Guest guest Posted July 5, 2001 Report Share Posted July 5, 2001 Vicki, I think I must have missed any earlier posts about your grandfather - I WANT TO KNOW MORE! He sounds amazing! Anneliese and Toddler Tim as I suppose I must call him now... Re: Digest Number 1270 My Grandfather (he of the velvet dinner skirt and the sheep, I must have told you...) had an interesting funeral. He'd bought a burial cloth in Africa - double sized - and wanted to be cremated just in half of that - he cut it up and the other half's for his gf. However, the funeral directors were unhappy about handling a corpse in only a shroud. Don't know why, as this is how it's done virtually everywhere else. Grumpy was quite adamant he didn't want a wooden coffin, though, so managed to find a cardboard one from somewhere, which was then draped with his shroud (which was beautiful), in the end. His service was in a church, but conducted by the family not the vicar. He was cremated, and scattered half in E Sussex and half in the Masai Mara - he was also adamant he had to be thrown into an elephant's footprint. His will was read by my uncle at the wake and included a clause that we are all to be kind to ginger cats as that is how he hopes to return. Vicki Portman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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