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Location: Bloomington, MN | Depressing, but a real question. Being stuffed with more chemicals than an old Lang Taxidermy mount, and put into a box wearing an ugly tight fitting sport coat, and a hideous tie with no pants or shoes, sounds wrong! To, be dug up in less than 100 years to have your wirthered skull used as a Hackey Sack (H.S. will be a timeless/non-cultural based activity/sport)!,is probably a fact! Don't most of you want to be "spread" on your favorite bodies of water/muskie spots? I'm thinkin' that those that remain will help to keep your spirit memorable. Tell me/us your stories of your departed dear friends or family members
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| You are exactly right as far as im concerned. I told my brothers and my father that if I die before them, I want them to go to my favorite spot for a weekend with my ashes, drink lots of miller high life, and catch a 50. And I meant every word. |
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| Wife and family already have the marching orders for when I leave here and head for the next stop.Arranged this years ago.
I lived in the Kenora area for many years and had the opportunity of enjoying the wilderness and all it had to offer in a lifestyle that shaped both my family and I.
We all have our favourite spots that sculpted the memories and relationships with both family and friends over a lifetime.I suppose when you start getting on in age you reflect back on what and where were the driving forces in realizing what the authentic important times were.
For me the simplicity of life has it's utmost impact in two particular places I have grown to cherish over the years with family and friends.
Therefore half of my ashy remains will be scattered in to Wonderland Lake and the other half into Keys Lake which are both deep inland oligotrophic crystal clear waters with a view to die for.
Not sure what half will land up where,...but that's out my hands anyways.
Oh,and I won't be alone as there has previously been the ashes of two other individuals in that I knew,...one in each lake.
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| Wonderland lake and location of where the party will take place after friends and family set half of me free.The cottage in the attached picture is of the only one on the entire lake.The beach goes out for 400+ feet and is only waist deep until it drops off to well over 100'.You can scoop a cup of water up and drink it without any concerns,...it's clearer than tap water.
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| I'll litter Keys Lake with my other ashy half.Another crystal clear deep cold water lake with water you can drink straight up worry free,...goes well with a good scotch or rye.
Oh,and their is Muskie in this lake along with Lake Trout,...so Ill feel right at home.
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Location: Minnesota | For me im having some of my ashes put in to shot gun shell's and fired over my favorite hunting land .the rest spread over vermilion.im a real list i wont go to a nursing home. When i can no longer take care of myself ill end my own life maybe by then it will be legal if not what they going to to . Like they say life us a b $#%^ then you die |
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| I want to be buried at sea on my favorite muskie lake,,then you guys can fish me has structure,,,won't need a waypoint, with my cholesterol count the oil slick will be visible for years.!!! |
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Location: Smith Creek | My next of kin is taking me to a taxidermist and making a skin mount in a very manly pose and displaying me in the living room.
Who is the best at human repos? Lax or Fittante?
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| Agree with the original poster. Seen enough friends and relatives lying there dead in a box wearing clothes they never wore when they were alive. Stupid. That's not how I want to remember the people I care about and that's not how I want to be remembered. My instructions were: "If there's anything left of me, burn it. Keep the ashes. Take my Eagle Lake map, and figure it out from there. Take the rest to Presque Isle and do the same thing. Save some for Harris Lake and some for Crab Lake, Milwaukee Bay... And make sure you stop to fish those spots!"
Something tells me I'll be in the company of a lot of my friends in my final resting place(s)...
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Location: Minnesota | Just give me a good old fashioned Viking funeral pyre. Put me on a raft and shoot flaming arrows at me. Just be sure to give me a kerosene bath first so I go WOOF! |
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Location: oswego, il | Donating my body to science. I would rather be used to teach and be studied than be buried or scattered. Don't need a funeral or a ceremony. Have a beer or catch fish in my honor. Good enough.
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Location: Smith Creek | I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility. |
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| ToddM - 8/16/2016 11:58 AM
Donating my body to science. I would rather be used to teach and be studied than be buried or scattered. Don't need a funeral or a ceremony. Have a beer or catch fish in my honor. Good enough.
I'd be careful with that. An old family friend did that with his wife. It was a few years later he got a call from some medical facility telling him in not so many words "hey, we're done with your wife. What would you like done with the body?"
