from gorgeous mausoleums that make it look like propernecropolis, art nouveau and art deco grave stone designs, and even a lovely pop of color with the parrots that have made their homes there and on occasion go to war with the crows and ravens. The necropolis is also home to some of my favorite people and artistic Inspiration. As for my burial I would love to have my body present (and impeccably dressed) for the wake and funeral but soon after be cremated and have my a portion of my ashes divided into ten reliqueries that will be buried in places around the world forcing my loved ones to finally travel and explore it. The rest will be kept beside my darling pups.

Honeybee Bailey

2022-12-10 02:58:03 +0000 UTC

1. Not actually a cemetery but it would be cool to be buried in the Poison Garden at Alnwick. 2. Not an actual plan but I think it would be fun to have my body stripped to the bone then have my entire skeleton scrimshawed and buried with elaborate jewelry. I'm thinking a fancy headdress, heavy plate necklace, and finger claws- possible anklets and bracelets if it's no overkill. The entire purpose would be to 1. have a bitchin skeleton and 2. confuse future archeologists that find my grave. It will never happen due to the expense, effort to pull off, difficulty in finding someone with the skills/willingness to do the carving, and questionable legality of improper corpse handling but it's something I like to think about.

Rebecca

2022-12-10 02:56:15 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Russell Hill Cemetery located in Macon county, TN. It's a very out-of-the-way place surrounded by gorgeous trees and the Tennessee foothills. It's filled with an amazing blend of old graves dating back to the mid 1800s as well as more recent burials. There are also a plethora of stories to go with the buried. One plot holds an entire family after the mother and all children tragically died in an accident and a man, who happens to be a relative of mine, who murdered his own son. There are alsoseveral infants and civil war soldiers. It might be difficult to find via Google so here is a link from the TN genealogy website: https://www.tngenweb.org/smith/cempics/russell.htm. My final plans involve being buried in a fully compostable coffin made from mushrooms. Supposedly you're fully decayed in 3 years. I really want to return to the earth as naturally as possible.

Jessica Warner

2022-12-10 02:52:22 +0000 UTC

I want to be cremated and have my ashes placed inside a hollow bronze sculpture of a bird about the size of a large microwave with its wings spread out in a dynamic pose. The sculpture will sit on a column. The whole thing will be about 4 ft high with my name, birth and death date on a plaque affixed to the round top of the column where the bird sits ~ I've never liked the idea of being put into the cold, dark ground in a box or sitting on a mantle so this has always seemed like a pleasant, unique option.

Dakota

2022-12-10 02:50:31 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Mt Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. My husband worked on repairing his aunt’s family crypt. It’s dug into a hillside and over time Mother Nature grew over it and knocked down the walls. I would go and meet him there and bring him lunch. It was a little surreal being there amongst the graves and crypts; peaceful and a eerie at the same time. I’ve already been in a coffin for my 40th birthday. I had a Wake for my youth! We rented a wooden casket from a local mortuary. It had actually been used to bring the body of a dead man to Utah for burial and the family decided on a different casket. The casket is a old fashioned coffin shape and I have pictures of me in it! So my plans are to be cremated and my ashes taken to be sprinkled in the Pacific Ocean, off of Newport Beach and also on Mount Timpanogos here in Utah where I live.

Brenda Fairbanks

2022-12-10 02:42:58 +0000 UTC

I plan on being cremated first. Then have my ashes buried at the base of a redwood tree. This way my ashes will become part of this magnificent tree. I've always wanted to be part of something great.

Linda

2022-12-10 02:40:08 +0000 UTC

Cambria Cemetery in Cambria CA. A beautiful old fashioned cemetery on the central coast of CA. My burial plan would be simple, an upright headstone, instead of the modern flat ones. As well as an angel statue. I kind of hope I’m embalmed really, really well so my loved ones can dig me up and look at me later. And of course I want to be buried with a creepy doll and bright red lipstick.

Kelly Bouttier

2022-12-10 02:27:32 +0000 UTC

1) 1. St Pancras Old Church Gardens. I am absolutely obsessed with this cemetery and it’s history but I’ll try to keep it ‘brief’. This cemetery is the original grave site of advocate and author of ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’, Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary passed away due to complications from giving birth to her daughter, also named Mary. Her husband Godwin, who never quite got over Mary, would bring their daughter to visit every day. It was here she would learn to spell her own name by tracing it on her mother’s gravestone. With birth and death so intertwined it’s no surprise the little girl grew up to be Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein. She would visit the grave hoping to connect to her mother, read her mother’s writing and was also courted by her future husband the (married) Percy Shelley at the graveside. When Godwin passed he was buried at the site, along with his 2nd wife Mary Jane. However in a ghoulish twist, neither Wollstonecraft or Godwin is actually buried in the grave in present day. When Mary Shelley passed away London was in the grips of bad infrastructure and grave robbery and the decision was made to bury her along with an exhumed Wollstonecraft and Godwin Bournemouth. As far as anyone can tell Mary Jane was left in st pancreas, alone in a grave that is a tribute to her predecessor, overshadowed for eternity…… It’s an amazing place to visit, knowing you are standing exactly where the mother of science fiction once stood. That you get to experience a place so key to her. Ten minutes from St Pancreas station, the gardens are an oddly peaceful place for central London. It’s a little less quiet recently as they’ve had construction, but it’s a lovely place to sit and have a coffee. (Weirdly enough its also the place I tried Macarons and Matcha for the first time). It’s also home to the rather macabre Hardy Tree, an ash tree surrounded by a circle of overlapping weathered gravestones. It was Thomas Hardy’s attempted solution to the grave yard being cleared. Unfortunately I don’t know too much about the Hardy tree as Mary Shelley is my main fixation!

Korg the Porg

2022-12-10 02:19:41 +0000 UTC

1. Loudon Park was my favorite when I was I was a spooky kid taking photography classes, I think I almost got locked in once or twice. But Green Mount has the inventor of the Ouija board, I believe, so one of the grave markers is a Ouija board carved in the stone. Green Mount is in a part of Baltimore that would probably not be great for any visitors you may have, though. Once again, I used to wander in this area a lot with my camera when I was in school, but I am from here and familiar with the area. But it's not in an ideal location. 2. I was born with a Chiari malformation and a list of other disorders that go with it, so parts of me are headed to the University of Maryland Brain and Tissue Bank. I pre-registered years ago, and I keep the info in my work badge should I keel over at at my desk so they know to wheel me across the street 😄 My family knows to take the rest of me and put me by the bush in the yard where my dogs are buried. Let my corpse feed the plants, and let the neighbors enjoy the occasional apparition of the weird lady of the corner taking a stroll with a pack of dogs and all the critters that visited my feeders over the years 😂 Just a little visit here and there before we all head back to the other side.

Ann LF

2022-12-10 02:18:02 +0000 UTC

Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Cremated and scattered in the Atlantic. “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea— In her tomb by the sounding sea.” -Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe

Shannon Ely

2022-12-10 02:17:44 +0000 UTC

Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge Massachusetts. I believe it was the first garden cemetery in North America where the public was encouraged to spend time there and picnic with the dead. It is so beautiful but not super famous so it is not too crowded. And my grandparents are buried there. As for my burial plan my choices are ranked as thus: 1. natural burial 2. human composting 3. aquamation. I am obsessed with colonial gravestone imagery, so if I am composted or aquamated, I want a vessel to be made to house my remains that looks just like a colonial era gravestone.

Colleen

2022-12-10 01:55:15 +0000 UTC

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord Massachusetts. (If you ever come, I can give you a walking tour!) And my plan has always been to be cremated (or hydro cremated maybe) but I also want a memorial stone. My mom always said she didn’t want a marker because cemeteries take space away from the living, but I disagree. Cemeteries are for the living who seek solace and quiet and connection. So I want a stone bench and stone table. A place to bring a journal or a book, sit under a tree and write. Or read. Because that’s what I would want to do.

Caitlín Carrigan

2022-12-10 01:54:52 +0000 UTC

1) Isn’t it the dream to be laid to rest in the burial grounds of The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland? “There’s always room for one more…” 2) My tombstone would read: “Here lies Rachael, she was no ewe. Allergies so terrible, her last words were ‘Achoo!’”

Rachael

2022-12-10 01:49:54 +0000 UTC

Forest Lawn Cemetery in Califorina , Near where the Unmarked grave of MJ still remains nameless. I will have an empy casket entombed there after I fake my death, and I will also have no nameon the grave, only a photo or something that gives theillusion of my burial. I will then visit my own grave and leave my favorite flowers there each year as a reminder to Love myself and live my life to the fullest each day. As a former funeral director and mortician , I have been in enough cemeteries to last a life time. They are beautiful places to roam. I prefer them at night. I once worked a graveyard shift in an actual grave yard in the funeral home located on the cemetery grounds, (fun fact)

A Shera

2022-12-10 01:22:44 +0000 UTC

Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff, Wales! It opened in 1859 and is the third largest cemetery in the UK. Instagram user @cemeterylight has tons of beautiful, eerie photos of it on their page. I think it fits your aesthetic.😊 And it’s not my personal burial plan, but “Tibetan Sky Burial” is definitely the wildest burial practice I’ve ever heard of. “Ask a Mortician” on YouTube has a lot of fascinating videos about this topic!

Lauren Brown

2022-12-10 01:10:17 +0000 UTC

Bonus answer! Lol! I think if you are up to embalming… you should be embalmed in a glass or plastic coffin poses so it looks like you are making one of you curious creations!!! I seen they did something like that for a motorcyclist… kinda cool!

ALI SOM

2022-12-10 01:05:38 +0000 UTC

1. Highland Cemetery, North Judson, Indiana. It’s just a small town and simple, but I have family there and often if we are going past it we will just drive though it. So, my dad passed a couple of decades ago, and he was young. He didn’t get to see most of us graduate, get married, have kids… any of it. My daughters like to drive by his grave whenever we can, sometimes we will get out and clean the cactus out… 🤷‍♀️ it’s plentiful there… and they like to say hi to Gpa. It probably isn’t amazing by appearance by most, but some of the people who rest there are. I honestly feel beyond blessed that we got to have my dad as much as we did. Anyway, it’s quaint and quiet 2. So, I used to want to be cremated, but learned how bad it is for the enviroment, so if they legalize water cremation maybe that… and if my family is able to put that with a willow tree (which is what I wanted my ashes to be with) I’d love that! Otherwise, I think I’d like them to send me off to a body farm so that my body can be of use for those trying to learn about the level of decomp and such in different environments.

ALI SOM

2022-12-10 01:03:08 +0000 UTC

Rochester, NY has a marvelous historic cemetery. In college my friends and I would picnic there in the warm weather. It's unusual in that there's a lot of varied topography; little hills and valleys and plateaus that make the views more interesting. It's also so old that there are many mature, grand trees among the plots and those add to the romance. Christine, if you ever find yourself in the Buffalo area, preferably in spring, when the weather is nicest, I recommend The Mount Hope Cemetery, in Rochester, NY. I plan to be cremated and scattered in a beautiful place. No need to disturb the soil for me!

Carl P Crossgrove

2022-12-10 00:53:53 +0000 UTC

1. Highgate Cemetery, London. I've visited several times over the years. Some may say a long way to travel from Brisbane, Australia to London just for a cemetery but I disagree! It's a beautiful mix of history, nature and spookiness. 2. I plan to be cremated but I want my ashes to be placed in a life size sarcophagus of myself (like an Egyptian Pharaoh) and left in a corner of our lounge room. So my family knows I'm always there....watching them 😉🤣

Ginia Hamilton

2022-12-10 00:44:32 +0000 UTC

1) While I couldn't be buried there (I think its just for locals), I would love to visit Merry Cemetery in Romania. They have brightly painted carved wooden crosses that depict either how the person died or their favorite activity while living. There are also poems usually written by the person who carves the cross (but sometimes by family members). Apparently he isn't shy about pointing out people's indiscretions in life. 2) Recently I have become interested in the idea of human composting. Caitlin Doughty has a video on it, and it's kind of fascinating. I'm not sure it will be an option any time soon, but does seem like a good alternative

Meike Schmidt

2022-12-10 00:41:40 +0000 UTC

Pine Slope Cemetery in Belle Fourche, SD! I was raised in the country by my grandma. When I was younger, every single time we came to town, we would get food and picnic at the family plot at the cemetery. Turns out the dead make great dining companions. My ideal burial plan is organ donation, then to be cremated and mixed with my husband's ashes when he passes on. Besides, cremation is my last chance at a smokin hot body.

Carlie Brashears

2022-12-10 00:39:13 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria. It's a very old cemetery with thousands of beautiful statues and gravemarkers. One of my favorites a statue of a veiled woman standing in front of a grave - carved in such amazing detail that you have the illusion of being able to "just barely see through the veil" at her face. There's also a "musicians' corner" where several prominent composers are interred. The grounds are beautiful, with that air of rest, and the beauty in decay and age. My death plan for myself is to be "cremated" using alkaline hydrolysis. I'm a church musician, so I haven't decided if I'd want a traditional funeral/memorial service, or something more off the beaten path. My partner has told me "just play 'Abide With Me' four times and chuck me in a hole. So I guess it's natural burial for him. :) One of my choristers is a retired funeral director - he has everything planned down to the letter. All the music, who will do his service, what he will be dressed in, which casket, what style of headstone, the plot.... if it weren't for his profession, I'd be concerned!

Lili

2022-12-10 00:36:14 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is Hyde Cemetery in unsuspecting Loudonville, OH. It's tucked away on the edge of a forest and shares a property with the absolutely gorgeous Landoll's Mohican Castle (yes, a castle in Ohio!). The cemetery has graves from the early 1800s and is widely accepted by paranormal investigators as haunted. I walked through the cemetery once in broad daylight, and even then it gave me the creeps! Not sure if it's open to new burials, but something tells me the property owners would find space for the Queen of Halloween's gravesite. 🙂 2) Personally, I don't have any plans to be buried. I'm donating my body to science. Maybe somebody will have use for it, because I sure won't! Being a part of that "Bodies" science exhibition would be pretty cool!

Nick Z

2022-12-10 00:33:21 +0000 UTC

1. Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Started in 1850. Its grounds are like a lush romantic garden... but it's a cemetery! Beautiful place for picnics and hanging about. https://oaklandcemetery.com/about/ 2. Burial Plan: a mausoleum at the Oakland Cemetery, with stained glass windows and a secret stairway to a subterranean lair, of course!

Joan Bishop

2022-12-10 00:27:58 +0000 UTC

The Pere Lachaise cemetery is in Paris. It is beautiful and historic. Many visit so you'll never be alone. Though historic if you obtain citizenship you can be buried there. What is more romantic and yes, creepy to be buried in such a lovely place!

Linda

2022-12-10 00:27:15 +0000 UTC

1.)I would love to buried at King Chapel in Boston. I’ve visited this place many time while on vacation and absolutely love that history and the modern style of city life not to far away. Often people’s work view is the cemetery. 2.) I would love to be cremated and have my belongs separated into different urns, so I can live in different homes at once. I’ve always wished I could be in two places at once and think this will be my final opportunity.

Melissa

2022-12-10 00:25:28 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is West Schuyler Cemetery in NY. It's nothing fancy. I frequently go there to visit my mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, my godparents, and even a high school friend. There are so many familiar names from our town buried there. After walking around recently, I found head stones from the late 1800s. I already know that I'll be buried there too. When my grandmother died in 1965, my parents bought enough plots for us all. My sister and brother-in-law will be there too when it's their time. Family has always been important to me. There's no better place than by your family's side.

Leslie Langenegger

2022-12-10 00:17:43 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery at the moment (I have lots!) is the Brand Family Cemetery in Glendale, California. Not only is it a short hike from a great public park (Brand Park, because of course) but it has a pyramid! Not a Giza-level pyramid, to be sure, but a pyramid nonetheless. As one would expect from someone who was once the richest guy in town and plastered his name on, well, just about everything. Plus, tucked up against the Southern California mountains as it is, the spot is lovely. 2) I have always wanted to be cremated (or aquamated, now that is legal in California) but I was never sure what to have done with my ashes. I certainly don't want to spend eternity in an urn. I have recently discovered, however, that Hollywood Forever cemetery in LA has just launched a program where you can have your cremains buried under a tree on site and part of the cost goes to long term care (and even replanting, should it be needed) of said tree. Yes, you can get a new tree, but since Hollywood Forever is already a century old I plan to find the oldest, gnarliest, most Ent-like tree on site and be plonked there. No marker needed, just me, chilling in one of the coolest cemeteries in town and helping sustain an old LA tree.

Eve72

2022-12-10 00:15:54 +0000 UTC

Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. It is an important green zone in an urban landscape and serves both the living and the dead in need of peace. I love running through it, for perspective. Visiting cemeteries help me appreciate life. For a burial plan, I’m having my organs donated, for science!

Alan E Marling

2022-12-10 00:11:51 +0000 UTC

1) Adelaida Cemetery in Paso Robles, CA, old and creepy, and has some beautiful views, and 2) I would like to be made into a black diamond that is then set in a piece of jewelry that my two best friends have to share back and forth every six months (they have better genes than I, and for sure will last longer), thus ensuring they keep in touch, last person to go has to wear me to the grave. ;-)

Shannon

2022-12-10 00:09:47 +0000 UTC

I would like to be buried in one of the United States oldest pet cemetery- The Hartsdale Pet Cemetery. My heart has always been with animals of all kinds and love the thought of spending eternity as their caretaker in the afterlife ...I too love the thought of being buried next to someone from the 1800s- and this cemetery is perfect as it was founded 1896 , in New York! ...and is home to 80,000 animals included reptiles. ..as far as how I'd like to be buried? I guess if I'm going to be buried next to pets for eternity.. I think I should be covered in cat nip and have plenty of toys and treats buried with me.

Sara E Briggs

2022-12-09 23:57:29 +0000 UTC

I have always found the idea of being fully buried disturbing, so being cremated sounds a bit better to me. Then the ashes can either be scattered in a favorite place of mine - perhaps near our summer family home in the mountains, or buried with a tree seed (maybe a walnut tree - I love walnuts! This would also benefit the environment, which is always a plus). When it comes to cemeteries, I have a lot of favorites. But I would actually go for a quite simple and traditionally Slovene cemetery in Ljubljana called Žale! I find it fascinating because of its simplicity and because it was designed by one of our greatest architects, Jože Plečnik, whose designs and artistic vision I admire quite a lot.

Primož

2022-12-09 23:46:09 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, MI (creepy, spooky, and has a lot of Civil War era people). 2. A green burial. In California )Ask A Mortician on YouTube talks about it), you can get dissolved in Lye, which means no cremation to pollute the atmosphere. Plus your skeleton left can be pulverized and sprinkled with the roses, or you could ask to be donated/given to a medical school where you can haunt them.😁

Monica Adams

2022-12-09 23:45:41 +0000 UTC

I think my favorite cemetery is the English Cemetery or Cimitero degli Inglesi in Florence, Italy. I took a semester abroad in college to study art in Florence, and instead of being drawn to the many amazing museums there I ended up being far more enchanted by the many incredible cemeteries of Florence, which are full of some of the most exquisite sculpture I'd ever seen. The English Cemetery is essentially a cemetery in a giant traffic circle, with a main through fair going all the way around it. I was so struck by this beautiful, peaceful, and surprisingly quiet blip of land that had become surrounded by so much activity. I would go there to sketch the tombstones and I was always the only one there - and there's nothing quite like being alone in a cemetery (at least alone in terms of the living)! I have a lot of favorite cemeteries in Italy, but that one remains special. I think I'd like to donate my body to the "Body Farm" in Texas when my time comes! People donate their bodies which are then used to study forensic anthropology and decomposition by being left out on the land. I'd like to be useful, despite being dead!

Anna Moore

2022-12-09 23:45:26 +0000 UTC

I want to be cremated and buried with a tree seed, to finally become a tree in death. But as an idea I would recommend looking into the plot of the book Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts: An Adventure Book by Kate Racculia for an idea of what might be fun to do with your death.

Sarah Helgeson

2022-12-09 23:39:35 +0000 UTC

Highgate Cemetery, London England - one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world. My favorite part is the Egyptian Avenue. And of course there is the legend of the Vampire of Highgate and the book “Her Fearful Symmetry” by Audrey Niffenegger is a wonderful ghost story centered around Highgate. As for my own burial, I will be cremated as the planet is running out of space🙆‍♀️I would love to have a gothic effigy created to mark my final resting place. You can see Highgate online at https://highgatecemetery.org. You won’t be disappointed.

Lisa Thibeault

2022-12-09 23:35:58 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine and Captive... There is supposedly only one cemetery in San Francisco where I live, attached to the Mission Dolores (they moved most of the bodies to make way for development between 1920-1940 though the remaining ghosts may argue about their thoroughness). But actually there is another cemetery I love, my all time favorite, the military Pet Cemetery located in the Presido https://www.presidio.gov/places/pet-cemetery where I may or may not have spread a few of my dog Sid's ashes. As for me, I would like to be cremated and have my ashes pressed into a diamond which will be worn by whomever is named in my estate to cater to every whim of my remaining pets until their natural demise.

Harmony Urmston

2022-12-09 23:30:29 +0000 UTC

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unitarian-church-cemetery The Unitarian Church in Charleston, South Carolina has one of the most beautiful little haunted cemeteries. Built in the 1700's, the cemetery is riddled with overgrown vines, trees growing into tombstones, old brick trails, church cats roaming free and epitaphs that tell historical accounts of despair, disease and war..in other words, the perfect cemetery:) If I am buried, it is only for the benefit of the living so yes to donation of all organs and yes to my fantasy of burying myself with treasures meant to be found by way of a treasure map, or something to that effect. Although grave digging is illegal, imagine opening a coffin and the skeleton draped in an old ballgown, a jeweled tiara, priceless heirlooms... swoon! I would also love to have an interactive grave marker like a puzzle or a bell that can be rung from the coffin (ya know, just in case).

Ace&Otis

2022-12-09 23:29:45 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Fairmount in Denver, Colorado. Very beautiful, full of specimen trees and roses. Unfortunately, social distancing wasn't observed in City Park in Denver, so in 2020 my dog and I did a lot of walking in Fairmount and grew to love it there. I may be cremated at Fairmount, but I want my ashes to be scattered where my husband is, in place called Sapphire Canyon near Estes Park, CO. There is an spruce tree there that has been a gathering spot for friends from Boulder for decades and is now becoming our final resting spot. Similar to Stone Henge, we party where our love ones are resting.

Hugo Bopp

2022-12-09 23:21:24 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetary that I've seen so far is the Pateon General in Oaxaca Mexico. All of the graves ar edecorated beautifully and it's really popular for celebrtaing Day of the Dead. Although I didnt grow up celebrating Day of the Dead, I love the idea of being buried there knowing the living will come party with us at least once a year. And it'd be fun to hang out with the older Mexican spirits to hear their stories, but I don't want to be buried in a coffin (If I did, it would be in the fictional cemetery from Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book in an old town in England to meet all the characters. I'd be in an unmarked grave so I can wander beyond the graveyard like the witch in the book) 2a. My partner has the best post-life idea I've personally ever heard. He's a musician and wants his ashes to be pressed into a vinyl of his favorite song he's ever released. 2b. I like the idea of using my remains (after donating my organs) to plant a tree. But I want the tree be illegal to cut down in whatever state I'm buried in. Like a Sequioa in California, for example. Or if they had an orchard graveyard somewhere, that'd be nice too.

Disco Pickle

2022-12-09 23:17:39 +0000 UTC

My DREAM final resting place is Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA. (https://oaklandcemetery.com/) The cemetery is apportioned into plots, each with a distinct personality and styling as chosen and maintained by the family of the deceased, which makes for a wonderfully unique walk. Check out all the pictures on Google Maps for a really good look at the cemetery -- or come visit! It's my favorite Saturday morning activity. They also have several amazing events throughout the year to support the Foundation -so you would have plenty of visitors once you meet your maker. You will have to get on a waiting list for a plot, but more than worth it for the opportunity to spend the rest of your life ( or death! ) there! As you can probably tell from above, my dream burial is in a plot at Oakland Cemetery with my darling spouse and all of our pets from this life. I would have a beautiful obelisk for the headstone, with some winding florals around it -- my dear spouse loves to garden, so we'd choose some plants of significance. I'd decorate the plot with lots of English rose bushes - my favorite flower. I'd have the epitaph be of the poem 'Not Anyone Who Says', by Mary Oliver. My final stipulation would be that the volunteers at Oakland highlight me, my spouse, and our pets once every few years on their 'ghosts of oakland' tour, where a lovely volunteer dresses up as you and tells your story (such fun!).

Kira Steinberg

2022-12-09 23:13:22 +0000 UTC

Loving all things spooky and yet being environmentally conscious, there is a green burial cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, which was the backdrop of Washington Irving’s story. I have always loved this story, from the actual book, to the Disney movie, to the amazing movie with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, and even the TV series. Actually located in Westchester, NY, the “Riverview Natural Burial Grounds” is beautiful and serene. In this cemetery you are not allowed to be embalmed, no non organic pesticides or fertilizers can be used, and you can only use biodegradable materials for shrouds and caskets. Even urns must be made from things like cornstarch, salt, or untreated wood. One would also be buried with many notable people such as Andrew Carnegie and Elizabeth Arden. I love the fact that one can be buried in such a nationally spooky place and yet still be environmentally responsible. As for a burial plan, I would love to be interred here in such an eco friendly way. Though I would be cremated first with some hair, and ashes held back to make a beautiful piece of funeral jewelry. Either a necklace or ring, that could be passed on in the family. (Possibly so I can kindly haunt my loved ones, and become a legend spoken about in whispers around the dining table) I would love to design my own piece before hand. I have always been fascinated by antique funeral jewelry pieces. Then the remainder of my ashes would be placed in an amazingly carved urn (of course made from untreated wood) and have my remains buried in Sleepy Hollow, my name is Ketrinna (pronounced Katrina) after all. Check out this cemetery at: https://sleepyhollowcemetery.org/green-burial/

Ketrinna Hammell

2022-12-09 23:06:29 +0000 UTC

1. The Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It's beautiful, iconic, and a resting place to so many stars. They (respectfully) hold movie nights and concerts there and I'd like to think that the dead enjoy the visits and appreciation of their resting place staying very much alive in Hollywood. 2. I haven't put much thought into it, but I do like the idea of a natural burials. It's good for the planet and takes up less space. The grave is dug by hand, remains are placed in biodegradable containers, and you decompose back into the earth and maybe help some plants thrive.

kialey

2022-12-09 23:05:33 +0000 UTC

1. Siloam Cemetery in Vineland, NJ - 550 N Valley Ave, Vineland, NJ 08360 Established in 1864, now considered a historical landmark. Vineland’s founder, Mr. Charles K. Landis, is buried there. The most beautiful time of year to visit: fall (no surprise there). I discovered this cemetery through an archaeology class I took while I attended the University of Pennsylvania. I no longer remember much of the information I learned about the town, or the cemetery itself, other than it was a place of interest to my professor. He was an eccentric man, but he knew his stuff. We visited a lot of cemeteries throughout the semester and this was one of the most beautiful. They’re still accepting permanent guests :-) There isn’t much information online about the place, but I did discover the cemetery’s Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/367129956754506/ and this lovely article https://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/local/2019/08/15/siloam-cemetery-vineland-facts-history-new-jersey/2020198001/ 2. I would love to be buried ‘as is’ in a beautiful forest, and left to decompose and feed the wildlife :-)

Mariana Escobedo

2022-12-09 23:05:11 +0000 UTC

My 80s goth self would have wanted a cemetery that had weeping angels and grand tombs but living here in San Diego and researching my husband's family tree has given me Pioneer Park.1521 Washington Pl, San Diego, CA 92103 Yes PARK - it was a cemetery in the late 1800- 1900s then in the 1970s the community removed the stones and built a park on top of the bodies!!! You can imagine all the hauntings ( Poltergeist style). Finally someone found the stones tossed in a ravine behind the park, a lot were ruined so now just a handful stand in a row as a memorial with an engraved plaque listing about 1800 names but it's possible there are close to 4000. We were looking for relatives, husband's family has been in the area since 1769 both San Diego and Mexico before the border was really a thing, we found a few and excitedly the one I was looking for- the name sake for my daughter- Julian Ames. We searched in the evening and of course all my photos were full of ghostly orbs of light near my kids. As for my resting place, I again have changed since my teenage years. I had a vintage vampiresque dress picked out back then- it's in the Halloween box now. I know I want to get back to the energy of the world/ universe circle of life and don't want to fill up this earth with formaldehyde and lacquer boxes. I thought cremation was good but realized so much carbon dioxide is released and it's really not environmentally friendly at all! My son informed me that most of my energy would also just go up in smoke so not directly staying around for them to "visit". Then I wished they could just stick me in my backyard...well California just legalized human composting- you and some plant matter decompose and become nutrient soil ...so I really could just stay in my yard forever- lovingly haunting my own house, visiting my kids and future family.

Tara Alvarado

2022-12-09 23:00:44 +0000 UTC

1. Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis MN. Acres of gorgeous, ancient trees and a stunning chapel. 2. I am donating my body to the U of Minnesota. I hope it will be dissected by a group of eager medical students - just I was privileged to do during medical school. If anything remains it will travel to Lakewood via the crematorium. ☠️

C Terrell

2022-12-09 22:56:35 +0000 UTC

1) I'm still posting this but I do not have a favorite. How can you? Spanish ones are so beautiful tho with their colors everywhere but I have yet to see one in person. Some countries even dig up their loved ones yearly. So. freaking. cool. Anyway, I played in a nearby graveyard growing up. I always freak out when I see one...in a good way, and next beside the wilderness, a cemetery is the best place to be! So much history! I always get confused on fences that don't touch the ground in cemeteries tho. And old stories about people being unknowingly buried alive are intriguing. No one is trying to get out, but we didn't always believe that. I'm just dying to get in so.... 2) I love nature. There's no need for me to leave my actual feet on this earth after leaving such a large carbon footprint. Cremation is fine with me after someone keeps all the good parts. Or leaving me in the woods for the animals to eat is ok too if I don't die from cancer (animals and bugs don't like cancer-filled carcuses). Just a cool old fashioned stone would be nice tho. No body, just a super old looking vintage stone. Read a couple lines about my life and when I lived. I'll be happy.

Heather

2022-12-09 22:54:42 +0000 UTC

1. The Robinson Cemetery, Town of Warren, NY is a thorn -tree lined cemetery down a winding path on the Gelston Castle Estate in Herkimer County. “TheGarden in the Woods” houses about 12 from the Robinson, Roosevelt and Astor relatives. While dark and peaceful, I’d imagine it’s residents have great stories. 2. I’d love to be dressed in black lace and seated in the trunk of a big car with my arm raised as if waving to everyone on the street . Of course my family would be in the car itself happily taking me to my final resting place.

Carol Blum

2022-12-09 22:47:17 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is he Melbourne General Cemetary. It's one of the most famous cemeteries in Australia, many very impressive figures in our history (prime ministers, famous actors and musicians) are buried there. But my favourite thing about them is that they do historical walking tours and night tours all year. But at halloween they do a haunted night tour! A group of actors fill the Cemetary up and teach you about some of the people who are buried there. My personal burial plans are a natural burial. It's difficult to find cemetaries that are doing this but it is getting more common. Little to no preservation of the body, no casket, just getting buried and going back to nature.

Nicole Holmes

2022-12-09 22:35:10 +0000 UTC

1. We moved to the Santa Cruz, CA area when I was small and it took me a while to fit in with the other kids. I was more interested in books, the conversations adults were having in the other room, and getting lost in quiet places. The first time I went to Evergreen Cemetery in Santa Cruz, I was entranced. It's old, one of the oldest in California and no longer in use. Unlike more modern sites, it is built on a hillside without the typical rows and paths to guide you. The greenery is kept but still wild. There are old trees that people who know about these things say you no longer see in the area. The markers are not modern flat stones you can mow around, they are sculptures and gates and walls and obelisks jutting out of the ground. Santa Cruz has built up over the years, but Evergreen is mostly left alone. Its nearest neighbor is a very busy modern park complete with a train engine, wedding venue, and jungle gyms. Recently volunteers and a local museum have adopted it and cleaned it up, but from all those modern touches you can take just a short walk and find Evergreen quiet and a little lost in time. Most visitors are looking at the graves of strangers, but they maintain the same respect as if they were visiting relatives. Kids do crayon rubbings on some of the more interesting inscriptions, but even they are subdued. It has the feel of a place that people know to leave be. The White Lady is locally a well known spectre who haunts Ocean Street and the area near her old house where she died, most likely at the hand of her husband. Maybe she makes a trip to Evergreen now and then in a darker form? Or maybe there is another - a greyer lady - who is less well known? All I can say with certainty is that I have seen someone at the top of the hill on two occasions, and while I love to explore the place, I never climb all the way up that hill. 2. My family has moved countries with each generation and our burial sites are spread far and wide. I don't have a specific location in mind, though I could see myself at the local cemetery that happens to be next to my old high school. It's where my Dad was buried. Maybe we'll visit the night time sporting events, or change the clocks while the kids are in the pool for fun? I hope those who love me remember me through stories and art. I love to tell a good story and especially a good joke. Good or bad, I think I've lived a life that has provided a lot of content for the stories and humor to be carried on. I expect there will be a party and I hope the guest list is not too exclusive. I would love the evening to be full of surprises.

Linda Olbourne

2022-12-09 22:31:12 +0000 UTC

First of all I’d like to say if you haven’t checked out the book “199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die” by Loren Rhoad’s, I definitely recommend it! I’m a little late to this post so instead of probably mentioning a well known cemetery that’s already been noted, I’ll give some love to my hometown cemetery. Its Union Cemetery in Steubenville, OH. I believe the cemetery location where it sits today, started in 1854, so it’s very old. I know some graves were moved from a previous location and they’re from the early 1800’s. It has always been such a peaceful place where I’ve spent my time growing up. Beautiful mausoleums and definitely haunted, as I’ve seen some eerie things myself near the old stone bridge. I can’t explain it, but it just has breathtaking scenery and little windy roads that really give it a cozy feeling. It’s probably not as special as others mentioned but it’s my special little place 🖤 As for a burial, unfortunately I haven’t done much thinking into what I want for myself yet, im excited to read others ideas on this thread! I’m probably just going to go with the traditional idea, being buried by the person I love. In a little old cemetery 🖤 I plan to design my own tombstone and casket as well! “Crafty till death” is probably what my tombstone should read. 😆

⚜️Lauren Anderson⚜️

2022-12-09 22:16:59 +0000 UTC

1. I have always admired Rose Hills in Whittier, CA. It’s stunning. 2. My idea is to be cremated and put into a urn that looks straight from the baroque period. I’d be passed down from family member to family member where I can watch and probably judge their lives. Once my descendants have no idea who I am and are tired of lugging me around I’ll be donated to a thrift/antique shop where and adventurer will be so swept up in the mystery of who I am and how I got there that he’ll purchase me and we’ll fly around the world together. I’ll be famous and passed along from adventurer to adventurer and after seeing the whole world I’ll placed in the Smithsonian to be viewed admired for until the end of time.

