"Your Wargaming Ashes" Topic

As a wargamer, if you are cremated, some of your ashes could easily be incorporated into wargaming memorials. On the wargaming table, what would you like your ashes to be part of?

* Sherman
* building
* hill
etc.

This is a bit disturbing really.

Ashes you say? No such thing after being cremated. All that is left is bone that is crushed into tiny little pieces and it looks a lot like sand. Hey….. A SAND TABLE!!!

(you will need to DH us both…)

I was thinking more a Mount Rushmore type terrain piece with iconic faces. Just haven't figured out who those icons are yet.

When playing an old railroad board game whose name I forget, one had to get lead from Sudbury. So I declared I wanted my ashes scattered over Sudbury. I hope it's open pit, and the workers don't notice.

"Hey, Bob. Look. Another Cessna."
"Yeah. Looks like another old fart wargamer kicked the bucket. Yeah. It's Wednesday. 3:00 PM. The regular Grognard Run."

Ashes?

I hope to be interred in a tomb, with decorated walls, and offerings of painted miniatures to cater my wargaming necessities in the Afterlife.

I'm with basileus66. 54mm lansknechts protecting my remains and waiting on my spirits wishes.

No cremation for me & I don't want anything wargaming buried with me. This is just my hobby not my vocation in life.

I don't know about you chumps but I'm planning on embracing our robot overlords and becoming immortal after having my consciousness transfered to a cyborg shell.

Bill,

I hope everything is OK. Faced your mortality a bit? Take care. Always look on the bright side of life (hum the tune a bit. it may help.)

Nothing.

Not great timing Bill as I'm just waiting to hear from my medical team as to how long I have left.

I've always fancied a Viking burial myself, complete with longship, chainmail hauberk (on me, not the ship), a bright sword clasped to the chest, and along the beach, crowds of keening women and solemn bearded men. Any number of times I've asked my wife to sort this out if I should happen to predecease her, but something in her expression makes me wonder if it's going to happen.

I hope everything is OK. Faced your mortality a bit?

I'm fine, and not planning on being cremated, but this did come up on another topic…

@Jim. That stinks.

Flocking for an Ash Wastes Table!

Well … I don't plan on dying … so …

I'll bet a reasonable Viking funeral could be arranged in Thailand. Cremation is the normal way of disposing of dead bodies there, and there isn't much regulation to get in your way (which is to say, you can probably get a permit easily enough for something like this if you pay the permit fee).

You'll have monks chanting along the shore, and you can hire actresses to be the keening women. You'll need to provide your own chain mail and sword. I would probably go with a sport jacket and open-collared shirt rather than chain mail, and one or more of my knives instead of a sword.

I might do that. I'll be in Thailand later this year, and I'll see what I can find out.

I'm sorry, Jim.

So sorry to hear that, Jim. Should have said so above.

(Oberlindes, do keep me posted. As I don't yet have a longship, hauberk or bright-edged sword, but do have a sport coat and collared shirt, I may be set!)

N/A: I'm a Zoroastrian.
Bob

You hear about people having their ashes scattered at sea, in the woods, or a friend of mine had his ashes scattered at a favorite fishing hole.

There doesn't seem to be a wargaming equivalent, as I can't see how you could scatter your ashes at Salute or Historicon.

@Jim

Damm, mate… I am truly sorry.

I have always wanted to be buried in a plain wooden box pegged together, in a field, in a woolen tunic and breeks with vegetable tanned leather and hand-forged buckles clad in hand-riveted brynje and mail cowl, a spangenhelm with brass inlays, the coins of a dozen Eastern Mediterranean 10th-century cultures in a pouch, a damascus sword, several heritage old-world apples around me, and sitting on my chest, with earplugs plugged in, the most modern electronic version of a cell phone/game controller/electronic gizmo that can be found.
Just to confuse the Hell out of some poor future anthropologist who comes upon me…. heheheheheheheeeeee!

Sorry, Bill, but at this particular moment, I am much more concerned with the future of the cricketing Ashes. Roll on the Gabba on the 23rd.

Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy.

Jim, spoken like a true Scotsman. Jon

Frankly, I don't give a **** what happens at my funeral, as I won't be there to see. I don't want my family to waste money on stuff that's just going to be burnt.

@Gone Fishing: I'm thinking that a large sit-on-top kayak, painted wood brown, would suffice for a longboat.