I see more and more fellow fishermen commenting on having their remains cremated when they pass from this life and having their ashes spread across the surf at a favorite beach or backwater so they may spend eternity at a place they loved! How many of you have these same plans???

I have for quite awhile! My wife Angie knows that when my time comes (hopefully not for about 40 more years as planned.....but one never knows) my ashes are to be spread at the water line on Ballston Beach in Truro on a dropping tide, preferably at sunrise or sunset in the fall. My hopes are the waves will wash up and carry my remains out into the ocean I loved and perhaps the fish will carry me to places I have only dreamed of fishing.......someday. Not today.

More likely a seal will swim by and crap on you.

Heard about one guy who had his ashes scattered over Vineyard sound by two friends in an airplane. Unfortunately they all blew back into the plane and guy's faces.

I have plans for it as well, but im not going to spot burn till the time comes :). There are a few places that many of us feel close to "god" or whatever you want to call it when fishing. Im not religious but i have some spirituality and i guess being close to "god" is about the best way i can describe how i feel when fishing certain places. A place you want to spend eternity.

I am having some of my fathers built into the handle of my rod, so he can always come fishing with me;

i have the same plan...if all goes right (as opposed to sitting in a urn in some closet) i'd like mine scattered off cuttyhunk, in the west branch of the penobscott, and in narragansett bay. :)

you can have your ashes compressed into a diamond these days...

but personally....
i much prefer the old style small Viking boat where your laid to rest on top
of a big pile of sticks sent out on calm seas.... then the best
S-B Archers can shoot flaming arrows at the boat until it catches fire
and everyone gets to watch the glowing vessel ..... finally sink .

ps. don't forget to take yer vitamins for the :point: 40 more years.

I told my family if I'm ever at the point where I'm confined to a wheel chair and can't care for myself I want to be taken out to stellwagon and have a tuna rod strapped to me in the chair so if I hook up it will be me or the fish.
The rod is sitting down cellar waiting to be used again and hopefully I'll get to use it a few times between now and then. Alot of people say they want to go while having sex; I think sex is overated and I want to go while fishing. I have no wife or children so I probably won't get the choice after I'm gone and my resting place is already purchased so it will probably be the worms that win ... I hope someone gets to fish them worms.

Feed my remains to the great whites, that would be cool:devil2:

In 2060, I'd like my freshly charred ashes scattered into Charlestown Breachway on a dropping tide in early June.

Do ya have to ask were I will be???? lol

after I'm gone and my resting place is already purchased so it will probably be the worms that win ... I hope someone gets to fish them worms.

that is so freakin FUNNY you MADE my Day

thank you
very
very MUCH :btu:

i have the same plan...if all goes right (as opposed to sitting in a urn in some closet) i'd like mine scattered off cuttyhunk, in the west branch of the penobscott, and in narragansett bay. :)
GEE DON

maybe we could make you into a Fragrance
and let it PUFF periodically
all over the Place..... :rotf2:

I always told my wife I wanted to be stuffed and mounted in the Snagglepuss "Exit, Stage Left Position" :hee:

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I can see that Kevin?:hidin:

I don't believe it matters,meaning when you die you are no longer in body or ash's.I honestly think it maybe meaningful for the one who has survived and is deeply grieving and feel that they should put you were"you belong" at the spot where you were at peace.

Don't get me wrong I think that it's pretty neat and all to be spread out over your favorite haunts but your not really there and why bother.

A friend of ours lost her son in HS, due to a freak baseball accident. After the funeral was over and the shock wore off they looked at the costs. When her husband passed on she took a trip around the world with his ashes and spread them as she went. I think the cost was less.

From the looks of things someone better make the plans for spreading the NE Patriots ashes :rotf2:

From the looks of things someone better make the plans for spreading the NE Patriots ashes :rotf2:

They could give up the rest of the season Ron but still hold a better record than Jokeland:rotf2:

They could give up the rest of the season Ron but still hold a better record than Jokeland:rotf2:

Now that's just not nice. People that are Oakland fans are already masochists that probably cut themselves while sitting in a dark room listening to R&B Breakup songs. They don't need you pointing out that their team has a win percentage almost as bad as Big Papi's 2009 batting average.

Now that's just not nice. People that are Oakland fans are already masochists that probably cut themselves while sitting in a dark room listening to R&B Breakup songs. They don't need you pointing out that their team has a win percentage almost as bad as Big Papi's 2009 batting average.

Hey what can I say,when push comes to shove Im gonna shove back:devil2:

More likely a seal will swim by and crap on you.

Heard about one guy who had his ashes scattered over Vineyard sound by two friends in an airplane. Unfortunately they all blew back into the plane and guy's faces.


Were the two guys named Walter Sobchak and Jeff Lebowski? :rotf2:

my kids know what beache(s) to leave me at..

I'd like some plug builder to be brave enough to load some capsules containing some of me into a few plugs too... :D.... still be "out there & after 'em",,, if you know what I mean... :uhuh:

You guys should consider an eternal reef (eternalreefs.com) then you can really give back to the sport you love

my kids know what beache(s) to leave me at..

I'd like some plug builder to be brave enough to load some capsules containing some of me into a few plugs too... :D.... still be "out there & after 'em",,, if you know what I mean... :uhuh:

To leave you at Karl?? Sounds like Weekend at Bernies!:rotf2: They just gonna leave you there?:rotf2:

To gross to think about.........

the highly specialized S-B mortuary
with custom packages especially for fishermen :grins:

think of a custom shaped :point: like a plug
casket

that would be cool with a big ole danny lip on it

I always told my wife I wanted to be stuffed and mounted in the Snagglepuss "Exit, Stage Left Position" :hee:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2912670026_f40b650272.jpg

see...."exit stage left" is Ingrained in Kevin's head too
from childhood TV...well done TDF

my ashes are to be spread at the water line on Ballston Beach in Truro on a dropping tide, preferably at sunrise or sunset in the fall. .