Alisa Jordan

2022-12-09 22:14:54 +0000 UTC

1. Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio! I think it's something like 300 acres and just absolutely sprawling with beautiful, historic monuments. The Haserot Angel is a favorite for visitors. 2. We just bought what will hopefully be our forever home, and I keep joking that I want to be buried in the backyard when I die. Since that isn't exactly legal here, my next best choice would be to be composted and used to feed my garden and assuming that's not an option whenever I shuffle off this mortal coil, I'd settle for cremation!

Amber Wade

2022-12-09 22:09:14 +0000 UTC

1. One of favorite cemeteries is Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. Laurel Hill is old, eerie, and super beautiful. Ever year they host haunted/historic tours, beautiful candle lit concerts, a Gravediggers Ball (a fancy masquerade!) and a Market of Macabre for artisans who specialize in creepy things and antiques. It has very cool Victorian pastoral vibes while being in a major city. The solitude garden is very serene. The cemetery was started in 1836 on the rolling hills that overlook the banks of the Schyulkill River. The cemetery is the final resting spot for many of the Union soldiers and generals who fought and died during the Civil War and people who did not survive the Titanic. The first burial at Laurel Hill East was that of Mercy Carlisle on October 21, 1836. Mercy was a humble Quaker woman who planned her own interment! 2. For my own burial plan – I consider myself a traditionalist and want an open casket viewing in a fancy old church. My family already has plots in the town I grew up in years ago, so easy! My idea for the contest is bring back the Victorian Mourning traditions – I love that somber touch class! I love the idea of making an heirloom quality, crochet lace burial shroud to drape on my body for the viewing. After the service, my closest kin may keep the shroud to take home to drape over the largest mirror in their house. I would like my family to keeping reusing the shroud and start a family mourning tradition. I also really like the idea of mourning jewelry. I am envisioning a locket featuring a cameo of my loved one face on the outside with their hair intricately plaited and secured to the inside. I would carry it with me always and pass on to future generations.

Lauren Carman

2022-12-09 22:07:24 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the one that was in the 1982 movie Cat People located in New Orleans. 1950 Soniat St, New Orleans, LA 70115, United States. New Orleans has always been on my bucket list ever since I watched this movie. My burial plans are just to have a very quiet ceremony that would only have a few of my close friends and family. I would have a black velvet casket with my favorite flowers strewn about -white hydrangeas with my favorite music playing for people to remember me by. I would want to be cremated and my ashes thrown over the Pont d'Iéna bridge, located right beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

Leigh-Anne

2022-12-09 22:05:01 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetary is in New Orleans. Metairie Cemetery. I will be cremated and buried, with my beloved pets, above my mothers coffin in St Josephs Cemetay, Moorhead, MN. My headstone is already there, just need the final date.

Kathy Smith

2022-12-09 21:56:20 +0000 UTC

I would love to be buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. There are a lot of famous people, macabre legends and crazy stories that happened there. For my funeral I want to hire a mysterious person dressed in black with sunglasses and an umbrella. I dream that my loved ones think that I left with secrets ⚰️💀

Lucas

2022-12-09 21:53:51 +0000 UTC

1- so recently I did a photo shoot with a wolf (yes a wolf) in the lake view cemetery in Cleveland Ohio a few months ago. It was one of the craziest things and it’s like I entered into a Victorian Gothic time capsule. The first burial there took place in 1870. It’s a super random city to be buried in but the grounds is this beautiful bubble that honors the dead in such a grand way. 2- I personally want to be cremated, and then have the ashes put into some sort of locket or vials for my loved ones to have if they so choose.

Lisa Marie

2022-12-09 21:51:30 +0000 UTC

There’s a book by Catherine Arnold called Necropolis: London & it’s Dead, which is all about the founding of the major gothic cemeteries. Interesting read. Also enjoyed her book about Bedlam & the history of mental illness treatment in London

Duckie

2022-12-09 21:48:01 +0000 UTC

The burying point in Salem MA is my favorite. I grew up there and as a teenage goth it was my favorite place to smoke clove cigarettes and lament about how hard my easy life was haha There's also so much history there! I don't want to be buried at all. I want to be cremated and sprinkled on the sea :)

Meghan Barr

2022-12-09 21:46:11 +0000 UTC

1- The perfect place to take your permanent sleep woud have to be Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York it's not only in the same state you live in but also the legendary Tim Burton made a movie about the place! 2- I would want to be perfectly preserved almost like house of wax style. In a beautiful clear crystal coffin with gold trim around the edges, I would also like to have a door handle on the inside incase I ever decided the afterlife was too boring of an adventure and go start a brand new one. A small piece of my hair would need to be made into a locket type necklace for my kin. I would also need to be buried with all my sweet departed angels (fur babies) to rest with me by my side fur all eternity. And on the outside a bench and my favorite tree a willow placed right next to my headstone so people can still sit and visit. I would love for my headstone to be a ouija board, so sometime in the future when people forget my name; my headstone, will be the one that little kids tell stories about, and maybe my story that will they make will maybe be the beginning of a little girl's love for all things spooky like me

Maikayah Baird

2022-12-09 21:31:16 +0000 UTC

1. Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx NYC is very beautiful and interesting. 2. A home funeral, my body decorated with flowers, and enough time for private visits to spend time with me one last time. Then buried in a plain wooden box with an apple tree on top.

Janean

2022-12-09 21:28:54 +0000 UTC

1. Oakwood Cemetery aka “Hell’s Gate” in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Tons of paranormal activity happens there. 2. I have an elaborate plan for my death. I want to be dressed in an emerald green dress and placed in a canoe alongside my guitar and the collected poems of Sylvia Plath. I want to be set out in the Okefenokee Swamp (in Georgia) and have someone shoot a flaming arrow at the canoe while my family watches me slowly burn and sink into the swamp. Both a Rabbi and Voodoo Priestess will do customary prayers and rituals as I burn.

Leecy Davis

2022-12-09 21:26:45 +0000 UTC

2) I would love to be cremated and have my ashes spread, at sunset, on the peak of Mt. Evans, the local fourteener that I grew up near.

Elizabeth Edwards

2022-12-09 21:18:59 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery would be the Idaho Springs Cemetery in Colorado. You actually drove by Idaho Prongs in your moving to NY trip video and included an awesome image of our beloved Charlie Taylor waterwheel. The cemetery is up on the mountain hillside, surrounded by lovely pines. It’s a very serene place with many beautiful headstones (https://www.mourninglightdivination.com/musings/cemetery-spotlight-concordia-p7e8r-6x42c-lmfx4-zpdyd-gckhf).

Elizabeth Edwards

2022-12-09 21:17:37 +0000 UTC

Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Mass. I used to go to school near there and it was within walking distance but not visible from the street, so it was a like a hidden haven. It's older and has many classic styles of stones and crypts. https://www.springfieldcemetery.com/home It was really such a place of peace, and I think that's where I really got the idea of Victorians coming to these places for picnics. As to my burial plans... Well I'll share my ideal (which is not possible but wth), in my mind, my ideal 'burial' is to be put inside a clear coffin of glass or something, and pushed into outer space, outside of any orbit. Maybe I'll be found by some aliens and provide an interesting study, or maybe one day I will spill into an atmosphere, thereby having a spectacular cremation in the long run.

Kelley

2022-12-09 21:16:14 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle WA, as that’s where most of my friends and relatives who’ve been non-military have passed. It’s also pretty, with old trees leaning over old headstones, sometimes wrapping around them. 2. If possible, I’d love to be buried on my own land (which I have yet to acquire lol) but my life’s dream is to own a historic home on historic land be buried where I spent my life. If that’s not possible, then Mount Pleasant would be nice, I’d like to be buried near my older sister. And with the most eco-friendly option available. A green burial would be great, human comparing, aquamation, or whatever else they come up with! It might also be col to have my tattoos removed beforehand and given to anyone who might want them :)

Frankie

2022-12-09 21:11:34 +0000 UTC

1. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA. https://www.bonaventurehistorical.org/ Among the mossy live oaks in one of the oldest cemeteries in the US. Remember the seance/rootworking scene in the movie ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’? One of the most magickal places I’ve ever experienced. But … 2. … I want to be cremated, filling two antique salt shakers with some of my remains so that my children can take me with them on their adventures and sprinkle me about! I’ve already given them the heads up! 🥀

Dharma

2022-12-09 21:06:23 +0000 UTC

Wow, as a cultural anthropologist who studies death and dying, these questions could not be more up my alley! Loving reading everyone's responses and being #NecropolisNerds together. ✨ 1. I spent 3 years before the pandemic researching shifts in American deathcare practices, so I got to visit A LOT of cemeteries! It was honestly the best. Some of my favorites (sorry, I can’t pick just one): -St. Roch Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana: It has the typically gorgeous architecture of older cemeteries in the city, but is off the beaten path tourist-wise and therefore makes for a much quieter and peaceful visiting experience. The story goes that in the late 1800s, a priest promised to build a chapel in honor of the healer St. Roch if they spared his parish from a yellow fever outbreak. No one died, and thus the chapel was built! Today, there is a shrine inside where people heave left items such as leg braces, prosthetic limbs, and glass eyes in gratitude to the saint. It is curious and very cool, especially if you like medical history. -Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California: Another quieter alternative to Hollywood Forever, with absolutely beautiful pyramid crypts and the first crematory west of the Rocky Mountains. To be honest though, I first fell in love with it because it was often used as a backdrop during the filming of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! I definitely have rewatched the show since visiting a bunch in 2018 and 2019, and it’s so fun to place monuments I recognize. -Angel’s Rest at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah: Pet cemeteries always make me sob and Angel’s Rest was no exception! Nestled in a breathtakingly beautiful red canyon, the cemetery is filled with wind chimes and the most heartfelt dedications to lost pets and sanctuary animals. (In particular, there is one dedicated to the nonhuman victims of Hurricane Katrina that really gets me.) If you’re an animal lover and happen to be in this part of the world, you really have to go. It’s such a unique and special place. -Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts: Like other commentators have mentioned, Mount Auburn is so beautiful and full of history! I won’t wax on it too long, but their focus on a biodiversity provides such a great model for what cemeteries can ecologically contribute to a community. 2. I used to want to have my body composted, which is legal in a handful of states now. (Check out Recompose if you’ve never heard of it, their process actually works unlike Capsula Mundi or the mushroom burial suit. The science behind “becoming a tree” is actually much more complicated than most people know, unfortunately, so there’s a lot of false claims out there.) However, one of my beloved cats died last year, so now it is most important to for me to be interred with her and her sister whenever my time comes. That means either a natural burial with a willing death doula to sneak my cats' aquamated ashes in my grave, or my own aquamation so our ashes can be spread somewhere together! 🖤 Happy Holidays and Season's Creepings, everyone!

Kristin Gupta

2022-12-09 21:05:03 +0000 UTC

1. Pine Hill Cemetery in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Although the cemetery isn't particularly large or ornate, it does home Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Dr. Payne-Gaposchkin was a pioneering astrophysicist and her findings are pivotal to our understand of the universe today. She inspired me to become an astronomer and we share the same name! I highly suggest looking into her work, it is truly fascinating. 2. My burial plan is to be made into a diamond! I am a collector of jewels and jewelry alike, so this just feels like the natural progression.

Ceci

2022-12-09 21:02:46 +0000 UTC

1. Mills Cemetary in my hometown of Garland, TX. There is a gravestone that just reads Smiley. 5 members of the Smiley family all died on the same day in 1927 from murder-suicide (allegedly). Legend has it that if you lie on the grave at midnight you will feel something forcing you down. This was a popular urban legend when I was a kid and I got creeped out every time I would see that gravestone. https://www.reddit.com/r/thestrangest/comments/w3n6ye/smileys_grave_in_mills_cemetery_garland_texas/ 2. So, I learned that you can be cremated and have your ashes turned into whatever gemstones you like. I thought it would be cool to be turned into jewelry and then sold to unknowing customers. So even in death, I could be worn as jewelry and people wouldn't even know it...

Tiana Coats

2022-12-09 21:00:32 +0000 UTC

1. Greenwood Cemetery in New York. 2. As for burial, I want the absolute minimum done for me. Cremation or a plain pine wood box. However I do really love the old Victorian ornate headstones. Maybe cremate me and use my ashes in the mix for a headstone if that’s even possible.

Lacie Fazio

2022-12-09 20:43:30 +0000 UTC

1. The Montmartre Cemetery in Paris is MAGIC. When you enter it's like a switch flips all the sound and bustle of the city off and you feel a calm hush. The tombs are stunning and there are a bunch of feral cats that roam and lounge on the tombstones. 2. I want to be made into pate and fed to the cats of Lanai Cat Sanctuary in Hawaii. What a beautiful place to decompose!

Amy Plante

2022-12-09 20:40:51 +0000 UTC

1- Père Lachaise in Paris. It's the most beautiful and stunning place to spend a day or eternity at. 2- it depends, if I die before my mum, I want her to press me into a diamond and wear me. If I die after my mother but before my s/o I want him to do the same. (BTW mum did not like this idea when I told her🤷‍♀️)

Alex vegano

2022-12-09 20:39:16 +0000 UTC

1. Westminster Presbyterian church in Baltimore Maryland. It has the grave of Edger Allan Poe but most importantly it’s right across from the VA where my mom was treated for cancer. We would walk across the street and sit there for lunch. Make plans for our deaths and visit with the permanent residents. 2. I want to be placed under a tree with a bench in front of it so people can visit me and I can creep them out as a mischievous ghost.

Katherine S.

2022-12-09 20:39:07 +0000 UTC

1. Greyfriar's Kirkyard in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh is known for being one of the most haunted cities in the world. Beyond that, Greyfriar's Kirkyard is just so gorgeous (like most things in Scotland). Plus, I was lucky enough to come across my own haunting experience there when I visited at night! Finally, as an animal lover, the story of Bobby is very meaningful to me. Bobby is the dog that slept at his owner's grave in Greyfriar's for years before eventually dying and being buried next to him. There is a great statue of Bobby in the area, too. 2. I plan to be cremated after I die. I'm a born-and-raised San Diego girl, so I would love to have my ashes spread somewhere close to the ocean. However, I'm not a very sentimental person when it comes to the thought of my own remains. I also have a very dark sense of humor, and a boyfriend that happens to love "The Big Lebowski" as much as I do. So, in a "perfect" world, my friends and family would have a random tin can (preferably something they had lying around in their car that they had to quickly clean out for me) of my ashes at the beach, say whatever ridiculous things they felt like saying, and then have fun blowing my ashes in the wind, in all the wrong directions. But honestly, I don't even really want to know what they would actually do with my ashes in that moment. I think that's part of the fun. Not knowing, and also trusting them to just have as much fun as possible in that moment.

daddy_maggy

2022-12-09 20:37:21 +0000 UTC

#1. Gros Cap Cemetery in Moran, MI. It is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, continuously used cemeteries in the US. The town was established in 1844, but it was a very busy trading post as early as the 1600's. It has a mixture of Native American and European immigrant burial grounds, and is considered haunted. The town also has a cute little church built in 1918, that looks like a Tim Burtonesque Beetlejuice set. It is surrounded by woods and just off Lake Michigan. Elmwood cemetery in Detroit, MI is also beautiful and historic. It is considered the most haunted cemetery in Michigan, and has Halloween tours. It is breathtakingly beautiful in a slowly decaying kind of way. #2. Although I can't take credit, I have seen tombstones with a favorite baking recipe etched on to the back of the tombstone. I think that's a sweet idea, no pun intended, and may encourage further visitors. I think it would be funny if years after you died, someone was gushing about a dessert, asking for the recipe, and the baker could direct them to your grave.

Willow Birch

2022-12-09 20:36:54 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Mill Fork cemetery in Spanish Fork Utah. My family and I saw it off the highway on a roadtrip and I did a quick u-turn so I could investigate! It's an old desert cemetery that started back in 1895 by some loggers working on railroads to run through the canyon. It has a very odd landscape. Many children are buried there who died tragically and you can still find numerous weathered teddy bears and flowers. I took several pictures because of just how strange it looked and the handmade vibe it had. There are a few articles about the cemetery and some of the people buried there and how they died. I didn't know we'd stumbled across such a treasure trove of tragic American history and stories! 2. My favorite way to have my body disposed of is probably a Tibetan sky burial, where the monks leave you out in the open and let the vultures eat your flesh. I think it's a beautiful way to give back to nature. But I dont think that will EVER be legal in the U.S lol! So my preferred way of having my corpse taken care will be human composting if that is legal in my state when I die fingers crossed That way my remains can become one with the earth again and leave nothing behind. I can nourish new plant life after I'm gone.

Rosalinda Martin

2022-12-09 20:35:52 +0000 UTC

1.Highgate cemetery! 2. A grand Victorian burial with a horse drawn hearse and laid to rest in a mausoleum in a glass fronted coffin in my wedding dress, alongside my husband…

Francesca Howard

2022-12-09 20:33:13 +0000 UTC

1. One of my favorite cemeteries is Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, PA. It's a BEAUTIFUL 300 acre cemetery in the heart of Lawerenceville(a part of the city of PIttsburgh). People use for biking, hiking, and I've even taken a yoga class there on the grounds. It has foxes, deer, and animals of all kinds. There are so many cool statues, mausoleums, and headstones that I notice something new every time I visit. There's even a headstone in the shape of a shark that will show up as photo opp when you google the cemetery. It's such a neat use of nature in the midst of the city where any beast, including man, can go and peacefully exist. It's definitely up there on my favorites. 2. I've thought about this many times over. I know 2 things for certain. 1. I do not want embalming fluids. 2. I want to be returned to nature in some way. I like the tree idea, the mushroom idea, and even just to be put in the ground directly would work. We have a green burial ground called Penn Forest Natural Burial Park that is a cemetery of trees (www.pennforestcemetery.com). If I pass soon, or if I'm still in this area when I pass, that's my top choice at the moment. I'll probably creep on the thread here to see what ideas other people have. So many new things have come in the recent years there might be options out there I'm not aware of.

Brittany Eifler

2022-12-09 20:31:03 +0000 UTC

Hello, my #1 cemetery is Highgate Cemetery in London England. (https://highgatecemetery.org/visit/who) This cemetery has continued to grow, so much so that the East side has been added. The cemetery dates back to the Victorian Era, and you can still see its influence today in some of the gravestones. There are around 170,000 buried there and 53,000 graves. The Cemetery has guided tours and events. I think this would be fun you could "haunt' the people on the tours. There is Catacombs to visit too. (Terrace Catacombs). Karl Marx is buried here. This cemetery is amazing and never disappoints. My burial plan is to be cremated but I have always found the Victorian Era burials very intriguing and could totally see your funeral and burial following these traditions. In the Victorian Era when someone passed the curtains would be drawn closed at the deceased person's home out of respect, all the clocks would be stopped at the time of death (Captive you will be very busy) Mirrors were covered to prevent the deceased persons spirit from getting trapped in them. ("The looking glass"). Often the family would take a picture with the deceased person. (Death Photo) or (Memento Mori) Great opportunity to take that last family photo. Then on the way to the cemetery you could be taken by a horse drawn hearse (I think that the carriage you found on the property would be amazing when you restore it you could transform it as a hearse). The Victorian people would usually have black horses pulling the carriage. And one last thing, make sure when being taken out of the home after the wake (which friends and family stay with the deceased around the clock sharing memories and stories, so they don't become lonely) you are to be taken out feet first. This was done so the deceased couldn't look back into the home and beckon to someone else, who would have to go along with them. Spooky. Good luck, I hope you are able to find your forever resting place and we helped you with ideas for your burial plan. Thank you for this amazing contest!!

Kristy

2022-12-09 20:29:37 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Auburn Cemetery located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dedicated in 1831. It was the first rural/garden cemetery in the United States. It influenced many other cemeteries such as Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. It is truly one of the most beautiful Cemeteries, and the layout is unlike any other. I went to visit last Autumn. The fall colors were plentiful, and the rain gently fell upon the gravestones. It was so magical. One of my favorite facts about Mount Auburn Cemetery is, Charles Dana Gibson rests eternally there. I think it would be such a wonderful cemetery to be buried in! 2. My dream burial plan would be to have a black onyx casket with gold detailing, and an oxblood silk lining. I’d like to be dressed in a black Victorian mourning gown, holding a single red rose with baby's-breath. I must be wearing my memorial ring containing my familiar’s fur, and my urn necklace containing her ashes. I would request to have locks of my raven hair given to my family members, so they could have memorial jewelry made with it. My funeral would ideally be a rainy day, and everyone would be dressed in their best black attire. Everyone would have matching black scalloped umbrellas. Clair de lune would play as I am lowered into my final resting place.

Christina Smith

2022-12-09 20:28:36 +0000 UTC

1) Union Cemetery in California (1700s) it should be one of the most haunted cemeteries in the entire United States. The cemetery was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 2) I would have my ashes pressed into a diamond and either have it set into a personalized piece of old jewelry for the family or have the diamond embedded into the gravestone.

Alexa Z.

2022-12-09 20:27:46 +0000 UTC

1. When we travel we always try to stop and see a cemetery or 2. I have seen some amazing ones over the years, however, the one that I would love to be forever interred is Mount Gilead Cemetery in White and Overton County, Tennessee. Just a short drive from where I was born and raised. 2. I Want to be cremated and my ashes put into a painting. It doesn't have to be a portrait but me as a creepy victorian lady in black lace with my ashes mixed into the paint would be superb!

Natasha

2022-12-09 20:26:38 +0000 UTC

1) Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis MN - Well kept, nice place to walk around, check out the tombstones, relaxing 2) Cremate me! Keep my ashes or scatter them where you will. I'll be dead and really won't care!

Kurt Canada

2022-12-09 20:26:03 +0000 UTC

1- Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn New York. It was actually called the Necropolis in the Victorian age and people would picnic there. It has the most beautiful gothic arches and monuments. 2-I would like to be cremated and have my ashes mixed with the ashes of all my animals. I lost my senior dog on nov 1st and my sr horse on dec 4th so this is heavily on my mind. Then I’d like us to be spread under a nice willow tree with a gravestone that’s says “If you would like to make a call” and has a ouija board etched on it.

Lisa Pompilio

2022-12-09 20:25:26 +0000 UTC

I love Swan Point Cemetery in Providence RI. It's absolutely gorgeous and you can get lost there for hours. It's where HP Lovecraft is buried. I was on a work trip in CT for training and once we finished up on the last day, I got in my rental and drove a couple of hours to Swan Point. I had no idea the cemetery was so large when I googled it initially so I spent a couple of hours wandering around. I eventually looked up his grave on "find a grave" and got the coordinates. His headstone overlooks a gorgeous lake with the rest of his family members. I might have taken a little of his grave dirt. My other favorite cemetery is Spanish Wells Cemetery on Hilton Head Island, SC. It is an unassuming pre Civil War Era cemetery down the street from my childhood home and I would often go there as a kiddo to read the old graves and watch the sunset on the marsh (I was a weird kid). Every year around Halloween one of my neighbors who lives next door to the cemetery would have a giant party and it just fit so perfectly in the backdrop. On occasion when it rained too heavily, the coffins would pop up out of the ground. Almost scared my grandmother to death when she was visiting one year. I would like my internment to be a scavenger hunt for my family members and loved ones. I wish to be cremated but have my heart mummified. The scavenger hunt would involve traveling to poignant places from my life (where i was born, my childhood home, where I got engaged, married, etc.), with my ashes. The last place in the hunt will be where I want my ashes scattered. Whoever completes the scavenger hunt and scatters my ashes would then receive the inheritance and of course my mummified heart so I may haunt them forever.

Rachel Tyle

2022-12-09 20:20:03 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, OH! Some of my favorite things there are, the gorgeous gothic Dexter Mausoleum, a 390 year old Oak Tree, maintained bee hives (save the bees!) and many cherry trees that blossom in Spring. 2) I agree with many others, I want to be buried in a tree burial pod, so my energy provided to the tree can sway in the wind for years to come .

Elizabeth Auxier

2022-12-09 20:19:36 +0000 UTC

I had no idea cemeteries were such fascinating tourist attractions. I will add them to my list of must visit places as I travel. This has been an unexpectedly delightful read!

Yvette Vandermolen

2022-12-09 20:17:55 +0000 UTC

I love a mossy statue!

Yvette Vandermolen

2022-12-09 20:11:10 +0000 UTC

1. Without a doubt Whitby cemetery - what would make a more perfect resting place than one of old England’s spookiest seaside towns? This is where Bram Stoker cooked up his most famous blood sucking character. If it was good enough for Dracula’s coffin… 🦇 2. For the perfect burial what about the iconic glass coffin Snow White was so fond of but with a twist? Rather than a fairytale Princess you could embody the legendary corpse bride. Mourned by a congregation of furry friends, the glass coffin will give you the opportunity to showcase your fabulous style for the very last time

Martha Thursday

2022-12-09 20:09:50 +0000 UTC

"Bloods Point Cemetery" - Illinois (Cherry Valley, IL) on Bloods Point Road - this road is one of the most popular locations for Paranormal energy in all of Illinois (you can have company in your post life). The cemetery is a mix of old and new but mostly old. Could there be a cemetery with a better name? As far as the burial...I want to throw a massive "Halloween" themed party (think haunted vaudeville) at my 1895 Victorian home with my casket (and of course myself in it and my most precious "possessions") in my parlor while guests have fun and I would be there in spirit of course and I would be buried at midnight with all the guests under a full moon of course.

Sophia Z

2022-12-09 20:09:25 +0000 UTC

Gosh! There are so many amazing cemeteries out there! I was a big fan of visiting them when I was younger. I need to do more of that! Some memorable ones off the top of my head are; Stull Cemetery located in Stull, Kansas. Also know as the one of the Gates of Hell. There used to be an old building there (they say it was a church) that had a lot of ghost and satanic stories about it, but it was torn down several years ago. I remember visiting Mount Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota where Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane are buried and enjoyed it very much. There was a really lovely and very old cemetery around or just outside of Shawnee, Kansas that I loved, but can’t seem to find it on google, boo! In Orange County, CA - the old part of Fairhaven Memorial Park has some great headstones and trees. It’s all about headstones and large old tress for me! And where I currently live, there is a REALLY awesome cemetery is Cave Creek, AZ. Each grave is very unique! There’s an artistic flare to almost every grave. I didn’t see any photos on google, but I’ve been there a few times, I guess I need to post some of the photos I took! BUT ANYWAY - Probably the most memorable one is Sleepy Hollow in MA that I went to. It was fall (October) when I visited and will never ever forget it! Truly an immersive experience! 2) Death…I’ve always leaned towards cremation, but also looking into the biodegradable burial pods, where they nourish a tree, a tree you pick out before you go!

Sharon J. Edwards

2022-12-09 20:07:17 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It almost feels cliched to say because this is a very famously beautiful cemetery, but it is right near where I live and I love exploring it in every season. It is incredibly diverse park-like cemetary with beautiful monuments, graves from all different time periods, towers, ponds, cottages, woods, built-in hillside graves, and even a sphynx! Winding through all of the different areas with totally different vibes takes you on a spooky alice-in-wonderland-like journey. 2. I'd love a green burial. No embalming - just my body in a biodegradable shroud and woven fiber casket so I can rot in peace. And a spooky old fashioned gravestone on top, of course!

Lauren Hitchings

2022-12-09 20:04:54 +0000 UTC

I haven't had a chance to go since I moved to LA, but I really want to visit the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It looks soooo beautiful. My mindset is a cross between the beautiful "want to return to nature" and Frank from Always Sunny "when I'm dead just throw me in the trash" so ideally I'd like to be thrown into the ocean to feed all the crabs and isopods as a special treat.

Dinolich

2022-12-09 20:03:42 +0000 UTC

This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing, and for your lives of service to your community.

Yvette Vandermolen

2022-12-09 20:03:23 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine! 1. Here are a few cemeteries with notable architecture worth checking out: - Graceland Cemetery and Arboretum in Chicago, IL. 119 acres. gracelandcemetery.org - Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. 478 acres. green-wood.com - Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA. 103 acres. Savannah go.gov/498/Cemeteries . With its associated Historical Society bonaventurehistorical.org 2. As far as burial options are concerned, I’m personally a supporter of environmentally friendly methods. If every person born on Earth eventually takes their Big Nap in a mausoleum, we will absolutely run out of space and resources! With that in mind, here are some biodegradable casket inspirations! (Biodegradable urns also exist, but seem less your style, so I did not link any here) - titancasket.com - Carolina memorial sanctuary.org/biodegradable-burial-containers-for-green-burial-coffins-caskets/ 3. Another interesting mix of both burial option and cemetery is a reef cremation. After cremation your ashes are mixed with a natural concrete substance and molded into an artificial reef to aide with reef restoration. - Neptune Memorial Cremation Reef based out of Miami, Fl. (Located in international waters, allows pets friends to be buried with their humans) nmreef.com - Eternal Reefs based out of Sarasota, Fl. Multiple locations around the east coast and the Gulf of Mexico. eternalreefs.com 4. It is great to be proactive with your death plan and open to communicating with loved ones about your wishes ahead of time! Normalize talking about death! There is as great card game designed to get folks comfortable with the topic. It is called The Death Deck. thedeathdeck.com Happy afterlife house haunting, I mean hunting!

Becca Medwedeff

2022-12-09 20:02:36 +0000 UTC

1. Tallegulla Cemetery, Rosewood, Queensland. A tiny country cemetery with an amazing view, some very very old German headstones. 2. Okay, hear me out…I was inspired by the Parsi/Zoroastrian traditions of northern India. They build a ‘tower of silence’ place a body on the top and then vultures consume the body. Therefore it never touches the ground…also known as a sky burial. Plus bonus good karma vultures are endangered meaning I’d be doing my bit for the environment!!

Matilda Steelcliff

2022-12-09 20:01:25 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery has to be Greyfriars Kirkyard, probably cliche but it’s just so stunning to me! 2. I’d like to do a living urn or something where my remains will be in nature and helping this planet hopefully 🤞🏼

megski

2022-12-09 20:00:53 +0000 UTC

Though I hold Hawkins Cemetery in Rising Fawn, GA very dear to my heart - I have visited it all of my life and it holds many generations of my family - it is only Google-able in the strictest sense of the word and so doesn't qualify. :) My favorite cemetery, thinking of the cemetery as a concept, is Larkspur Conservation in Westmoreland, TN. I live near here and have been fortunate enough to visit the grounds, which are incredibly beautiful and peaceful. Most importantly, though, Larkspur is a non-profit conservation burial ground dedicated to natural burial and land stewardship, making it unique among other green burial options in the area. (https://larkspurconservation.org/) I would love to be laid to rest at Larkspur, though I know that the rituals of burial are for the remaining living more than the deceased, and so I've given my family details about options that interest me (my registration information for whole body donation, Larkspur, other natural burial closer to home, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis) and things that do not (embalming unless forensically necessary, in-ground cement vaults), in hopes that they'd be able to choose what's best given the circumstances of my demise without added stress or duress in trying to accommodate for a request that couldn't, for unforeseen reasons, be granted in the moment.

deidra hendrix

2022-12-09 19:59:31 +0000 UTC

Cryogenic is my husband's choice as well! He wants to be frozen and I want to be dirt. We live in an amazing time to think about being dead!

Yvette Vandermolen

2022-12-09 19:58:35 +0000 UTC

To answer Question 1 - My favourite cemetery is up the road from where I live because most of my family is there so a part of me wants to be united/reunited with lost loved ones. But I have a fascination with cemeteries in places I have't been such as in New Orleans where Marie Laveau at 1201-1253 Conti St. Or places like Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary. Question 2 - As an idea that I've had for a while but it's inspired by fairy tales and Eva Duarte Peron. I'd like to actually be embalmed so I'm "frozen" at the age I pass, hopefully still looking young and put in a glass coffin so friends and family who visit me will always remember how I looked and wouldn't look any different. Also it will make me look forever sleeping and not decaying. As I cannot donate my organs for medical reasons, I would want them to be cremated when embalmed and made into jewellery pieces so close loved ones will have a piece of me like they always had a place in my heart. My heart will be with them. Good luck everyone, sending love and hugs to Christine and Captive xoxo

David Baker

2022-12-09 19:57:48 +0000 UTC

My favorite is the Colon cemetery in Havana Cuba. Not only do you get the beautiful blue Caribbean sky lush palm trees, but the tombs and sculptures are amazing. Burial here is like New Orleans – above ground because of the water table. I like to stay in communication with my family, so my burial plan is to be cremated, have my ashes put into planchettes, and gift them with Ouija boards to all my family members and friends. Texting with the dead.

Peggy Tucker Ortega

2022-12-09 19:57:21 +0000 UTC

1. Maple Hill Cemetery in my home city, Huntsville, AL. Mostly because of the ghost stories surrounding the "Dead Children's Playground", a playground that can be accessed by walking through the cemetery! 2. My wishes are pretty rudimentary, I think. I just want to be cremated, and my ashes spread where ever my family would find comfort in doing so. I like the idea of the comfort a cemetery can offer, a space to visit a loved one that has passed on, but in my mind that is no longer me. Don't put what is left of me in a box in the ground, and if you want to talk to me, you don't need to go anywhere special to do so.

Shemayne

2022-12-09 19:54:18 +0000 UTC

1. Luxembourg American Cemetery. I never expected to get as emotional as I did the day we visited there. It was truly a moment of reflection and memories for me since my (step)grandfather fought in WWII and was someone in my childhood who showed me kindness. 2. My burial plan is to not be buried! I prefer cremation and to ask special people to me to spread my ashes in a place that they love so they can “visit” with me when they are there. But the idea of having my ashes turned into fireworks is also on the list😂

Amber Freeman

2022-12-09 19:53:50 +0000 UTC

This sounds lovely!

Yvette Vandermolen

2022-12-09 19:52:08 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Ohio valley pet cemetery. My parents live behind it and I always wished I would be haunted by the pets buried near by. In high school I was able to sit in on an autopsy of a man that donated his body to science so those in the medical field could learn more about the human body up close. This sparked my interest in going to the medical field. I thought this was a cool idea and plan on doing that when I die because I won’t need my body anymore and it can help others learn.