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Location: oswego, il | esoxaddict - 8/16/2016 4:20 PM
ToddM - 8/16/2016 11:58 AM
Donating my body to science. I would rather be used to teach and be studied than be buried or scattered. Don't need a funeral or a ceremony. Have a beer or catch fish in my honor. Good enough.
I'd be careful with that. An old family friend did that with his wife. It was a few years later he got a call from some medical facility telling him in not so many words "hey, we're done with your wife. What would you like done with the body?"
WHAT?!?
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| Flambeauski - 8/16/2016 3:54 PM
I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility.
I gave Samantha my instructions knowing full well that when the time comes she'll probably say "aw, **** that old bastard!" and I'll likely wind up in a dumpster behind a gas station. 
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | esoxaddict - 8/16/2016 5:54 PM
I gave Samantha my instructions knowing full well that when the time comes she'll probably say "aw, **** that old bastard!" and I'll likely wind up in a dumpster behind a gas station. ;)
Maybe she'll just put the urn on your desk figuring you'll be right at home there. |
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Location: The desert | dfkiii - 8/16/2016 6:14 PM
esoxaddict - 8/16/2016 5:54 PM
I gave Samantha my instructions knowing full well that when the time comes she'll probably say "aw, **** that old bastard!" and I'll likely wind up in a dumpster behind a gas station. ;)
Maybe she'll just put the urn on your desk figuring you'll be right at home there. ;- )
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Location: West Chester, OH | Flambeauski - 8/16/2016 4:54 PM
I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility.
Fairly certain that my request will be ignored because, as soon as I've assumed room temperature, my beloved will have spent her last minute in northern WI.
And, for anyone interested, my toys will be going away in a roll-off shortly after. |
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| cincinnati - 8/16/2016 7:52 PM
Flambeauski - 8/16/2016 4:54 PM
I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility.
Fairly certain that my request will be ignored because, as soon as I've assumed room temperature, my beloved will have spent her last minute in northern WI.
And, for anyone interested, my toys will be going away in a roll-off shortly after. ; )
That's only because she has no idea what you paid for them. My #*#* is going up for sale on MuskieFirst... She'll take the property, the truck, the boat, the fishing gear, the tools, and all of the other stuff and sell it for half of what it's worth, and then take the money and buy herself all the stuff she wanted that she couldn't have because I blew all my money on fishing. Now that I think about it... Yah, my previous post was a joke. But my #*#*'s going in a dumpster for sure! |
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| lhprop1 - 8/16/2016 11:32 AM
Just give me a good old fashioned Viking funeral pyre. Put me on a raft and shoot flaming arrows at me. Just be sure to give me a kerosene bath first so I go WOOF!
My wife has terminal cancer and this is exactly what she wants! |
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Location: Stone Lk Wi | Sorry to hear about your wife Iost my dad to cancer in April, terminal diagnosis in February gone by April. It's a horrible disease my wife was diagnosed at when our son was a year old and our daughter was 3 lost the my grandfather to it the next year. Fortunately my wife has been cancer free now for fourteen years . It's a very lonely feeling when your trying to be strong for them and dying inside. We've both agreed that cremation is the way for us and do what you will with the ashes but living near the upper st.Croix one last trip down the river sounds good to me I'd be following some very close family and friends that took their last trip. |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | I put this out there as a realistic question, seriously two Viking Funeral Pyres responses...it really seems the cool thing to do! My Dad decided on this about 15 years ago. He had a flair for senseless theatrical mayhem. |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | Clark A - 8/17/2016 10:26 PM
I put this out there as a realistic question, seriously two Viking Funeral Pyres responses...it really seems the cool thing to do! My Dad decided on this about 15 years ago. He had a flair for senseless theatrical mayhem.
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| Flambeauski - 8/16/2016 3:54 PM
I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility. Well,what have you done to PO your kin?,...lol  |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | A burning work in progress!
I'm sorry, it looked "right side up" when attached....#*^@ cell phones/old people that can't comprehend the basics!
Slammr, please make this right, and I will get you a Pelican Lake cocktail in a few weeks!
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| apeoples - 8/17/2016 5:42 PM
Sorry to hear about your wife Iost my dad to cancer in April, terminal diagnosis in February gone by April. It's a horrible disease my wife was diagnosed at when our son was a year old and our daughter was 3 lost the my grandfather to it the next year. Fortunately my wife has been cancer free now for fourteen years . It's a very lonely feeling when your trying to be strong for them and dying inside. We've both agreed that cremation is the way for us and do what you will with the ashes but living near the upper st.Croix one last trip down the river sounds good to me I'd be following some very close family and friends that took their last trip.
