We all might be thinking about death a little too much lately, but these stories shared on a thread started by Redditor u/RemiD actually reframe the subject in a way that makes it more relatable. They asked, “What’s the strangest dying wish you’ve heard?”
A dying wish is sort of a sad goodbye moment in my mind. After reading these, my opinion has changed. Your dying wish can be weird as hell, and no one can say a thing about it. The OP even shared their aunt’s dying wish to get the party started:
My aunt’s dying wish was that she and my uncle be cremated and put into the same (giant, bullet-shaped) urn. My cousin was left with orders to shake them up at least once a month so they could have some fun.
It turned out this wasn’t an uncommon request because people are freaky even in the grave. The replies were full of folks’ own freaky personal requests and ones they’ve heard from friends and family. Some are hilarious, some sound like terrible ideas, and a few even made me a little misty-eyed. Then I came around to laughing again. Make your dying wish weird:
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My great uncle found out he had cancer and it was really bad. Near the end he was sent home to wait for death pretty much. So he decided to bring all his boys back home to drink a case of his favorite beer, under the apple tree he planted as a child at the farm house. His ashes are in those bottles under the tree to this day. —MuchDance1996
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My dad wanted to be cremated and mixed with my mom. When I told her this she said “Oh hell no!” —bobdavis_33n
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My Geology teacher told us he wants his ashes thrown in the water over Marianas Trench. Apparently it’s a subduction zone, and in a few million years he’ll become a rock.—Someone_Hold_Me
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My Dad: cremated and put into a paper bag and then held out the window while drive up Hwy 400 in Ontario…until he discovered donating your body to science gets you a free funeral.
His Best Friend: cremated and turned into shot gun shells to be fired on every continent. —MeganSense
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My buddy wants to have a full bar at his funeral with his coffin as the bar, so everyone can have one last drink on him. I feel its awfully morbid for a pun. —brainchild435
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My grandfathers last request was for a danish and a cup of coffee —Anonymous
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Just last night my husband told me that if he dies before me, he wants me to re-marry for money. —keeperoftheworld
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My buddy wants to have a radio at his funeral playing the song “It’s a great day to be alive”. —RandomHawkeye
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My grandfather wanted to be cremated and put into an old Mickey Mouse Club lunch box…then hurtled from a bridge in Northern California. —stygianstank
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My Grandpa Earl heard about a woman who made earrings and other glass art from the ashes of the Mount Saint Helen’s eruption. So he contacted her to ask if she could do the same with his ashes. Amazingly she said yes. So he made plans to have a pair of earrings made for my Grandma and his four daughters. As his name was Earl, he kept calling them “Earlrings.”
My Grandma and one of my aunts were appalled by the idea, so they came to a compromise. Instead of having his cremated remains made into earrings, he had them made into glass balls. Now every member of our family has their own piece of him.—boblahblah101