Kathleen chinn

2022-12-09 19:51:51 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is St. Raymond’s, 2600 Lafayette Avenue, Bronx, NY. What makes it my favorite is that my darling, wonderful parents are buried here. I have my burial plans all set. I am to be cremated, my dental implants are to be removed BEFORE cremation, polished up & made into necklaces for the family. I have 19 of them so I have plenty. Then, a small tube of my ashes get blasted into space, orbit a few times, then burn up during Earth entry; 10% leftover ashes to be distributed at home plate at my beloved YANKEE stadium; the rest of my ashes to be scattered in Las Vegas by my family. Then they are instructed to take $10,000 and go have a party - eat, drink, & gamble. Everything has been written in my will!!

nycdweller

2022-12-09 19:51:06 +0000 UTC

1.I would love my ashes to be interred at the Glasgow Necropolis in Glasgow Scotland. In 1983, one of my teachers returned from an impromptu holiday visiting the Scottish highlands and bringing with her hundreds of black and white photos from graveyards all across Scotland and Wales. My favorite was from The Glasgow Necropolis A.K.A. The City of the Dead (Glasgow) I was fascinated then, as well as today by all the stone ledgers and memorial markers littered throughout highlands. For some reason it spoke to me and still does to this very day. Memories from days gone passed have always plagued my dreams since I was a young girl. Heavy victorian black skirts swishing around the ancient gravestones coupled with the smell of the crisp winter air is something I’ve dreamed about off and on for many years. I’ve often wondered if my dream is just a dream or memories from a passed life. Clips of a life once lived . Husband and children gone before me. Forever memorialized in stone. 2. A blanket of White Immortelles made from raw porcelain in the shape of dahlias and greenery. These are my most favorite flower. My final wish is To be cremated and buried with a simple stone that reads. Home. Home at Last.

Vintage To Vixen

2022-12-09 19:46:11 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery would be St. Louis Cemetery #3 in New Orleans, La! My family crypt is located there. 2) I am going to be made into jewelry. After my amazing cremation party ( unfortunately not open air because I don’t live in CO) My cremains will be transformed under great pressure into gems. My daughter has already promised to wear me on occasion 😂. Hopefully I become a family heirloom!

antoinette johnson

2022-12-09 19:45:55 +0000 UTC

1. Got to be the churchyard of St Chad's Church in Shrewsbury, England. I grew up there playing amongst the gravestones. One notable addition is Scrooge's cracked grave from the 1984 film A Christmas Carol! 🎄👻 The prop remains there to this day. Charles Darwin was baptised there too. It's a glorious place. 2. I secretly hope I meet my demise getting eaten by a large carnivorous animal, so I suppose my remains would be pooped out in the giant globular kitty litter tray. Circle of life. Failing that, vampirism. Who wants to live forever? [Me].

Josephine Doyle

2022-12-09 19:43:14 +0000 UTC

OMG, I love these questions - thanks for asking! 1) I've always hated the idea of modern, corporate cemeteries. Small old ones are fine, great for history and atmosphere and making rubbings of grave markers. But I've always felt land should be for the living, and I want to be part of the circle of life, not trapped in a cement box for eternity. Bells Mountain conservation forest is where I want my body to return to the earth, helping trees to grow and shade the salmon that are so crucial to the ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest. I love the ocean, and contributing to the cycle of life from this forest will help protect what I love. 2) My burial plan is with Recompose, a company in Seattle that is at the forefront of the human composting movement in America. (First time I ever wrote to state government leaders was to urge them to pass the bill allowing for this service to exist.) Cremation contributes to climate change, but human composting turns the body into a cubic yard of soil that is safe and nourishing for plants. As part of their service, Recompose will donate this soil to Bells Mountain for its conservation effort to reforest land devastated by logging. Loved ones can also take as much soil as they want to plant, bury, or scatter as they choose. Because memorial services are for the living, I leave it to my loved ones to plan the service they want, but I insist on having my body continue to be part of the circle of life, and for the soil it can produce to be used to help repair and heal. Also, there should be lots of good food at the service, so people can break bread together and talk story. A good funeral is one where the guests think the dead would've loved this party.

Yvette Vandermolen

2022-12-09 19:43:01 +0000 UTC

Greetings and salutations!!

antoinette johnson

2022-12-09 19:42:51 +0000 UTC

1. My favourite is Trumpan church on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It sits overlooking the sea and is very remote and peaceful. But it has a really dark history so it has an eerie feeling about it. In the 1500s a raiding enemy clan arrived at the church and set fire to the thatched roof killing everyone inside, except one girl. The girl escaped through a window and alerted fellow members of the clan from a neighbouring village, they fought the attackers and killed them all, pushing the rocks from a wall on top of them to bury the bodies. A must visit graveyard if you ever visit Skye! :D https://64.media.tumblr.com/e16a6326cd6175bb5a5445113c019232/tumblr_nu3oakjuek1r0vv2so1_1280.jpg

Hazel Grant

2022-12-09 19:40:28 +0000 UTC

2) In recent years I've been toying with a fun idea.... I've researched my ashes being turned into diamonds or other precious stones. I'm a Leo and have always been a Lil extra and how cool would it be to be turned into haunted jewelry to pass down to my family.... i imagine that if for some reason I get donated to an antique store... and someone buys me and is wearing my ring on their hand and wonders why they all of a sudden have the urge to start painting desserts or the need to stipple or add intricate details to everything, ..... its just me, haunting their hands into artistry.... it's silly but I feel like it would be a fun way to keep on keeping on.

Sarah van Goidtsnoven Spear

2022-12-09 19:38:29 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Forest Hills cemetery in Boston. Sooo much to see there! I want a green burial where I return to and nourish the earth, the way it has sustained me. Id like to have a burial quilt made that I will use in this life and be buried in when the times comes. Or I would consider a mushroom shroud, where mushroom spores are infused into cloth to help the body decompose naturally.

Christine Gallagher

2022-12-09 19:37:43 +0000 UTC

1. I vote for the Toronto Necropolis, which is one of the oldest cemeteries in Ontario, Canada. It's a beautifully maintained cemetery dating back to 1850s. It's filled with old trees and Victorian Gothic architecture and sculptures, which I just know you'd love, Christine. In addition to the several famous people buried at the cemetery, there is a separate section containing the remains of Early Settlers of the area. It offers so much history (and ghost stories), gothic architecture and it's beautifully maintained. What's not to love. P.s. even if you don't choose this spot as your final resting place, I totally recommend that you make it a stop if you ever choose to travel to Toronto. The cemetery actually offers tours of the grounds and the Victorian Gothic buildings on site. 2. I have the biggest wish to have a Viking style funeral. Wrap me up in beautiful fabric, just push me out on a boat and have an archer shoot a firey arrow out at me. It's like a cremation with tons of flare (literally). Happy choosing, Christine.

Amber

2022-12-09 19:33:56 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the one across the street from my house. It's a little family plot for the old house next to us. For one searchable, there's Mount Olive Cemetery on Mount Olive Cemetery Road in Felton, DE. A few of my husband's family members are there. A number of years ago, my husband stayed there after midnight and heard the old church bells ringing, but only if you were in the old part of the cemetery. The church itself no longer existed when he heard the bells! 2. I'd like to donate my bones to my university's anthropology department. Last I was there, they were in dire need of some skeletons from different locations. I don't know if that's really possible, but that's my dream. If that's not possible, I'd like to either do decomposition or aquamation.

Margaret Crosby

2022-12-09 19:32:37 +0000 UTC

1. Highgate Cemetery in London ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery ) is the most amazing Victorian cemetery I've ever seen. There are two parts, East and West and they are both the most beautiful thing ever, but the West side is where most of the ancient mausoleums are including the Egyptian Avenue, Circle of Lebanon, and the Terrace Catacombs. https://highgatecemetery.org/visit/cemetery/west Highgate Cemetery is also home to some famous sleepers: Including Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Carl Marx, Artist Anna Mahler, Artist Patrick Caulfield, Singer George Michael, and many more: https://highgatecemetery.org/visit/who In addition to it's incredible architecture, history and residents, it inspired Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (Soon to be on film), and the cemetery has been the set for many famous films, including Fantastic Beasts (Harry Potter), Taste The Blood of Dracula, Tales from the Crypt, 2. I am a huge fan of Caitlin Doughty of Ask A Mortician, and she has helped me decide to be water cremated, and I want my remains scattered at Kehena Beach in Hawaii.

KingDingbat (Troy Kristoffer)

2022-12-09 19:29:50 +0000 UTC

Ferndale cemetery in California is an amazing place. But I love where my grandparents are buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Arcadia, Ca. They bought a 4 person burial plot for them an their 2 kids(my mother and uncle). But technically it will hold 5 because my father wants to be cremated and placed in my mothers coffin to always be with her even in death. He’s even made his own urn already and he’s wasn’t even 65 lol. For me personally I would love to be sprinkled in the Forest or on a decaying log so mushrooms can grow then spore out and spread me even further. Or if my uncle who lives in Alaska doesn’t use his spot then I will gladly use it.

Christine M

2022-12-09 19:29:18 +0000 UTC

I visit a lot of cemeteries as I find them very peaceful places that make me happy. Though I live in New Zealand and we have some really beautiful cemeteries here, my favourite is in Edinburgh. Greyfriars Kirkyard. We visited a few years ago and it was at the top of my list of places to visit in the city. With skull and cross bone motifs everywhere, beautiful Mausoleums covered in Ivy and cheeky squirrels scurrying though the trees, what more could you want. It is also said to be one of the most haunted cemeteries in the world! The perfect place for your final rest that may turn out to be less restful than planned. The cemetery has the best type of atmosphere, dark and ominous in the most alluring way. If I could choose, I dream of being buried in a large stone Mausoleum with a huge wrought iron gate locked with a chunky chain and giant paddock. On the other side of the gate, a spiral staircase leading down into the dark crypt where I would be happily entombed in the centre of a candlelit vault inside an elaborately carved stone sarcophagus. Add a sprinkling of long dead floral bouquets and a dusting of tattered spiderwebs and you’ve got yourself the perfect place to haunt for all eternity. It’s a little dramatic perhaps, but a girl can dream 🤩

Shannon prouse

2022-12-09 19:24:32 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Bonaventure Cemetery in Georgia. It is truly the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure how old it is but when I think of historical cemeteries this one always comes to mind. The grave stones there amazing,beautifully worked iron gates, and the trees are draped in this ghostly Spanish moss. It’s really a must see. As for my final resting place I’m torn between being buried in a place like Bonaventure and donating myself to a body farm. The work they do ( I feel ) is vital to the advancement of forensics and I would love to be apart of that.

Brandy Walker

2022-12-09 19:22:32 +0000 UTC

1) Mt Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY. There is such romance in the Victorian sections and hills. I used to walk there often with my husband and dogs. They do a cool torch lit tour and as a plus Susan B Anthony’s grave is there as a monument to women’s suffrage. 2) when my mom passed I tried to make her favorite foods to have at the funeral so when I pass I want my friends and family to have a feast of my favorites to savor in my honor 2)

Sean

2022-12-09 19:20:00 +0000 UTC

1. Chester Village Cemetary in New Hampshire. Many of the gravestones are pre-1800s and were hand-carved with mysterious faces by two brothers. Some faces are smiling, and some are frowning and nobody knows why this is. I don't know that I would be buried here myself (see below), but I love the mysterious history behind it! 2. I love the idea of a more natural burial, so I’ll skip the embalming. I would love to be buried in my wedding dress (how romantic and old-fashioned!), in a beautiful but simple coffin. My burial place will be in the middle of a forest, surrounded by trees and ferns. I’ll be buried next to my beloved pets, and there will be a statue of my likeness, instead of a gravestone, that will mark my grave. I love to think of hikers coming across an old mossy statue of a woman in the middle of a forest, not knowing immediately that it's a grave.

Kristy Reid

2022-12-09 19:19:12 +0000 UTC

1. For a few years I lived within walking distance of Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester. A beautiful Victorian cemetery with gorgeous landscaping and rolling hills. Such a wonderful place to wander. 2. Ideally, I'd love to just be left out for the Turkey Vultures to enjoy, but as that's not a current possibility, I just want a natural burial. Put me in the ground, let me decompose. No fuss, no muss. <3

Allyson

2022-12-09 19:15:15 +0000 UTC

Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. My favorite grave is a stone punchbowl with a relief of Dionysis belonging to Victorian era bartender. Green burial! I’d like to be wrapped in a shroud and placed directly into the ground, with an elderberry tree planted on top so that my body may one day be a part of its mythical fruit.

Andrea Lucretia

2022-12-09 19:11:49 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA. Virginia used to be home before I moved a couple years ago and I would walk through Richmond when I had a bad day and the cemetery was always a place to think and remember those who came before. As for my burial plan, I want to be cremated and used to help coral reefs. There is a project on the east coast that is taking cremated remains, adding them to concrete, and then sinking them in the ocean to help local marine and wildlife. I want to be able to help the oceans, since I don’t live by them anymore.

Sophia Simmons

2022-12-09 19:09:41 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, where I live. Like Pere Lachaise in Paris and several other particularly pastoral boneyards, it was constructed in an era when cemeteries were also parks where people would picnic and relax and generally enjoy a quiet and beautiful space. My favorite time of the year in Hollywood is the autumn, but it's also stunning in the spring when the dogwoods bloom. It overlooks a portion of the James River that includes white-water rapids and has a lovely view of the city skyline. 2) I want to be a tree pod. https://www.greenmatters.com/p/tree-pod-burials I don't need my tree to live forever, but I'm definitely thinking something that turns pretty colors in the fall -- a maple or an oak, maybe.

Robin M.

2022-12-09 19:04:36 +0000 UTC

1. Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY is i n c r e d i b l e, and not too far away from you. You have to go in the fall to get those good upstate new york spooky autumn vibes, but it is stunning any time of year. It is the final resting place of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, and since the landscape was formed by glaciers, it features lots of hills, old growth trees, and even swamps. There are over 80 mausoleums (some with evidence of grave robbing over the years) and lots of incredible architecture. It feels so magical. 2. I am still working out what to do with my remains, but I love the victorian tradition of mourning jewelry - broaches and rings usually featuring morbid motifs of skeletons and gravediggers that remind loved ones of the deceased, but also serve as a reminder to live life to the fullest. I think it would be cool to pre-emptively have some pieces made for my loved ones for when I pass.

Holly

2022-12-09 19:03:13 +0000 UTC

1) When I travel I do like to take in the local cemeteries (Highgate in London and Père Lachaise in Paris), but my favorite cemetery is one in my hometown of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s called the General Protestant Cemetery and it’s full of leading citizens back in the 19th and mid-20th Century, including a local doctor who invented a gas mask in WWI. It has a number of crumbling headstones and a few metal grave markers, which weren’t very common in the area. 2) My death plan is either green burial (if I can get a local cemetery to approve, as there is no designated green burial site in my province - yet) or alkaline hydrolysis. Which one funeral home does have, yay!

Beth Whitten

2022-12-09 19:01:28 +0000 UTC

I have been thinking about this cemetery ever since you asked in the livestream. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/illinois/evil-place-il/ https://m.facebook.com/100057375013636/

Vickie Hawkins

2022-12-09 18:59:19 +0000 UTC

1. Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond Virginia is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful cemeteries ever. I've been to a lot of cemeteries in a lot of countries, when ever I travel I make a point to visit a local cemetery. Hollywood is situated up along the river and if it wasn't full of dead folk, it would probably be full of very fancy housing for rich folk. It's winding paths are used by locals as a place to picnic and walk and just hang out. And because its so old, there's lots of beautiful old trees in addition to the amazing view of the river. Bonus, there's people living in the cemetery, the old superintendent's Victoria house is now a beautiful apartment building. 2. I am planning on being cryogenically frozen. The way I see it, either it works and I get to see the future or it doesn't and I become a really interesting preserved corpse for some grad student to study in the future which would also be pretty nifty.

Shelli Frew

2022-12-09 18:55:39 +0000 UTC

Since I love history and beautiful architecture-Highgate cemetery in London would be my cemetery of choice. And as for burials,a pod burial would be my earth friendly, cost effective, and amazing way to be memorialized. See attached link for info. I'm asking for a giant Sequoia to be planted on me. https://8billiontrees.com/eco-friendly-natural-products/tree-pod-burial/

Amber L Haden

2022-12-09 18:55:08 +0000 UTC

I recently went to the Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord MA, and thought that it was magical! It was super cool to see the fairly simple headstones of some very famous authors. I'm also a big fan of green funeral options, and there are some really awesome organizations that will compost your body into soil that can be sent to help regenerate endangered ecosystems. That's what I want to happen!

Davin Boggess

2022-12-09 18:53:48 +0000 UTC

1. Although I like to visit beautiful cemeteries when travelling, my favorite happens to be here in Atlanta: historic Oakland Cemetery. Perfect for a picnic, or just a nice, contemplative walk -- the layout of paths among the many mausoleums and fascinating monuments really feels like walking in a city of the dead. 2. I'm torn about my burial plans. I like the concept of natural burials, but I also love funerary monuments and it would be nice to have a gravestone, preferably with a clever epitaph. Maybe I'll do both.

Smooth Rat

2022-12-09 18:53:36 +0000 UTC

1. My husband and I are trying to sort out our after-death plans, so unfortunately, we are not going to shine and our ideas are extremely unconventional. Never the less, I was so excited to be able to talk about our thoughts and ideas on this because most people in our lives would think we are crazy if we said it out loud. But are we really? Let me lay this out…I am a firefighter and he is a police officer. You see, my husband works in crime lab and has seen his fair share of dead bodies in all forms of decomposition, as well has had to be there to exhume bodies from graves for reopening of cases. I tend to be with more freshly dead or I am with them during their passing, although I have had my fair share of decomposition as well. Somehow we both ended up in the same mind frame when it comes to our eternal resting place. Seeing the preservation that we do to keep our loved ones bodies from doing what is supposed to naturally happening and ultimately what that looks like after the fact, we both want our bodies to do the same: go back to nature, recycle, let earth take back what it gave, etc. And being a firefighter, I have spent the last 15 years trying not to burn, something seems weird letting fire finally get to my body after I’m done with it… so I am not a fan of cremation. So short story long… given the danger factor to both our jobs and given a higher chance we could succumb early than normal, this worries us. Until we work it out, we have found a place: (please forgive us we haven’t physically been there, but if one of us goes early it’s our only thought at this point) Penn Forest Natural Burial Park. 2. The burial plan idea: If we are blessed to live to a ripe old age and see our children become old, we are hoping to have land in northern PA… God’s Country as my husband calls it. We will have our children bury us in the bare earth. If it was up to me, put us up on a platform like the natives of our country did, let nature take what it needs. The problem is most people wouldn’t care for a human thigh bone showing up on their property that wildlife took and dropped, so I guess the ground will work. We don’t want to be preserved and put in a coffin and look like we are sleeping. We want the beauty of what is suppose to happen…to just happen. We would like our children to walk through nature and know we are all around them. Our gravesite to visit is everywhere around them. Anyways…thank you for this contest!

Caroline Rudacille

2022-12-09 18:53:24 +0000 UTC

Q1: Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris of course. Who wouldn't want to be buried with Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, and Edith Piaf. Q2: I plan to be mumified.

Hollie Shaw

2022-12-09 18:51:46 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite graveyard, the Saratoga Methodist Church Cemetary, Henry, IL. It’s right next to where I grew up. I used to mow the lawn there when I was in college and feel connected to many of its inhabitants. It’s one of the most peaceful places I’ve ever been. Plus my baby nephew is there now, so it’s where a piece of my heart is already buried. 2) I don’t want a visitation, but I want a party. I want to leave enough money set aside so that the night before, everyone can go out and send me out in style. I would also like to be buried in full glam; hair done, makeup perfect, extravagant dressing gown. Whole nine. I want to look the best I’ve ever looked. If I end up as a ghost, I want to be a hot one.

Sarah Ilo

2022-12-09 18:49:27 +0000 UTC

My other favorite would have to be Arlington National Cemetery just outside DC. Pretty hard to get a plot nowadays though, even if you are military, because of how truly MASSIVE this place is. The fields of perfectly placed small white grave markers for soldiers and their families are truly haunting. So many souls. I was lucky enough recently to get a private tour with a former Guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. What a beautiful tribute. The tomb is always guarded, rain or shine. They even have stories of guards walking their path to the very last second during hurricanes before needing to seek shelter. The soldiers that stand guard are some of the most committed people you'll ever meet. I even got to meet the horses they use for ceremonies and burials. It's just a beautiful tradition. Very worth a visit.

Cassie

2022-12-09 18:48:42 +0000 UTC

2. I want my ashes to be turned into a diamond. That way if I’m not able to cross over, I’ll torment whoever has the diamond and make them choose between their sanity and a stunning & prized material possession. Also then I can be beautiful FOREVER!!! P.s. this is actually possible, see http://www.lifegem.com/

Janet Yu

2022-12-09 18:44:52 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Pere Lachaise in France. Although I’ve never had the pleasure to visit, I did study it during my time in mortuary school. It’s both hauntingly beautiful and historic. 2. I currently work at a funeral home and I still don’t really know what I would want done with my corpse but I do know that I want the most antique looking, hardwood, gothic Funeral!!!

Francisco Reyes

2022-12-09 18:44:10 +0000 UTC

1) St. John the Baptist churchyard, Cirencester (Cotswolds), UK - I once found myself there all alone as it was getting dark and the CHILLS! & honorable mention to Ferndale Cemetery in Ferndale, CA - the one that started my love affair with graveyards and oh yeah, where the original 'Salem's Lot was filmed! 2) I know I should go all Gothic for a contest with you but honestly I want to be cremated and scattered from on top of what my family creatively calls "The Big Rock" which looms over the Sacramento River and is right next to the bat cave. Well, actually, I guess the bats make it kind of gothic...

Kate Peltier

2022-12-09 18:43:44 +0000 UTC

I want to be really light on the environment. I really want to weave my own Willow/wicker basketry casket. I prefer a light linen shroud around my body and nothing that won’t decompose quickly. No embalming. I would like to be buried here in Ontario, somewhere in the Muskoka area near the forests, lakes and open skies of my childhood. ❤️💀❤️

Carolinian Classroom

2022-12-09 18:42:53 +0000 UTC

1. Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY. An ancient cemetery that goes back to 1848. Civil War soldiers are buried here, as well as, sadly, some of my friends. I love the tombstones and mausoleums with rich architectural features and design. 2. I want to build a family mausoleum that my wife and I can share, as well as any of our children who want to make it their final home. Instead of a sealed crypt, I want it open to critters. I'd like to just have my body eaten by worms and beetles instead of some sort of preservation. Then some descendants can take our bones and stack them in the corner to make room for the next resident.

Allan Linehan

2022-12-09 18:40:52 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge MA. It was the first "garden" cemetery in the US and it is a stunning space to walk around and spend a day enjoying, exploring and sketching. I can't recommend this site enough for anyone visiting the Boston area. I was fortunate enough to live next to the cemetery walls for many years and getting to enjoy the people garden and the critters that make the cemetery their home was truly special. 2. My death plan is to have my ashes taken and used to be mixed and and pressed into vinyl records. I have a list of songs I want pressed into the album (some silly, some serious or life related) and I intend to have the record sent to my love ones after my death. I love music (my brain thinks in sounds, not words) and there is something gothically morbid and perfect to me that my love ones will receive a musical death record made from my literal ashes after I am gone. I am an artist and I have already designed the sleeve for the vinyl record and I intend to call it "songs from the great beyond"

The Gothitect

2022-12-09 18:40:13 +0000 UTC

1) I have a long list of cemeteries I want to visit but since I haven't seen them all, I don't have a favourite yet. But from my research, I think my favourite would be the Neptune Memorial Reef in Florida. It's basically an underwater cemetary! From the photos I've seen, it feels like you're in the lost city of Atlantis or something! It's really quite beautiful. The movie Atlantis is one of my all time favourites and I'd give anything to feel like I could actually experience it for real. I also love that it's such a different take on a cemetary. I love me a good ol' classic one as much as the next spooky girlie, but I also love things that are unique and exeptional! 2) My burial plan is basically anything natural. I've heard of people being buried in pods that eventually become trees, that type of stuff. I'm really into that! I just want to decompose and return to the earth. : ) That said, it WOULD be really cool to have a beautiful casket (maybe made of wood?) and a gorgeous carved gravestone, preferably placed in a very classicly goth looking cemetery that's super overgrown!

Alex

2022-12-09 18:39:10 +0000 UTC

Q1: My favorite cemetery would have to be the Jones IOOF Cemetery in Jones, OK. One side of my family is buried there and I used to drive to visit them fairly regularly when I still lived in Oklahoma. It is a small cemetery, and not a lot of large monuments and only one mausoleum. However, it is basically out in the middle of nowhere so definitely gives off those fun isolated-cemetery vibes. I love wandering through it on a cloudy day reading the names and epitaphs of those forever entombed there. It was my favorite place to get a sense of history and connectedness to the world. I still enjoy visiting whenever I am in town. Q2: I am currently planning on being cremated and then spread over the ocean. I have always had an affinity for the power of the ocean and the thought that I could end up anywhere and then get swept back up to travel again really appeals to me. There are several methods of cremation or biodegradation out there. Not sure which I will finally choose, but I never want to stay still as it were.

Lauren

2022-12-09 18:38:21 +0000 UTC

Hello Christine, I love all your content. I’ve been to cemeteries all over the US, Europe, and the middle east. My most favorite aesthetically is definitely St. Louis Cemetery no. 1 in New Orleans. The above ground crypts and offerings are quite creepy yet beautiful. I would like to be made into a coral reef because then my death can be used as a force to help biodiversity in the oceans.

Nick Rastegar

2022-12-09 18:37:18 +0000 UTC

1. Stanton Road Cemetery, Ilkeston, UK. Reason being it’s no longer used for active burials it’s overgrown and has a real “raw” and wild energy to it. Also, the local giant is buried there. 2. Music for the funeral to be supplied by Tarja Turunen. I love the Christmas album of “of ghosts and spirits” some of the classical Christmas music retold with a dark and sinister twist yet still being beautiful at the same time.

Thomas webster

2022-12-09 18:36:06 +0000 UTC

1. My absolute favorite graveyard (though I have many) is the Oakland Cemetery located in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s otherworldly at night, and filled with old graves and gardens. Living here all of my life, it’s one of few places left where you can feel haunted by the victorian spirit. 2. My death plans are always changing, and keeping up with my documents to reflect that is quite the task. As of right now I’d love a natural burial in a wicker casket, perhaps with one of my mother’s handmade indigo dyed shrouds. Though if human composting were ever to become legal in Georgia (and I am trying to lobby for it!) I believe that could be a great solution. Either way I’d love to “return to the Earth” like so many others hope to, and going in a greener way that could even help restore the environment in the place I’ve lived for so long would bring me so much morbid happiness.

snail mortician

2022-12-09 18:28:38 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery might be a bit boring comparatively to all these amazing places listed, but it's near and dear to my heart. Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum in St Louis is where my entire mother's side of the family rests, all the way back to the first immigrants from our line. Its quite old and has some interesting inhabitants worth looking into. But to me, it's just peaceful. It's always been perfect weather when I've visited, almost like it knows it's needed for comfort. 2. Space. That's it. I want to get shot into space.

Cassie

2022-12-09 18:28:05 +0000 UTC

1. St Mary's Churchyard in Whitby (UK) there you can find beautiful old tombstones up on a hill overlooking the sea, "dracula's grave" and famous ones marked with a skull and bones. It is also very close to the ruin of a beautiful abbey. 2. Could be fun to be burried in the basement of my very old house (or at least on the grounds of it) with a malediction attached of course

Charlotte Gautier

2022-12-09 18:27:25 +0000 UTC

1) One of my favorite cemeteries is right in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio: 12316 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 It is a gorgeous park-like setting, with incredible monuments, mausoleums, tombs, and the hauntingly beautiful Haserot Angel (also Googleable!). I have done a few photoshoots there. It is also the final resting place of Eliot Ness, John D. Rockefeller, and President James Garfield (just to name a few). The other is also in Ohio and it is called Foxfield Preserve (9877 Alabama Ave SW, Wilmot, OH 44689). This cemetery is a wildlife preserve and conservation center as well as a cemetery. They have reclaimed farmland and are turning it back to Ohio natural landscape. They have two prairie sections and a forest section (which they are currently reforesting). In the forest secrion, you can pick a native tree to be planted at your gravesite. They only allow natural burial (no embalming and burial in a natural biodegradable container or shroud made of natural materials), or cremated remains (which can be buried in a natural, biodegradable container, or scattered at the gravesite or a designated cremains spreading site). Family is also allowed to be as involved as they want (carrying the body to the site, closing the grave, etc). 2) I have a three-tier plan for my body disposition after death, depending on methods that are legal at the time of my death: 1- Aquamation or alkaline hydrolysis- water cremation. It is much better for the environment than traditional cremation, and it's basically a warm bath that dissolves your soft tissue and leaves your bones to be ground up just like cremation, and the drainage is biodegradable. However, it is not currently legal in Ohio. 2- Human composting. Currently only legal in California, BUT, it was just on the ballot for New York to be made legal (hint hint- if you're looking for environmentally friendly and sustainable methods for body disposition) and it sounds like a beautiful way to be given back to the earth. Plus the resulting compost can be given to family and friends, or spread anywhere because it is all organic material. 3- If all else fails and the previous two methods are still not legal, I want to have a natural burial at Foxfield, in a cardboard container that all of my loved ones have written notes, affirmations, and positive thoughts on, so that as I am being transformed back into the earth, I am surrounded by all of the love I had in life.

Jennifer Premo

2022-12-09 18:23:54 +0000 UTC

1. Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Gorgeous location, very old, beautiful mausoleums and head stones and amazelingly haunted! 2. Love the idea of a natural or green burial. Let my body return to earth and let nature do it's thing.

Essepes

2022-12-09 18:22:16 +0000 UTC

1. My favourite is my local cemetery in Highgate, London with its eerie ivy clad Victorian gravestones, mausoleums and catacombs! 2. I want to be buried in a Bios Urn and buried with an oak tree seed alongside my pets, giving back to nature

Kris Barnes

2022-12-09 18:20:12 +0000 UTC

1. Brompton Cemetery in London, England. Wonderfully gothic, has been used in a lot of movies and its where my Grandparents are buried in a joint plot. 2. I don't want to be buried, I would like to be cremated and my ashes spread near trees/in a forest. I want to go back to nature and help the forest continue to grow. I am an organ donor so all of my organs need to be cut out first!

Becky Rodd

2022-12-09 18:18:07 +0000 UTC

1.) So, you shuffled off this mortal coil. What happened? Trip over a cat? Loved one push you down the stairs? Chainsaw accident while making a scarecrow? Not to worry. I’ve got just the place for you. Come to Waverley Cemetery in sunny Australia! If you like warm weather and beach front property while you rot, then this is your forever home. Go down under when you’re six feet under. What’s that you say? Sun-bleached bones not your thing? Are you more pinot noir than piña colada? Then may I suggest Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. Go to Waverley for the climate but come to Père Lachaise for the company. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better collection of artists, poets and madmen. Share some dirt with Jim Morrison, Sarah Bernhardt, and Oscar Wilde. Yes sir, you’ll dine on the baguettes while the maggots dine on you. 2.) I think you should have an interactive tombstone with a built in monitor and speakers. It will have a motion sensor that detects when people approach, and when they get close enough you appear on screen and say, “Welcome to the grave of Christine McConnell.” You could have exclusive content only seen at your final resting place. People could pay their respects and learn how to bake a Halloween-themed vegan lemon soufflé. So start squirreling away those videos now for your afterlife channel that will launch in 2082.

Daisygrl9781

2022-12-09 18:17:40 +0000 UTC

You had me at tributes to guinea pigs!

Dana Vogel

2022-12-09 18:13:01 +0000 UTC

1. So far I have to say the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC. Unbelievable grave markers and statues. Absolutely stunning. 2. I like the idea of a tree pod burial. You can either be cremated and added to the tree burial pod or have your full remains wrapped in a natural cloth (or something like that) and buried with the tree.

Peggy Christie

2022-12-09 18:11:56 +0000 UTC

1.) From Fearsville, Kentucky, travel a short distance on Hwy 107 over a gentle hill up to Hale Cemetery. It's just a small spit in the road with a handful of tombstones that are surrounded by fields of Queen Anne's lace and woods. Not long ago, a tornado took down a few trees and gave my grandmother a clear skyward view from her eternal rest. If you get hungry after meandering among the headstones, cross the road to Gracie's and help yourself to a fried bologna sandwich and cold soda. 2.) I've debated... to be laid to rest forever in my beautiful garden (I'm sure the new owners would welcome me resting there among their flowers), or to be scattered to the sea (where I once lived my best fish life)... and then I look upwards and realize the atoms that make up me were forged inside of supernova explosions, and I have them only on loan... they made such an incredible journey that was momentarily me... and the thought of them moving onward is pleasing enough.

Sherry Thompson

2022-12-09 18:11:50 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Bellevue Memorial Park in Ontario California. It has a lot of older graves near the back and one day when I was cleaning off the headstones I found one of my ancestors there, it was quite shocking but now I have someone to look into. For my burial plans I think those tree burial pods would be cool. I wouldn’t want my death to lead to a big carbon footprint so the tree burial pod is the best option, plus who doesn’t want to haunt a forest with a bunch of other ghosts?

Jadelyn

2022-12-09 18:11:15 +0000 UTC

1. Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, for its Gothic entrance and unique graves, but also because it's just so soothing to walk through. It makes a beautiful park. You can also occasionally tour inside the mausoleums, which is a treat! 2. My dream is to have my own little stone mausoleum, with stained glass windows and statues modeled after my dogs in front. Inside I'm doing the full Snow White, adorned in jewelry with a fabulous outfit and a little window in my coffin so my descendants can watch me turn to bones. Or remain preserved like an Italian saint. Either/or.

Megan Walsh

2022-12-09 18:08:20 +0000 UTC

Q1: The cemetery in Braone, Italy is one that has a lot of meaning for me because it's where generations of my family are buried, and I spent a lot of time there throughout my childhood, saying prayers for those ancestors, most recently in remembrance for my Nonna. However, it's not really Google-friendly, and so I'll add my second favorite cemetery as well: the Jewish Cemetery Altona, Eduard Duckesz House in Hamburg, Germany. It was established in 1611, and it's both a UNESCO world heritage site, as well as one of the most important Jewish cemeteries in the world. It feels ancient, and powerful, and wise. I walked by it nearly every day on my way to work while I lived in Hamburg, and no matter how difficult the day, that peace and wisdom and magic calmed me down. Q2: I don't really care where I am buried, but I do want to be buried in a so called "burial tree pod" - It's important to me that my burial doesn't add more waste to the world, and that I can instead become part of it again. Should that be impossible I'm definitely donating my body to science - who knows, maybe someone will Frankenstein's Monster my body or parts of it!