So very sorry for your loss. My wife has a couple years anyway, hopefully more. Very difficult to be strong for the ones you love. I have other resources if you want/need to talk to someone. I would be happy to talk too. |
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| I really want to have MN Vikings players as pallbearers and then have them lower me into the ground....just so the Vikings can let me down one last time.
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| My son is going to take my ashes out on the boat and put them in the lake I live on (I did remind him to do it on the downwind side). The body will be offered to science but even if used, you can be cremated later. My kidney location is uncommon due to a birth defect and have had some work done, so an aspiring urologist could learn from my remains. Maybe even a GP could learn. When I was in my twenties I developed a kidney stone while on vacation in Eagle River. They had a young rent a doc on duty in the emergency room and he was an arrogant little pup. By the time I got dressed after the tests, he was pointing at x-rays and telling my wife I would be on dialysis in less than five years. Pure BS. The urologist that eventually did the surgery agreed to write him a letter and suggest he keep his diagnosis to things he understood. 35+ years later, I am still doing fine. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Lake Of The Woods - 8/18/2016 4:03 AM
Flambeauski - 8/16/2016 3:54 PM
I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility. Well,what have you done to PO your kin?,...lol :-O
Went to LOTW instead of taking them to Disney Land or Paris. |
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| Flambeauski - 8/19/2016 8:24 AM
Lake Of The Woods - 8/18/2016 4:03 AM
Flambeauski - 8/16/2016 3:54 PM
I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility. Well,what have you done to PO your kin?,...lol :-O
Went to LOTW instead of taking them to Disney Land or Paris.
If that's all it takes, my ashes will get tossed out the car window in the parking lot of the funeral home... |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Clark A - 8/18/2016 6:18 AM
A burning work in progress!
I'm sorry, it looked "right side up" when attached....#*^@ cell phones/old people that can't comprehend the basics!
Slammr, please make this right, and I will get you a Pelican Lake cocktail in a few weeks!
I dont drink and I dont see whats wrong with the pic.... |
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| Flambeauski - 8/19/2016 8:24 AM
Lake Of The Woods - 8/18/2016 4:03 AM
Flambeauski - 8/16/2016 3:54 PM
I like how guys think their loved ones will go to the trouble and expense to carry out their unusual wishes after they're dead.
The urn is going in the basement next to the litter box and old magazines. Or it might get tossed into the nearest river or sewage treatment facility. Well,what have you done to PO your kin?,...lol :-O
Went to LOTW instead of taking them to Disney Land or Paris. |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | I lost my wife, and fishing buddy, 12 years ago to brain cancer. I asked her what she wanted done when she was gone. She said she wanted to be cremated instead of buried. Then I asked what she wanted done with her ashes. (talk about a difficult conversation no one wants to have) We talked it over a few times and I suggested spreading her ashes in L.o. T.W. Sabaskong Bay where we went every year muskie fishing together. She said, no. She wanted someplace closer to home.
Time went by and we talked some more and she said that she wanted half her ashes to go to Tucson AZ desert near her parents. She loved the desert. Then she said she wanted the other half to go to White Bear Lake on the spot where she caught her biggest muskie, a 49 inch fish.
So that is what I did, half of her is under a Saguaro Cactus in the Tuscon desert and the other half is on our favorite hump in White Bear Lake.
After she died I made a donation to Muskies Inc. in her memory and the N. Metro Chapter graciously used part of the funds to install a memorial bench in her honor in Matooska Park on White Bear, and I am forever grateful to them for it. The rest of the memorial funds they used to send some returning Iraq War Vets to Canada for a all expense paid muskie trip.
I still have her empty urn sitting on the fireplace mantle next to our wedding photo where it will stay as long as I'm alive.
As for me, I'd like to be cremated and have my ashes spread in White Bear Lake with hers but I don't have family left to do that so who knows where I'll end up?
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | muskie-don58 - 8/22/2016 5:47 PM
Touching story, Paul. You seem to be a fine man. Perhaps we could fish together sometime.
Thank you for your kind words.
