Whenever you die, how would you like to be remembered?
148838
I would like to be remembered for my friendly,loving,empathetic,attitude to people..for my smile and laughter that I am told lights up a room..and for my help..physical,emotional and spiritual..that I have extended to so many and will continue to do till the day I die and are united with my savior in heaven:)
157613
Fond rememberance and happy memories.\n\nGood luck and my condolences on your loss.
11654
one would know once they're near death
59494
I would make up with anyone that i may be at odds with. I would write letters to my family that they could read after i died...to let them know how much i love them and that i know they love me too. I would not go to bed and i would spend every last minute with my family. I would pray for strength for my family to deal with it...and i would also pray for myself.
205339
Well, I guess it would be horrible, I just can't imagine my life without my friends.\nBut I think that I would make more friends, I mean, life goes on, and maybe when someone dies another person comes and cannot take his/her place, but we can give ourselves the chance to get to know her/him and find out if this one can be our friend.
108894
I was just asked to write something for my deceased uncle and aunt and so this question naturally caught my attention. For a memorial service, I have found that words which are typically dignified yet interspersed with a couple (no more than that, I don't think) personal memories are so needed and appreciated by grieving friends and family. I'm not an expert or anything, but I will never forget one service where the person speaking said something to this effect, "I will NEVER forget the way Chuck laughed...I can still see him, laughing silently, his shoulders a bit hunched up, tears coming to his eyes when something was so funny he couldn't stand it." That was such a simple memory, yet one that every person there could relate to. With all that was said and done at that memorial service, I bet it was that one sentence that people remembered more than anything.\n\nAnother similar memory was a funeral for a woman who had died an alcoholic...there were many difficult memories for people. But, again, that one personal memory stood out: Someone mentioned that when she laughed, she threw her head back and had an infectious, contagious laughter that was not self-concious. It made many grieving people happier to remember some of this woman's better qualities.\n\nI guess, in conclusion, I'd try to keep things short and simple, put in all the basic facts, but leave at least one memory that reminds people of the lighter side of things. Life isn't all serious. A memorial service is a chance to celebrate life - as a whole.\n\nYou've been given a great honor to say a few words on behalf of your friend. Maybe there's something about sports you could write - one very funny and precious memory you will always carry.
530480
I would talk with a pastor of the denomination involved. If there's not time for that write out a nice speech acknowledging the persons life, accomplishments, and strong personal points. Let the end of the speech call for the friends and family of the deceased to resolve (this is a resolution) to hold this dear ones memory close and to follow their example in good things just as they followed the example of Jesus. If you want to make it really nice and give people something to keep put the speech down on paper real nice and neat, maybe typed out or something like that, and then make lots of copies. If you can add a photo of the deceased (and remember to put things like the date and location of the church on it) I think people would like it. But check with the pastor before you do this. Hope this helps. :-)
628777
(Laughes like a villan.) I know plenty of ways to fake your own death. I have done it a lot for pranks on halloween.\nThis is the best way to do it.\nOk you will need a fake death certificate and some letters to your freinds saying you died of a heart disease or some other disease of your choice. Then get a coffin and fill it with sand bags equal to your wieght. Have a gravestone made for yourself. Go bury the coffin in a cemitary or in your backyard. Put the gravestone on top. Get a disguise and change your name. Go move to another country and live there for 10 years or more. Come back to your own contry and visit friends and family and say your alive abd a mistake was made.
170288
If my death was inevitable and definite, then I would go live out my dreams. If there was any sort of boy that I was infatuated with [and there isn't ^^], then I would go up to him and hug him. I would tell all my friends that I've appreciated their friendship and for them not to cry too much once I'm gone. And then I would throw a massive party at the bandroom - my second home :]. Twenty seconds before midnight, I would play Taps for myself on my trumpet. And then I would die.  Happily.
1057691
i would like a heaven on earth, but not a heaven in which you live, as you said, eternally.  i personally would like to cease to exist completely after i die.  but i guess sometimes it would be nice to see my great-great grandchildren or something.
987471
History = time.  In that fact we can capture time in the form of;\nphotos\npaintings\nyour reputation left behine with the pleople that know. after u die
485151
if I had one more day to live I would spend it with my husband and children in Colorado in the mountains. As that is what is in my will. I'm to be cremated and sprinkle on my mountains. I was born in Colorado and I want to be there when I die. A full circle. I would not want anyone there except my husband of 20 years now and 4 children. I would give them a day of memories to last them a lifetime. I would tape my thoughts and feelings for each special day in their lives for each child . So when it comes to that special day in their lives. They can view the tape as though I was there.
401641
Our consciousness remains after death and exists before birth. Think about it. How much of you is still you if you lose a finger? ane eye? Both legs? If you can still be "you", even if most of you is gone, your consciousness still remains. It doesn't even need you to have conscious thinking (think dreams etc.).\nWhen you die, your consciousness remains. That consciousness can be at peace or disturbed depending on how you lived your life. If you are filled with anger or sorrow or craving you will remain as a conscious being without a body, clinging to the objects or places of your attachments.\n\nHope that helps.
462125
DUDE.. If I wanted to know when I was going to die, I would go ahead and just kill myself and get it over with.  Knowing when you will die takes all the mystery and wonder out of life.  Not knowing is the greatest gift of all
367146
Perhaps I would make sure my affairs were in order.  Perhaps make funeral arrangments and make sure I tell the people I love that I love them.  \n\nPerhaps after all that I would do something that I wouldn't do before for fear I would get hurt or die.  Perhaps go skydiving, water diving, parasailing.  Be a dare devil for the time I have left.  But perhaps not, because it take allot for the human mind to believe that it is truly dying.  \n\nPerhaps all I would do is prove that I would not die on schedule but live a hour, a day, a week, or month longer than I was given.  Just for the spite of it.   :)
678539
I want to be cremated and made into an artificial coral reef.  It's giving something back and seems lovely to me.\nThe body has no purpose after death so it's a waste of space and resources to be buried.  I've instructed my family and friends to contact these folks: http://www.eternalreefs.com/
978815
My religion has an idea about what happens after death, but it's a little different from others.\nWhen I die, the components of my body are supposed to go back into nature via the natural processes. I am not supposed to be cremated or embalmed or sealed into an impermeable casket. I am to be buried in dirt in the simplest possible wooden box, so that the earth can re-claim the material that has made up my formerly-living body.\nI will not remain aware of myself as a human. I may experience some molecular "memory" as I am assimilated into various other organisms.\nIf I leave a child behind when I go, my genetic material continues to live. If I leave recorded art or literature, a part of my mind continues to live. If someone loves me while I'm alive and remembers me fodly after I die, then a part of my emotion survives.\nThat's about it. I don't need more than that.