CriCri (smthingfantastic)

2022-12-09 18:07:35 +0000 UTC

1) Mackinac Island Cemetery (pronounced like Mackinaw) is my favorite cemetery to stroll through. No vehicles are allowed on this northern Michigan island so it's quiet and peacefully nestled within the island interior surrounded by trees. The fall colors are breathtaking. 2) I'd love to weave my own wicker casket to make my death as close to a "green burial" as possible. I will also be designing my own tombstone with a winged skull (like in Salem) at the top and even incorporate other elements of design that reflect the things that make me uniquely me.

Becky Wythugudhare

2022-12-09 18:07:12 +0000 UTC

2- My burial plan was to actually buy some property and build a family crypt. I was hoping to construct one in my home state of Alaska but I'm not sure if I'm going to be here forever so that is up for discussion. I would like to have the crypt be large enough for extended family to be comfortable laying to rest there as well. I just have anxiety about after I sure and my family doesn't know where to bury me, so why not have everything all picked out and made easy. I would hope that the crypt would accommodate people that want to be cremated and buried in a casket. I already have so many ideas of how I want it built, I'm already getting excited.

Clara Cheney

2022-12-09 18:07:11 +0000 UTC

1. I love Laurel Hill Cemeteries in Philadelphia. If you have never been it is well worth the visit and taking a tour! There are so many beautiful statues and mausoleums. Definitely look them up because they hold various events through the year. 2. Ideally I would like to go back to earth as naturally as possible. I love the idea of being buried and a tree planted on top of me (I love cherry trees, maple trees or ginkgo so one of those). Just the thought of nourishing a tree that will be loved for many years to come fills me with peace. And I of course love the thought of my bones intertwining with the roots... At least I feel like this group would feel me on this! 😅

Dana Vogel

2022-12-09 18:03:20 +0000 UTC

I have mentioned to my family many times that I would love to be mummified. I always had a fascination with the pyramids of Egypt and their history. Although, my mummification would have a slight twist...preferably, with my arms crossed across my chest and a certain finger (the one that implies a strong message) raised on each hand. And to show my love of geoscience, I would be placed in a large geode preferably with red quartz crystals but amethyst will do since red is very rare to find. Sealed back up and placed in the Cimitero Vecchio in Stromboli, Italy. It's not a particularly "beautiful" cemetery, but it overlooks the amazing vista of the Tyrrhenian Sea with the volcano's gentle eruption that occurs every 20 minutes or so. I figure with time those two fingers may curl back down as I rest in this beautiful place. But in reality it will likely be a cremation after donating any viable organs and placed in a used dollar tree bag. And finally, my ashes thrown in the face of my worst enemy. 😂

Susana Garcia

2022-12-09 18:02:29 +0000 UTC

1)South Molton Cemetery in South Molton, Devon UK. So, we were in town visiting my husbands family members(I live in the US so no international shipping.) I saw the coolest house on a hill so my husband takes me up and I am in awe of the old building and admiring the detail when I look to my left and see …. A cemetery. OMG I take a look around and I’m about to take pictures and then my husband says,”Here’s my grandmothers headstone.” And then I immediately put my phone away… 2)Haven’t thought about where I want the majority of my body to be but I do know I want my hair and pieces of me made into jewelry for my beautiful daughter. Morbid but loving gifts for her to remember her mommy.

Tiffany Ocampo

2022-12-09 18:02:20 +0000 UTC

1- Hollywood Cemetery (established 1847) in Richmond, VA. It is a garden cemetery, a style that is itself historic and was popular in the 19th century. It has views of the james river and so much natural beauty that it is a registered arboretum. It is also the burial place of James Monroe, John Tyler, six Virginia governors, two supreme court justices, authors, and suffragists (the cemetery has an official list of 49 notable people to visit). The gothic revival cast iron canopy on James Monroe's grave is registered as a National Historic Landmark. I am sure "residents" love taking in the natural beauty and have fascinating conversations. 2-One of my special interests is decomposers and I am fascinated with that whole process. Especially slugs (no joke). I am enamored of their tummies and eye stalks, and they are insanely misunderstood. I will not rest if my love for these things is not incorporated into my burial. I know about some different things where humans are composted or turned into trees, but if needs must I would be fine if compost was put on my grave for the slugs to come and enjoy. My perfect scenario is for this to happen in a cemetery with lots of family members and writers nearby, but my darling decomposer friends must be guests of honor no matter what.

Madison Hughes

2022-12-09 17:58:13 +0000 UTC

1. my city, Richmond VA, has a lot of history. My favorite cemetery is that of Historic St. John's Church downtown - the graveyard was started in the 1740s, it houses the parents of Edgar Allan Poe, it's the site of Patrick Henry's give me liberty speech, and it's a popular site for a lot of Richmond ghost tours :) 2. kind of the opposite of a "burial" plan. but my husband wants a viking funeral. Pushed into the waters in a boat, a flaming arrow launched from the shore for the body to die in fire and water. Super cool way to go.

Brittany Male

2022-12-09 17:58:07 +0000 UTC

Dear Christine 1. I dream of being buried in Haworth Cemetery in England, behind the Bronté Personage Museum where the Bronté sisters lived. They are some of the people who mean the most to me and to be buried deep in Yorkshire would be to be forever connected with them and to be able to haunt the moors with Emily in search of Heathcliff… 2. I would like a very simple and discreet grave on the ground, with just a cross or a tombstone with Nevermore engraved on it and be cremated because I would feel like a spirit even faster. I don't want to be imprisoned by a grave, I want to feel even free in death and wander as I please...

Hermine-Virginie Simon

2022-12-09 17:56:45 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Mount Hope Cemetery In Rochester NY. It was dedicate in 1838 making it America’s first municipal Victorian cemetery. I happen to live 15 minutes from it and I can say that it is GORGEOUS! Especially during fall season; it has amazing sculptures; it is the resting place of many important figures like Frederic Douglas, Susan B. Anthony and many others. I love going for walks with my husband and to paint or read. Really gorgeous place. 2. I will like to be buried with pages that contain my favorite phrases or scenes from my favorite books. I will also like, and already told my husband about this, to have him read my favorite poem “The lady of shallot” by Alfred Tennyson; Also to play the song based on the same poem, by Loreena McKennitt.

Kimberlys Aristy

2022-12-09 17:56:28 +0000 UTC

I have two favorite cemeteries from a beauty and awe standpoint and a sentimental one. For beauty and reverence: Sleepy Hollow, NY, and Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, TN, my hometown) are divine. However, on the sentimental side, my family has a private cemetery, which is not unusual in the south but not likely on Google (Bragwell Cemetery). This is where all of my aunts and my beloved grandmother are buried. Although I don't plan to be buried there, I already have a plot and marker my mother purchased when I was a child at our family's cemetery! As for my burial plan, I'd like to be cremated, and after the drama of my death has died down (pardon the bad pun), a celebration party will be held serving donuts or pizza, my two favorite foods. I would like to have my ashes scattered on a beach in California, in New York City (my favorite city), next to my grandmother's grave, and anywhere viewing the aurora Borealis, which I've always longed to see. My obituary is also already written, and a picture pulled to accompany it (why take chances on someone else doing this?) Thank you for this opportunity. Although I know your contest is in fun, it's important that people articulate their desires to their loved ones. And this reminds me to remind my husband of my wishes! Christine - see, once again, you are teaching us things!

Toni Zoblotsky

2022-12-09 17:56:10 +0000 UTC

My husband is from New Bern! It’s a beautiful old cemetery.

Amanda Wils

2022-12-09 17:56:04 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is The Granary in Boston. I’m a sucker for an old cemetery in the middle of a metropolitan city. There are some pretty fantastic ghost tours that utilize the Granary as well. As far as my burial plan, my spouse and I are of two minds. He wants to be embalmed and buried, but I don’t think I do. I might opt for cremation and have my ashes interred at a shared plot after donating some of my remains to scientific research.

Amanda Wils

2022-12-09 17:55:11 +0000 UTC

1. well, this reply might seem a little obvious, but it is the one that makes sense to me. It is the Church cemetary Gohlis (Kirchlicher Friedhof Gohlis) Here in my city Leipzig, Germany. It is a large cemetary for the people of the area here. it is a christian cemetery, but a lot of people here arent very religious, and the church here serves more as a community beacon for a lot of people. Its a very modern building actually. Some people i knew (elderly mainly) are buried there. The outer walls are very very old and inside the cemetary, there are many old, tall trees. It is also beautifully kept by the people who work there. Many people come and bring flowers and candles there. I like it a lot because for me, it really reminds me of what is most important, a love for people, especially the normal people around you. It reminds me that everyone is important, everyone deserves to be cared for, have their graves tended to and cleaned. Most people are just, well normal. But everyone has a hard life. Everyone has burdens and hardships and many of them we never know about. These sorts of cemeteries remind me of the love humans have for each other, that cant be taken away. 2. Well, this one is also relatively simple, but i would like for my ashes to be brought out to the baltic sea, where my mother, grandfather, my aunt, my grandmother and some other relatives were put to rest. I would like to bring my cats ashes with me (well, this will take a while, because hes only 3. So i have a lot of time left with the little prince hopefully. he keeps me going, doesnt even know it). Its obvious that i like the thought of being near my family i suppose. We are originally from the baltic coast from that side, and the sea is part of that. My family were fishermen, they lived off the sea and then went back home into the water. My family was never religious from my mothers side, but she always said that when people go away, they become stars. So i would hope that we can shine on together somehow.

Julie

2022-12-09 17:54:41 +0000 UTC

1. Greyfriars Kirkyard cemetery- Its beautiful, eerie and I love that they have John Grey's dog bobby buried there with his master--bobby slept on his grave for 13 yrs waiting for him. Its moving and beautiful there as well as haunted graves and tombs. So you have love from dogs and spirits from haunted prison tombs :) 2. I plan to be cremated and scattered at sea (where I love to be most of all) or I wouldnt mind having a tree pod burial where my body feeds a tree and I help restore a beautiful tree.

Carrie Park

2022-12-09 17:54:18 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite local cemetery has got to be the entire town of Colma, CA. with 16 cemeteries, there’s more dead residents than living! This is where the city of San Francisco buried their dead when they ran out of room in town. Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, Abigail Folger (Manson Family victim) and the Hearst family are buried here, along with many other local legends. They even have a pet cemetery with giant tributes to guinea pigs! It’s always overcast and foggy, with plenty of trees, stained-glass mausoleums, darling chapels, and rows and rows old and new headstones, truly as far as the eye could see. 2) I would like to be cremated and have a true “Celebration of Life” party. Music and laughter, a come-as-you-are, cozy setting and alllll the comfort food.

Jennifer Faria

2022-12-09 17:53:37 +0000 UTC

1. Greenwood Cemetary in Orlando FL, there are beautiful old trees, with Spanish moss hanging down in front of old mausoleums, and above ground tombs. The tombstones range from humble stones to towering angels, and it's a beautiful place to walk around, (or do a ghost tour!) 2. My ideal plan would be to be buried in an old cemetery, with a bench and an old tree right next to my grave. So that future family, (or neighborhood goths) could use it as a place for picnics <3

Paige Lavoie

2022-12-09 17:52:03 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Bonaventure cemetery in Savannah, Ga. it has it all! I’ll be buried in Cheshire Ma. In a family plot where the most important person in my life is my Mom I miss her very much.

Jennifer

2022-12-09 17:49:43 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Comfort Cemetery in Alexandria, VA - it’s not necessarily a striking or unique cemetery but it’s where my dad and grandmother are buried. What was once a place that scared me, now feels like home because they’re there and I like visiting them. If we’re going for a stunner of a cemetery I’d choose Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY because WOW does that place look and feel magical 😍 2. In Islam, we try to bury the dead as soon as possible, so I’d just want the quickest burial option that’s easiest on my family (financially and mentally). Once I’m buried, I want loved ones to pray for me however they pray. I also when them to skip out on buying flowers/food for my family and instead, put money towards building water wells wherever its needed and growing trees.

Zohra Powanda

2022-12-09 17:45:39 +0000 UTC

Pere Lachaise is an obvious choice, but might I suggest the Cimetiere Monmartre? It is absolutely gorgeous and there are loads of feral cats who live there to keep you company. Another favourite is the Necropolis in Glasgow. It's a Victorian era cemetery on a hill overlooking the city (and because it's Scotland, you'll have moody, atmospheric gloom most of the year to really set the scene).

Leandra

2022-12-09 17:42:36 +0000 UTC

1 - Père Lachaise in Paris. I used to live 20min away from it. There is just so many history there and the tombs are beautiful, with some uniques sculptures. You also have some famous personalities like Balzac, Apollinaire, Edith Piaf, Molière, La Fontaine, Oscars Wild, Chopin, Jim Morrison, etc. 2- I would like to be buried directly in the ground and have a weeping willow planted on top. It’s a way to go back to nature and still be part of my family life. The children could play in the branches and my ghost will be there with them.

Lea Ansel

2022-12-09 17:41:09 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern NC. I like that it's not only beautiful and historic, but that you can also schedule a tour and learn about the people buried there, it reminds you not to forget about the past. As for my burial plan, I don't really care where I'm buried, I just want my husband and I to be beside each other in our final resting places. Thank you for the opportunity Christine, have a great day!

Andria

2022-12-09 17:37:11 +0000 UTC

1) One of my favorite cemeteries is the historic El Campo Cemetery located in Old Town San Diego. It was built in 1849 and used until 1880. It is rumored to be haunted due to graves having been grossly disturbed to make way for roads, sadly some of the graves were just paved over. There are grave markers on the sidewalk that indicate there was a person buried there. It is also very close to the haunted Whaley House in San Diego. Fort Rosecrans Cemetery in SD, is also a very beautiful veterans cemetery overlooking the ocean- probably the most beautiful I have seen. It is so serene. 2) My burial plan is to just be cremated and have my ashes scattered at sea or planted. Simple and no fuss.

Alison Cedeño

2022-12-09 17:36:36 +0000 UTC

What a great contest! 1. The Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France is a large, rambling City of the Dead with tall trees, cobblestone walkways and beautiful monuments to the Departed. Bronze statues of weeping angels gone patina-green after a century in the elements. Carved hourglasses with wings (time flies). Ornately decorated stone mausoleums (mausolea?) that look like rows of time-worn mansions. It's an active cemetery with a crematorium in it. I saw a man placing flowers on his wife's grave and funeral homes and florists on my walk from the Metro station. Go at 8:00 AM when its gates open for a lovely, hushed exploration as morning sunlight filters through the trees. 2. No matter how selfishly or mundanely I die - and although I will be cremated after organ donation - I want a grand tombstone that reads "Perished Saving a Boatload of Orphans from a Terrible Storm at Sea". :)

Racheal Jones

2022-12-09 17:35:27 +0000 UTC

Oh, and I forgot to put that Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is in Tarrytown, New York. And my children (all adults) love the macabre and I want themto dress up accordingly (Headless Horseman) with one of them riding one of my horses along the path to bring my remains to the final resting place. No doubt they will honor that request.

akawonderwoman

2022-12-09 17:35:22 +0000 UTC

Q1- My favorite cemetery is called "Neptune Memorial Reef", located in Miami. It's a beautiful underwater cemetery! You can swim with the fish for eternity. Plus it's the resting place of Julia Child!! here's a link to it- https://nmreef.com/photo-gallery/ Q2- As for my kind of "dream burial", I would loved to go through the process of plastination, where they strip your skin, take your body's moisture and "force impregnate" you (which just means they dip you in resin). The place that does it make artwork of the bodies, and I would love for body to be done the same way as the "Winged Man"- https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-winged-man-in-this-plastinate-displays-the-facial-news-photo/1411537773 . The only differences is I'd want my skull split vertical to reveal my brain and more of my skeletal structure exposed and bejeweled like one of those European saints- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-fantastically-bejeweled-skeletons-of-catholicisms-forgotten-martyrs-284882/ . After that, place my body in a antique curio cabinet and instead of passing down a vase of ashes, a cabinet of my corpse can be passed down through generations as an art piece lol.

Craig Simms

2022-12-09 17:34:39 +0000 UTC

1. I have two favorites; first is more of a specific grave, but near my hometown in the Lafayette, Colorado graveyard is the grave of the Lafayette Vampire. The local legend is that this man, who was an immigrant from Transylvania, was actually a vampire. When the locals dug him up(why they did this in the first place is anyone's guess) they found blood on his mouth and long teeth. So they drove a stake through his heart. Now there is a tree that grows out of the grave that is unique to the area and people say it grew from that wooden stake. It's amusing to hear locals talking about the vampire to this day. The second is Highgate Cemetary in London. I've never been, but it looks like a goth paradise! 2. My dream burial plan would include being pressed into a gem. My husband and I would like to become the family jewels.

Kayla Perisho-Denley

2022-12-09 17:32:38 +0000 UTC

1. Hands down Sleep Hollow Cemetery. It is absolutely beautiful, full of remains of famous and very interesting people, and it has an eerie feeling at dusk and night. I can almost hear the headless horseman's horse walking along the pathways. 2. I leave my actual burial to my children, since they will still be here. Whatever they choose, all of pet's remains (cats, dogs, sugar gliders, chickens, lizards, mice, chinchillas, peafowl, and tail hairs of my horses) must go with me. I do like the idea of the green burial at Sleepy Hollow. http://sleepyhollowcemetery.org/green-burial/

akawonderwoman

2022-12-09 17:32:02 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the Neptune Memorial Reef in Key Biscayne, Florida. It is a bit unconventional, but beautiful nonetheless. Growing up in Florida, my dad and I bonded over scuba diving. So the idea of people resting in an area that cannot otherwise be visited by traditional foot traffic is so cool! 2. Once I find my dream home and land, probably in Alaska, I will build a pet cemetery like the one in the Haunted Mansion. Then I will finally be able to lay my cremated little buddies to rest. Each will have an ornate tombstone special to themselves. And, hopefully, one day I will be there too. Cremated and laid to rest in the roots of a big tree, where I can be together with my loved ones and furry friends once again.

Cameron K.

2022-12-09 17:31:55 +0000 UTC

1.) Dartford Cemetery in Green Lake, Wisconsin. I know you're probably thinking "uhh what Wisconsin?!" but it's pretty old, super haunted, right near a BEAUTIFUL lake and I have been going to my grandparents cabin there since I was born so it’s a bit sentimental. It's a pioneer burial ground and is located on ancestral Ho-Chunk land (formally known as the Winnebago nation). The last chief of the Winnebago nation, Chief Highknocker, is buried there and is said to haunt the grounds (he has a very spooky tomb stone with his face carved on it, and I personally have seen his eyes glow at night!). In the middle of the cemetery there is an oddly shaped mausoleum with a crack in the roof which many claim to have been pushed off of. And that's just to name a few of the hauntings going down at Dartford. It's even been featured on two separate paranormal TV shows! https://www.wisconsinfrights.com/dartford-cemetery-haunted/. 2.) My burial plan is a little bit morbid but it’s 100% happening and I have several people in place to put the plan into motion upon the time of my death. In the event that I die before my sister Kendall, we will be buried together while she is still alive. We will be shoved into the same coffin with my dead body decaying on top of her alive one like we are competing in the olympic luge doubles. She will realistically not have very long before she suffocates but it’ll be super sisterly and she’s already agreed to it. And instead of a gravestone we will have a bench with our names engraved on a plaque. The rest of our family wants to get made into trees, so we have decided that we will have a treasure hunt for people expecting to find a graveyard with a treasure, but all they will find at the end of the map is a little park with trees and a bench. Not knowing that they had in fact found the graveyard and that the real treasure is family love ❤️

Adeline

2022-12-09 17:28:32 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Cimetière du père Lachaise in Paris. It's the biggest graveyard inside the city and was oppen in 1804. Some of the tombs are absolute work of art. I want a white Oak to be plant on top of my grave, then a piece of me will continue to watch the World go on.

Angélique Mazurie

2022-12-09 17:28:30 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Palmyra cemetery in Palmyra NY. It is a gorgeous small town place with 100s of years of history. The local historical society does haunted walking tours with actors dressed as the occupants to keep the towns history alive. Also a fantastic place for a photo shoot. My burial plans ..... hubby and I already have a plot to share at Mt. Calvary in Cheektowaga ny. He wants to be buried whole so I will be cremated and place over his heart. My one wish is to be placed in the cardboard receptacle (available instead of a coffin, just ask!) So at my wake my loved ones can write messages or decorate it and they can send me to the great beyond with all of their loving words.

Nancy Trifiletti

2022-12-09 17:26:51 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetary is simply the one where my Grandmother resides. She was the only person in my life who ever made me feel genuinely loved and cared for, and I miss her so much. 2. I don't have burial plans, but at the minimum, I hope to have my cremains mixed with my pets in one urn and buried in my Grandmother's plot. Or, if that's not possible, I prefer a natural burial. I don't really like the idea have having "remains", taking up unnecessary space, or having unnecessary processes done to my body. I would like my body to just be placed in the ground (covered in a biodegradable shroud for modesty), and (MOST IMPORTANT) the ashes of all my beloved cats that have passed on, and my tiny vial of my Grandmother's ashes sprinkled over me so that we can all rest fused together for eternity. And then a tree (I like willow trees) planted over me for a marker- maybe with just a small and simple plaque on the tree that reads "In Memory Of Jade 10/29/1986 - //__" so that no one cuts down my tree. No embalming, no fancy headstone, no big service. Maybe just a party for people to get together and celebrate life and share memories of me for comfort. Maybe they could play my favorite meaningful songs since I love music so much.

Jade

2022-12-09 17:26:35 +0000 UTC

1.Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Ga, its over 100 acres of beautiful antique stonework and weeping willow trees, live oaks and Spanish moss. Its full of local lore out of savannah as well, it was featured in the novel Midnight in the Garden of good and evil, and its home to the haunted statue known as "little Gracie Watson". It's the most beautiful cemetery I've ever been to and very southern gothic. 2.I've always been very fascinated by Snow White, so I've always envisioned a leaded glass coffin with beautiful gold work, surrounded by blue hydrangeas and gardenias, soft organ music, lots of candle light, all of it. I don't necessarily want to be buried though, I like the idea of cremation or aqua cremation, what ever would be better for the environment.

Jack Beheler

2022-12-09 17:25:17 +0000 UTC

I have two favorite cemeteries! Both are in Charleston, SC. One is the Circular Church graveyard (https://www.circularchurch.org/graveyard) with tombstones going back to the 1700s and an amazing circular brick church next to it. And the other is the Unitarian Church graveyard (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unitarian-church-cemetery) which is spookily overgrown and luscious and rumored to be the resting place of Annabel Lee of Edgar Allan Poe fame. And my dad and I have talked about putting a mausoleum on our property, as crazy as that sounds. We live right next to each other with 14 acres between us and I like the idea of our future family members going for a walk in the woods and our iron-fenced, gothic-stone-entombed bodies hanging out in the woods with them.

Rebecca

2022-12-09 17:24:49 +0000 UTC

1. PÈRE LACHAISE in Paris, France... But I'm not sure how accessible that one is (in which case, Holyhood in Chestnut Hill, MA is beautiful) 2. I want to be cremated so my best friend can dress up as a ninja and blow my ashes into the eyes of my enemies and avenge me for whatever it is they did that upset me in life.

Ryan Love

2022-12-09 17:24:35 +0000 UTC

I want a green burial. I love the idea of not being embalmed. I want to be wrapped in cloth and buried in a biodegradable coffin. There are cemeteries that exist where you are buried and they plant indigenous vegetation on your plot. Bonus- once you have been consumed by the earth, another body can also be buried in the same spot. I've given this a ton of thought and just love the simplicity of it.

Brittany Land

2022-12-09 17:24:13 +0000 UTC

1. I love the Salt Lake City Cemetery located near downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the largest municipal cemetery in the country. It is also reportedly haunted and is a fun stop on the local Ghost Tour. https://www.slc.gov/parks/city-cemetery/#:~:text=Salt%20Lake%20City's%20cemetery%20is,old%20with%20130%2C000%20burial%20sites. 2. For my dream burial plan, I would love to have a crypt with instructions that every halloween it is to be fully decorated in gothic style, complete with sound effects, cloud machine, and actors to make it a haunted attraction. I would like it to be a deep crypt, into the ground requiring those who enter to travel through to see all the effects. Realistically I may just have my remains cremated and spread over the Redwoods in Big Basin, California. That is where I will be spreading my mother's ashes next year.

Samantha Joy Johnson

2022-12-09 17:23:44 +0000 UTC

My favourite 2 cemeteries are in Vermont, getting up there towards the Canadian border. The first I visit and loved was so small, but what struck me was how OLD everyone buried in there was. It was fascinating to walk amongst the headstones and work out all the discoveries and happenings that occurred during their lifetimes. I remember one had lived through the Civil War, World War 1 and 2! But this is not a cemetery that is still an option to be buried in, so my second favourite has to be the Hope Cemetery (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hope-cemetery). Known for its amazing and superbly unique headstones. Or actually I should say amazing and unique carvings. I could see you designing and crafting your own to have there. And how one of a kind and special is that?!?! Question 2, as for myself back in the days when websites were a new thing, I wanted to set up a Bench Appreciation Association. BAA (as in the sheep, because they can mow the grass around the benches). This site would showcase benches placed in amazing places around the world. Benches with views and commemorative benches. (Maybe there is still a niche?) As a consummate and addicted traveller, when my day comes, I wish to be cremated and scattered around a bench with a view. (And if my name appears on the bench as well, well, that's a bonus. And the ultimate bonus is I design and carve the bench myself.)

Alycea

2022-12-09 17:23:00 +0000 UTC

1. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA is one of my favorites. It is historic, slightly haunted, and extremely beautiful, especially in the spring. There used to be a family of foxes that lived there and you would see them from time to time while visiting the Cemetery. 2. I have requested to be cremated with a stomach full of popcorn kernels so that the process is entertaining.

Rachel Blair

2022-12-09 17:21:46 +0000 UTC

Ideally I would be buried in my own backyard of our family home, that I don't have but hope to have one day and keep it in the family for generations and we can all be buried together free from chemicals. BUT...I love Cementerio de la Recola in Buenos Aires Argentina. It is so beautiful and so personalized too. No burial plan, my loved ones can do what ever they feel like they need to do after I die.

Ashley King

2022-12-09 17:20:15 +0000 UTC

1) Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City has a black stone statue called the Black Angel. It's pretty big and a little foreboding, and local lore says that if you kiss the Black Angel you'll die the next day. Of course people do all the time, and nothing happens, but I remember making a movie for a class there in college and being too scared to even touch it, and I'm not superstitious at all. 😳2) I want to be cremated and my ashes in a beautiful carved box put into a time capsule with some of my favorite things to be opened in 100 years. I like the idea of people conducting some kind of semi-archeological assessment of me and my things. Not because I think I'm exceptionally interesting or worth studying, but sort of the opposite. It's kind of amusing to think about people drawing conclusions about me from my favorite book or pair of shoes.

Catherine Heasley

2022-12-09 17:18:29 +0000 UTC

Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge MA. It’s a National Historic Site and is also a botanical garden that houses various birds and wildlife. They host art installations at different times of the year including one called “Solstice” which begins next week. My original burial plan was for cremation, but with advances in mortuary technology I am intrigued by aqua cremation or human composting.

Julie Alailima

2022-12-09 17:17:33 +0000 UTC

Favorite cemetery? When I was a child I remember driving down a road in my town aptly named Old Spanish Trail. I'm not sure where my mom and I were going but as we drove I noticed a massive metal cross on the right side of the road. At first I thought it was a church but there was no building. Asking my mother (who is also a huge fan of yours) she explained it was a cemetery and she had always wanted to visit. After seeing it so did I. We pulled off and to our luck the gates were unlocked and we were able to walk through. Rincon memorial cemetery is a small cemetery on a hill in the middle of the desert outside Tucson Arizona. While it is small three things stand out to me. Of course that cross it must be 10-15 ft tall and is a major marker as you drive past. Secondly the gates that lead in. They are massive iron gates that are stunning to see and apparently found there way here from Spain in the 1960's. Lastly there are graves there that date back to 1860 and some as new as 2009. It is a very personal place with items from loved ones layed on many graves. The pictures online do not do it justice in fact I think the shot of it on Google maps as the camera car drove by is the best one. Even if there is a giant semi also in the shot... My burial plan? Well I follow another macabre YouTube sensation Caitlin Doughty who does a channel called Ask A Mortician. She did a video on human composting and honestly I have not been able to get the idea out of my head. While initially I would be placed in a very space age looking tube, my remains would eventually turn into mulch. I think it would be very appropriate for me to help some trees and bushes grow since I have been the kiss of death for many plants. Maybe I can finally make it up to them.

Courtney Means

2022-12-09 17:16:28 +0000 UTC

1. Favorite cemetery is behind my house it’s the Evergreen Cemetery in Riverside California. They do movies in October and 4th of July Celebrations in the graveyard, fireworks off the top of Mt. Rubidoux make it so beautiful on that evening. 2. I will be cremated, they will do a celebration of life for me and after it’s over I have someone that will message everyone from my cell phone, “thanks for coming and see you soon. Love ya!”

deanna shorts

2022-12-09 17:16:14 +0000 UTC

Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta Georgia! It is a historical cemetery and a beautiful resting place!

Marie Kirby

2022-12-09 17:15:49 +0000 UTC

I want to donate my body to a medical school/teaching hospital. I decided this after I had a really fun and interesting class field trip to a cadaver lab. We were able to learn so much about anatomy and how different illnesses/conditions/environments can affect the human body. For example, we got to hold and examine the heart of someone who’d had a cardiac bypass surgery during their lifetime. My classmate’s father had had that same surgery, and this gave her a new context to understand what it meant because she could actually see it. We were shown the brain of someone who’d had Alzheimer’s, and it gave me a deeper understanding of what was happening with my grandmother at that time. After that trip, I really liked the idea of being part of someone’s “aha” moment and being able to make an impact even after I’m gone.

Michelle Brydon

2022-12-09 17:13:23 +0000 UTC

1: Goldhill Masonic Cemetery near Silver City Nevada! When I was a kid, my dad loved to take me and my brothers to old cemeteries and this one was always my favorite one we visited. It was in the middle of these mountains, so the views were beautiful and it was so windy. I remember having a completion with my brothers to see who could find the oldest grave, I did not win. I was about 10 years old and I still think of it often and it is a recurring location in my dreams. I have a link here with some pictures of it. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS810US810&tbs=lf:1,lf_ui:2&tbm=lcl&sxsrf=ALiCzsbAFICZDg1Mm1GMP7X7nEqXOwfxHQ:1670605645860&q=goldhill+masonic+cemetery+nevada&rflfq=1&num=10&rldimm=0x0:0xc695780e0757e749#rlfi=hd:;si:14309475392687695689,l,CiBnb2xkaGlsbCBtYXNvbmljIGNlbWV0ZXJ5IG5ldmFkYVoiIiBnb2xkaGlsbCBtYXNvbmljIGNlbWV0ZXJ5IG5ldmFkYZIBCGNlbWV0ZXJ5qgEhEAEqHSIZZ29sZGhpbGwgbWFzb25pYyBjZW1ldGVyeSgA4AEA;mv:[[39.839698899999995,-113.7145437],[35.7253234,-120.1944606]] 2: I want to do human composting when I die and be used for a garden. Caitlin Doughty (Ask A Mortician on youtube and patreon) has an amazing video on it which inspired me. It is one of the most eco-friendly death care options and I love the idea of becoming a tomato in death.

Amy Jilek

2022-12-09 17:09:58 +0000 UTC

1: For me my favorite cemetery is in Glendale, California called Forest Lawn. Though it looks simple at first, once you pass the tall iron gates it's nothing but beautiful memorial headstones, sculptures and even a couple of gothic churches. In some parts they even have very small mosulems for families, and at the very top of the mountain there is a beautiful museum filled with sculptures. 2: As for me, I've been researching this a lot and I've decided that after they have a small viewing where my favorite songs play me out I'd undergo the process of terramation. So that I can be healthy soil for my loved ones to use in their gardens and give life to their plants. Where I myself can l be a part of their lives every day after I move onto the spiritual plane.

Pablo Lorenzo

2022-12-09 17:08:10 +0000 UTC

1. Governor Baxter's Pet Cemetary is on Mackworth Island in Maine. A whole island just for pets. It was cool - during the day anyway. 2. I have explored the idea with friends of having my body rigged up like a big marionette and have my funeral be a fun party with a DJ playing all of my favorite songs. I'd occasionally make horrible punny jokes between songs and my body would dance and stuff - things I'd be remembered for anyway. It would end with me saying something like "alright this has been fun. Everyone get home safely!" And then I'd "jump" into the grave and that would be it. Realistically though I'm letting science take what they want and then I'm being cremated. Maybe I'll ask to have a tree planted over me or something.

Steve Jenks

2022-12-09 17:06:36 +0000 UTC

1. Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn NY. Famous inhabitants include Harriet Tubman and William Seward (who bought Alaska from Russia). It also has an area in the old section called the witches circle, and a charred looking headstone nearby rumored to be a witches grave by the kids in town. I spent lots of time in this beautiful hilly cemetery while I was a college student, as it is a lovely place to sit and read (and a spooky place to roam at night, especially around Halloween, dodging police patrols). 2. Cremation seems the right route for me.

Sean Kelly

2022-12-09 17:05:51 +0000 UTC

I don’t want to be buried but want my ashes either saved by a loved one along with my son’s who died a stillborn or have our ashes discarded in Honeymoon Island, Dunedin FL where my husband and I got married.

Honey Do

2022-12-09 17:05:50 +0000 UTC

I love this contest! Question 1. My favorite cemetery is the one I used to walk through on my way to my Junior High school in the 90s - Holy Cross cemetery in Yeadon, Pa. I always found it to be peaceful and I liked communing with the dead on my walls home. There were a lot of great old headstones to take a look at. Mt. Moriah Historic Cemetery and Arboretum is also a very cool cemetery. A lot of different churches and organizations used that cemetery so you can find an interesting mix of people there. Question 2. I would like to have as natural a burial as possible. No embalming. No cremation. The body that houses my soul should serve a purpose after I am done with it. Ideally, I would like have a tree pod burial so my body can nourish a tree as it grows and my loved ones will have a place to visit.

