Giving mine to my future grandkids
Should one be buried with his/her Aggie Ring?
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Last: 9 days ago by THE_CHOSEN_ONE
Keep it to hand down to family members. Or have it melted and make some other jewelry for them to wear. Or if nobody wants any of that, have it melted and sold and donate the money to a charity you support.
Definitely. The Association pays half the burial costs.
I have my Dad's Aggie ring and get to see it every day. May save it for one of my grandchildren.
This.
Hang it on my urn.
Trucker 96 said:
Cremation for me. No creepy chemical filled mannequin slowly rotting, thanks. Dilemma averted. Family keeps my ring.
Hang it on my urn.
Speaking as someone who both has an Aggie Ring and will die someday, my answer is no ring. In fact, no anything. Why waste a good shirt and pair of pants. I want to go back to dust in the buff.
My father had two rings, his original and a replacement that he got when his other one was very worn down.
He left the replacement to me and requested that we bury him with his original, which we did.
For those who think it's dumb, it was his request, which we honored, and we did it out of respect for him.
He left the replacement to me and requested that we bury him with his original, which we did.
For those who think it's dumb, it was his request, which we honored, and we did it out of respect for him.
Same here, fellow Trucker. Cremation for me, so the kids will get my ring and my dad's ring.Trucker 96 said:
Cremation for me. No creepy chemical filled mannequin slowly rotting, thanks. Dilemma averted. Family keeps my ring.
I will probably give it to my kids or grandkids so that the guy who my wife marries after I am dead doesn't pawn it for boner pills.
But the Schwartz ring stays with me!
But the Schwartz ring stays with me!
To those who support burying with jewelry, would they feel the same if the person who passed had opted for cremation?
Also, burying someone with "things" is not an effective way to help remember him/her.
ETA: if the deceased had a request, then you honor that. But if the deceased was an a-hole, then screw him/her.
Also, burying someone with "things" is not an effective way to help remember him/her.
ETA: if the deceased had a request, then you honor that. But if the deceased was an a-hole, then screw him/her.
We're all 2 generations from being completely forgotten. But an Aggie ring is an heirloom that helps pass along your history and accomplishment at least in some small way… if you don't bury it with an empty, rotting husk
Anybody else here ever lost their ring?
Not sure, but I think cremation is no clothes, no jewelry in any case. We haven't met with our funeral guy yet so I'm not exactly sure.Quote:
To those who support burying with jewelry, would they feel the same if the person who passed had opted for cremation?
Correct. You don't get cremated with stuff, and there are some implants that they may even remove first (like pacemakers or anything else with a battery/electronics)
So if you want to be cremated, do they - extract? - those things?
Yes. They leave metal like artificial joints in and gather them after. Then they grind the bones which are the only thing remaining to more of a dust. But if it's a pacemaker, etc, they cut it out before.
I have my ring and my grandfather's original and re-make.
Unfortunately none of them fit
Unfortunately none of them fit
My Aggie ring (class of 70) goes to my daughter. Everything else gets split equally between my daughter and my son.
Here. Pacific Ocean.TxAg8908 said:
Anybody else here ever lost their ring?
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Told my kids to get my titanium hips and my gold teeth once I'm cremated. Gotta be worth a few bucks, right?
TxAg8908 said:
Anybody else here ever lost their ring?
Here. Somewhere in Florida, around the Disneyworld area…..
I lost mine right after I got it while burning brush at my grandparent's place, but found it 3 days later on the ground right next to the burn pile.
King of the Dairy Queen said:
I would like to think whoever ends up with it will throw it off an air craft carrier like maverick did with Goose's dogtags
I know who you are.
No. We have had three family members die who had rings (my Granddad c/o '50, my Grandmother's "sweetheart" ring that was her engagement ring - basically the women's ring now, and my sister c/o '08). There are 4 rings between the three of them (Granddad had one w/ diamond and one without). No rings have been buried. They have been or will be passed down.
This subject, like many things we interject ourselves into nowadays, is nunya.
It's your ring, you can do with it what you want.
Hell NO!!!! What good does it do one who is buried?! Pass it down!aggiejim70 said:
I have a lot of Aggies in my family and Aggie in-laws. We have a situation where we've just agreed to disagree.
Should one be buried with their ring? My class of 1950 dad's ring went to my class of '18 son with the idea it would be passed down to Aggies in the next generation. My wife at the time's family insisted on burying my class of '72 brother-in-law with his ring. I had no say in that. I want my ring to go to one my (hopefully) class of '33, 35 or '36 grandchildren. Thoughts?
You can't take it with you. I don't want to be buried with any valuables.
What if the person requested that they be buried with the ring? Just tell them HELL NO and ignore their wishes?
everyone knows who i am. I am a gotdang local legend. Runner up state champion.Brian Earl Spilner said:King of the Dairy Queen said:
I would like to think whoever ends up with it will throw it off an air craft carrier like maverick did with Goose's dogtags
I know who you are.
That's the main reason not to bury valuables with the body.TX_COWDOC said:
Put it on their finger for the service. Then remove it before the undertaker's crew steals it. Pass it down. I have my grandfather's ring and wear it on occasion. There's a zip in my son's outfit who wears his great grandfather's ring. Old army flat crest. It's red ass.
passing down and wearing a relatives ring is actually really cool. I knew a few who did it. Some of those rings get very worn down, but its incredible to be able to wear your ancestors on your hand every day.
I wear my grandpa's Class of '51 ring and it's one of my favorite possessions. But I don't give a crap what other people do
MooreTrucker said:
What if the person requested that they be buried with the ring? Just tell them HELL NO and ignore their wishes?
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