A Gaijin's final resting place.

[Pencilslave]

Sorry for the grim topic, but I'm curious as to what the longtimers like Ultra have planned for when they pass on. Will you be laid to rest in Japan, or have your earthly remains sent back to your home country?

[Tsuru]

Not a longstayer (not yet anyway), but even if I was to pass on in Japan I would still want to be put back into the clay I came out of (Dutch saying)

[GomiGirl]

After I die they can do whatever.. I really don't care as I will be dead and I don't believe in all that life after death stuff.

The only requirement I have is to not take up good real estate.. scatter the ashes over my fave bar or beach or whatever.

p.s. Ultra lives in the US.

[Greji]

Sorry for the grim topic, but I'm curious as to what the longtimers like Ultra have planned for when they pass on. Will you be laid to rest in Japan, or have your earthly remains sent back to your home country?

I7ve lived here a long time, so I assume it will be in Japan for me. However, my wife claims after a (cheap) Japanese style bond fire, she plans to put my ashes in an envelope with no return address and drop it in the post. She won't tell me to where.

I think I should start getting concerned.

[dimwit]

Sorry for the grim topic, but I'm curious as to what the longtimers like Ultra have planned for when they pass on. Will you be laid to rest in Japan, or have your earthly remains sent back to your home country?

Join a cult like Life Space and they stuff your body in a derelict apartment with a bunch of starving kids until it mummifies.

[kurohinge1]

Instead of "Life Space", you could consider space itself ...

Scotty to be beamed up
July 21, 2005

Actor James Doohan, who transported the crew of the Star Trek television series through space on the command "Beam me up, Scotty", has died at the age of 85.

While the closest Doohan came to orbit was playing engineer Montgomery Scott on the earthbound set of the Starship Enterprise, his wife Wendy plans to send the actor's ashes into space, says his agent.

The couple had long ago agreed his ashes would be launched into the final frontier.

They are to use Space Services, a Texas-based company that rocketed the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and 1960s drug guru Timothy Leary into the firmament.

... Doohan was born on March 3, 1920, in Vancouver, Canada. He was the youngest of four children of William Doohan, a pharmacist, and his wife, Sarah.

Doohan served as a Canadian soldier in the Allied force that landed in Normandy on D-Day in June 1944.

Doohan was shot six times and lost a finger on Juno Beach, but he returned to duty to become a military pilot, according to his agent. He loved children and was involved in raising money for charity, Stevens said ... more

[Buraku]

more of it
foreigners' tombs face eviction threat
foreigners who rest in Aoyama Cemetery were, in life, a pioneering bunch. They include the benefactor of Western medicine in Japan, the founder of one of Tokyo's original nursing schools, and the man who introduced modern dairy farming to Hokkaido. These three lie side-by-side with people of lesser renown, travelers who forged a life here and who died far from their homelands. But their journeys, some of which ended over 100 years ago, may soon begin anew.

As part of a long-term renovation plan, the Tokyo metropolitan government is quietly taking steps to regain control over the land in the cemetery's Foreign Section.

British Atomic Bomb Victim Added to Nagasaki Memorial

An engineer believed to be one of only two British servicemen killed in the atomic bombing of Japan is to be finally remembered at a memorial dedicated to victims.

Corporal Ronald Shaw died at the age of 25 when American forces dropped the Fat Man nuclear weapon on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, three days after the destruction of Hiroshima

Many old tombs in Tokyo's Aoyama Cemetery-including those of noted foreigners from the Meiji Era (1868-1912)-will face eviction if no one steps forward by October to pay annual fees that are owed.

The Tokyo metropolitan government in fiscal 2004 decided to remove the old bones to make room for benches and green space-with the blessing of Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara.

The signature of the outspoken defender of Japanese patriotism appears on eviction-warning signs posted all over the Minato Ward cemetery.
If the proper caretaker does not come forward to pay maintenance fees, metropolitan officials are authorized to move the remains to another public cemetery, the signs say.
Aoyama Cemetery was established in 1874, one of Japan's first public burial grounds. Today, it has about 15,000 plots.
The living are aghast at the move to oust the dead.
Historian Kum Byeong Dong, 77, was shocked when he visited the tomb of revered Korean reformer Kim Ok-kyoon (1851-1894) in March.

this is a good one:
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From Japantoday taka13
more proof that no matter what we do and no matter how much we contribute to Japan and Japanese society, at the end of the day, we are still "barbarians".
Are Japanese graves being disturbed by this "reclamation? If so, a lot of the wind is taken out of my ire. But....either way, this is a travesty.
Mr. Trautlein,
I don't know if you will ever read this post but I for one would be very interested in helping in any way possible. Let me know and I will volunteer my time and effort to help preserve the foreigner's cemetery. I have a vested interest in this. I was involved in the maintenance of the gaijin bochi in Yokohama.
http://japantoday.com/e/?content=feature&id=909
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4561426
IshiHitler is gonna dig up those gaijin granpa bones to fuck 'em over

[IkemenTommy]

With land spaces being scarce and the ugly sights of the overcrowded Japanese cemetaries next to the homes, I am for scattering ashes over the ocean or wherever. I don't mind getting my ash dumped from Rainbow Bridge.

[homesweethome]

Todays Japan Times has an article about dying.
It's all about money money money

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20050806td.htm