Stephanie Shenck

2022-12-09 17:04:49 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetary is Huntington Historic Cemetary in Huntington New York 2. I have saved all of my pets ashes - I work in Rescue for 13 years so there are a LOT of ashes lol. I would like half of my ashes mixed with all of theirs and sprinkled in City Park in new orleans which is where all of them were rescued and where we lived for 13 years. This was our favorite place. (dogs, cats and mine) in new orleans. Then I would like the rest of my ashes spread at the Ocean in Montauk New York - My other favorite place.

amy schettino

2022-12-09 17:03:21 +0000 UTC

1. Arlington National Cemetery (I have a military family, and this cemetery’s scale and care bring so much emotion.) 2. I plan to use my life’s savings to send my descendants on a global scavenger hunt. They have to bring my ashes and leave a little piece of me in every place they visit.

Aubree Webb

2022-12-09 17:01:40 +0000 UTC

Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven CT near Sarah Winchester. I would love o be dressed in one of my Bellydance outfits so when I join my friends I'm ready to party.

Gail J Marmet

2022-12-09 17:00:52 +0000 UTC

1. My favourite cemetery is Arnos Vale in Bristol, England (www.arnosvale.org.uk) It was established in 1837 and is “45 green acres of spectacular Victorian garden cemetery”. It is a heritage site and many events take place there, including weddings, yoga, art classes, film screenings - so all the ghouls can have a happening afterlife! 👻 Some of their upcoming events listings are: Full Moon Sound Bath, Talk on the Early History of the Funeral Trade, Talk titled “I’m Not Dead! - The Perils of Premature Burial”. 2. I am so torn over burial plans - I want to be laid to rest with my beloved kitties who are my whole world, but I also want to donate my body to science because I was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of breast cancer at age 29 (just celebrated my ten years cancer free in November!) and I want to do everything possible to help progress research into such an underfunded and unknown type of cancer, which has very few treatment options. 🖤 Good luck, everyone and thank you, Christine for such a fun competition! ✨

Lily

2022-12-09 17:00:12 +0000 UTC

The Circle of Lebanon in Highgate cemetery in London UK. 2. I would like to be buried in a tomb that is a facsimile of my home. It would be furnished with all my most treasured possessions and I would be placed in my own antique bed.

Chris Clarke

2022-12-09 16:59:36 +0000 UTC

I love Green-Wood cemetery here in NY, out in Brooklyn. It has such notable residents as Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquait (as well as the notorious Boss Tweed, the "Tiger of Tammany"). It is absolutely beautiful, and chock full of history. Definitely worth a visit if you come to NYC and surely a final resting place with lots of interesting neighbors, as is the way of being a resident of one of the boroughs. As for a burial plan, the other person I follow on Patreon is Catlin Doughty of Ask A Mortician, and I am extremely intrigued by eco friendly options like human composting. A body farm would also be appropriate for me, considering how much true crime content I have consumed for most of my life. :-P

Elizabeth Cherry

2022-12-09 16:58:11 +0000 UTC

Stupid enter button... 2) I want to be cremated. I realize that's not very romantic but it seems like a better land use to me. As for a funeral I want something casual because I feel like being sad and uncomfortable is the worst combination. People wouldn't listen but I would want them to dress in their comfiest clothes and then I would want it to be catered by one of my favorite local soul food restaurants, just comfort food as people sit around. I have play lists as well. If they insisted on a traditional viewing or something I would want them to play Many Rivers to Cross by Jimmy Cliff, It's All over Now Baby Blue by Bob Dylan and then Rod Stewarts If you Want my Body cause I am kind of a dick and i think that would be funny.

Brian Miller

2022-12-09 16:57:19 +0000 UTC

1. Make your own cemetery in the grounds of the house! You could make the headstones, or sarcophagi, or whatever you want, for yourself, the captive and any smaller, furrier family members. Plant trees now and tend them into twisty creepy trees over the decades. Design the fencing and gates. 2. When I'm dead, I'm dead. Funerals, burials, all of that.. ... I believe it's for the living, not the departed. So I'm not that worried about what happens to this mortal shell once I've discarded it.

Carly Elsworth

2022-12-09 16:57:19 +0000 UTC

So excited for both of these questions! 1) Mount Hope Cemetary in Rochester, New York (it is so unbelievably beautiful and atmospheric) 2) My husband and I plan to build a family mausoleum in the cemetery near our childhood homes. We are both lovers of art and architecture, and designing a beautiful memorial space where our descendants can visit our remains / memories and enjoy the surroundings is very important to us. We hope to begin the formal planning and design process in the next few years, once my stepson exits college. We're tentatively planning to have a spot where folks can pour libations in our memory as well. Thanks for the idea, ancient Rome! 🥂

Amanda Qualls

2022-12-09 16:57:02 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is located in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania. It's one of the most beautiful cemeteries I've been too. To reach the cemetery you need to drive up a swirly winding road, but once you reach the top you will not be disappointed. It sits atop the whole city but is quiet and peaceful with lush greenery. There are also lots of cute wildlife strolling about! 2. I've never thought of my burial plan before, but now that I think about it I would like to be buried in the traditional way with a purple casket. I would like to have music playing when I am buried. I think I would like to have a traditional mariachi band playing. While I don't want my burial service to be too sad I would want a sad song playing as I am lowered into the earth. The celebration to follow would be a joyous event with some of my favorite foods, music, and funny memories.

Angelique Borbolla

2022-12-09 16:54:40 +0000 UTC

Questions 1. PUYALLUP WOODBINE CEMETERY Puyallup Woodbine Cemetery in Puyallup ranks number 1 out of the two cemeteries in Puyallup City in terms of popularity. Further, it ranks 10th out of 24 cemeteries in Pierce County, 31st out of the 229 cemeteries in Washington State, and 2601 in the United States. It is located in Puyallup City at 2323 9th Street Southwest, Puyallup, Washington, 98373.- this Cemetery has grave stones dating back to 1899 from some of the towns funders. It also boasts beautiful views- for your visiting family- of the Puyallup valley, as well as - on non-cloudy days, views of Mt. Rannier, and surrounding foothills. Your closest ghosts and ghouls can then visit the Puyallup Library, which was founded before the city. ( reading is important to us 😃) Or in Sep, can walk a short distance down the hill to Puyallup (state) fairgrounds for all of your carnival rides and food. The cemetery it's self is well kept and has a quite park like atmosphere. The Puget sound Ghost hunters have also investigated this site for hauntings, so you'll be sure to have the opportunity to meet new friends. Question 2 I have 2 thoughts that might not be mutually exclusive. The first is to donate my body to scientific research. I'm super weird, and maybe at least then my family will be able to figure out why, then replicate the process. Because I'm also awesome and fun. The second- which could potentially take place after my "internment-ship" 😃 with my scientific collogues. Would be to do an Earth-funeral. This can happen either by cremating the remains, and adding this to soil in a special Urn that houses a Sapling of your choice. OR your body is put into a container. (find out more here, https://earthfuneral.com/) and something similar is done, but with multiple trees at a beautiful location here in the Olympic Peninsula. ( this option is Carbon Neutral process)

Abbyanne Postawa

2022-12-09 16:54:18 +0000 UTC

1) Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. It is beautiful and massive and overlooks the river. It is full of just massive monuments and really interesting things like a statue of an iron dog, multiple headstones that are carved to look like trees and so on. We even have the Richmond Vampire who lives in the Tomb of WW Poole which is in this cemetery.

Brian Miller

2022-12-09 16:53:52 +0000 UTC

1) The Glasgow Necropolis, East End of the City of Glasgow, Scotland. 2) I would like to be cremated and pressed into my favourite record, which is a Nat King Cole Christmas Album :)

Melisa Kelly

2022-12-09 16:53:51 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the old auburn cemetery in auburn, ca https://www.auburncemetery.com/. The Auburn cemetery sits surrounded by little bungalow homes. They offer spooky tours every halloween. If you haven't been to Auburn I recommend visiting. It's a sweet little old mining town in the foothills of the sierra mountains. 2. I want to be cremated on a pyre, then have some of my ashes be turned into a jewel and some used as tattoo ink incase my children want a last tattoo with mom. Then the rest of my ashes can be scattered in the ocean by the Kilauea volcano.

Lia Michelle

2022-12-09 16:53:48 +0000 UTC

1. Oak Hill Funeral and Memorial Park in San Jose, CA. // I moved to San Jose nearly 10 years ago from Washington state and bought a home in San Jose, CA about 3 years ago. I’ve driven past this cemetery nearly every day. It wasn’t until recently my mom was looking through our family tree and found a few of our great great great grandparents were buried there. So close to where I call home. So she flew down to see me and we drove the 10min from my house to the cemetery and spent the afternoon walking the grounds until we found the Evans plot. The cemetery itself is beautiful, but the afternoon walk with my mom searching for our long lost relatives was what makes this cemetery my favorite. 2. I want to be buried in a tree pod and planted in a forest, providing nutrients to the soil, plants, and animals. I want my tree to be either a Eucalyptus tree or a lemon tree.

Sarah

2022-12-09 16:53:06 +0000 UTC

1. There is an unmarked graveyard at Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville, Maryland. You can Google search the hospital (it's partially an abandoned me tal hospital and partially being restored by the city), but the graveyard is north campus between Main Street and 2nd Street, a small hill that is accessible from a little road before the soccer field that reaches almost to Allen Road in the neighborhood next door. 39.3914211, -76.9540136

Shnoof Webster

2022-12-09 16:53:06 +0000 UTC

1. my favorite cemetery has to be Mount Auburn Cemetery in Newton, MA. it is the first “garden-style” cemetery in the United States and is part arboretum, garden, and burial grounds. the mausoleums and graves are absolutely breathtaking, and they have converted a portion of the historic cemetery for natural burials which is lovely! 2. my death plan is a bit odd and detailed for some, but as i’m a funeral director apprentice, i guess it is to be expected. i would like to be composted and put underneath a weeping willow tree with my partner for eternity. there’s a lot of soil that comes out of the process, so if any of my loved ones wanted to bring some of my dirt into their own gardens that would also be lovely. i’ve also gone back and forth on a more unusual method, and one i’m not sure is illegal or not, but i have a fascination with human-leather bound books. there’s a famous man from history (blanking on his name) who wrote a memoir and was executed for i believe theft and he instructed his family to have his skin made into leather and to bind his book. that is just wild, and i would love to perhaps do the same.

Emma Grace

2022-12-09 16:52:32 +0000 UTC

1. Glasgow Necropolis. GORGEOUS, and Necropolis is the best word, alongside Cadaver, my fave word in the english language. 2. An absolute celebration and show of a funeral, where the finale is "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash, and then I'm cremated and my ashes turned into jewelry, diamonds or those cool swirl things, and sent to friends and family as surprise gifts.

Kate

2022-12-09 16:52:26 +0000 UTC

1) The Moonville Cemetery in McArthur, Ohio. Such a beautiful small cemetery that contains the last residents of a nearby village. The cemetery stands on top of a hill in the woods with a beautiful tree. It's very peaceful. 2) I would love to be buried in a beautiful black gown, paintbrushes in hand so I will always be creating, even in the afterlife. A couple dried bunches of lavender for good luck atop my casket and I'd be all set. 🖤

Kat Mackenzie

2022-12-09 16:51:09 +0000 UTC

1: "Cementerio de Niembro" in Asturias, Spain. The cemetery is located in the sea estuary, (I don't really know why, but it has a purpose for sure) and 10 min away from this place, is located the "Palacio de Partarríu" where The Orphanage (2007 film by Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro) was filmed . The locals share a lot of ghost stories about this places, even before the movie. 👀👀👀👀 2: My burial plan is to leave in my testament a detailed treasure hunt with a lot of riddles. Some hints are going to be in my grave. The candidate who solves all the riddles and puzzles wins my oddities collection, my cats (alive or dead 😂), and maybe the family curse...who knows!

Nknk

2022-12-09 16:50:04 +0000 UTC

I know this is going to sound strange...but I don't want to get buried in a cemetery. I would like to be cremated the way the Indians used to do it. Seeing how I'm part Native American, on my mom's side, I wanted to go out like that. But, if I was to be buried, I would want to have my body buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans. I'm a Louisiana Chick and have always loved New Orleans. It's gothic cathedrals, the music and bars and the vampires that hide in the shadows. And as strange as it sounds, there ARE some vamps hiding there. ^_^

Kathy Frederick

2022-12-09 16:49:33 +0000 UTC

1. My favourite cemetery is the Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, Romania. It's the weirdest cemetery I've ever visited and would be the best place to be buried if you died a funny death. One of my favourite tombstones was about a tourist who came to visit the Mery Cemetery only to be hit by a car in front of the gates. They buried him in the cemetery and sculpted on the tombstone a picture of him being hit by a car 🤦 2. If I don't die a funny death (and I think they only bury locals with a few exceptions in Sapanta) then I love the idea of having my own mausoleum and would like to be buried with my partner and our fur babies. If I ever get to buy an old house I would definitely build this in the backyard although I'm not sure you're allowed to here in the UK, hmm...

Paula Razielle

2022-12-09 16:48:22 +0000 UTC

1. Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery (7777 W 29th Ave Wheat Ridge, CO), there’s the cemetery itself and on the west side there is a park with a small lake that has view of the mountains and beautiful trails. 2. I plan on being cremated, but I’m debating on what to do with my ashes. I have gotten ideas from Caitlin Doughty (from YouTube), and I have thought about getting my ashes eaten by animals but I’m still not sure

Yoshi818

2022-12-09 16:48:09 +0000 UTC

1. Old Elkmont Cemetery in Gatlinburg, TN. 2. I really just want to be cremated. I feel like it’s the most affordable, legal way to discard of my remains. I also don’t want a big financial burden on my family. I don’t want a funeral, maybe just a small get together for my family.

Angie Holman

2022-12-09 16:45:06 +0000 UTC

2. I have bought a tree in a forrest nearby that can legally be used as a burial ground. The ashes of up to 10 people AND pets can be buried there. The roots of the tree are laid bare and the ashes are poured into them. That way, the nutrients from our ashes will nourish the tree. There will be no graveside flowers — nature provides the decoration throughout the seasons. It’s lovely to know that I will be there with my loved ones and my pets. 1. https://www.friedwald.ch/wald/kuesnacht-goldbach/

Andrea Christine Hitchman

2022-12-09 16:41:33 +0000 UTC

After anything that can be donated is gone I'd like to be cremated or composted. My favorite idea right now is to be snuck into the Cimetière des Chiens in Paris just in case my spirit can hang out there with the other residents. It's so beautiful and well kept plus every animal buried there must have been loved deeply. Maybe the rest of my ashes tossed into any major body of water, see where I end up.

Rebecca Phelps

2022-12-09 16:41:22 +0000 UTC

So exciting! 1) St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery in Mt Pleasant, SC (211 Freeman St Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 United States). It is small, has bent rod iron fences around it, large oaks with Spanish moss, and headstones that shine perfectly under a full moon. It is also right in the middle of a neighborhood, so when you go on your moonlight cemetery walks (as one does), you also feel like you’re in a little secret cemetery bubble in the middle of cute houses and Christmas lights 2) I want to be cremated and have my ashes mixed with cement/plaster or paint and have my heirs make me a part of their next home project so I can be a part of their homes forever and protect them from evil spirits.

Sadie Skeels

2022-12-09 16:41:00 +0000 UTC

1. “Necropolis” is one of my favorite words! I’m a cemetery wanderer and have visited dozens of beautiful ones all over the world. The Glasgow Necropolis in Scotland is an absolute wonderland in winter. But my favorite so far has been the graveyard in Glendalough, Ireland. It’s utterly enchanting—and palpably enchanted! 🧚‍♀️ 2. When I die, I want to be composted. It only takes about a month or so to turn a human body into nutrient-rich soil, which is then returned to your loved ones who can use it to plant something or spread it just like ashes. So much better for the environment, and just think of all the things I can help grow for years and years to come! 🌱(There’s a company in California called Recompose if you’re curious to know more!)

Vixi Vale

2022-12-09 16:40:28 +0000 UTC

1. The ultimate gothic cemetery - inspiration to the author of Dracula Bram Stoker - St Mary’s Church Graveyard! It’s set 199 steps over the picturesque coastal town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England and is framed by the stark ruins of the Abbey. It’s tremendously atmospheric, especially on a misty day - weathered and blacked graves poking through fog with the beautiful inscriptions of curlicued script, adorned with skulls and crossbones. Stoker captures its foreboding character best: ‘I could see the ruins of the Abbey into view… it seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat… What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.’ 2. I’m half-Irish, and like you have a large collection of antique clocks, so I like the romantic Irish Wake tradition of stopping all clocks at the time of death and laying the deceased on a table whilst goodbyes are said and memories shared. It’s a sign of respect to the deceased - the belief that time on earth stands still for the person who has died. They can move on to the afterlife without being rushed. Likewise, mirrors (viewed as portals to other worlds) are covered with sheets or shrouds, whilst the window closest to the body is opened - this allows the deceased’s soul to travel safely and directly to heaven. It’s a poetic and thoughtful way to respect the dead.

Cathleen Murray

2022-12-09 16:39:15 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetary local to me is Thornrose Cemetary. It features a limestone gatehouse entrance, bridge and tower and many mausoleums and monuments. I want to be cremated after my death and have my ashes scattered in a few natural beautiful places. Anywhere that you can’t hear traffic!

Amber Moore

2022-12-09 16:39:14 +0000 UTC

1. Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Very historic, creepy, hilly, and cool. 2. I would like to donate my body to science or have a natural burial under a tree somewhere where my body can decompose and go back to nature.

Petrina Anna

2022-12-09 16:37:14 +0000 UTC

1) St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, I learned so much on a tour! It’s really beautiful, haunting and peaceful. 2) I would like to have a Greek Orthodox funeral. I grew up in the church and while I don’t consider myself particularly religious now, I find the service to be so beautiful. My dad passed away nearly 10 years ago from cancer and the service helped me find acceptance and feel he was at peace. I also want my friends and family to share stories and memories and celebrate life rather than mourning!

Kalli M.

2022-12-09 16:36:25 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is Greyfriars kirkyard in Edinburgh. I lived in Edinburgh for a little while and my boyfriend (now husband) and I would walk around the city at night and Greyfriars was so spooky and interesting when no tourists were around. 2) My dream burial would be on a family estate that I magically inherit from a relative I didn't know I had. There would be a family cemetery in a magical wooded area...very Addams Family 😁

AC

2022-12-09 16:36:00 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite is Oak Hill Cemetery in DC. It's a historic site and is part grave yard, part sculpture garden with some of the most ancient oak trees I've ever seen. It's a truly beautiful place! 2. I've always wanted to keep it simple, basically, and have my cremated remains cast into the ocean. The happiest I've ever felt is bobbing in the waves all alone on a sunny day in Ocean City, MD. I'd like to spend eternity doing that, if I could.

Patricia

2022-12-09 16:34:24 +0000 UTC

1. The catacombs of Paris. This is an ossuary rather than a cemetery. I hope that's okay. Unfortunately, I don't live in Paris, I live in Michigan. Fortunately for me though, I save all my victims skeletal remains and can just build one in my own backyard. Also, if there are any volunteers.. the more skeletons the merrier. 2. In certain parts of Michigan you can be buried on private property. So my plan is to be placed in a hauntingly cold and eerie well house I build with all the skeletal remains I store in my closet. After I am killed I will ensure my body is mummified for optimal preservation and placed in the well house so my body can draw on the dark energy provided by the well house and that way my resurrection can be as smooth sailing as possible. A little background story for anyone interested: I have been collecting my ancestors skeletal remains for such a project as this! On my haunted eerie little Victorian homestead, complete with an old, fully stocked apothecary. I have the most elaborate and haunting well. As a practitioner of the dark arts, I think it a lovely idea to have a haunting and chilly place I can go in the morning where I can just relax and sip on a brew to remind me of all life's turmoil. The idea I have for this project is to create the most luxurious, and macabre well house for my well. It will be set up behind my old and eerie Victorian Cottage with the skeletal remains of my victims.. oops, I mean ancestors. This project would provide a wonderfully dark energy I could then soak up when I am sitting outside and relaxing. My muses for this project would be Tim Burton, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blatty... oh, you meant architectural muses ..yes, so I would want the structure to blend in with the Victorian architectural design of my cottage, but with a bit of inspiration coming from IU's Bloomington’s Rose Well House and the Catacombs of Paris. Eventually, I would like to have my bones placed there to soak up enough of the dark energy provided by my ancestors to redirect my spirit back into my dead body so that I might become a skeleton roaming the earth, and finding other lost souls to redirect back into their skeletons.

Kena Bowers

2022-12-09 16:34:22 +0000 UTC

1. Oakland Cemetery - St. Paul, MN it's the first public cemetery in Minnesota and has mausoleums, it's super neat 2. I have several ideas for a burial plan. I want a natural burial so I can return to the earth, want to become a tree, or I want to be cremated so I can be turned into jewelry so my loved ones can wear me around. I would very offended if my loved ones did not wear me.

RosyMeggleMoth

2022-12-09 16:34:02 +0000 UTC

1. Park Hill Cemetery in Vancouver WA is my favorite hometown cemetery, I drive by it to work and it's always nicely maintained. It also has some old graves from the 1800s, which as a history need I love 2. My burial plan is to be cremated. I don't have any specific request about my ashes, I think making a meaningful plan for them will benefit those grieving then me. I do want my funeral to have elements of joy, music and laughter though- I want my best times to be celebrated!

Hannah Chen

2022-12-09 16:29:51 +0000 UTC

Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA https://thehomewoodcemetery.com/ 1.My favorite cemetery, perfect for walks, picnics, and burial, is Homewood Cemetery here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which boasts many Gilded Age tenants There’s a l section dubbed millionaires row, which has many beautiful mausoleums with Tiffany stained glass .We even have a pyramid where the family of the shipping and banking industrialist William Harry Brown is buried. What I like most about the cemetery is it shows the history of the city and the immigrants who made it. There is millionaires row, but as the city grew and changed, so did the cemetery. You can find an amazing mix of people from all backgrounds buried there. I love is that you can find the history of the city there. Be it the “men that built America”, or leaders of the African-American civil rights movement and jazz age in Pittsburgh. 2. Right now, my ideal death plan would be to have a natural burial. That would mean I would be put in a cotton shroud and buried in the ground without a casket or tomb. There would be a record of where I was buried, but no headstone. Family and friends could come and visit me and enjoy the wooded area and nature. And I would just decompose. I do plan on making my own cotton, burial shroud, maybe embroidering it, and spending some time on it as a way for me to process and meditate on my death. I think it’s important that we have plans like this so we can take time to really think about how we want to be buried and come to peace with the fact that we are going to die. So I think a natural burial will be perfect for me.

Emmanuelle Wambach

2022-12-09 16:29:46 +0000 UTC

1. I don’t really have a favorite cemetery so I don’t really have an answer for that one 2. I don’t quite know if it’s in my plan but I’ve seen this thing where you can press your ashes into a vinyl record and that idea really drew me

Carolyn Cantrell

2022-12-09 16:29:24 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery - A little trivia - There is an intersection in Philadelphia that has three different cemeteries on all four corners - https://goo.gl/maps/YTxkFmaYtBjZcPDK7 - I believe it's the only place in USA where that occurs. In the 1960s and 70s, North Cedar Hill Cemetery would rent out plots to gardeners. The neighborhood is row homes with little access to gardening. My grandfather had three plots where he grew fresh vegetables and herbs. It was an essential activity to help his recovery from alcoholism. I'd like to be buried close to a plot where my grandfather tilled the land, naturally, wrapped in cotton gauze - like Nate Fisher's character in the final season of the TV Show Six Feet Under.

Evey E

2022-12-09 16:27:41 +0000 UTC

1) I have two favorite cemeteries! My favorite cemetery to visit interesting people is Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA. It is a beautiful, old, sprawling graveyard, and is the final resting place of Louisa May Alcott, Thoreau, Emerson, and other notable authors, and it is fun to go say 'hi'. In my (new) home state of New Hampshire I love Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis. It is among the oldest in the state, and is quite haunted. Most notably, they say that the grave of Abel Blood, which during the day has a finger pointing toward the sky, points downward at night. It's beautiful and spooky. 2) I happen to live on an 8 acre blueberry farm that no one locally would buy because it is supposedly haunted! While I have never experienced anything but happiness and joy here outside of my own imaginings, I would like to haunt it myself after I die. I would like to be put in a tree pod and planted in the forested area on my property. That way, I can live on as a beautiful tree in the serenity of the woods, and maybe give the locals a fright every now and then.

Erin DeWitt

2022-12-09 16:25:50 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the Morpheus Island Cemetery, located in Clayoquot Sound British Columbia Canada, near the coastal village of Tofino. Those who wish to visit the cemetery must travel by boat, kayak or canoe, to a tiny offshore island. Walk up the beach to a curved path - the moss-covered graves are hidden in the trees - an ancient temperate rainforest. There are less than 50 graves on Morpheus, including the final resting place of the infamous and very eccentric local character Fred Tibbs (who is also worth googling). 2. My burial plan is for my body to be wrapped in Cedar Bark and cremated, my ashes placed inside my kayak and then pushed out to sea with the outgoing tide.

Samuel David Bovenlander

2022-12-09 16:25:08 +0000 UTC

1. Purissima Cemetery in San Mateo County, California. Established in the 1860s and now doing eco-friendly burials, this plot of land is quite captivating! Intricate nature has always been the biggest pull for me, I personally find flat cemetery lawns a little boring, so to see how well incorporated the headstones are under the trees leaves me totally amazed. 2.I would love to join the forest floor as soil for plants and have a cast iron sculpture of my hands posed to hold the face of my partner, offering comfort to really anyone who wandered by :). (Further research led me to a company in California called Recompose that can make your body into soil that can be reused in the ground!!)

Kaitlyn

2022-12-09 16:24:49 +0000 UTC

1. I just did a walking tour of the garden district in New Orleans and Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is so beautiful and tucked behind walls on its own block in the garden district with huge old trees and moss and ferns growing everywhere. 2. I would like to be composted (human composting is legal in Oregon where I live), but I still would love to have a headstone or a tomb in a cool cemetery somewhere because I just love cemeteries. So composted and then use like half the dirt for something in nature like planting a tree, and half the dirt in a burial plot with a cool Victorian inspired headstone.

Alia Moore

2022-12-09 16:22:32 +0000 UTC

1) Calvary cemetery in Tacoma WA, where my grandma is buried. No other reason lol 2) Human composting 🥰. I'm already signed up with the company Recompose in Washington even though I'm only 32, they are the company responsible for getting human composting to become legal in about five states but they are currently working on a bill in New York. It takes 30 days for you to become compost (about a truck bed's worth of material) that your friends and family can either take home and use as they please in their own gardens or it gets donated to a national park that they partner with. No taking up space in a cemetery, no forcing you to buy a burial vault or trying to upsell you on a casket, and no emissions from a cremation

Stacy Litwin

2022-12-09 16:22:04 +0000 UTC

1.) I've always loved Linwood Cemetery in Glenwood Springs, CO. Gorgeous views for my spectre to enjoy and a famous neighbor, Doc Holiday himself. 2.) My dream is a viking funeral. Just ship me out onto the water and set my body ablaze. It is highly illegal and definitely a biohazard, but so much fun to dream of.

Taygan Klinger

2022-12-09 16:21:47 +0000 UTC

1⚰️) St Kilda Cemetery, Dandenong Road. The first burial there was of a young girl named Charlotte Green - hers is the most ogled tombstone. They have tours! I think it's Heritage Listed. I used to hang out at the front gates as a teenager, at night, singing Concrete Blonde Songs, and sipping red wine. Made a friend or two. 2🧜🏻‍♀️) While I have many options... and have contemplated choosing one element to return to: Earth, Water, Fire, or Air... I have chosen to... "Rest in Reef!" {something like eternalreefs dot com} To Return to the Primordial Seas, as a Lovingly constructed "Reef Ball" that becomes an eternal home for critters, coral, and currents. (Depending on my end-of-life situation, I might also just "fall overboard" on a cruise-ship, somewhere deep-water fantastic, after a few too many Brompton Cocktails...🍸) In 2016, I learned I could become a Diamond! 💎 Or a Ruby, or any Gem. No more, "This was your grandmother's ring..."💍 More like, "This was your grandmother"... 💍 I also learned I could become a Vinyl Record! (Courtesy of: "And Vinyly... Live on from beyond the groove") Or a Lovely paper-weight, by a business called: Artful Ashes (Seattle). I already knew one could be planted with a Tree - that is also a considerate and organic option. The "Capsula Mundi". Totally interested in learning about any new creative after-life advancements that have been made in the last 6 years! I could be fireworks...! But dogs really hate that. 1 & 1/2) I have a friend who has a youtube channel called gHOST bITCHES where she visits and records all sorts of cemeteries around Victoria, and "voices" with her machine. I think she visited the Resting Place of Ned Kelly, in one.

Mardi Shakti

2022-12-09 16:21:39 +0000 UTC

1.) Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. It's a National Historic Landmark and one of NYC's biggest hidden gems. 2.). My burial plan is simply to be buried at this cemetery, preferably in the very spot next to the willow tree where my now husband proposed.

Anne Douglas

2022-12-09 16:21:30 +0000 UTC

1. Favorite Cemetery would be Afterglow Mausoleum! It's a small and private mausoleum if it counts in Washington that I have on my bucket list to go to! This is the final resting place for the McMillian family where there are 6 chairs around a table under this beautiful arc structure in the middle of the forest. 6 of the 7 family members have their ashes inside the chairs! Do you dare take a seat? 2. I want to be cremated and mixed into soil with seeds for trees. I want each member of my family have their own tree to grow and take it with them. If they can't keep the tree alive, I want to haunt them until they get it right. If the tree grows, I will still haunt them, but with more levity.

Taylor Comeau

2022-12-09 16:19:59 +0000 UTC

1. i really don’t have an answer to this question that’s an actual place, but i have an answer for a fictional place!! lol since i was a kid, my favorite book has been The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. if the graveyard where it takes place were real, i would kill to visit it, even if i couldn’t meet the characters that live there. it holds such a special place in my heart. 2. i would very much like my body to be donated to science. i often think of jeremy bentham and and how much joy and education his body has provided and i think of the bodies that have been used to further understand decomposition and the bodies that allow us to better understand the human body in general and i would just love for one of those bodies to be me. if i’m not able to be donated, i would like a natural burial! i would like to give back to the earth with my body if i can give back to science. i like the idea of my body having as much purpose in death as it has in life. it has done so much and continues to do so much every day for me, i would love for that to continue after i’ve gone.

India

2022-12-09 16:19:41 +0000 UTC

1. I'm going to give you two answers for this question. When I was 17, my boyfriend lived in South Carolina at the time. I lived near the state line in Monroe, NC. At sunset he took me to this remote place in S.C. I wouldn't be able to find it again, there was no name for this place and no road names, but it was on a hill and the view was amazing. On this hill, there are 5 tombstone. They where so old you could barely read them and a few yards back you could see old ruins of a house. I asked him how did you find this place. He said believe it or not people come here to party and make out. Lol, My official answer is 891 Bickett St #6224, Monroe, NC 28112, It's called Sunset Park. Next to this cemetery is a park and a very haunted Elementary School. The rumor is the school was built on top of Graves. Either way, can you imagine the fun you can have with that. 2. My death plan is to be buried and have a tree planted on top of me. So that way if my tombstone whethers a way. I'll have a tree grave maker.

Irene mitola

2022-12-09 16:18:11 +0000 UTC

What a lovely idea! 1) My favourite cemetery is Arnos Vale in Bristol, England. It's very busy and cluttered and has an incredible necropolis you can be married in now (so goth) and it has beautiful grounds to walk around. 2) I would like to be buried into the roots of a tree so that I can feed and become a part of the earth, literally. I love the idea of becoming part of something as graceful and majestic as a big beautiful tree ❤️

Jenny Gosling

2022-12-09 16:16:22 +0000 UTC

1) Old Trail Cemetery, Trail BC. Its an old retired graveyard from the late 1800s. It is placed on a hill on the way to a small skiing village, so I drove past it a lot as a kid, and would always make up wild stories about what was in there. 2) I want my ashes to be forged into a black steel sword. I want this sword to adorn the mantels of my descendents. When the time comes, and they must avenge the family, they will use the sword of their great-great-great-grandmother to smite their foes.

Rachael Sykes

2022-12-09 16:14:04 +0000 UTC

1) Sleepy Hollow! 2) Donate body to a Body Farm! There are a couple in the US. A body farm is a research facility where decomposition of humans and other animals can be studied in a variety of settings. (Can get kinda grisly from what I've heard) Great info for forensic anthropologists. And at the end your skeleton maybe added to a collection for more educational purposes.

Annemaria Groenhout

2022-12-09 16:13:51 +0000 UTC

My first choice would be to be buried in Bachelors Grove Cemetery in Midlothian, Illinois. It's the most haunted Cemetery in Illinois, reportedly. It's tucked back in some woods and there is a long trail to get to it. They don't do burials there any longer, though. Not for quite some time. More realistically, I would love to be buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Another beautiful Cemetery with a haunted history. There is the Statue of Death that can show you your death if you stare into it's eyes and cannot be photographed (there ARE plenty of photographs of this statue, though 😋. There is also the statue for Inez Clarke who was a little girl killed during a lightening storm. When it is storming it is said her spirit possesses the statue of her and roams the grounds. I would like, either way, to have one of those safety burial scenarios. I picture a tomb with two flickering blue lights in lanterns on either side of the entrance (there is a legend where flames turn blue in the presence of spirits). Above the door would be a bell like they would attach to the fingers and toes of the deceased, the theory being that if they woke up buried alive the strings would ring the bell and notify the grounds keeper to open that grave immediately and free the prematurely buried individual. I would like to have it rigged to randomly ring as it would be fun to give people a little story to tell that they experienced something, even after I am gone.

Nicholas Frig

2022-12-09 16:10:53 +0000 UTC

1: My favorite cemetery is The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. I love that it's not treated as a somber forbidden place but as a beautiful park with night time tours. And they do gorgeous musical events there, I'd imagine the permanent residents appreciate it. 2. I hope to have a open casket viewing before being cremated. I'd want to give my loved ones a chance to say good-bye and give myself one last moment to feel beautiful. I am make up artist in NYC, I would hope one of my friends would paint my face proper before sending me off. I would wear my father emeralds he had made in to a ring for my mother. I would wear the amethyst necklace she gave to me on my graduation. In case only meaningful possessions were allowed to go with you. I also always loved the two gold coins over the eyes to pay for your passage on the river of styx. Considering my large eyes I would need two half dollar coins. My ashes would then promptly be brought to my home and laid to rest behind the house preferably under a tasteful bust and plaque. I would like to be close to family and if they should move away. I do enjoy drama and people watching, I think I would enjoy haunting whoever moves in to my family home.

