Death. Part II

While reading Mr. Nighttime's latest post, I am reminded of how I wish to be burried.
Like him, I don't want my remains to be placed in a coffin. -See my post on Death.
I wish to be cremated. Not in the usual sense, though. I'd like it to be in the tradition -if that is what it truly is- of the Vikings. Place my body on a bier and light the Pyre. Honor my life, have a grand celebration and scatter the ashes off the cliffs of Wasington State. The closer to the ocean and the north-western most part is prefrable. I have always had a thing for the North West portion of the US and would love to visit/move there some day. If it happens it happens.
If it happens after I die, so be it.

My wife doesn't know about the scattering part or having it done in Washingto State.
She'd rather I have my body placed in a coffin and burried. Then, when it is her
time, she wants to be placed next to me. I don't see the need for our bodies to be placed "six feet under" in this manner. That's just me.

-More to come

Death

I had to bury one of my ferrets Thursday. Smokey hadn't been doing well for some time. She'd eat but not much. (She wasn't a big eater as it was.) My wife and I think she may have been ailing since we got her from a neighbor who was moving last August. We aren't sure. All we do know is that she wasn't doing well in the hours before her death.

While her death didn't shock me, it did bring thoughts of my eventual death back to the fore.

See, death scares me. I don't know what I'll find, if anything. Does my soul continue to live while my corporeal body lies in a coffin "six feet below". Will I return? Be it as another human or in some other form? Maybe as a bird, as I feel I'll become after some period.

My other fear is that I won't die, and when my body is placed in the coffin I'll awaken and not be able to get out.

This above almost all other things is my biggest fear.

-More to come