What would you like to be buried in?

[Nikkilovesdresses]

If I saw the end coming, I'd want to buy the most fabulous dress ever- in fact I'd want it made specially for me, preferably by John Galliano.

But if it's a bolt out of the blue, I've already asked my wife to bury me in a pretty pair of silk panties- she can choose which.

Any thoughts, ladies?

[Stephanie47]

I'm going out in a blaze of glory: cremation. No viewing! No sense in wasting a nice dress and slip.

[monalisa]

Don't want to waste a great dress. Wear a bra, fancy panties, garter belt and stockings with wig, makeup and painted nails. So if CSI digs you up it will be a tough one for them to solve and might make for a good show.

[Jackie Meyer]

Anything white. And as long as my nails and makeup is perfect.

[Persephone]

Pretty much anything as long as I don't have to spend eternity in a girdle or corset!

Hugs,
Persephone.

[Eryn]

Ilene West's will specified that she be buried in a lacy nightgown... and her Ferrari! She also specified that the seat be reclined at a "comfortable angle."

[Kate Simmons]

I told them I wanted to be cremated. No point wasting money or a new outfit the way I figure it. :)

[Trish]

I'm going out in a blaze of glory: cremation. No viewing! No sense in wasting a nice dress and slip.

My thoughts also.

[Rachelakld]

Open coffin viewing, naked, erect and smiling, then in to the furnace

[Linda E. Woodworth]

Although my wife and I have discussed our ultimate demise and burial we didn't even tough on the subject of what to wear.

I want to be cremated and my ashes buried at sea.

[Pat]

I'll be dead -- I won't know, I won't care. The important thing is to wear the dress now. ;)

[Persephone]

Ilene West's will specified that she be buried in a lacy nightgown... and her Ferrari! She also specified that the seat be reclined at a "comfortable angle."

Are you planning the same?

Hugs,
Persephone.

[Natasha V]

This has crossed my mind, my thoughts leave me blank I am still undecided. ???

[Diane Lynn]

To die a woman. I want to be donated to science, so they can figure me out, and help people in the future.

[Hell on Heels]

I'm thinking I should fit nicely into a takeout pizza box!
Much Love,
Kristyn

[JayeLefaye]

I told them I wanted to be cremated. No point wasting money or a new outfit the way I figure it. :)

I also agree with Trish's response...

Give my clothes to a Goodwill Shop...And toss my ashes into my favorite stream and let them find their way into the ocean.

Jaye

[Seana Summer]

While I enjoy dressing, I don't wish to be buried in anything other than what my family picks out for me. Somebody once told me a funeral is not for the one in the coffin, it is for the ones left behind. If I thought they (my family) didn't give a D*** then I would probably pick something to make my friends smile one last time!

[Lorileah]

this is pertinent to many considering what happened to the person in this article
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/11/24/outrage-after-idaho-trans-woman-buried-man

Now being a CD is different I understand but if you don't put it in writing and make it known...you will get what others decide

[MsVal]

I love my family. Every one of them. When it comes time for me to leave them, I want their grieving process to be uncomplicated by any selfish wish I may have.

To answer the original question: Clothe me in whatever seems appropriate to whomever is making the arrangements.

Best wishes
MsVal

[BLUE ORCHID]

Hi Nikki, I once told my wife that I wanted to be laid out in my lovely black sequin party dress,

And she said, "Over my dead body" end of discussion.

[justmetoo]

In the height of fashionable gowns from the Spring season of the year 2101. :)

[Eryn]

Ilene West's will specified that she be buried in a lacy nightgown... and her Ferrari!...

Are you planning the same?

Nope, it's a terrible thing to do to a Ferrari. The one in question is worth about $300K today so it's a darned expensive coffin.

[Allison Chaynes]

When I was convinced a few months ago that I was not going to survive my heart condition, my wife told me she would have me cremated in a dress if I wanted. So, that's the plan. Then the ashes will go into a small wooden boat, set ablaze, and sent to sea.

[Lily Catherine]

Due to my country not favouring burial, I'll almost certainly be cremated (standard practice being after the wake). I could care less what I'd be cremated in, as long as I take my guitar with me.

[Erika Lyne]

I'll be dead -- I won't know, I won't care. The important thing is to wear the dress now. ;)

From one New Englander to another...I couldn't agree more.

However, IF I were able to know better, I'd probably say to bury me in something from my closet feminine and respectable with hair and make up to match.

-E

[Jilmac]

I'm checking out the old fashioned way, in a box in a hole in the ground, right next to my spouse. That being said, I would certainly love to be buried in one of my floor length formal dresses, my favorite wig and full makeup. That's my fantasy, the reality is I'll check out as my male self, as most people know me, probably dressed for the weather, i.e; jeans and tee shirt for spring and summer or jeans and flannel shirt for fall and winter.

[DianeDeBris]

I want to be scattered from an airplane. Not cremated, mind you, just flung out.

[Persephone]

One of my favorite burial pieces, from Mark Twain's "The Story of Grandfather's Old Ram" from one of his best books, "Roughing It."

"one of his sisters married a Wheeler; they settled in Morgan county, and he got nipped by the machinery in a carpet factory and went through in less than a quarter of a minute; his widder bought the piece of carpet that had his remains wove in, and people come a hundred mile to ‘tend the funeral. There was fourteen yards in the piece. She wouldn’t let them roll him up, but planted him just so–full length. The church was middling small where they preached the funeral, and they had to let one end of the coffin stick out of the window. They didn’t bury him–they planted one end, and let him stand up, same as a monument. And they nailed a sign on it and put–put on–put on it–sacred to–the m-e-m-o-r-y–of fourteen y-a-r-d-s–of three-ply–car–-pet–containing all that was–m-o-r-t-a-l–of–of–W-i-l-l-i-a-m–W-h-e–”

Hugs,
Persephone.

[Nikkilovesdresses]

I once told my wife that I wanted to be laid out in my lovely black sequin party dress,

And she said, "Over my dead body" end of discussion.

This sets the standard, IMO!

[Lee Andrews]

Wife and I talked about this a few years ago. She said she would make me boy on top and from the waist down all girl. Heels, hose and skirt.

[AccidentalDresser]

Have to agree with the others who aren't fussed.
At the end of the day I won't be there. I have long held the opinion that funerals are for the living. Let them form their last memories of me as they would like to remember me.

Besides I am planning on living forever so it's never going to be an issue.

[bridget thronton]

A skirt suit and my academic robe

[Maria Blackwood]

Nothing. Throw my body into an active volcano so it gets dispersed throughout the atmosphere.

[Amanda M]

A coffin, preferably. And to the person who wants to be buried at sea, spare thought for the poor sod who is going to dig the hole. Mine, I hope, will be a cremation, to Souza's wonderful march, "Blaze Away".

[DorothyElizabeth]

A jar - I have instructions that I am to be cremated, and the cremains placed in the family plot in Longmeadow, MA. Cemetery.