Natalie Giraldo

2022-12-09 16:10:13 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is the Key West Cemetery. We can bike through it and there are some very interesting (and funny) headstone, plus the palm trees, frangipanis and bougainvillea make the lace extra special.

Caren Cone

2022-12-09 16:09:42 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery I’ve ever been to was Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburg, Scotland. The way it’s tucked into a little pocket among buildings makes it feel like you’ve been transported somewhere else. It’s also always rainy and foggy which I feel like is a must. 2. Would love my ashes to be mixed with paint to be used in a painting. I want to be a haunted painting that watches you as you walk down the hall!

Ali Altamuro

2022-12-09 16:08:01 +0000 UTC

1) My preferred cemetery is Forest Lawn Mortuary in Covina CA. Seen right off interstate 10 it reminds me of the haunted mansion cresting the hills from which you can see Los Angeles on a particularly clear day. 2) Personally I want to be buried in a shallow grave in a gnarled grove wrapped in linens or in a wicker casket with a tree seeded in my chest in hopes as it grows it pulls my bones up with it so I can still scare children and other folk even in death. 🖤💀🖤 Ps: Also Christine, thank you very much for the beautiful Christmas gift! It was such a wonderful surprise to have received it so early this year!

Roxanne Araña

2022-12-09 16:07:01 +0000 UTC

In little Macon, Missouri, there is this lovely Oakwood Cemetery in which I used to go and blow bubbles/go read books/escape back in grade school. Some real cool mausoleums and intricate slabs for headstones that are just gorgeous and under loved. I want to be infused in a chef's knife. Post cremation, using the carbon ash mix to forge the steel. Maybe I'll finally slice tomatoes perfectly. "Wow, grandma's so sharp!" "The spirit of the blade says it REALLY wants to smash garlic."

Sabrina Cavender

2022-12-09 16:06:35 +0000 UTC

1) Give the name and location of your favorite cemetery... and please make sure it can be googled! ;) on the Navajo reservation with my sister. The location name is Cow Spring , AZ. 2) What is your burial plan? This could be an element or an idea you have for your end or just one you think is neat! I will be cremated next to my sister's burial ground. I don't want anyone sobbing. Everyone is to wear a Halloween outfit as they say their goodbyes to me. The food will be halloween inspired. Still not sure about the music.

Mononoke Adams

2022-12-09 16:05:46 +0000 UTC

1) I love the Cemetery in London called Brompton. It is extremely peaceful and you can get quite a walk there. Theres broken tombs, giving a creepy " whats inside?" feeling. it blooms in spring. theres colonnades and lots of lovely architecture and ruin. 2) For myself Id rather be baked up and have my ashes released in the old growth parts of the Allegheny. Or buried at the base of the tree. but honestly ashes seem easier and who wants to cart around a 6'1 dude through a forest?

John Gardner

2022-12-09 16:05:43 +0000 UTC

1. I live in France so my favorite cemetery is Père Lachaise. 2. I collect My Little Pony figurines so I would love if my siblings would decorate my tombstone with g1 ans g2 toys. Sorry, I know this sounds pretty weird 🙃

Virginie Dessi

2022-12-09 16:05:34 +0000 UTC

1) My cemetery would be the pet cemetery near my house. It’s called “Illinois pet cemetery ” in Hanover Park, IL I think it’s the coolest since Pet Sematary is one of my favorite books, and I’ve had feathers shoot down from the sky at me there. so many interesting pet names most of them with a photo embedded into the gravestone. 2) my burial place would definitely be a random spot that’s unlikely to stumble across. Off the beaten path near a bubbling stream underneath an interesting tree. A place secret where it feels you’ve stepped into an eerie but serene dream. Where when you find it all you can do is sit and wonder who the heck is buried there and possibly hear the water whisper my name. ☺️☺️☺️

Chelle

2022-12-09 16:05:15 +0000 UTC

1) my favorite cemetery is the Burying Point in Salem, Ma. It’s the place accused witches were buried during the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s. It’s both sad and beautiful. 2) I plan on having a natural burial. It’s not legal everywhere (it is in Colorado, where I live). But they just wrap your body in a shroud and plop you into the ground, no casket, no nothing. It’s a less expensive option and you get to decompose, returning to the earth to be a part of nature for all eternity.

Kaige Sellers

2022-12-09 16:04:57 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Sunnyside Cemetery in Coupeville WA. https://www.sunnysidecemetery.org It was established in 1865. It has a wonderful early settlers cemetery surrounded by a thriving quirky new cemetery. My brother and my mother are buried there. When my brother died young in a construction accident in 2005, my mother chose this beautiful place for the family. It has a view out over the protected Ebby’s Landing Landmark valley on Whidbey Island in Washington. I got to design my brother’s custom headstone in 2005. My mother died in July. I’m currently designing her custom headstone. My younger brother will be buried there next to my mom. My husband and I will be water cremated and have cenotaphs attached to the back of my mother’s stone. I want to be scattered over Snoqualmie Falls here in WA. I’m really glad WA has the option of a green cremation. I’ve asked all of my friends to make their wills. It is the kindest thing anyone can do.

Thea Maia

2022-12-09 16:02:58 +0000 UTC

Favorite cemetery has to be the Vatican Necropolis! I had no idea it existed, so it was quite a neat discovery when we visited. As for my burial plan… cremate me and spread me around Disneyland so I can haunt the kids during Halloween. The haunted mansion could use that extra ghost, right?

Cami Castaneda

2022-12-09 16:01:52 +0000 UTC

1. I don't have a favorite graveyard. To be honest, I don't find the idea of being eaten by worms in the ground particularly desirable. 2. I want to be cremated and made into a diamond. I'm thinking of the size of the Hope diamond :-) This should then be kept on a velvet cushion under a glass dome.

Sandra Schumachenko

2022-12-09 16:01:50 +0000 UTC

1) Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Santa Monica CA, they do screenings of classic and black and white films on the lawn and host a massive Dia de Los Muertos party every year, they serve all kinds of religious rights and have wild peacocks running around 2) everyone in my family for the past couple hundred years has had a reliquary made from their remains (barring unforeseen loss of remains that is), you'd think we'd end up with too many but a lot of my relatives still don't have one. My mom says she wants hers made from her skull to be kept on a mantelpiece, I was thinking I'd have some of my ashes placed in an hourglass pendant

Arran MacFae

2022-12-09 16:00:38 +0000 UTC

Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA https://www.hollywoodcemetery.org/ Hollywood Cemetery is a beautiful place with rolling hills and historic mausoleums, statues and memorials. It doubles as a garden that is open for the public to tour and take in it's beauty. It's got a wonderful history as to how it became a cemetery and some very important permanent residents. If you are ever in the area, you must take time to visit it. As for my burial plan, just throw me in the trash. That's what I always say at least. In truth I will most likely be cremated and scattered. I don't foresee anyone wanting to keep my remains on their mantle unless I somehow go before my husband. I really love the idea of a Tree Pod. Have you heard of this? Your body is composted and bound with the roots of a tree that you can plant in your yard. I'd love to be the food for an apple or plum tree. Let my body be the food for future life.

Hilary Magoteaux

2022-12-09 15:59:24 +0000 UTC

Thank you for this opportunity ❤My fav cemetary is the "alter Südfriedhof" in my hometown Munich,because it really feels like something out of a fairytale 😊As for any plans, I would like this epitaph: "She always did very well with cats" 😂😂😂

Lisa-Maria

2022-12-09 15:59:13 +0000 UTC

1. Favorite cemetery is the Provo, Utah cemetery. It has some very beautiful sculptural headstones. It's an old cemetery too, some of my ancestors are buried there. Philo Farnsworth is also buried there. There are also some very old, big trees. Sadly 140 trees were uprooted, most of them were 100 years old, during a microburst in 1994. It's still a very peaceful and pretty place to walk. 2. I'd like to be cremated and have my ashes go into a hole that a tree is planted in. I want the tree to have pink blossoms in the spring.

Aimee G

2022-12-09 15:58:20 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. It's exactly what you envision an old cemetery to look like in the Pacific Northwest ~ all dreamy and misty with headstones covered in moss and magnificent pines and Douglas Firs. https://www.friendsoflonefircemetery.org/ As for my burial plans, I might just move north to Washington State because it's the only state that allows for human composting. I want my decomposing body to nourish the earth as naturally as possible. Thank you Christine, this was a fun contest!

Kathryn Jones

2022-12-09 15:58:09 +0000 UTC

1.) Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina. https://historicoakwoodcemetery.org/about-us/ 2.) Unsure currently. Perhaps a green burial in Mordecai’s Meadow in Oakwood. Or, an aquamation with my ashes put into a biodegradable urn and the tree planted in an obscure, beautiful forest.

Christy B.

2022-12-09 15:57:31 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the municipal cemetery of carriona (Avilés, Spain). As for what to do with me after I vanish away... I'd say: turn some of my bones into dice, I'd love to play dungeons and dragons in the afterlife. Might give my favorite family members some advantages who knows. Also would like some of my hair to be hidden in a teddy bear "feeling cute, might haunt you later". As for the rest of me... Cremate me and turn me into a diamond necklace for my cat Radagast. That's all :)

Valhalla

2022-12-09 15:56:58 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the Motley Mansion Cemetery in Mesquite Texas. It’s a tiny unassuming cemetery, but has always held the attention of the town’s children for one grave in particular. A now crumbling tombstone reads “The arm of John S. Motley.” John, one of the sons of the Motley family, was in a cotton gin accident that severed his arm at the age of 17. Devastated, John insisted that his arm be given a proper burial in the family’s cemetery. Shortly after, however, John began talking about how he could still feel his arm deep beneath the soil. He said he could feel ants swarming his whole arm day and night. Reluctantly, the family dug up his arm to find it was being devoured by ants! I like to think John’s arm was calling out to him until he eventually passed away and joined his severed limb. A small community college is now next to the cemetery and students claim to see John and his arm wandering the halls late at night. Some say the pair are just looking for big guys to arm wrestle, but others claim to see the severed arm chasing animals like a predator to prey. I never saw John, nor his arm, but I’m convinced they’re still out in that cemetery making up for lost time. 2. I recently found out about a burial suit that is able to grow a hybrid mushroom that can decompose bodies and metabolize toxins. You get draped with these special fabrics before being lowered into your final resting place. After time, you’d become a collection of mushrooms and provide nutrient rich soil. Hopefully my network of mushrooms would be attractive a group of fairies to share the afterlife with. Or maybe just a bed of mushrooms for sleepy animals looking for a place to rest.

czar

2022-12-09 15:56:51 +0000 UTC

1) Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol UK. It's a picturesque Victorian cemetery and a beautiful place to go for a walk and reflect. 2) I would like to donate my organs. Other than that my only request would be that I am reunited with my pets and my husband. Whether we are scattered together or planted as trees together, the thought of playing and haunting with those I love, fills me with so much joy 😊😺

Sam Richards

2022-12-09 15:53:56 +0000 UTC

1. Linden Grove Cemetery in Covington, Kentucky. Many moons ago, I was part of a project with the cemetery for a historical archeology class in college. The cemetery had no master list/plan of it graves, so we spent a semester plotting each one and recording the information of its interred. I have felt connected to the place ever since, even going so far as to nearly buy a neighboring house. 2. As a former anthropology student, my plan is for my body to be donated to the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center. If they cannot take me, the follow up plan is donation to a medical school or other research center. If I'm not using this meat suit anymore, then I hope others can use it to learn whatever it may be able to teach. I also have a terribly romantic idea of being buried at sea, but the logistics are likely too tough to overcome. I like to think perhaps I was in a previous life.

Jill Sergent

2022-12-09 15:53:52 +0000 UTC

1. my favorite Cemetery is Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Georgia, i use to visit a few times a year and take the most amazing photos. it’s so beautifully haunting and has so many unique and beautiful markers. 2. I’ve thought a lot about this. i want to donate as much of my organs and skin to people in need. the rest i want to have cremated and spread through my favorite park in my home town (Ritter Park, Huntington WV) some at the rose garden i love sitting in with my dogs on Sunday, a little on the trails under the tree line where we hike in the summer and the rest through the park field where we picnic in July. i have the best memories there and if i’m going to be somewhere for eternity i want it to be where people are happy and enjoying the beautiful weather.

Nick Needham

2022-12-09 15:53:43 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is the cemetery at the Oku-no-In temple on Mount Koya in Japan. https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4901.html Everything is covered in moss. When I was there it was pouring rain, which made it even more mystical. They also offer guided tours by night. It is simply stunning. 2. If I could choose I would love to be burned on a pyre. Wearing a pretty old vintage dress with long sleeves, flowers around me and wooven in my long hair, which is braided. My closest family and friends around, when my corspe turns to ashes and my spirit is released to the world beyound. As this is surely not possible in Austria and because I definately don‘t want to be burned in a crematorium and will be sent back by postal service, I think I will donate my corpse to science. This way I may be helpful to someone and I think I won‘t know anyway what will happen once I passed away.

Nathalie Riegler

2022-12-09 15:53:32 +0000 UTC

#1 Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA is gorgeous. There is something ethereal and calming about it. #2 Ever since I was little I thought it would be cool to be preserved like Lenin - on public display. I would inject some humor into the setting by having buttons visitors could press to hear me tell a joke or explain "Carol- Logic" bc I know they will be terribly missed upon my passing. 😂🪦

Carol V.

2022-12-09 15:53:25 +0000 UTC

I so highly recommend Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria BC. It's a Victorian cemetery on the shore of the Juan de Fuca strait on the Pacific. Between the giant trees, and flowering trees you catch the sparkle of the water and the Olympic mountains across in Washington state. The deer wander between the graves of 1800s sailors and judges and even our local and national favourite artist Emily Carr. Oh, and it's where the Satanic Panic began, as the setting of the rituals in Michelle Remembers! Even though everything in the book was proven to be complete horse****, clearly this beautiful place left a sinister impression! For burial plan, I don't want to be preserved, would love a shroud instead of any kind of box, want to be burried with a sword with a tree growing above me.

Victoria Flark

2022-12-09 15:53:04 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery isn't really fancy or anything. It's the Broadway cemetery in Galveston, TX. I drive past it often and I just love the look of all the old tombs and monuments. The old cemeteries are so different than the more modern ones that look so uniform and bleh. I always tell my family to go the cheapest route, straight to crematorium and no funeral. If they want to celebrate my life, have a party in the backyard. Talk about me, laugh about me, have a few drinks and hopefully be grateful that they knew me. It's insane how expensive it is to bury a loved one now, and of course I want to plan and get everything settled for myself before I go so no one has to worry about it.

Libby M

2022-12-09 15:52:27 +0000 UTC

1.) My favorite cemetery is Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA. A gorgeous historical cemetery with amazing skyline views. 2.) I believe I'd like to be cremated but would love to have a small statue as my headstone. I think they are so beautiful.

Dominique Kupersmith

2022-12-09 15:51:22 +0000 UTC

Hamilton Cemetery in Hamilton, Canada is lovely. Full of beautiful old graves and bordered on one side by a magnificent old mansion called Dundurn Castle and on the other by a lush landscape called Coot’s Paradise. There have been many creepy haunting over the years, and I recently discovered there are also mass graves dating to when cholera ravaged the city. The best part of the wiki entry, “ Oddly, there is indication that these crypts are renovations of an existing (ancient) stone building. Even more curious, is that these crypts are half-buried in a mound of earth.” A delicious mystery! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Cemetery I am hoping by the time I cross over that I can be composted. I’ve seen videos where your family can wash you and place flowers around you, then you’re put into a capsule to decompose into soil. The soil can be donated or your family can have it. Limited impact and I think it would be glorious to be literal food for worms so quickly!!

Andrea Westfall

2022-12-09 15:50:38 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is Fairview cemetery in Colorado Springs. I grew up right down the road from it and my mom and I spent many quiet afternoons wondering through and reading grave stones. I will be composted! I learned from Caitlyn of Ask A Mortician how it works, and that Colorado is one of only a few states that allow it even though it’s so effective. This way anyone who wants to keep a piece of me can put me in their garden after.

Jenna Musick

2022-12-09 15:50:25 +0000 UTC

1. If it's legal you should be buried on your current property! You could haunt the next owners and give them guidance on how to maintain the property. 2. I just had my will made and included my burial plans in it! I want an eco-friendly burial and love the idea of worms and mushrooms feeding on my body. Just my way to give back. ;) Beyond that I would love to give detailed instructions on conducting a seance so I can communicate with my living friends and families from the other side. Oh! And creating a post-mortem treasure hunt would be super fun. (You could totally create a really neat scavenger hunt involving riddles and clues throughout your house!)

Kathleen Shannon

2022-12-09 15:50:05 +0000 UTC

Hello Christine 😊 I finally caught one of these!! 1.) My favorite cemetery is Highgate Cemetery in London I haven't been yet but I'm in love with the pictures from there. 2.) I'm Pagan so I have asked to be cremated... after cremation my ashes will be divided and some will be planted in Monterey Cemetery, part of them will be put into cement and placed on an artificial reef (currently Florida has a under water Cemetery, but Monterey has been talking about one for years it would be amazingto have one in my home town!), and part of them will be let go on top of Yuba City range in a strong wind. And I'm sure my daughter would want to keep some of my ashes too.

Alicia

2022-12-09 15:49:03 +0000 UTC

1.Magnolia cemetery in Beaumont tx is probably my favorite...visually there is nothing exciting about it, but the experience is top tier....my whole life I had paranormal experiences, most of which I could explain away, but I had my first paranormal experience that I couldn't "logically" explain away. A rock the size of my palm levitated off the ground, it flew through the air, and gently hit my shoulder. Prior to that, I always believed in the paranormal, but a part of me was skeptical, and now I know without a shadow of a doubt that there is more beyond this life....so that cemetary is life changing for me. 2.As for my burial plan, that's a bit extravagant...I need some laws to change to do what I want. I'd like to have my internal organs removed and planted into the ground unaltered. As for the rest of me, I want to be embalmed and then further preserved and suspended in a massive block of amber and turned into a piece of art. I want body length hair extensions, pearls glued to my body, eyes replaced with glass ones so that I can look people in the eyes, with a gentle expression, I want to be completely naked, and my body posed like the birth of venus by Botticelli....I'd like to spend my death preferably on display in museums....this is what I want if I die young or old.

EdenValentine

2022-12-09 15:48:38 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY. We live just minutes away from it. It is quite a special place to us as we spend a lot of time there. Since our daughter was born, we make it a yearly tradition to “stroll” the cemetery every October. We visit the great Washington Irving and stumble upon new beautiful areas and tombstones with every visit. We use this opportunity to educate our daughter about tombstone iconography and the beauties of cemeteries. It’s a tradition that I hold close to my heart and hope to continue it for years to come! I’ve often expressed to my husband that I’d like to be buried there one day so we could continue our “strolls” for eternity as a family 🖤

Danielle Gonzalez

2022-12-09 15:48:28 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery, and owning an occult shop I have many, is Monroe Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. The clientele is from the 1800s, it’s next to a creepy train line and also tucked away in a small section of the city. It looks amazing in the winter and has so much history, it’s my absolute favorite! I want to be cremated, outfit undetermined, and passed down through the generations as the matriarchal witch. A gorgeous elegant urn- not too big but just right- to be placed on the mantle or near an altar, protecting my lineage for decades. Thanks for this thought-provoking contest, Christine 🦇🖤

Jessica Oktober

2022-12-09 15:48:10 +0000 UTC

I want to be cremated, and for my ashes to be made into diamonds (it's a real thing offered by a few companies). I want those diamonds set into necklaces for my two daughters. Then, if they wear them and someone compliments the necklace, they can respond, "Thanks! It's my mom."

Jennifer Craw

2022-12-09 15:47:42 +0000 UTC

1) Your favorite cemetery. - No clue, sorry! 2) What is your burial plan? - I purchased a cremation plan and the urns for the ashes, since I wont be around to see them. I am using the urns for planters. Most of my family is out of state, so there will be no viewing and no local service. They can have a memorial service where they are if they wish, and any time they wish. The kids can do what they want with the urns.

Terry L. Steffen

2022-12-09 15:47:35 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. It's a huge, Victorian-era cemetery with lots of beautiful tombs and mausoleums, and of course there's a few ghost stories connected with it. 2. For my burial plan, I do not want to be embalmed. I would like to donate as many of my organs as possible, then be wrapped in a simple shroud and placed directly into the earth, to feed the creatures there. Though I'll be gone, I want my body to ensure the life of others.

Sarah Wilson

2022-12-09 15:46:38 +0000 UTC

Ooops, I keep hitting enter! It's an historical cemetery where the king of horror fiction, HP Lovecraft, is buried. They do offer green burials there, but I want a REALLY green burial - I would like to be laid in the ground under a tree, sans box or chemicals of any kind, to provide nourishment to the soil and give back to nature. I am not opposed to be scavenged by animals. If I die with my organs intact, I of course would like those to be given away to whomever needs them the most!

Alayna Paquette

2022-12-09 15:46:11 +0000 UTC

The only cemetery I'd wish to be buried in is Glasgow Necropolis, my home city, and it's a beautiful example of early Victorian architecture and was created due to the city running out of burial space (the idea was apparently taken from Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, one of the most well known necropolis in the world). It's built high on a hill, over looking central Glasgow, and close by is the stunning Glasgow Cathedral. When I was a student studying design (textiles) I'd visit the necropolis both in day time and evening, for inspiration, my fellow classmates found me a bit... strange... (lol) however I've always felt a close connection to the "other world" and I'm very spiritual. I discovered a decade ago that very famous sisters have a tomb there, and as they shared my very Scottish, but not common surname, I done some research and I believe I am a distance relation. They founded the creation of the first hospital, the Royal Infirmary, which is right next to the necropolis) by bequeathing funds upon their passing to assist the poor and infirm (they were definitely what we would call Human Rights activists nowadays, but this was unusual for the time when women were not expected to become involved in such matters, they were trailblazers. You should look it up and take a walk around on Google Earth. It's also very closeby my stillborn daughters memorial, alongside other babies memorials. The oldest house in Glasgow is a stones throw away too, all in all its a magical place which holds dear meaning to me. Oh, almost forgot part two, as I'll most likely be cremated I'd like my remains to be used in the planting of a tree, in a beautiful spot somewhere near the sea on the west coast of Scotland.

Cher Currie

2022-12-09 15:45:55 +0000 UTC

Obviously this is also a location that’s near and dear to me, having that as my final resting place would be ideal!

Zoe

2022-12-09 15:45:17 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is the Harvard burial ground in Cambridge ma (est 1635!) it’s absolutely beautiful and filled with a lot of stones by Joseph Lamson 2) I don’t think there are enough birdbath headstones! Might as well make it functional and beautiful.

Chrissy Raftery

2022-12-09 15:45:07 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Jacksonville Cemetery in Southern Oregon! It’s a historic town, most of the buildings were built in the late 1800’s, the cemetery has some very elegant headstones. It also has one of the prettiest hiking travels that runs along side it. The cemetery also sits at a higher elevation so you get a beautiful view of the whole town. My “end of life plan” is to donate my organs to anyone who needs them, or for scientific purposes. I do want some of me to be cremated so a part of me can stay with my loved ones. Maybe have a headstone with an empty grave

NightShadeArtistry

2022-12-09 15:43:58 +0000 UTC

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow NY and if I could do it there, an Oak Tree BioUrn planted by the stream so I can hear the rushing water and the hoof beats of the Headless Horseman.

Oaknwichlane June G

2022-12-09 15:43:54 +0000 UTC

Cimitero del Verano in Rome, Italy

Laura Amoroso

2022-12-09 15:43:21 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Swan Point in Providence, RI. https://swanpointcemetery.com

Alayna Paquette

2022-12-09 15:43:04 +0000 UTC

1) Forest Lawn in Buffalo New York. I had been born and raised in California and in the 4th grade we moved from Anaheim to Buffalo. I had never seen a cemetery like that before. In Socal there were few places with headstones. I would spend hours wandering at Forest Lawn if allowed 2. Cremation for me. I will leave the dispersal (or storage) of my ashes up to my children and grandchildren. All that ceremony stuff is for them anyway. I will be past caring.

Shelli Gwinn

2022-12-09 15:43:02 +0000 UTC

We live near the little costal town of Whitby, yes it’s is the place those gorgeous classic gothic Abby ruins are that Bram stoker mentioned, It’s also the home of the graveyard Lucy Westenra had her account with Dracula. They are both next to each other. It has some amazing & unusual graves there! We regularly visit and it’s stunning, plus in order to get to it you have to climb the 199 steps. It’s an incredibly beautiful and haunted place, you would have plenty of friend to hang out with for the rest of eternity:)

Zoe

2022-12-09 15:43:00 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine!

Alayna Paquette

2022-12-09 15:42:27 +0000 UTC

1. Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island. Stunning cemetery founded in 1846. It’s a gorgeous place to get lost in. Many notable people are buried here, including H.P. Lovecraft. 2. I think I would like to be cremated and be buried at the base of a huge tree. I’d like a beautiful bench and a tiny library under the tree. That way I can read alongside anyone who visits.

Concetta

2022-12-09 15:41:58 +0000 UTC

The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery – the lost art of monuments, on full display! Since no two generations of my family have been buried in the same place yet, I hope my beloved and I will be laid to rest together somewhere that we created a beautiful life together – as I hope my grandparents and great-grandparents were.

Alisa GUS

2022-12-09 15:41:57 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, SC. My burial plans are to be cremated. I have this funny vision though of having my ashes scattered in the ocean by my children only for the ashes to blow back and stick to them. I don’t know why, but I the idea makes me giggle. 😂That’s our family’s sense of humor and I like to think that would be a final way to make them laugh.

Taylor Foster

2022-12-09 15:41:50 +0000 UTC

1) Logan City Cemetery located in Logan, Utah. It is said that if you visit Logan Cemetery at midnight when there’s a full moon; the large “Weeping Woman” statue is rumored to cry. 2) I would love to be cremated and have my ashes placed inside a beautifully ornate hourglass. (I may already have one picked out 😉)

steph

2022-12-09 15:41:49 +0000 UTC

1) I love old cemeteries, especially the ones with huge, beautiful, weeping angel statues. However, my favorite cemetery is Fairhaven in Santa Ana, CA. My grandmother (the only grandparent I had) is buried there, and she was an incredible, beautiful, and most of all, strong older woman--which is what we all should aspire to be. :) 2) My burial dream comes from another strong woman that I'm sure a lot of us here admire. I've read all of Caitlin Doughty's books. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of death because I didn't care for any of the options for my body. My mind changed after reading one of her books on sky burials. As a vet tech, animals have always been my priority, so using my body to nourish carrion birds who would feed on me is ideal :D Creepy crawlies feeding on me isn't as much of my jam as feeding some majestic birds and becoming one with the sky. thanks for giving us 2 options for a chance to win! Merry Christmas Christine (and family who may be reading these with her!! <3)

Cait B

2022-12-09 15:41:46 +0000 UTC

Glenwood Cemetery Houston Tx https://www.glenwoodcemetery.org/ This is a beautiful historic cemetery filled with art, gorgeous statues and just a wonderful place to walk around and get lost in. My photography teacher took me here in high school and I’ve come back often ever since. My burial plan is actually either to be cremated or or have a natural burial. I have a mortician friend who specializes in natural burial and being put in the ground and left to decay as nature intended is the best idea for me. Don’t pump me full of chemicals and put me in a steel box. Bury me in a shroud and plant a tree in my memory instead. If the natural burial doesn’t work, cremate me and spread my ashes in a garden or something.

Ashes Laree

2022-12-09 15:41:27 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine! Here's my answers: 1) My favorite cemetery is the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. I visited it this spring with my dad and my sisters as we were on a roadtrip. 2) I would like to be decomposed on a human decomposition research facility or "body farm". Ideally I'd like for my bones to remain intact and have them given to loved ones like their saintly relics. My little sister wants my skull.

Famke Hagedoorn

2022-12-09 15:40:43 +0000 UTC

I have tried to add a picture of The Glass Lady but it doesn’t seem to be working, let me know if you’d like one and I will email it to you!

Amy Henschel

2022-12-09 15:40:22 +0000 UTC

1) Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, Mass. It was established in 1638 and therefore has a plethora of old interesting headstones, gated family plots, and above-ground vaults as well as newer interments. It's a short drive from Salem and located off a quiet street right on the water. At the highest points, it has an incredible view of the harbor. Bonus- some scenes from Hocus Pocus were filmed there! 2) This may be boring, but I'd like to be cremated and placed in a gothic/Victorian style urn. That way, my family can take me with them if they move around, they can spread some of my ashes in my favorite places or even turn some of them into mourning jewelry.

Kristen

2022-12-09 15:40:20 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Bonaventure in Savannah, Georgia. It's this huge sprawling place that's really old so the trees are extra spooky. It's coastal, which means lots of Spanish moss hanging from the oak trees. Lots of people visit, too, so plenty of opportunities to haunt. I did mention it's coastal so there's a chance of tidal flooding, which makes the idea of being buried there then exhumed during a hurricane just adds the extra spice for me. For my own part I would like to be aquamated with what's left being scattered to the four winds. Kinda boring, but my first choice to have my two wooded acres deemed burial property and making my own natural cemetery (natural burials only, no embalming or caskets) proved....complicated. there were easier ways to protect the property from anyone ever developing it. I'd still love to do it if the local laws ever make it more feasible.

Craftasaurous Wrecks

2022-12-09 15:40:02 +0000 UTC

I have never been there but have heard that Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia has live concerts and movie viewings. That just sounds wonderful! Also, probably not too far from the Mütter Museum. I am planning on a natural burial and hope to make my own shroud to be buried in. I would also love a memorial where people wear handmade clothes or jewellery, even if they didn't make it cause not everyone is keen on that and all would be welcomed. I so look forward to reading comments from others on this.

Heidi Burrowes

2022-12-09 15:39:40 +0000 UTC

I must admit, the writing prompts for this contest are so mentally provocative and inspiring. I'd love to see more of these! 1) What is your favorite cemetery? Without a second thought, my favorite cemetery must be the burial ground at the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Its official name is the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery now. It features prominently in my favorite story, as I am obsessed with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and it is rumored to be the final resting place of the Headless Horsmen, as well as the author of the story itself, Washington Irving. The scenery is breathtaking, especially in Autumn and Winter, and though the Salem cemeteries are more popular, this one holds a special place in my heart. I do have one other that rivals this one, but you did say one cemetery. I'd love to tell you about the second at some point because most don't even know it's a cemetery! 2) What are your burial plans? I've thought long and hard about this. My personal spiritual beliefs include a very natural view of death. I am also a parent so I want to leave a legacy behind that will make this world better for my son and his children and my family's future generations, while also embracing my macabre side. I wish to be buried with a tree. I'd prefer it to be a weeping willow tree, or an apple tree, planted in a safe location. However, my son has been told he has an important job. I am a writer, so I will be writing a story about my life in a very twisted way, and my son will have to make sure it is published posthumously to add to the element of macabre. The ending will include a ghost story of sorts, referencing my tree and its location, and explaining that if it is given offerings (to help the tree grow and feel loved, of course), I will remain a helpful and benevolent spirit. If my tree is disrespected, however... all those who behold the sight of it will be terrified. My son and I have a love of all things spooky, and have even done haunted houses together since he was a toddler (surprisingly, small imp-like beings terrify adults!). He eagerly accepted this task! Remember, it's not simply what we do in life, but also what we do in the afterlife, that will echo our legends in infamy. Was the Headless Horseman remembered for his military service, or his ghostly spectre terrorizing the locals after his violent death? This is how I wish to be remembered; a child of nature, with a bit of a dark side. Bright Blessings during this Holiday Season, and good luck to everyone!

Riona O'Faoladh

2022-12-09 15:39:35 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite local cemetery is Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, MO. It has beautiful mausoleums, and is also an arboretum so there is beautiful landscaping and nature. 2. For my burial plans, I would like to be buried near my mom who unfortunately passed away several years ago. I have no desire to be cremated; I want my bones to be arounds for years!

Christine Peterson

2022-12-09 15:39:09 +0000 UTC

1) my favorite cemetery is Glenwood cemetery in Londonderry NH. It is a beautiful cemetery that over looks the apple orchard and pumpkin patch in my hometown that we recently moved back too. 2) I want to be cremated and I want my urn ⚱️ on the mantel (preferably with Googly eyes glued on to the urn) sp I cam keep an eye on my husband's next wife 😜. I will haunt if needed!

Lesley M Sgro

2022-12-09 15:38:57 +0000 UTC

I want to be buried next to my husband at Highgate cemetery in London, England. I would love to be buried wrapped in a natural fabric shroud without a coffin so that I can become one with the earth beneath me. I would love to be buried with either a small fruit tree at the head of my grave or flower bushes so that my resting place is beautiful regardless of who comes to see me. I want the same for my husband as well so that we can be intertwined together above and below ground. 🍃🌿🌱🌾🌴🪴🍀☘️🪷🌺🪷🌹

Hanady Kratz

2022-12-09 15:38:21 +0000 UTC

1) The Salt Lake City cemetery. It’s beautiful and green in the summer and creepy, quiet, and snowy in the winter. Very atmospheric. 2) I’m planning on a green burial. I’ll be interred in a biodegradable wicker basket and then my untreated body will be laid in a designated plot of land to decompose naturally.

Whitney Weldon

2022-12-09 15:38:05 +0000 UTC

1. My favourite cemetery is Cemitério dos Prazeres in Lisbon, Portugal. It is one of the most beautiful cemeteries I have ever visited and is made up exclusively of mausoleums. It is also home to many cats! The caretaker leaves out water and food for them and no matter where you wander, you will come across many on your visit. 2. I am very interested in an eco burial for myself. Although I would love to be able to have a plot or a mausoleum in a beautiful cemetery, it’s not something that is likely feasible for me financially. I think it’s beautiful to inter the body into the soil and allow it naturally decompose and be naturally recycled.

nikki simpson

2022-12-09 15:37:57 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery to date is St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Mi. Don't know anyone there, but I was drawn to that place as a child. I remember going there to think and be quiet. Just the memory gives me a warm, comfortable feeling. As for my final resting place I honestly haven't given much thought to location! To echo a few other commenters, I also would like to have my ashes placed in a tree pod. And I'd like a visitation time for my loved ones to say goodbye. My corpse should be dressed in something ethereal or even just swathed in tule, chiffon, cheesecloth, maybe glitter.

