Buried in Oz?
Sep 21st 2003, 9:15 pm
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Re: Buried in Oz?
Originally posted by PeteY
Do you chaps and chapesses plan to be buried in oz? Or do you want to be shipped home and buried/cremmed here?
More to the point.....do you look upon your emigration as being permenant, for the rest of your life etc?
Strange question.....but can't think of any particularly exciting threads to start
Me? Wherever i really don't care. lol. I can see myself retireing in a nice little cottage in Devon though.
Do you chaps and chapesses plan to be buried in oz? Or do you want to be shipped home and buried/cremmed here?
More to the point.....do you look upon your emigration as being permenant, for the rest of your life etc?
Strange question.....but can't think of any particularly exciting threads to start
Me? Wherever i really don't care. lol. I can see myself retireing in a nice little cottage in Devon though.
MM
Sep 21st 2003, 9:24 pm
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Re: Buried in Oz?
Originally posted by mr mover
MY ashes will be taken up to 2000ft ,above Adelaide ,and spread to the Four winds , so i can get up every bodys nose......... MM
MY ashes will be taken up to 2000ft ,above Adelaide ,and spread to the Four winds , so i can get up every bodys nose.........
MM
Sep 21st 2003, 10:03 pm
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I had already decided I want my ashes scattered from the top of Mount Wellington - thats the beauitful mountain overlooking Hobart.
Now for the depressing bit - about an hour ago I heard that one of my dearest friends (expat Pom, living in Hobart) today committed suicide by throwing himself from the hospital roof. Bit spooky with this thread running at the time, one of those coincidences of fate I guess. Can't say it was unexpected - he was a depressed alcoholic, but at least he was sober when he did it, so we know it wasn't an accident. He was the guy who first got me to go over and visit Australia, and planted the first idea in my mind of wanting to live there. He was so pleased that I met my Bloke, and that I'm all set to go. Best thing that could've happened in a lot of ways - at least hes at peace now - and he will be buried in Hobart, British or not.
Sorry about all the woffle, but its got it off my chest anyway! Think the idea is that you should be buried where your heart is.....
Now for the depressing bit - about an hour ago I heard that one of my dearest friends (expat Pom, living in Hobart) today committed suicide by throwing himself from the hospital roof. Bit spooky with this thread running at the time, one of those coincidences of fate I guess. Can't say it was unexpected - he was a depressed alcoholic, but at least he was sober when he did it, so we know it wasn't an accident. He was the guy who first got me to go over and visit Australia, and planted the first idea in my mind of wanting to live there. He was so pleased that I met my Bloke, and that I'm all set to go. Best thing that could've happened in a lot of ways - at least hes at peace now - and he will be buried in Hobart, British or not.
Sorry about all the woffle, but its got it off my chest anyway! Think the idea is that you should be buried where your heart is.....
Sep 21st 2003, 10:09 pm
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Originally posted by Pollyana
I had already decided I want my ashes scattered from the top of Mount Wellington - thats the beauitful mountain overlooking Hobart.
Now for the depressing bit - about an hour ago I heard that one of my dearest friends (expat Pom, living in Hobart) today committed suicide by throwing himself from the hospital roof. Bit spooky with this thread running at the time, one of those coincidences of fate I guess. Can't say it was unexpected - he was a depressed alcoholic, but at least he was sober when he did it, so we know it wasn't an accident. He was the guy who first got me to go over and visit Australia, and planted the first idea in my mind of wanting to live there. He was so pleased that I met my Bloke, and that I'm all set to go. Best thing that could've happened in a lot of ways - at least hes at peace now - and he will be buried in Hobart, British or not.
Sorry about all the woffle, but its got it off my chest anyway! Think the idea is that you should be buried where your heart is.....
I had already decided I want my ashes scattered from the top of Mount Wellington - thats the beauitful mountain overlooking Hobart.
Now for the depressing bit - about an hour ago I heard that one of my dearest friends (expat Pom, living in Hobart) today committed suicide by throwing himself from the hospital roof. Bit spooky with this thread running at the time, one of those coincidences of fate I guess. Can't say it was unexpected - he was a depressed alcoholic, but at least he was sober when he did it, so we know it wasn't an accident. He was the guy who first got me to go over and visit Australia, and planted the first idea in my mind of wanting to live there. He was so pleased that I met my Bloke, and that I'm all set to go. Best thing that could've happened in a lot of ways - at least hes at peace now - and he will be buried in Hobart, British or not.
Sorry about all the woffle, but its got it off my chest anyway! Think the idea is that you should be buried where your heart is.....
big hug - can't think what to say. Take care, Larissa
Sep 21st 2003, 10:18 pm
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Thanks Larissa, much appreciated. Bit weird that he did it while this thread is going. I shall be Ok - just a bit of a shock - as with Whisky's cousin a couple of weeks ago. , is the suddenness of it.
Off for a drink I think....!
Off for a drink I think....!
Sep 21st 2003, 10:23 pm
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Have said to hubby if you are still alive please take my ashes back to the uk so i can be scattered where i was born and grew up , and have a plaque next to them all , it means alot tome . If not the poor kids will have to do it bless them Hubby says hes easy , life is for living you can do what you want with me when your dead okey dokey !!!!!
Joanne xx
Hubby says hes easy , life is for living you can do what you want with me when your dead okey dokey !!!!!Joanne xx
Sep 21st 2003, 11:57 pm
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scatter me outback somewhere I guess..
not too worried
badgers
not too worried
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Sep 22nd 2003, 1:36 am
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Originally posted by Dee_e56
For me NZ will be my home. When I die I want half my ashes thrown to the wind of the top of a snowy mountain in NZ and the other half into the ocean. These are the place's I love most and when my family go to them they will always have me in there thoughts. what a cheery posting.
Dee
For me NZ will be my home. When I die I want half my ashes thrown to the wind of the top of a snowy mountain in NZ and the other half into the ocean. These are the place's I love most and when my family go to them they will always have me in there thoughts. what a cheery posting.
Dee
Sep 22nd 2003, 5:57 am
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Re: Buried in Oz?
Originally posted by PeteY
Do you chaps and chapesses plan to be buried in oz? Or do you want to be shipped home and buried/cremmed here?
More to the point.....do you look upon your emigration as being permenant, for the rest of your life etc?
Strange question.....but can't think of any particularly exciting threads to start
Me? Wherever i really don't care. lol. I can see myself retireing in a nice little cottage in Devon though.
Do you chaps and chapesses plan to be buried in oz? Or do you want to be shipped home and buried/cremmed here?
More to the point.....do you look upon your emigration as being permenant, for the rest of your life etc?
Strange question.....but can't think of any particularly exciting threads to start
Me? Wherever i really don't care. lol. I can see myself retireing in a nice little cottage in Devon though.
i will be leaving my eldest daughter behind so i'm not really sure what/where to go when im dead! i've always said i want a headstone so that if my girls need to they can come and 'talk' to me, but if im in Oz and my daughter isn't then its a long way for her to come! so i don't know, i am hoping that our move to Australia will be forever, it will be our home, we will become citizens and therefore be buried there, i really don't know, don't really want to think about it but suppose i'll have to at some point!
this was a really good post and very difficult for me at least to answer
rach
Sep 22nd 2003, 7:11 am
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ashes to ashes dust to dust
I'm having my ashes flushed down the loo in the Sydney Opera House and if they block it up it w'ont be me with the plunger.The old Plumber Colin "God that yafm is getting excited"
Sep 22nd 2003, 10:21 am
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Re: re buried in OZ
Originally posted by pomijean
I,m already buried in OZ.
I,m already buried in OZ.