Well, if I ever get my life straightened out maybe we can go fishing. I haven't been muskie fishing in 7 years now. Didn't mean for that to happen but sometimes life gets strange.
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Location: Bloomington, MN | I couldn't believe that this Viking funeral pyre was popular, but my Dad wanted it for over 20 years! A rather emotional experience beginning with "Amazing Grace"....the tear jerking bag pipe version, but since the burn lasted so long someone that knew my Dad inserted Christmas music. A wonderful finally!!!! |
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| fishpoop - 8/22/2016 3:10 PM
I lost my wife, and fishing buddy, 12 years ago to brain cancer. I asked her what she wanted done when she was gone. She said she wanted to be cremated instead of buried. Then I asked what she wanted done with her ashes. (talk about a difficult conversation no one wants to have) We talked it over a few times and I suggested spreading her ashes in L.o. T.W. Sabaskong Bay where we went every year muskie fishing together. She said, no. She wanted someplace closer to home.
Time went by and we talked some more and she said that she wanted half her ashes to go to Tucson AZ desert near her parents. She loved the desert. Then she said she wanted the other half to go to White Bear Lake on the spot where she caught her biggest muskie, a 49 inch fish.
So that is what I did, half of her is under a Saguaro Cactus in the Tuscon desert and the other half is on our favorite hump in White Bear Lake.
After she died I made a donation to Muskies Inc. in her memory and the N. Metro Chapter graciously used part of the funds to install a memorial bench in her honor in Matooska Park on White Bear, and I am forever grateful to them for it. The rest of the memorial funds they used to send some returning Iraq War Vets to Canada for a all expense paid muskie trip.
I still have her empty urn sitting on the fireplace mantle next to our wedding photo where it will stay as long as I'm alive.
As for me, I'd like to be cremated and have my ashes spread in White Bear Lake with hers but I don't have family left to do that so who knows where I'll end up?
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| esoxaddict - 8/16/2016 4:20 PM
ToddM - 8/16/2016 11:58 AM
Donating my body to science. I would rather be used to teach and be studied than be buried or scattered. Don't need a funeral or a ceremony. Have a beer or catch fish in my honor. Good enough.
I'd be careful with that. An old family friend did that with his wife. It was a few years later he got a call from some medical facility telling him in not so many words "hey, we're done with your wife. What would you like done with the body?"
WHAT?!?
In my experience we treated the donor body with great respect. I still remember his name, age, hometown and diagnosis. In addition, we all attended a memorial service for the donors. |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | About two weeks ago 40 members of a family showed up at Pikedale at Leech, spent the week, then on Friday evening they spread the ashes of their father/grandfather/brother/uncle on the waters. They celebrated all week beforehand. As for me, I will not end up in a nursing home. My mom died in a nursing home this past Memorial Day and I will not put my kids or myself thru that. Have told the kids and Tammy I'll go over the side of the boat, or make a solo camping trip to the BWCA. Not sure they realize I'm serious about that. After I'm gone, they'll probably bury my bod a few blocks from home at the cemetary. |
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Location: Aurora | fishpoop - 8/22/2016 6:40 PM
Well, if I ever get my life straightened out maybe we can go fishing. I haven't been muskie fishing in 7 years now. Didn't mean for that to happen but sometimes life gets strange.
I took a se7en year hiatus from the biggie hunt and savor the addiction all the more now. Yewl git back soon but continue to hang out here in the meantime.
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| djwilliams - 8/23/2016 10:41 PM
About two weeks ago 40 members of a family showed up at Pikedale at Leech, spent the week, then on Friday evening they spread the ashes of their father/grandfather/brother/uncle on the waters. They celebrated all week beforehand. As for me, I will not end up in a nursing home. My mom died in a nursing home this past Memorial Day and I will not put my kids or myself thru that. Have told the kids and Tammy I'll go over the side of the boat, or make a solo camping trip to the BWCA. Not sure they realize I'm serious about that. After I'm gone, they'll probably bury my bod a few blocks from home at the cemetary.
If I ever get so sick and know the end is near I want to go in an avalanche. Take the last ski and they can find me in the spring or let me stay where I lay!
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Sit my dead corpse in front of my desk wherever i work. Put on one screen a resume I was to read (thats my real job) and muskiefirst on the other screen. Most fitting to have me enter the afterlife in the same way I squandered most of the my life on earth. |
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