Alexis

2022-12-09 15:37:31 +0000 UTC

1) Mountain View cemetery in Oakland/Piedmont California is incredible. It has these huge hills that allow for views of the entire Bay Area, including four bridges on a fog-free day. It’s incredibly walk-friendly which means there is always activity and dog walking happening. Across from the main mausoleum is a sone arbor with vines that I always think would be ideal for a spooky wedding (https://www.mountainviewcemetery) 2 I don’t want to have a final resting place and am hoping to be ecologically disposed of when the time comes. But I’m sharing my friend’s plans that he needs my help on. He wants to be taxidermied in the “Buddy Christ” pose from the movie Dogma so that people can take pictures with him at his funeral. I think I have to convince his wife that this is something he actually wants so we’ll see how challenging it is when that time comes.

Mari McGrath

2022-12-09 15:37:19 +0000 UTC

1) Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem! It's quite close to my house and home to some beautiful stones and mausoleums. It's also quite hilly and full of tall hardwood trees. My mother remembers visiting family graves in the Moravian cemetery next door as a child and peering over the hedges at the prettier graveyard. 2) Cremation, but I also like the idea of human composting. Either way, I want to be scattered under trees.

Heather Dollar

2022-12-09 15:36:56 +0000 UTC

1)Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, CT surrounded by Yale University. It was created in 1797 and has a spectacular Egyptian Revival gateway at its entrance carved with lotus blossoms and the words "the dead shall be raised." It's tombstones date back to the 1600s. What draws me to it is the fact that it is a prominent location in Leigh Bardugo's novel Ninth House, where the protagonist frequently encounters ghosts outside of the entrance.It's website has contact information for burials, so it looks like you may actually be able to be buried there. 2)I have a few ideas of what would be meaningful memorial and Burial rituals. I find the idea of the funeral procession being a walk through the town where you are getting buried/lived, at night, with torches and friends and family either carrying or pushing the casket with them. I was also thinking that having some kind of art created during the memorial, like Open air painting session or photoshoot in the cemetery of friends and family (possibly in costume). Lastly, I like the idea of Having possessions on display that have significant meaning to me and every funeral guest can take something home. I'm thinking it would be cool that all the people closest to you in particular could inherit an antique or piece of art of yours that you don't have a specific plan for.

Katrina Di Filippo

2022-12-09 15:36:53 +0000 UTC

1) Magnolia Cemetary in Charleston just 30 minutes from where I live and has to be my favorite. I love all the hanging moss and ancient trees, the still lake and sculptural tombstones. It feels like you’re stepping back in time to a beautiful southern gothic landscape and is a lovely spot to enjoy the afternoon painting and watching the sun set. 2) I’d love to be buried in a natural cemetary with no marker or sturdy casket. Just left to fertilize the flowers and the fields. When loved ones visit, they can just take in the beautiful creation around them and the expansiveness of it all. There’s a lovely natural cemetery in the upstate of South Carolina I have my eyes fixed on.

Sophia Northfield

2022-12-09 15:36:51 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery can't be googled because it's on a family members private property. It's on the dark side of the mountain here in the Appalachians, 10 graves lined up next to a creek. It is the most lonely, Gothic feeling place I've ever seen or visited. Deliverance was actually filmed in the area. But my second favorite is Bonaventure 330 Bonaventure Rd, Thunderbolt, GA 31404 very beautiful place. 2. I most likely will be cremated and hopefully spread on my mountain side. I'd like to be buried here on my side of the mountain in one of those mushroom coffins, but have no clue if that would even be a possibility here. Also if I go after my Mom I want her ashes and my grandmother's to be spread with me. Hopefully I will still be the owner of my house here, I won't be having kids, have no brothers or sisters, I want to leave my house to CatMan cat sanctuary. So maybe they can turn it into another sanctuary property or sell it to help what they already have going on.

appalachian. possum

2022-12-09 15:36:16 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite is Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, NY. 2) Alkaline Hydrolysis .... aka Water Cremation!

Ann Adams

2022-12-09 15:36:10 +0000 UTC

I love the Nunhead Cemetery in London. It's one of London's least visited cemeteries (because most of the graves are so old that relatives are also deceased) Parts of it have been taken back by nature so it's the perfect Old Hollywood-Spooky Movie graveyard which is wonderfully offset by all of the beautiful flowers and birds/wildlife in the summertime. As for me? It's a free for all on my organs. (I've been plant based for a long time and never smoked so you know they're the good juicy kind.) Then I've always had this idea of being buried in a large woven basket, wrapped in a sheet (all organic materials) and then the basket filled with nutrient rich soil with seeds in so you basically become plant food and leave no waste. And then eventually if everyone did it, it would become a memorial park full or trees/flowers where people could walk their dogs in and there'd be an app where you could share videos/pictures/memories of the person buried there. I think I may be one of the rare people who likes the idea of being worm food and becoming a tree more than being dunked in chemicals and trapped in a laqured box forever. I want to leave the world a little bit more greener if I can.

Matthew Robert Davies

2022-12-09 15:35:58 +0000 UTC

I'd love to be buried at the Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton, Ohio. I would haunt the crap out of that place, with its wonderful gazebo with a view of the city. I could visit with the Wright Brothers, Erma Bombeck, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and little Johnny Morehouse and his dog (be sure to look up this legendary story). My burial plan includes being buried with some of my favorite books (in case I'm stuck in limbo, or there's a line to get in to wherever I'm going). My funeral should include songs by Wardruna and Bob Marley (every little thing is gonna be alright!). My niece has been told that she is to decorate my grave for Halloween and bring me a McDonald's Coke from time-to-time.

Angela Jones

2022-12-09 15:35:55 +0000 UTC

Baldwin Cemetary in Vernon Indiana (cozy, river view, on a beautiful hiking trail so I’d get lots of visitors). I’d like to donate my organs, have some of me cremated and mixed with seeds so I can feed back into the earth, and the remaining bits turned into a diamond in a lab so I can sparkle somewhere forever. I’d love a headstone but just as a memorial, my body doesn’t need to be there

Emily Davis

2022-12-09 15:35:45 +0000 UTC

1. I really enjoy visiting the Lafayette cemetery in New Orleans. 2. I have an elaborate plan where I’m having all my fur babies hydro cremated and saving their ashes until I pass so they can be buried with me. When I’m buried I’d like to be buried underneath a fresh planted tree on family property. Then when my relatives also pass we can do the same and make a spooky forest. Alternatively a Norse Viking style funeral would do too. But my pets have to be there. :)

Lexi Steele

2022-12-09 15:35:34 +0000 UTC

Ohhh! 1. There are so many cool ones in Philly - literally just learned I live in front of Holy Cross Cemetery where H H Holmes is buried 😱 but my favorite in Philly is probably the Woodlands Cemetery 2. I often like to “joke” with my friends and say “just throw me in the trash” - but probably cremation since our time here is fleeting anyway, why make it unnecessarily permanent with a stone?

Loren S

2022-12-09 15:35:16 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. I got to visit this cemetery oddly enough when I was in the 8th grade a very long time ago. My English teacher would take her 8th graders there around Halloween and we did scavenger hunts and tombstone rubbings. But I just fell in love with the mausoleums and and some of the most amazing tombstones. My burial plan is to try to be buried as naturally as possible. I've even contacted my local cemetery about it. I'd also want my organs donated too. My mother had hers donated and someone out there has her eyes <3

Dom

2022-12-09 15:35:13 +0000 UTC

Abney Park is my absolute favorite cemetery— I stumbled across it trying to find a pub and ended up ditching my plans just to enjoy the overgrown cemetery and abandoned chapel. It’s so different from US cemeteries, and I love that this creepy cemetery is just a casual park for locals to run or walk dogs. I’d love to be dumped to Davy Jones’ locker! My partner thinks I’m nuts, but I wanna conquer my fear of the ocean and I don’t think I’ll mind weird fish as much once I’m dead 🤣

Carley Arnold

2022-12-09 15:34:54 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville TN 1101 Lebanon Rd. 37210 - If you ever come to Nashville its so worth a look. It has several parts and they all are named differently but present as one thing 😍 gothic old with trees and Nashville notable's stories. I've been twice through with a living history tour they used to do that was extraordinary! My burial plan slides back and forth between a simple cremation and BURIAL Quilt an idea I learned about from a quilter named Zak Foster. You are buried without all the encasement - in a more natural way. I want to return to the earth as quickly and efficiently as possible either way. Thank you for the contest! Please google Mt Olivet Cemetey and Zak Foster burial quilts ❤

Michelle Crocker

2022-12-09 15:34:51 +0000 UTC

1. As a huge classic literature fan Père Lachaise, Paris, France is by far my most favorite cemetery. Who wouldn't want to sip absinth in the after life with Oscar Wilde. I've often wished I was born in their time period because I would have loved to sit in the absinth lounges with them discussing life and mortality. Mount Auburn Cemetery is a close second favorite because it is so hauntingly beautiful. 2. My dream would be to be buried in a ancient mysterious crypt that later civilizations stumble across and wonder about the mysterious body buried there. Meanwhile I fully intend on not actually dying ever and just haunting people for the rest of their lives.

Geneva

2022-12-09 15:34:49 +0000 UTC

1. Paris is my favorite city ever and the Pere Lachaise cemetery is the most beautiful place for a picnic with some of the most gorgeous and gothic mausoleums. (Also who wouldn't want to be buried among some of the greats like Edith Piaf, Proust, Oscar Wilde, and Jim Morrison). 2. My first dear kitty, Wispy, passed a few years ago and I have her ashes with me. She means so much to me as does my current cat, Vivian, and I have decided I want to be buried with all the kitty angels I end up having in this lifetime.

Natalie Coleman

2022-12-09 15:34:41 +0000 UTC

I don't have a favorite cemetery that ive seen, but my husband wants a chair tombstone that says Big Butts Welcome on it. Lol I want to be crushed into a diamond and placed on a necklace, my mom said shes going to do the same thing, so hopefully at some point we will both be on a necklace given to my niece, and so on, creating a necklace with all the woman of our family, to be inherited by the next.

Liv Hexanberry

2022-12-09 15:34:39 +0000 UTC

1) Edinburgh has some beautiful cemeteries so it is hard to choose. I would say Old Carlton Cemetery for me just off Waterloo Place because it is such a cosy little nook on the main high street it's like being instantly transported to a previous time away from the hustle and bustle. 2) From an environmental point of view it is actually better to be cremated (plus it cuts down emissions from prospective mourners). So cremation for me then scattered under a fruit tree to give back to the food chain

Spindles

2022-12-09 15:34:38 +0000 UTC

1. My hands down favorite cemetery is Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. It overlooks the magnificent Schuylkill River and is part of Fairmount Park, which is 2000 acres of preserved woodland that protects the watershed. It's full of mausoleums, has lovely monuments, a beautiful gatehouse and many walkways. It was opened in 1836 and is an accredited arboretum. There is also an annual Gravedigger's Ball held there around Halloween. It is still an active cemetery. 2. I plan to be composted. I just need to survive long enough for recomposition to make it to my neck of the woods.

Liz Mednick

2022-12-09 15:34:25 +0000 UTC

1) Hauptfriedhof Trier. Trier ist the oldest city in Germany, with lots of historical sites. The Hauptfriedhof (main cemetery) has a dark fairtyle vibe. You should also google "Honigengel Trier" (which translates to honey angel). The statue of an angel, which belongs to the grave of a singer, was once home for a bee colony and therefore gained its unofficial name.

Silke

2022-12-09 15:34:03 +0000 UTC

My first-choice cemetery has already been mentioned, so as a participatory second, I really enjoy Spring Grove in Cincinnati. The Dexter Mausoleum is a stunning, huge architectural addition to the arboretum, and you can wander for days through the hills and hollows. I think I would like to be aquamated and my remains buried under an ostentatious, huge black obelisk with a sinister line of warning at its base. Somewhere at the edge of a wood so that the site becomes part of local legend and trepidation.

Brandon Grew

2022-12-09 15:33:18 +0000 UTC

1: My favorite cemetery is https://www.sherwoodmemorialpark.com/index.php (not much to see on this site ;( ) I love it because my father is buried there. There are so many places in Salem, VA that are historical and I loved walking and visiting them all over my years. If I could I would have him cremated but he's been gone since 1990. 2: I would be cremated and join my Aunt whom I'm named after in her container and then add my mom one day. We would all live happily on a shelf somewhere together wrapped in something my mom & I knitted. MAYBE in 100 years I'll put a prevision in my will to unload us somewhere magical. Like Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England A wooded area since the end of the Ice Age.1045 acres where we could be "lost" in...Mom always wished to visit England. Oddly it is told that the trees are now so old that they have surpassed the middle of their age and are basically "aging out". More's the pity.

sandra dearing

2022-12-09 15:32:43 +0000 UTC

1.) Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. So gorgeous, so haunted, and they're still taking reservations! Lots of different burial options available there. 2.) Cremation for me, but afterward, having a designated place where people could come visit anytime they wanted. Like a donated park bench with my name on it or something. However, for the actual cremation...Viking all the way, baby! Boat in the water, arrows on fire, Viking battle music, the whole Nordic nine yards.

Anne Z Knight

2022-12-09 15:32:21 +0000 UTC

Yes, I said the same! Just got legalized in my state!

Fellowship of the Broom

2022-12-09 15:31:51 +0000 UTC

1) Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, DC. It's located over 20 acres in the historic Georgetown neighborhood and has a beautiful 19th-century chapel. My fiance and I are getting married there this September. We knew it was for us when we found out the chapel altar/aisle is where they store bodies in the winter while waiting for a spring burial. This cemetery is a beautiful place to visit with historic gravestones, mausoleums, crypts, and gazebos scattered throughout. Be carerful - it is easy to get lost in there and they lock the gates at 4 pm. [Side note - Our runner-ups were Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in NY or Old Burial Hill Cemetery in Marblehead, MA, but we preferred our local historic cemetery.] 2) Our ideal burial plan is to get buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. It's very pricey and we are thinking of adding a "burial fund" to our wedding registry, similar to a honeymoon fund. We would like to be buried in the same casket if allowed (does not bother us if we die at different times). We find the idea of our corpses decomposing together at the place where we were married quite romantic.

Brenna Fahey

2022-12-09 15:31:45 +0000 UTC

1. Historic Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, TN is one of my favorite places on EARTH. Aside from being gorgeous, it also lovingly holds the stories of "over 75,000 inhabitants including mayors, governors, madams, blues singers, suffragists, martyrs, generals, civil rights leaders, holy men and women, outlaws and millionaires." Everyone is welcome at Elmwood. Bonus: It's also a bird sanctuary and arboretum. 2. I personally would like to be cremated after donating my organs. I would love to be in the columbarium at Elmwood. Each year, family and friends can gather at my ashes, have a party and serenade me (and my columbarium neighbors) with Tina Turner's classic hit 'Simply The Best'.

Renee Davis Brame

2022-12-09 15:31:43 +0000 UTC

As for my final disposition, I always thought cremation, because its economical and doesn't take up too much space, but I'm increasingly fond of green burial.

Sandy Carlson-Kaye

2022-12-09 15:31:42 +0000 UTC

I love this question! I always visit old cemeteries during my travels. I have so many absolute faves! But Sleepy Hollow cemetery in NY comes to mind. It was truly magical. The sculptures alone are worth the visit, and the collection of luxury crypts. There are some fun ghost stories about the sculptures as well, naturally. I wish to be cremated but also buried because I neeeeed an awesome tombstone. Still working on my quote but I'm not done living yet.

Tamara Kukta

2022-12-09 15:31:37 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine, My favorite cemetery is Lakeview Cemetery in Jamestown, NY my hometown. My house growing up was across the street and I spent many hours playing among the tombstones. It is an old large cemetery with graves dating to the early 1700’s. I would love a burial like Grace Galloway. Grace was the daughter of a wealthy family who died tragically of consumption in her early twenties. Her father had a replica of her made in Italian marble, encased in glass. Everyone in town calls her The Glass Lady. The story goes that if you go to her grave at midnight she will turn and whisper to you. She is beautiful and has given many Jamestowners shivers over the years, and what can be better than that?

Amy Henschel

2022-12-09 15:31:25 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles. I love going to walk around on a sunny day. I usually visit Chris Cornell's grave, and have had beautiful interactions with him. Ideally, I'd like to be buried at Hollywood Forever and have one of their ornate headstones made. Either a bust of me, or something that captures my fabulous personality. I also want something inviting for people to visit.

dianagebbia

2022-12-09 15:31:00 +0000 UTC

While tough to choose only one favorite cemetery (there are so many to choose from!), my top resting spot of many has to be the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Not only is it the final resting place for a variety of international famed artistic mortals (Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, and Molière to name a few), it is a gorgeous sprawling botanical park boasting a variety of plants and trees including unique and ancient specimens alike. And the funerary sculptures are second to none. As for a burial plan, I’d like to be cremated and ashes joined with those of my beloved dog Annie (she was an orphan) and used to mulch a flower or vegetable garden. I’ve had a number of orthopedic surgeries so hopefully all of my titanium screws and plates can be melted down and used for jewelry or maybe a fun Christmas ornament for my loved ones.

Marisa J. Lown

2022-12-09 15:30:59 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Pere Lachaise in Paris. I could wander there for days.

Sandy Carlson-Kaye

2022-12-09 15:30:33 +0000 UTC

1) I live in the Eastern US, but I dream of visiting St. Pancras Old Churchyard in London. Mary Shelley (Frankenstein and OG Goth) was obsessed with this cemetery, and even learned to write by tracing her mother’s gravestone in the churchyard. Moreover, there are (allegedly) loads of secrets about the place, including how ancient the place is. Let alone, it’s featured in Tale of Two Cities as a site for bodysnatching and is the final resting place of Johann Christian Bach. 2) The Living Cocoon. Made from mushroom mycelium, this coffin takes one week to GROW, removes harmful toxins from the body and helps your body return to its final resting place- the earth. Its a closed loop that help new plants grow from your once body. Can’t think of something more lovely that going out and becoming a field of wildflowers or little toadstools.

Alex Curtis

2022-12-09 15:29:48 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is St. Mary's Cemetery in Ferndale, California. It's over a 100yrs old, tiny, and nestled up on a hill, at the base of a forest. The views in the spring and summer are so pretty, and perfectly gloomy in the winter. As for my own post mortem plans I'm hoping to be composted. This just became legal in here in CA, and it's very environmentally friendly when compared to traditional methods. Human composting means putting a body into a vessel of some kind, covering it in organic matter, and letting microbes break down the corpse and the plant matter, turning all the components into nutrient-rich soil in about 30 days. I hope my family would be allow plant/spread my soil remains in a redwood forest, as that is my favorite place to be. :)

Fellowship of the Broom

2022-12-09 15:29:40 +0000 UTC

1. Père la chaise in Paris. 2. I want my body buried in a gothic mausoleum. I want my head cremated though and the ashes made into a huge candle that is lit once a year for one minute by cloaked figures who chant my name softly. The public can watch this yearly event at my mausoleum but they have to donate at least a dollar to a charity that helps animals. And if they want to participate it’s five dollars. if they want to be the one who lights the candle it’s 1,000 dollars. And if they want to be the one who snuffs my candle out, they have to pay 1,000 dollars and 50 cents.

Eric Mutzabaugh

2022-12-09 15:29:13 +0000 UTC

Favourite cemetery: mcleod street pioneer cemetery in Cairns QLD. It’s my small town cemetery. I go there almost everyday to eat my lunch and visit the birds. It’s not the most significant cemetery ever but it’s so beautiful and peaceful. Sometimes I like to believe that maybe some ghosts sit with me and enjoy my company too. Possible burial plan: I’d like to be put into one of those tree pods that compost your body into whatever tree you like. I’d choose some sort of pine tree? Could be cool if I could be decorated around Christmas. The idea of someone sitting underneath and reading a book, being a home for animals or being visited and appreciated by people generations later seems like the best way to part with this world.

Mckayla

2022-12-09 15:29:10 +0000 UTC

1. Bonaventure Cemetery in Georgia. I have yet to go but it’s been on my long list of gorgeous cemeteries to visit. Originally called the Evergreen Cemetery, “ Evergreen Cemetery was designed as a traditional Victorian cemetery with curving pathways, lots of trees and grassy areas. Although a cemetery, it was common for families to meet and picnic here while still providing a place of comfort and solace for the bereaved friends of relatives of those buried there”. It was purchased by the City of Savannah in 1907 & is one of the few cemeteries the city still owns. I hope I get to visit it sooner than later! Savannah is my namesake, after all. 2. I plan to be composted & set back into the earth to nourish the planet that gave me life. I’m really eco-conscious & try to do everything with intention and with Mother Earth in mind. Human composting is not yet legal in the state I live in, so I’m hopeful it will be by the time I perish. I hope it becomes legal in every state so we can do our duties as humans and lessen our carbon footprint, even in death.

Savannah Alexandra

2022-12-09 15:28:58 +0000 UTC

Hey Christine! 1) Sparta Cemetery in Briarcliff Manor/Ossining, New York. It’s right up the road from Sleep Hollow Cemetery and The Old Dutch Church Cemetery (in you guessed it…Sleepy Hollow New York!). I love Sparta Cemetery because it’s a fairly small cemetery. Many of the graves there go back to the Revolutionary War and it’s just so peaceful. The graves are old and worn but you can tell they’re well taken care of. Also it is the supposed resting place of a local legend, The Leatherman (vagabond). You can look him up on Wikipedia! And my plans have two parts. My father has since passed and was cremated so I asked my mother to also be cremated one day and I plan on having their cremains buried with me, full stop. If I have enough money I’d love to buy a mausoleum built because I have a flair for the dramatic. Either way, they’ll both be with me one day.

Chelsea S

2022-12-09 15:28:55 +0000 UTC

I’m excited for this one!!! 1.) Whittingham Hospital Cemetery in Preston CT is a perfect resting place for someone who loves hauntings and the macabre. It’s located on an old abandoned insane asylum rumored to be inhabited by ghosts, surrounded by old abandoned buildings that look like your current house! 2. I have a friend that is a glass blower who has transformed peoples ashes into glass sculptures. I think it’s a cool burial plan to be turned into an elegant display piece :)

Cassandra Cyr

2022-12-09 15:28:37 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Forester Cemetery in Michigan. It is final resting place of tragic Minnie Quay. The story is that Minnie was in love with a sailor her parents didn't approve of so they locked her in her room. When she heard the news that his ship sunk she left when her parents were out of town and walked through town in a white dress and threw herself off a dock. Now she is said to be seen walking the lake shore from time to time. If you visit Forester Cemetery and do not leave a gift at Minnie's grave her spirit will haunt you. My end of life plan isn't to be buried at all. If aquamation or composting become an option where I live that is my first choice because it is more environmentally friendly. If not, I'd like to be cremated. Whatever is left of me I'd like spread throughout a forest so you can hike to come visit me and enjoy the beauty of nature.

Melinda

2022-12-09 15:28:29 +0000 UTC

Btw y'all, I love all these answers! 💚

ANNE E WALLICK-BAUHOF

2022-12-09 15:28:24 +0000 UTC

1. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA is my fave. 2. I want a tree pod burial because as a child I loved a picture book called The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (about a pet cat who died.) The tenth good thing was that Barney was going to help things grow in the garden and that seems like the best after death job ever.

Jamie Pittel

2022-12-09 15:28:04 +0000 UTC

1. I love Thornrose Cemetery in Staunton Virginia. It’s very old and beautiful and you can still be buried there! 2. I’m born and raised in South Louisiana, so all I know is I’d want to be buried amongst Spanish moss trees in my own mausoleum with a beautiful sitting area for loved ones to come visit.

Kayla Freeze

2022-12-09 15:27:33 +0000 UTC

1) There's lots to choose from in New Orleans, but St. Louis Cemetery #3 looks incredible with all its stone tombs and statues 2) I'm leaning towards cremation and either burial amongst trees, or spread somewhere like Multnomah Falls where I got engaged

Randy Ladner

2022-12-09 15:27:29 +0000 UTC

1. Favorite Cemetery? I can't pick just one! But Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, MA especially stands out. My now husband almost proposed there, but saved the proposal for in front of The Hocus Pocus house... But we spent so much time exploring this gorgeous cemetery that overlooks the ocean. Just such a peaceful place. When we went alone at night, we even got a spooky voice on camera - which is so fascinating. My favorite local cemetery is Glen Oaks Cemetery in Glendale, WI because blues legend Blind Blake is buried there and I love to go from time to time to pay my respects 2. I want the oldest looking gravestone possible - would love to replicate some of the imagery on the old gravestones you see on the east coast- like the skulls with angel wings, that kind of thing. I would also love to be buried in a true COFFIN, not casket. I've even had dreams about picking it! Lol.

Megan

2022-12-09 15:26:42 +0000 UTC

1. I absolutely love the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. It really comes off as a place that wants the living to visit as well as be a final resting place for your loved ones. Beautiful grounds with tons of trees and it is almost hidden in the middle of the city. 2. There is a youtube channel I watch called Ask A Mortician. They have made the idea of a completely natural burial or even the idea of being turned into soil sound absolutely perfect for me. I am not a big fan of the whole embalming and forgotten burial plot thing...so turn me into some soil or plant a tree over me. :)

Emma Cipolla

2022-12-09 15:26:37 +0000 UTC

Ah dang that was my choice as well! Great minds.

Brandon Grew

2022-12-09 15:25:39 +0000 UTC

Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass is an absolute dream to stroll through. It's alive with creativity and curiosity. I've spent many an evening there over the years. My end of days plan is to be cremated and put into an hour glass. That way I can remain useful and participate in family game nights or keep an eye on my young descendants while they are in time out.

Christine Manca

2022-12-09 15:25:37 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is Rosehill here in Chicago. For my birthday last year we did a cemetery tour there and it’s just stunning. Lots of Chicago history in that place and we even got to pay our respects to an unknown John Wayne Gacy victim. It’s just a beautiful piece of chicago history. 2. My ultimate burial plan would be to be cremated and have the ashes of my fur babies who have passed over the years with me. Then we’d be planted in on one of this pods to grow into trees and nourish the earth.

Punkrockcatlady

2022-12-09 15:25:31 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Armory Hill Cemetery in Ilion, NY. I was born and raised there Christine! My paternal grandparents use to live right next to the entrance of the cemetery. And I have many fond memories of walking through it with my grandmother as a little girl. My burial plan is to be cremated and buried there in that cemetery.

Rebecca Keddell

2022-12-09 15:25:25 +0000 UTC

1) Easy, easy answer! Muckross Abbey in Killarney, Ireland. It's old, weathered, beautiful, and I know spirits wander the grounds. The abbey is haunting and beautiful, and has a huge, twisted tree growing right in the middle of it. The attached cemetary is small, but beautiful. I can imagine ghostly apparitions walking the grounds at night. And when we visited, the sweetest little kitty was acting as keeper of the property. She loved chasing butterflies, and was the loudest purrer. 2) I would like to be cremated. My ultimate dream would be to have a loved one take my ashes to my favorite destinations around the world so that I can forever live everywhere I've loved in my life. And with any remaining ashes, I'd like those pressed into a vinyl record that has all the songs that changed my life or meant something to me in some big way.

Taylor Elstrom

2022-12-09 15:24:59 +0000 UTC

1. I adore St. Louis Cemetery #1 in New Orleans. Unfortunately, so many of the family members who’s loved ones were interred there have, themselves, passed away. Many of the graves have fallen to ruin. There is a particular beauty to all of graves regardless. The practice of burial in New Orleans is absolutely fascinating with the above ground crypts acting as natural crematoriums. 2. I am the mother of a mortician and my son is a huge fan of natural burial. His dream is to open a natural site in our area. Burial involves a simple cotton cloth over the body, buried directly in the earth at a depth to where the little worms and bugs can do their job and the body can decompose naturally, nourishing our earth. This is my plan. There’s something so comforting to me that even at the end, I will be giving something back.

Amy Mott

2022-12-09 15:24:53 +0000 UTC

1) Easy, easy answer! Muckross Abbey in Killarney, Ireland. It's old, weathered, beautiful, and I know spirits wander the grounds. The abbey is haunting and beautiful, and has a huge, twisted tree growing right in the middle of it. The attached cemetary is small, but beautiful. I can imagine ghostly apparitions walking the grounds at night. And when we visited, the sweetest little kitty was acting as keeper of the property. She loved chasing butterflies, and was the loudest purrer. 2) I would like to be cremated. My ultimate dream would be to have a loved one take my ashes to my favorite destinations around the world so that I can forever live everywhere I've loved in my life. And with any remaining ashes, I'd like those pressed into a vinyl record that has all the songs that changed my life or meant something to me in some big way.

Taylor Elstrom

2022-12-09 15:24:09 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is in the infamous plague village in Eyam, England. Its in St Lawrence's churchyard which is so picturesque and has beautiful graves complete with skull and cross bones. It's such a poignant place to visit and shows the sacrifice that the villagers made when In 1665 it was discovered that some cloth that had been sent up from London to a local tailor was infected with the plague, so the village decided to isolate themselves to avoid spreading the disease. For my burial I'd have a very neogothic mausoleum built, but with a difference mourners can enter my crypt and insert a coin to my coffin whereby a small window opens and you can see my beautifully decaying self. The coins would go to upkeep of the mausoleum which no one knows who maintains, but its in pristine condition 🌹 Such a fun macabre competition thank you Hannah x

Hannah

2022-12-09 15:24:05 +0000 UTC

Ashern Municipal Cemetery in Manitoba, Canada. You have to drive on a dirt road to get to it, it’s in an empty field but it’s rather pretty I’d have to say. I have a lot of family buried there, I remember catching snakes and frogs there. Also my brother almost burnt down the church there while I was getting baptized as a baby so that’s a neat little fact about me. I think it would be pretty neat for my body to be made into an art piece of some sort, it’s fascinating what you can do with bone, or perhaps donating my body to science with the possibility of it being displayed in a museum of some sort. I remember seeing a display of a human nervous system and thinking wow that could be me. I don’t know, the body is fascinating and every part of it can be made beautiful 💖

Antlersap

2022-12-09 15:23:51 +0000 UTC

1. My favorite cemetery is https://www.mountauburn.org/ in Cambridge, MA. It has an interesting history, a lot of 'famous' residents, and is a really lovely place to walk around. They've been hosting a lot of really interesting events there. 2. I would like to be cremated or have a green burial. I hope laws around green burials change quite a bit between now and when this is relevant to me. Right now, there are lots of possible things that aren't legal with current burial related laws in the U.S. Whatever the specifics end up being at the time, I'd like a park-like place people could go to remember me, and I'd like there to be some kind of dancing at my funeral service/party.

Jodi Anderson

2022-12-09 15:23:35 +0000 UTC

1. Any of the St. Louis Cemetery in New Orlean some of the oldest cemetery in Louisiana and they are hardly buried underground because most of the graveyards made in marshland and a lot of modern vampire stories are started in some of the cemeteries! 2.I would want to be taken to my last resting place in a late 1800s funeral Carriage with my friends and family saying nothing about where I came from or who I am and leaving so that rumors and stories can inspire new vampire legends!

Elizabeth

2022-12-09 15:23:34 +0000 UTC

1. Hillside Cemetery in Skiatook, OK. They have the famous "Witch's grave" which is course, cursed! 2. My burial plan is to not be buried. I love true crime and want to give back to those who help find victims so I'm donating my body to the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (Body Farm) in South Texas. You can donate any viable organs first. Then they allow you to decompose naturally in various settings and train cadaver dogs, anthropology students, and forensic specialists. Once you're decomposed they bleach your bones, articulate your skeleton, and send you to a university! Your relatives and friends can even visit your skeleton. As for grave markers, my husband and I will share a headstone in a pet cemetery where all the ashes of our pets will be buried together after the last of them cross over. It's all detailed in our will. I'm a supporter of the Order of the Good Death and highly recommend everyone get your affairs in order, no matter your age!!!

Jennifer Crumley

2022-12-09 15:23:01 +0000 UTC

One: I have been to many beautiful cemeteries in all different states but my favorite remains the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY. It is centered in the famed town in which Washington Irving set his famous Legend of the Headless Horseman. Irving is buried in this cemetery along with revolutionary war soldiers, famous Capitalists, philanthropists, and the very villagers who inspired Irving’s ghostly tale. For as long as I can remember, I have felt like Katrina Van Tassel reincarnated and never so much as when I visit here (usually on my birthday 🖤). For those in the know, there is a secret bridge deep inside the graveyard built to look and sound like the bridge of Ichabod’s destiny as it clip-clops beneath you. The location of the actual bridge that inspired Irving is now a cemented roadway, but this hidden wooden bridge is well worth the time to seek it out. Two: After my spirit is gone from my body, I would like to be interred in a Capsula Mundi. This is an egg-shaped pod in which a body is placed and buried. Into this pod is planted a seed which becomes a tree. Bonus points if woodland creatures come to live in my tree, and extra bonus points if I can haunt my ancestors with spectral visions when they come to visit the forest 🌳

Erin Elizabeth

2022-12-09 15:22:54 +0000 UTC

Green-wood cemetery in Brooklyn, NY is so beautiful and rich with history. It really is a must see! I hope to decay as naturally as possible and join the earth. Ultimately I hope I can help fertilize a forest.

Ellie

2022-12-09 15:22:52 +0000 UTC

You’re so creative, Christine! My favorite cemetery is St. Louis cemetery no 1 in New Orleans. My dream would be to be buried in the same grave as Marie Laveau. Many have been buried there after her. With the above ground graves, the bodies decompose rapidly which prevents issues with our frequent floods and lack of space (and how convenient if you perished under suspicious circumstances!).

mewis1211

2022-12-09 15:22:45 +0000 UTC

1.)You really should visit Mount Auburn in Cambridge, MA. It will be completely worth your trip. It’s one of the few “garden cemeteries” in the US. It truly is like a park that you can get lost in. It’s my favorite place! 2.) my “burial plan” if I go first is that I’d like for my cremated remains to be covertly sprinkled in this one area in Mount Auburn that looks like a fairy haven. That way he can visit me in a beautiful serene place that we loved visiting when we were both still alive. I want him to sneak to do this as it will be my last mischievous act. Well our last mischief managed together. Honestly, even if I don’t win plan a trip there. It’s stunning in the spring! My favorite is walking around the weeping willows.

