Aww Lexxi. I doubt i'd have an open casket because I fully intend to donate every single bit of me they can use.
Whatever isn't totally broken beyond repair, whip it on out and donate it.
But it's like, I don't want people being too sad. I want them to remember my life. And because i'm a ridiculous person that means mariachis, and maybe a donkey.
I remember this funeral I attended as a kid for my neighbour and it was super sad until this donkey in a nearby field started braying over the priest and nobody, NOBODY could help but smile at the interuption. There was just this donkey like looking over the fence at us all happy.
It honestly really helped the mood and I think the departed would have found it funny too.
but I DO need to sort out a will. I've never really bothered because I don't really have anything to pass on. I have no assets or anything but there is a concern about legal matters if I change my name regarding my kid's birth certificates. I don't actually know how that all works.
Husband has been told to sell my dolls, he could probably get a tidy sum for doing so. But he said he doesn't want to because they're such a big reminder of ME.
I think I want to be burried with my wedding ring though. It's not actually worth anything (it's semi precious stones because I like them) but it's MINE and I have nobody to hand it down to who'd really appreciate or wear it. May as well keep it with me. And you know, good luck getting it off my fat swollen fingers anyway hah.
We have verbal arrangements in place but nothing set in law. If both my husband and I were to pass on then it'd fall to our family to argue over who took our kids. My mother probably would, I can't see the inlaws stepping up to the plate.
Ultimately though, without any assets wills have always felt unneccisary. I suppose i'm fortunate in that I actually trust my family to respect my verbal wishes. That may change as time goes by though.
I may have to put in something about what happens to my alter though. It feels wrong to allow my family to just throw my wand and stuff into a skip. I mean it has no monitary value and there's no way they could sell that stuff but at the same time, you can't throw a wand and offering bowl and stuff into a skip!
I think i'd like to hand my tarot cards down though, I just don't know WHO would want them. I'm the only neopagan in my family and I admit, i'd like them to continue to be used. they've served me well over the years.
Maybe I should demand they bury me with my alter equipment lol. At the very least bury me with my crappy wand. Lol.
It'll screw with anyone who ever tries to dig me up for sure.
I can go all archaelogical and demand I get grave goods.
