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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cremation. Everyone’s doing it these days...[/quote]
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My parents are going to be cremated.   My mom is in the end stages of alzheimer's with dementia so it's a topic that has come up a lot.   My dad has decided to have her ashes interred a their closest military cemetery.   They are eligible because he spent a few years in the military in his 20's, but this decision really surprised me because it never really seemed to be an important or defining time of his life--at least the way he described it.  The cemetery is over an hour drive from where he lives now (and even further than where my siblings and I live), so it's not particularly convenient, and there are many other cemeteries much closer.[/quote]

Its free, that's why he's doing it.[/quote]

That would make sense, but not in my Dad's case.   I posted on here about a month ago about how in his old age he is literally throwing money away.   Right now he is definitely not in a frame of mind where his looking for good deals/free.

Now that I think about it though, and kind of in context with OP's post, I'm wondering if it's just because he feels like it's a place he can "belong" as opposed to just a random cemetery near them.  His parents were also cremated but had their ashes scattered, so there is no place with familial significance  for him.[/quote]

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