Jennifer Kavjian

2022-12-09 15:22:11 +0000 UTC

Northlake Memorial Gardens in Huntersville, NC. It is where four of my closest family members are buried. I don't live in NC anymore but when I did, I would go there when I needed comfort or direction/guidance from their spirits (which was often!). My own burial plan hasn't really been decided yet but I like the idea of being buried in the same plot of land as my closest family. 💜❤️🖤

Deanna Stanwood

2022-12-09 15:21:45 +0000 UTC

MapleWood in Harrison AR is very beautiful in the fall. I want to be cremated and I think it would be so cool to have my ashes put in a porcelain doll replica of Myself

Brandon Gray

2022-12-09 15:21:39 +0000 UTC

I actually don't want to be buried in a cemetery if possible. I want to be buried on the property of my future home with a tombstone of me etched onto it so they can see what i looked like last. I want to be able to protect it even in death and protect the new home owners if I can! They can use my bones as a form of protection, and I feel if all of me is there, the protection will be a lot more stronger if I just left things here and there.

Kuro Kaiju

2022-12-09 15:21:33 +0000 UTC

I have several favorite cemeteries. I love Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA, and Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, IL. For my burial plan, I want to be aquimated. It's like traditional cremation but with water, and it has a better carbon footprint. The problem is that aquamation (also called alkaline hydrolysis) is not legal in many places (boo Big Funeral). So my backup plan is standard cremation with a home remembrance ceremony.

Kelsey L

2022-12-09 15:21:27 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine! 🖤🖤 I had so much fun researching this Cemetery that I think I'll have to use it for myself as well! 😆 I think it sounds right up your alley! 1) "Hartsdale Pet Cemetery" in Hartsdale, New York. It is America's first and oldest pet cemetery established in 1896. They allow for human cremains to be buried in your pet's grave so that you may rest in peace together. It is a burial ground for over 80,000 animals that include dogs and cats, but also horses, birds, primates, and even a lion who lived at the Plaza Hotel! They have the largest above-ground mausoleum ever commissioned for pets. ⚱🐈‍⬛ Link for their website: www.petcem.com As far as a burial plan... I always tell my sister that I would like to be mostly cremated (and make sure she gets my toe or something 🤣) and give different family members different body parts of me! Aha I know it doesn't really work like that but one can dream!! Merry Christmas!! ❤️❤️

OliviaOoky

2022-12-09 15:20:47 +0000 UTC

I love Metairie Cemetery (which people, understandably, often think is in Metairie Louisiana, but is in fact in New Orleans); I just love the ornate stonework on the above-ground tombs. As for myself? I'm hoping to first donate any parts of me to others (organs, etc), then if any med school wants what's left, have at me. After all that, if there's anything left, I'd like to go as green as possible, whether that's the liquefaction they have in (I think?) Sweden, or some kind of composting. If that's not available, cremation. As for my remains? Put me in a pot to help a tree grow, or shoot me into space, that I may float among the stars (which, yes, I realize is not really energy efficient, but it sure is romantic)

ANNE E WALLICK-BAUHOF

2022-12-09 15:20:28 +0000 UTC

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~kyperry3/scuddycemetery.html This is the Scuddy Cemetery in Scuddy, KY, a family cemetery from my moms side that I found out about while I was searching my relatives on ancestry. My mom didn’t even know that we had one or that a lot of her mothers ancestors were buried there. I thought it was exciting to learn and learn more about some of the only ancestors I could find. I wished to have a tree pod burial mixed in with mummification. I love the idea of becoming a tree and getting to watch future generations from my shady resting place and become one with a new seedling. While also being encased in a protective tomb underneath with roots protecting my remains.

tiabritaña

2022-12-09 15:20:17 +0000 UTC

1. You can't go wrong with St. Louis Cemetery #1 or Lafayette Cemetary #1 in New Orleans! 2. My end of life plan is to donate my body to science. As a Murderino/Crime Junkie/True Crime fan, I'd love it if my body could be used on a Body Farm so perhaps someday, the info gathered can help solve a murder or death mystery of some sort 🔬

Jordann McCartney

2022-12-09 15:20:11 +0000 UTC

It really is especially the oldest parts

Kathryn Kauffman Psychic Medium

2022-12-09 15:20:05 +0000 UTC

1). I would suggest Hyde Park pet cemetery. It may not be the most glamorous, but it is a Victorian cemetery tucked away in the middle of gorgeous Hyde Park where only the wealthiest of pets would be buried. It’s a badly kept secret in London, where you can only glimpse it through the bars of the park. And who wouldn’t want to be buried amongst dogs, cat, monkeys and birds such as Bogie, Smut, Fattie and Scum (and another unrepeatable name of cat). 2). My burial plans would be to be buried in Highgate cemetery. I would want a full Victorian dress procession, with black carriages and horses with huge plumes of black feathers to carry me through the historic streets of London. All guests, including my cat Artemis, must wear veils and full Victorian attire. Once buried everything can change into a modern colourful party for everyone to have a great time. I would insist on a seance, to try and contact me, every year on my death day.

Suzie

2022-12-09 15:20:04 +0000 UTC

1.) I have 2 favorite cemeteries off the top of my head. The first one that came to mind is the Denver Cemetery outside of Grangeville, ID. I have a few family members buried there - grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. And all the little lamb headstones are cute but sad. It's a small collection of graves from the late 1800s on up; there are not as many "modern" ones as older ones, however. The other one is the graveyard at Fort Abraham Lincoln in North Dakota. All the gravestones say how the person died, and I found it fascinating to walk through and read all of them; they really made me wonder about the full backstory on the extra-interesting ones! 2.) I really want to be a tree when I die with a nice memorial bench under me for people to sit on and relax, enjoying my shade. I also do not want a funeral; I'd rather people have a party. Hire a bar, a DJ, have delicious comfort food. Much more fun way to celebrate someone's life. I've been to too many funerals. I'd rather the end of my life be marked with revelry than sadness. Put the "fun" in funeral, ha!

Hannah Collins

2022-12-09 15:19:44 +0000 UTC

The Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn NY is beautiful and the entrance is grand. As far as a burial plan, I want a natural burial with flower seeds spread on top so there will be a beautiful garden growing that my friends and family can visit and enjoy once I'm gone. They can cut the flowers and make beautiful arrangements for parties and events so in a way I'm still there with them in spirit.

Sarah Jones

2022-12-09 15:19:31 +0000 UTC

My name is Margaret Ashenbach. I love your videos! 1) For my honeymoon we went to Sleepy Hollow New York the week before Halloween and got to explore got to explore the cemetary which was a wonderful experience and we spent the day trying to find the graves of famous figures. I could walk there every day with so much to look at! 2) The older I get the less inclined I am to have a big deal made of my actual burial. I'm dead so I don't need anything expensive. Just dump me in the ground in a nice place and plant a tree over me (maybe a willow) and a nice headstone for family and friends to visit if I'm that lucky. Otherwise, just let the worms have me and God will take care of the rest.

Margaret Ashenbach

2022-12-09 15:19:23 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Pere lachaise cemetery in Paris france lots of wonderfully weird and old Graves/ tombstones. It's a must see. I would love to be buried surrounded with all my animals. Me in the center of a mausoleum and all my animals in a circle around me with little urns in the shape of them. For eternity with my furry animal family. (If only I had the money to buy myself a mausoleum LOL)

Dennis

2022-12-09 15:19:17 +0000 UTC

1) The Hamilton Cemetery in Ontario, Canada is so beautiful! There are several stunning Mausoleums and many other gorgeous old monuments! It’s perched on a cliff/bluff/outcropping(?) that overlooks woodlands. Even the cemetery office is a amazingly beautiful gothic building! 2) I wish to be buried in a coffin of my own making, wearing an elaborate garment I am making for the occasion. Pinned to my chest will be a Victorian inspired mourning jewelry piece I’ve made in memory of my granny ❤️‍🩹

Nicholas Wustefeld

2022-12-09 15:19:07 +0000 UTC

I’d like a natural burial and to have my beloved cat Sadie’s ashes placed with me ❤️ and have a tree planted on our grave

Kalina Simeonova

2022-12-09 15:18:34 +0000 UTC

1) I don't have a favorite cemetery, but I do love to visit them when I travel. 2) I want my body to be composted. It's a cool process. Your "dirt" (for lack of a better term) can be given back to your friends or family, if they want it. Or used to plant forests. Either way you're returned to the earth and part of the ecosystem. Here is a link from my favorite mortician (doesn't everyone have one of those) 😁 https://youtu.be/_LJSEZ_pl3Y

Sara Bakken

2022-12-09 15:17:58 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the riverview Cemetery in Trenton, NJ. Always drove by it and have family members buried there. It sits at a high point overlooking the beautiful river. Something always drew me to it. After much consideration, I would love my corpse to be composted somehow. Preferably wrapped in fetal position and compostable material where I could grow into a weeping willow tree (my favorite kind of tree). I remember reading about this type of burial years ago and haven't been able to find another alternative I'd prefer since!

Cecilia

2022-12-09 15:17:55 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is the Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, BC, Canada, with lots of gorgeous statues, and so many haunts the local ghost tour takes you through. My burial plans started as a joke but have become more serious the more times I’ve said it. My plan is to be cremated and divided into 7 parts. A lottery will be held where friends and family will be randomly assigned a continent to spread my ashes on. Whoever draws our continent can just dump me in the parking lot, but some poor soul will have to make their way down to Antarctica. Recently I’ve been debating adding an 8th that has to see me launched into space, but that’s to be determined.

Melissa

2022-12-09 15:17:42 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is the Merry Cemetery, very colorful and with funny poetic writings on the tombstones describing how the people buried there came to die / about their lives. About my burial plan, I want to be buried in my hometown’s cemetery, nothing special. But I want to pre-plan everything: invitations looking like tarot cards, ouija boards with food to serve the mourners (more ideas to brainstorm) and a tiny card for each individual with a funny quote.

Lorena

2022-12-09 15:17:38 +0000 UTC

1. St Louis cemetery #1 it was beautiful. I saw it first in easy rider watching it will my dad then I went there and have gorgeous pictures there. Tied with mount carmel cemetery in hillside Illinois. They have alot of.beautiful headstones 2. Dream burial plan is using interesting parts of funeral history. I need funeral clowns, sin eaters, the hired mourners to cry and throw them selves at the grave. A funeral procession with a band like they have in New Orleans. Followed up with being turned into a tree in a tree burial pod. Then I would love to have a pre paid huge party for everyone with creepy little reminders of me everywhere. And hire a person to be seen in the distance that would be like the spectral version of me just to remind them all ill still be there to haunt them. I better get planning it 🖤

Rachel Pop

2022-12-09 15:17:21 +0000 UTC

Hi Christine, What a fantastic competition idea! Here is my entry: 1) Give the name and location of your favorite cemetery... and please make sure it can be googled! ;) My favourite cemetery is Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland, partly because there are amazing heritage walks, including one that tell the stories of forgotten but important women who were buried there. Here is the link to that walk if you want to check it out: https://womenslibrary.org.uk/gwl_wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GWL-Necropolis-Map.pdf. My husband and I stayed in the hotel across from The Necropolis on our wedding night so that we could stroll through it the day we got married. 2) What is your burial plan? This could be an element or an idea you have for your end or just one you think is neat! I only have an idea which is to be frozen. I don’t like the idea of creatures eating me or being burned, and secretly hope if I am frozen, I might be revived in the distant future. Best wishes, Dr Bree Robertson-Kirkland

Brianna Robertson-Kirkland

2022-12-09 15:17:21 +0000 UTC

1.) Riverside Cemetery in Lincoln, NH 🖤 I stay at the Omni or Mountain View Resort near there just to get away, and I visit my family burial plot dating back to early 1800’s. 2.) My husband and I want to be cremated and put into Bio Urns so we can grow into trees together 🌳

Kara Titus

2022-12-09 15:16:58 +0000 UTC

Oooh, what fun questions! 1. My current favorite cemetery is Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum in Milwaukee, WI. 2. I'm currently leaning either towards this new human compost thing or being buried in a mushroom pod so my body can be home to millions of mycelia. Hard to choose.

Mandysimo

2022-12-09 15:16:48 +0000 UTC

I don't really have a favorite cemetery, but I think it would be lovely if I were cremated and my ashes then composted and used to help grow a new tree or garden.

Brittney Rivera

2022-12-09 15:16:18 +0000 UTC

The Necropolis in Glasgow (UK) is beautiful. It’s huge and on a hill so you can look all over the city. It has so many old and giant gravestones and crypts. Absolutely magical. I like standard and somewhat old-fashioned burials. Me in a coffin on a graveyard with a simple spooky headstone. Not too modern. Then plant some brambles on top. 😄

Anne

2022-12-09 15:16:12 +0000 UTC

1) I have a LOT of famous cemeteries, one being La Recoleta in Buenos Aires. Eva Peron (Evita) is buried there. You could literally spend a day in the mausoleum and not see it all. There are a lot of incredibly romantic memorials that are poetry in statue form. I love that you can kinda peek in to the mausoleums and crypts and some are deliciously unkempt, dusty and patina(d?) Lol. Big vampiric vibes there. 2) I go back and forth between wanted to be composted and being cremated and planted with a tree. If I could be decomposed by mushrooms that would literally be so rewarding to be able to be part of the natural giving back period of death and provide nutrients back to the earth.

Alexa F

2022-12-09 15:16:07 +0000 UTC

1) I choose the Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. The Smokey Mountains have always been my home and I can’t think of a better resting place than in the mountains where I have so many fond memories. When loved ones come to visit they can enjoy the beauty of the mountains at the same time 2) I know that coffins are insanely expensive and I don’t want that burden on my family. I am comfortable with being buried in a simple coffin. I do however want my funeral to be a massive party. I want loved ones to celebrate the life I’ve lived and all of the fond memories we had together. I want a celebration that I am able to move from this life into the afterlife

Laura Chambers

2022-12-09 15:15:57 +0000 UTC

1. Evergreen Cemetery, Portland Maine. Dogs are allowed so you could always be visited by dogs and it is a beautiful cemetery. 2. A tree urn!

Rebecca Lailer

2022-12-09 15:15:51 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Sleepy Hollow in NY. I spend every Halloween there watching a headless horseman trot through the grounds. My burial plan is to be cremated and put in a fabulous antique urn to live on the marble mantle of my family’s Victorian home to be able to look over them. (Hopefully one of my kids will want to keep the home). I also like the idea of having my ashes put into a tree and having the tree planted on the grounds of our home.

Stevie

2022-12-09 15:15:46 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite is Tolomato Cemetery in St. Augustine, FL. Growing up, we visited St. Augustine a lot to visit family friends and it just seems peaceful. Also as an archeologist, the fact it's one of the oldest European cemeteries in the States just fascinates me 2) I would like a natural burial or one of those green burial pods. Less harmful for the environment and I'll be food for trees and various plants!

Katy Milke

2022-12-09 15:15:33 +0000 UTC

2. However, I don't know if I really want to be buried in the traditional sense. I'm a big fan of Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician), so I'm trying to figure out the best way to go. Right now, I'd like to do a green burial. I want to become a tree, or flowers, or something else that's beautiful and alive.

Devinne Stevens

2022-12-09 15:15:30 +0000 UTC

Bosque Bello in Fernandina Beach, FL. My burial plan is more of a fantasy. I would love to wander into the woods, lie down beside a stream and let the last thing I hear be the water trickling and the last thing I see/feel, be sunshine on my skin. Imagine the fuss when I am found.

Bonnie Bidatsch

2022-12-09 15:15:23 +0000 UTC

I would love to be buried in "the boneyard" where they place your body in different situations and over time they look at the progression on decay for research purposes. It is very hard to get in though. I hope to list all my unique aliments in hopes of securing a place.

Gigi

2022-12-09 15:15:00 +0000 UTC

1. My all time favorite cemetery is Greyfriar’s Kirkyard in Edinburgh Scotland. It’s so peaceful, beautiful, and so historical. Burials date back to the 16th century. This graveyard was an inspiration to Harry Potter as well. When I visited, I did a little scavenger hunt to see if I could find all of the names from the books - most popular one is Tom Riddle. 2. Being buried has always been weird to me. I would like to be taken care of in a sustainable way and given back to the earth. I’m glad to see burials are getting more green for the future! Hope you all have a lovely day 🖤

Kate Ortiz

2022-12-09 15:14:58 +0000 UTC

1) Brompton Cemetery in West London. It's a historical cemetery that does an excellent of feeling wild in places but maintained yet also really architecturally interesting. There are some really stunning mausoleums there that feel like they're out of a 1940's sci-fi movie. One in particular looks like it's a vintage Egyptian time machine. (As a side note, while I was there last, there was a cat that look completely identical to my own cat, and I almost sort of wondered if the time machine mausoleum was actually some portal for cats instead.) 2.) I've given a lot of thought to this. Once my organs have been donated, I would love to have a green burial, where a tree is planted above me to grow. No harmful chemicals to be used in the process, and then if anyone wanted to visit me, they could simply come and see how the tree is doing. There's something really lovely about returning to the earth and being nourishment to a tree.

Kari Bellamy

2022-12-09 15:14:51 +0000 UTC

Favorite cemetery would have to be The Valley of the Kings in Egypt or the catacombs in Paris France. Burial Plan-I'm a little undecided if I want to be cremated and ashes spread in the forest or if I want a natural burial in the forest.

Jordin Gaspar

2022-12-09 15:14:38 +0000 UTC

Get composted and you can be anywhere. https://youtu.be/_LJSEZ_pl3Y

Ash359

2022-12-09 15:13:54 +0000 UTC

Abney Park Cemetery. Never been, but I'd love to see it. Use photos for art references. My dream would be a viking style send off with firey arrows, dressed in a gown surrounded by flowers on a handcrafted boat. I'm pretty sure that's illegal though, so I'm currently looking into other options. Many happy holidays to everyone!

Jessica Huennekens

2022-12-09 15:13:50 +0000 UTC

1. I love Graceland Cemetery here in Chicago. It's full of ghosts that I think I'd like to spend eternity with.

Devinne Stevens

2022-12-09 15:13:16 +0000 UTC

North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH. As a kid, I used to have to walk by it to get to the downtown area and always stopped to read the headstones. As for me, my husband's parents bought us a burial plot in Barre, VT.

Jessica Butterfield

2022-12-09 15:12:57 +0000 UTC

My favorite funeral home is Glenn Abbey Memorial Park located 3838 Bonita Rd. Bonita, CA 91902. I fell in love with it when I attended my late high school friends funeral in 1999. At my funeral, I would like a custom dress similar to Odile’s black Victorian dress from Kimio Yabuki 1981 Swan Lake anime film. My guests will be in dark attire, very much like an Addams Family wedding. Then at the end, release ravens to the air.

Vicky Flores

2022-12-09 15:12:55 +0000 UTC

1.) Westminster Presbyterian Church where Edgar Allen Poe is buried :) it’s a beautiful little quaint cemetery 2.) I want to be turned into a tree. Something whimsical and fantastical about becoming a spiritual tree.

dotdotdoubledot .

2022-12-09 15:12:47 +0000 UTC

So far my favorite cemetery is Cementerio Santa María Magdalena de Pazzi in Old Town San Juan PR. It is right on the ocean with incredible views, and the graves are beautiful. St. Louis cemetery in NOLA is a close second! My burial wish is a natural burial. I don't want to be embalmed, or have a fancy expensive casket. I want to be returned to the earth. If anyone has read Stiff by Mary Roach, she covers being freeze-dried which I also thought was super cool.

Cristina G

2022-12-09 15:12:47 +0000 UTC

Well I’m a drama queen so I need to go out on a dramatic note. I’ve always had the morbid fantasy that when I’m dying I’ll have enough money to rent out Madison Square Garden and fill it with people who would like to see me breathe my last breath into a microphone while situated in a bed with a single spotlight in the center of the arena. After that, whatever form of burial makes my next of kin feel the most comfortable, I’m okay with. Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn, NY has such a deep and interesting history so I’ve always been drawn to it. It was the first rural cemetery in the country and the concept drawings from the 1800’s are something out of a brothers Grimm book. It’s constantly visited so there is no shortage of livelihood, which to me is something I think would be comforting on the other side.✨☠️ https://www.green-wood.com/green-woods-history-and-archives/

Alec Ohanian

2022-12-09 15:12:39 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetary is Spring Vale Cemetery Lafayette, Indiana (765) 742-7028. I also have a burial plan. My intention is to have a green burial with a wicker. casket. I would love for everyone to. tuck flowers into it before I am laid to rest. Playing my favorite songs and. laughing and telling stories. Of course my love of the macabre can not be. over looked so momento mori will be had for all. And although it should be a celebration of life and death wearing. black will not be discouraged. Always encouraged https://g.co/kgs/ZDt2PG.

Jennifer Edwards

2022-12-09 15:12:23 +0000 UTC

1) The Old Burial Ground - Fredericton NB (1784) https://spadeandthegrave.com/2021/12/01/the-old-burial-ground-fredericton-nb/ This place is very old and very spooky. 2) Me and my family (and my best friend) already have our plots, side by side, by the river. The plan is to turn us all into trees. Dad just wants to be a huge rock, made from his ashes.

Dave

2022-12-09 15:10:40 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Laurel Hill Cemetery on Ridge Ave in Philadelphia, PA. Its a gorgeous historical cemetery, and they have a bunch of events throughout the year. I love idea of people being cremated and turned into trees. I find that beautiful, but I think I'd like a traditional burial and funeral where family and friends have a chance to say goodbye. That's also beautiful in its own way ❤

Sam Kimchuk

2022-12-09 15:10:14 +0000 UTC

My favourite cemetery is the General Protestant Cemetery in St. John’s, Newfoundland! It dates back to 1849 and used to be on the outskirts of town as it was forbidden to burry within city limits back then- but now our city has expanded so much that it’s right in the middle! It’s also home to most of the oldest trees in our city, so it’s pretty magical! My burial plan is actually to be buried in one of those pods that allows me to be a tree, or planted with seeds to grow a tree, or something along those lines- I’ve always loved the idea of the circle of life and going back to nature, and I’d love for a beautiful tree that sparks joy to sprout up and turn into something stunning when in long gone! 💕

Kit Sora

2022-12-09 15:10:10 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is the Bruton Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery in Williamsburg, VA. It's a beautiful place to sit quietly and reflect. 2) My burial plan is cremation, and I'd like to be buried near my grandparents in Missouri

Emilie

2022-12-09 15:10:08 +0000 UTC

This past Halloween I took a stroll through my local cemetery: Oakwood Cemetery in Tyler, TX. It was beyond spooky and spectacular statues and gravestones. Pictures do not do it justice. For my burial plan, I want to be remembered after I’m gone, and I’d love to be buried into a tree pod and grow into a beautiful oak tree in my hometown in Northern California.

Tara Smith

2022-12-09 15:09:42 +0000 UTC

1) Bonaventure Cemetary - East of Savannah, Georgia 2) I would love to be mummified in the traditional Egyptian way (like Rankle), so I can be brought back - or at least enact curses, or even just take credit when bad things ‘coincidentally’ happen to people who are mean to cats.

Taylor Lockhart-Lang

2022-12-09 15:09:36 +0000 UTC

I have 2 favorites - Hollywood Forever and Arlington National Cemetery. Hollywood Forever is just stunning and peaceful! I love seeing the peacocks and other wild life roaming around when I visit! Arlington National is solemn, but beautiful. To walk amongst our nation's heroes is one of the biggest honors a person could experience. Experiencing the Changing of the Guards at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is humbling. It's all an experience that will stay with you your entire life. 🇺🇲 I personally am being cremated. My ashes are to be spread at Zion National Park with my dad and my mother's, and also spread out over the overlook on top of Mount Nittany in State College, PA overlooking Penn State University! My 2 favorite spots. 💙

Kristin Ott

2022-12-09 15:09:27 +0000 UTC

1.) Bonaventure Cemetary in Savannah Georgia will always have a soft spot in my heart! It looks like something out of an old movie. 2.) I don't necessarily have a burial plan in place. I may just get cremated. However, I do want my funeral to be somewhat of a celebration. A party, if you will. A celebration of who I was, what I liked, and what I did.

Noctis Ectorius

2022-12-09 15:09:23 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Peace Church Cemetery in Joplin, Missouri. I have a fascination with Ancient Egypt, and my idea for a funeral is to be mummified. This includes every single ritual that was done during the whole process.

Krista Scholl

2022-12-09 15:09:14 +0000 UTC

Delightful! 1. Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is my favorite place love at first sight, I instantly felt better about passing because I now knew I could be there and invite descendants to visit. 2. My burial plan is to rest eternally in Green-Wood, perhaps a green burial where I become part of the ecosystem and help feed the gorgeous flora and fauna?

Barrie McLain

2022-12-09 15:08:58 +0000 UTC

Duck Run Natural Cemetery in Virginia. I'd love to have a natural burial without embalming. My ultimate dream is to feed all the roots, mycelium and critters in the dirt. 🖤

Holly Zwickl

2022-12-09 15:08:27 +0000 UTC

As I live in Hungary, one of the most beautiful cemetries is the country is in our capital, Budapest. The Farkasréti Temető (Cemetery of Farkasrét [which translates to the Field of wolves]) is probably the most famous graveyard, many famous people were buried there. As for me: I don' t care about where I will be buried, as long as the urn with my ashes are surrounded with the soil taken from my maternal grandparents' grave. I also fancy the idea of biodegradable coffins or urns. Happy holidays! 😇

Eti Bődi

2022-12-09 15:08:15 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Springwood Cemetery in Greenville, SC because it is where I walk my two black cats. We make an extra trip at Halloween so they parade around in their costumes 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🎃 I want to be cremated and my ashes used to make crafts, especially mixed into paint for a mural.

Kathryn

2022-12-09 15:08:14 +0000 UTC

My favorite cemetery is Old burial hill in Marblehead Massachusetts it feels magical there, as for a burial plan I would love to be in my own mausoleum like a Victorian vampire I would hope my husband would come visit and light candelabras for me 🦇✨

lindsay

2022-12-09 15:08:10 +0000 UTC

Favourite cemetery is Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in LA (it's where they filmed some scenes from Buffy 😊). I would like an open air cremation and then have my ashes turned into a stone and put in jewellery for a family heirloom.

Teeq

2022-12-09 15:07:44 +0000 UTC

I love Cave Hill! Gorgeous place.

Brandon Grew

2022-12-09 15:07:40 +0000 UTC

Well the most beautiful cemetery has to be Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah but unfortunately it’s historic so you can’t be buried there. When I went I spent hours reading grave stones 🥰 I have a beautiful idea for when I go, I’ve heard that you can be buried in a biodegradable pod which then a tree is planted. I’d like to be a tree overlooking the world, and enjoy the seasons, and give people some shade.

Stephanie MacKenzie

2022-12-09 15:06:58 +0000 UTC

As a deathling & a taphophile, obsessed with this competition! 💀 My Dad died 6 days before my 9th birthday. I was born & raised in California but had to move to England when he died (both my parents are English). He is buried at Cypress Hill cemetery in California. 150 year old cemetery with woodland and rolling hills. I've never been back so only visited his grave side once. The American dream was his so it's fitting he stayed there. My Mum had him in a cardboard coffin & cremated which, I think is amazing. Death should not have a negative impact on the environment (living), in my opinion. My Dad 🖤 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132684258/ian-stuart-ingham Some family members think I'm morbid as I talk about my own, & others death quite a lot. I've always loved old cemeteries, gravestones & churches but as much as I do, I'm not religious & don't want a lavish (cough- expensive) send off. My Mamas funeral was lit! Quintessentially English, finger sandwiches & drunks. My brother in law got stuck on the kids slide & my two uncles had to fish him out. My Mama would have loved it. I would love a Tibetan sky burial but it's sadly not legal here (or the US). As a "deathling" & big "Ask A Mortician"/Caitlin Doherty fan, I'm opting for a green burial in a mushroom suit or a beautiful shroud like this one that Pia designed http://www.piainterlandi.com/garments-for-the-grave/ Pleasington Cemetery ( https://www.blackburn.gov.uk/cemeteries-and-crematoriums/pleasington-cemetery) where I reside in Lancashire, England would be my first choice. I'm interested in human composting or Aquamation. I'm also interested in donating my body to science in the form of a body farm. I'd also love "Pyramid Song" by Radiohead to be be played while my family prepare my body. "Memento mori" 💀

Laura Auld

2022-12-09 15:06:57 +0000 UTC

1. I have never really thought about a favorite cemetery before… I would say one in’s New Orleans, like St.Louis cemetery , just because of all the history and ghost stories 2. I don’t have an actual plan yet, but I have always loved the ones that go back into nature, particularly planting a tree with your ashes to sort of continue “living”

Ashely Donohue

2022-12-09 15:06:52 +0000 UTC

Good day Miss McConnell. The Lexington Cemetery (Lexington, KY) is my personal favorite, established in 1848. My burial plan is to be buried, with the ashes of my dear cats, Mina and Turbo (recently passed). A personal preference of mine, is to have the standard satin lining, a crimson red. 🖤

Alexis Butler

2022-12-09 15:06:16 +0000 UTC

1) My favorite cemetery is Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA. 2) I haven’t made a final decision on this yet, but I like the idea of being composted with Recompose (https://recompose.life) and going into the earth.

Lauren Statts

2022-12-09 15:05:58 +0000 UTC

1) Hollywood Forever is a lovely resting place. I have some family there I like to visit and it’s a nice place to walk around. Plus they host movie nights! 2) plans? I dunno just cremate me and toss me into a pretty place. I’m not picky. Urn, forest or ocean, I’m not there to make choices. But I do hope my funeral is a costume party!

Cassie Wanda Mich

2022-12-09 15:05:39 +0000 UTC

For me I choose Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville KY. I want to be cremated and tossed in the scatter garden.

Kathryn Kauffman Psychic Medium

2022-12-09 15:05:14 +0000 UTC

A Necropolis Christmas Contest!

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How cool!!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3C2cN4ASKRmIwl2zjpDSAn Im sad that I missed the contest, but this is an ep of a podcast my friend and I do on cemeteries. I was going to submit these graveyards and the Comb grave style that originated around White Co. TN.

My great-aunt is buried there and it is a truly magical place! And I have no doubt she'd be one of the ones up to mischief too :-D

Noooooo I misssssed it!! 🥺 best of luck to you all though!!!

I’m late to the party, but the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona was really cool, sadly I missed the museum with all the funerary carriages

There’s a cemeter

I love Lexington Cemetery in Lexington Kentucky. Close to me and very old graves there and at my one in Danville, Bellevue cemetery. I think I want to be buried (green as possible) in one of the Victorian era cemeteries above (naturally) with a big ass creepy tombstone

Oh, I didn't know there was more than one! Cool :)

https://oldgraycemetery.org/home

1. Old Grey cemetery in Knoxville TN. I've been many times to take pictures with the many angels and headstones. Its beautiful.

Hollywood cemetery in Richmond, VA. It overlooks a river with cliffs. It's just genuinely beautiful to walk in. And my plan is to be composted hopefully, but it may not be legal in my state yet. The plan is to move to Washington or Oregon by then.

Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah! It’s perfection. A mushroom coffin would be cool, I’m still figuring it out, but I know for certain I want my body to be eaten by something! Maybe pigs if possible?

Thank you for the awesome Christmas card. As always, very unique.

As generic as this choice may be, my favorite cemetery is Père-Lachaise, in Paris. As for my burial plan, I would like to be cremated (via hydro cremation).

1. Bosque Eterno in Puebla Mexico, there are no graves, just a forrest. 2. I want to be cremated and bury there, under a tree. The whole family can be buried under the same tree, instead of a family grave, it's a tree. I want that.

I loooove thé Christmas Card!!! Thank you. Would love to have it in a Print!!!

I just googled it - it looks so beautiful!

Omg yes! I love this cemetery! I remember being so shocked how small Sleep Hollow was in general!

Yes! I love this cemetery!

Thorp-Heald cemetery, which is a very small family cemetery down the road. It exists in front of the ruins of an old castle. There's a lot of stones that have no engravings on them or they've been washed away with time. Very overgrown and definitely has a creepy vibe.

I’m still searching for my favorite cemetery… but I would love to have a mausoleum of sorts in an old historic cemetery. I really loved any of the cemeteries in New Orleans - anyplace with really old tombstones and mausoleums.

I don't think I want to be buried in a cemetery, my dream is to have my body placed in a forest where I will return to the earth. OR to have my friends be able to take a bone from my body for safekeeping ahaha they can make jewelry and just have a piece of me.

All I can say is, this is going to be a hard contest, so many amazing ideas here…….i have nothing to add, but love reading these!!!!

Been looking forward to this contest for months and of course it hits when I'm out of town for the weekend so I miss the cutoff.

I also have family at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo and I second the comments of Ren above!

Cool! We have a Greenwood Cemetery here in Orlando, too. I adore your burial plan. ;)

Only one place- Bonaventure Cemetery! And I plan on cremation.

1) Tomnahurich cemetery hill in Inverness ^^ I am convinced that when I visited a ghost/invisible creature grabbed my bum. 2) I would love to be buried in a Friedwald. They are forests in Germany where you can get buried without any fuss. You simply become one with nature.

1) Hollywood Forever, I fell in love with it when I attended Cinespia for the first time back in 2006. 2) I am being cremated, separated into 7 and sending my 3 daughters around the world to spread my ashes at 7 different locations.

1. My favorite cemetery is definitely the Old Burial Hill cemetery in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It’s one of the oldest cemeteries I have to and I love that it’s a filming location in Hocus Pocus. 2. If I could have it my way I’d have a Viking funeral!

1- the Woodland Cemetery in downtown Des Moines. So peaceful 2- I saw a tiktok and the voiceover said “if your relatives are cremated, you can put their ashes in an hourglass so they can still participate in family game night.” So, that.

2. I want to be composted and turned into a tree - I want to find a nice old cemetery and now there are compostable pods bodies can be buried into that decompose, I’d like to burial a tulip tree

so it is filled with marble tombs and statuary, and is the sight of many supposed haunting (and the resting place of Anne Rice).

1. Metairie Cemetary in New Orleans is absolutely beautiful. Burials in New Orleans have to be above ground

My favourite cemetery has to be Highgate Cemetery in London. The sense of calm you feel when walking amongst the stones is wondrous. This cemetery feels otherworldly that you can see why films have been made here.

My favorite graveyard is Hingham Cemetery, located behind the old ship church in Hingham, MA. 2. I would like my body burned on a pyre but my bones recovered and used for every day things and have my teeth turned into jewelry and such.

1. Maple Grove Cemetery, Baltimore, Ohio. I use to walk there as a child with my father. He taught me how to rubbing from markers. 2. I want to be creamated, placed in a biodegradable bag & thrown into the creek in my favorite hiking area.

1) Favorite cemetery: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY 2) Burial plan: I would like have my cremated remains combined with concrete to be molded into a living reef structure under the ocean, helping to support certain marine life and to build an ecosystem.

This answer is spectacular!