Buried with your hat on ?

[avedwards]

"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that." Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep

Marlowe nicely sums up my view on the matter. Once I'm dead I don't care what happens to me, so I'd be quite happy to be cremated as I am and my possessions to be passed on.

I already know that my Stetson Chatham would go to my mol since it suits her very well and I was wearing it when we met. Perhaps I'll put a note in my will for my two vintage suits and my few vintage pieces to be sold on the classifieds here as I don't know anyone who'd want them and I know that way they'd fall into good hands.

 

[Matt Deckard]

I try not to wear my hat indoors.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Depends on the hat.

I was referring to the topper (or "top hat") that Lokar might be buried with.


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[Marc Chevalier]

I try not to wear my hat indoors.

Burial at sea, then.



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[ScottF]

I already know that my Stetson Chatham would go to my mol since it suits her very well and I was wearing it when we met.

That isn't the Chatham you were trying to sell in the classifieds? Did you two have a spat and then make up?

(Since we're talking about death, figured I could get personal )

 

[anon`]

I try not to wear my hat indoors.

Does underground really qualify as indoors? I mean, I can understand this with respect to a tumulus or tomb... but a plain old hole-in-the-ground grave?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Does underground really qualify as indoors? I mean, I can understand this with respect to a tumulus or tomb... but a plain old hole-in-the-ground grave?

No, no -- Matt's family mausoleum!

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[Matt Deckard]

I do expect the casket to be closed at some point as well. Or the urn.

 

[Rick Blaine]

St. James Infirmary Blues

"Now, when I die, bury me in straight-leg britches,
Put on a box-back coat and my John B. Stetson hat,
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain,
So all the boys will know that I died standing pat."

~Anon

 

[avedwards]

That isn't the Chatham you were trying to sell in the classifieds? Did you two have a spat and then make up?

(Since we're talking about death, figured I could get personal )

I don't recall ever having tried to sell my Chatham and I only have the one in carribou. I've unsuccessfully tried to sell another of my hats a year ago, but never the Chatham. It doesn't have a massive amount of sentimental value to me as it's just a hat which has been replaced by others, I just imagine it would be special to her should I prematurely die and be cremated.

And no, things have been doing nicely since I met her in May. You may go as personal as you like as I have no qualms in telling the truth.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I am donating my brain & stem to science to help find a cure for some issues that I have. I don't think that I will have much of a noggin for a hat after that.

 

[frussell]

recent experience

Last March when my grandfather passed away, he was to be cremated. I tried to get his wife to send him off in his boots and his favorite hat, but she couldn't bear to part with them. His pure beaver Stetson hat still hangs on the back of his favorite chair, and she gave all his boots to me. I was content to put a pinch of his favorite tobacco in his pocket for the journey. I told my wife right afterward that I wanted my best boots ON, and my favorite hat on my chest, as is customary as far as I know, at least in a coffin. After all, if you're lying down, you'll be smashing the back of the brim. She has agreed, since nobody else I know wears a hat or boots as big as mine. I hope she keeps her word, I don't want to wander bareheaded in the afterlife. Frank

 

[Tango Yankee]

I think that if I've managed to lose enough weight and kept it off to do so I may stipulate that I be buried in my service dress uniform. If that is the case then a flight cap will be in the coffin with me, not a hat.

Regards,
Tom

 

[MisterGrey]

If I'm not mistaken, etiquette dictates that the hat is set to rest on the decedent's chest above his/her folded hands. Of course, not being an authority on any funerary customs, I could be wrong.

Mark
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That may be the case for the ceremony, but I believe come burial time, the hat is placed in between the feet. Don't ask me why; this is what I've read was tradition in the Victorian age. I've further read that this is where the superstition regarding hats on beds came from: The only time one would see a hat placed where someone would be lying down was inside of a casket.

 

[Matt Deckard]

You can burry me holding a hat. Just make sure I'm in a cedar box.

 

[Lefty]

Go big or go home. If I'm wearin' my hat, my hat's gettin' blowed up.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Maybe we should just bury Matt's hat and toss out the owner.



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[R.A. Stewart]

I was content to put a pinch of his favorite tobacco in his pocket for the journey.

I like that idea. I might mention it to the family. A pinch of Scottish Blend should waft me nicely to my long home.

~Rich

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I like that idea. I might mention it to the family. A pinch of Scottish Blend should waft me nicely to my long home.

~Rich

:arated: Oscar Wilde's tomb in Paris has a metal door with one small airhole. I poured a flaskful of absinthe through the hole. Didn't want ol' Oscar to be thirsty.


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[Sam Craig]

"... while hidden weights and spring tip my hat to the mourners filing past," ...

"I am more concerned with the Rock of Ages than the age of rocks."

Personally, I'm planning to pass on my collection ... hopefully to some appropriately appreciative hat hog who will love them and pet them and pass them on again in another generation

What they do with the rest of me is of absolutely no consequence

I'll be on to bigger and better things by then PTL!

Sam