Crematoria?

[gffgold]

Does anyone have any accurate info on the options for cremation around the Jabodetabek area? I don't mean the grand Balinese style send-off - just an ordinary cremation in a furnace.

[Karl-Hienz]

I can recommend or next door neighbor's boy, he sure can get the neighbor's trash in a roaring blaze in the morning and smokes up the entire neighborhood here in Pejatan Barat. Let us know the date and I will bring the sticks and marshmellows.

[Pimpin]

Plannin on a killin? No evidence eh. Gotchya. Good thinking too in case the vesectomy doesn't go well.

[gffgold]

No, I was updating my will and because my western friends are crap at organising things and my Indonesian friends don't usually have anything to do with cremation I'd like to leave some hints and tips for arranging disposal of my remains.

[Nimbus]

Try looking up "Krematorium Cilincing".

[waarmstrong]

No, I was updating my will and because my western friends are crap at organising things and my Indonesian friends don't usually have anything to do with cremation I'd like to leave some hints and tips for arranging disposal of my remains.

Thoughtful guy or extremely anal? I will go with the former, but I have been marked as a bit gullible.

[gffgold]

Purely practical. Some close family in UK are too disabled to make a trip to Indo if the worst happened and would want a funeral service in England. I wouldn't want them to have the expense of a posthumous repatriation so my solution would be the much cheaper and easier return of an urn of ashes.

I'm not really bothered what happens to my remains but funerals are for the bereaved and not the deceased.

[Carrot Cake]

.. I'm not really bothered what happens to my remains ...

Same here. I told my family that i don't care about what they are going to do with my remains if i die before them. They could use my remains to feed the crocodiles if they want. They just have to make sure that I am 100% dead before doing that.

[Anglian]

Good Thinking in advance, a family friend was quite upset when her husband died in Spain, she couldnt get over the fact he went back Cargo and all the hassle with Customs and agents

[exbrit]

Strange as I have been thinking about that. Much better than taking up useless space in the ground and like some of you say, who cares after you are dead...only the living

[waarmstrong]

I certainly have provided for those I care about -- I hope that's considered thoughtful. Providing a recipe to your postmortem cookers is a bit on the anal side. Reminds me of a related conversation:

Undertaker: Well, there's three things we can do with your mum. We can bury her, burn her, or dump her.
Man: Dump her?
Undertaker: Dump her in the Thames.
Man: What?
Undertaker: Oh, did you like her?
Man: Yes!
Undertaker: Oh well, we won't dump her, then. Well, what do you think? We can bury her or burn her.
Man: Well, which do you recommend?
Undertaker: Well, they're both nasty. If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she's not quite dead, but quick. And then we give you handful of ashes, which you can pretend are hers.
Man: Oh.
Undertaker: Or, if we bury her she gets eaten up lots of weevils, and nasty maggots, which as I said before is a bit of a shock if she's not quite dead.
Man: I see. Well, she's definitely dead.
Undertaker: Where is she? Man She's in this sack. Undertaker Can I have a look? She looks quite young.
Man: Yes, yes, she was.
Undertaker: (calling): Fred!
Fred's voice: Yeah?
Undertaker: I think we've got an eater.

Excerpted from the Undertaker Sketch: http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode26.htm#17

[Huck Finn]

Not even close...........keep taking the pills.

[waarmstrong]

Just trying to be helpful.

If the blubbering crowds that I am sure will pack the church back home for your send-off need a physical reminder of their connection with you, Gffgold, why bother with the hassle at all? Just plan the quick (and cheap) Muslim-style burial here and instruct one of your close UK Friends to sift a few grams of ash from the fireplace, pop the package in a spittoon (one with a lid), and present same to the Father as your worldly remains. I suppose you should include in the instructions, an admonishment to dump the ash in the Thames after the service -- destroy the evidence, so to speak.

[cheac]

LOL Waarm...that is gruesome and wayyyy wicked :) I think i'm going to loose my dinner...

[Pimpin]

Not while Im at your heels I hope. Give warning for me to get out of the way ya.

[agnesdevi]

I had my father's cremation in Jabar Agung in Dadap area. It's name is Rumah Abu Jabar Agung. They have separated room between Christian and Bhuddist people to put their ash after being cremated. However, it's choice of the family to keep the ash or just throw it to the sea. For my father, we kept the ash there. So it's just like a grave there.

[abdinegoro]

gffgold is David Booth??

[jared1981]

Seems kind of grim now.

[kingwilly]

Indeed. 20/20 hindsight shows waarmstrongs comments to be pretty nasty.