I love these spread my ashes threads. Now I not only have a new good spot but I know what tides and time of year to fish it!! :)

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to go now. :)

To leave you at Karl?? Sounds like Weekend at Bernies!:rotf2: They just gonna leave you there?:rotf2:

think about it... a little here... a little there.... ;)


after yours are delivered they will be left as well...or are they gonna come back and pick them up??

got handy vac??

my kids know what beache(s) to leave me at..

I'd like some plug builder to be brave enough to load some capsules containing some of me into a few plugs too... :D.... still be "out there & after 'em",,, if you know what I mean... :uhuh:


I will check out Karls party and the Grumpy one's and then come up with my own :grins:

But I was thinking along the same line:) Making a lure out of some sort of horse pill:wall: with my ashes inside and make a bunch or lures so friends would cast them out and they would keep casting until the pill is gone or you catch a fish:) (I stole this idea)

Plus I already told my wife to burn me in my boat and she agree's :buds: She liked the boat idea a lot ...LOL


VB

My brother in law recently checked out at the age of 80. He was cremated and his wife now has the ashes. I asked her what she was planning and her answer really caught me off guard, Her plan is to be cremated also and have her ashes mixed with her husbands, then scattered at their favorite place.

I will check out Karls party and the Grumpy one's and then come up with my own :grins:

But I was thinking along the same line:) Making a lure out of some sort of horse pill:wall: with my ashes inside and make a bunch or lures so friends would cast them out and they would keep casting until the pill is gone or you catch a fish:) (I stole this idea)

Plus I already told my wife to burn me in my boat and she agree's :buds: She liked the boat idea a lot ...LOL


VB

:hihi:..

toss all the plugs & you in the boat, toss in a match, push you out with the tide....viking funeral.. :kewl:

you only go to collect the funeral cards, :eek: and try to find out wherre the plugs are going ;)
:hihi:

no party here..that's the other thing they know... no service, no nothing..just "dust" in the wind...

Actually, seriously...I want a keg at my wake, right at the head of the casket. After you pay respects to the familiy and do the kneel down by me....I want to buy everybody one last drink on me.

Plus I already told my wife to burn me in my boat and she agree's :buds: She liked the boat idea a lot ...LOL
VB

You did make sure to specify AFTER you pass......you know how wives can interpret things

I have turned 4 people into glass paperweights :hihi:

when I go, I'd like a few of my ashes thrown into the furnace at Venini's studio in murano Italy and the rest sprinkled over the home fries at phil's dinner...
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Actually, seriously...I want a keg at my wake, right at the head of the casket. After you pay respects to the familiy and do the kneel down by me....I want to buy everybody one last drink on me.

One last drink??? I never got the first one???:buds:

guy I used to know would always say" I was born 50feet from the ocean, thats prolly where I'll die...." As he was losing to leukemia, his wife made sure he was sitting in his wheelchair at the waters edge when his time came.

now THATS a good wife..... took his ashes back up to Maine where he was born.

Just South of Cold Storage Beach in North Truro, my Family beach for the past 5 generations counting my children.
In the dead of a moonless July night.
We spread my Mother's ashes there October before last so she could always swim in the "big waves".

Actually, seriously...I want a keg at my wake, right at the head of the casket. After you pay respects to the familiy and do the kneel down by me....I want to buy everybody one last drink on me.

My wake as well, but I want no one to kneel. Just have a few drinks, a few laughs and remember that I tried.

I like that Fred!

From the looks of things someone better make the plans for spreading the NE Patriots ashes :rotf2:

Hey Ron..Your comments about the Pats are getting old

My brother's were scattered way too soon around home plate at Fenway. I would like mine tossed into the West Branch of the Farmington River.

I'm planning to be cloned so I can come back and torment my children some more.

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no party here..that's the other thing they know... no service, no nothing..just "dust" in the wind...

Your always blowin dust in the wind every time u let one rip....chitt I'll melt u down fa free..herr u got lots of lead in your arse..the dust I'll just mix in the paint an clearcoat ya..how'd that b.

Montauk point, under the light, on my favorite rock for me.

Were the two guys named Walter Sobchak and Jeff Lebowski? :rotf2:

Dude

Dude

Jeffrey, to Maud.

Your always blowin dust in the wind every time u let one rip....chitt I'll melt u down fa free..herr u got lots of lead in your arse..the dust I'll just mix in the paint an clearcoat ya..how'd that b.


sounds good.....thx

ain't ready yet tho...

altho when i "let one rip" as you say, my wife always says.."who died? ahhhg :yak5:"

and sometimes...it ain't dust :o

:hihi:

I have decided I am not going to die!!!

What I really want is to have all my friends and family show up at the seashore to pay respects . Then I'd like to be shot out of a circus cannon ,,high in the air towards the open ocean wearing a clown suit and a cape .. Leave em laughing . There's probably a law against this ,so I will probably be burnt and dumped "Local" .. I'll hook you up large Larry if I can ..

They have a crematorium at the last corner before I turn to go to my house. A lot of times, coming home late at night from fishing, they would have it fired up. Crematoriums spew a considerable amount of smoke - but I suppose that has something to do with the fat content of the corpse.

What I really want is to have all my friends and family show up at the seashore to pay respects . Then I'd like to be shot out of a circus cannon ,,high in the air towards the open ocean wearing a clown suit and a cape .. Leave em laughing . There's probably a law against this ,so I will probably be burnt and dumped "Local" .. I'll hook you up large Larry if I can ..

Tagger, you're killin me. I'll be laughing to myself at work tomorrow and the guys will be all scared and stuff again...