Dear Abby Fool,
My co-workers and I got into an interesting discussion today. The topic: What would you do as far as burial is concerned if your spouse passed away and you remarried? Everyone had a different opinion.
I have been married to my husband for 26 years. If something were to happen to him and I remarried, where would I be buried? I would feel as if I were betraying both husbands if I chose one over the other. What is your opinion, and is there a “correct” answer to this?
-Aurora from Milwaukee (Dear Abby, 10/1/2005)
Dear Black Widow,
Does your current husband know that you are making plans for after “something” should “happen” to him? If not, I suggest you keep it to yourself, as he may find this alarming. The same goes for your calm confidence your next husband will predecease you as well. If it should just so happen that you outlive two husbands (and why just stop at two…there are plenty of guys out there just cluttering up the world), and you want to rest forever with the both of them, there is a simple solution: Cremate one, be buried next to the other, and put the urn of the cremated one inside your own casket.
I would recommend you put the one who’s less chatty inside your own casket, but that’s up to you.
-The Fool has spoken
November 7, 2005 at 5:00 am
A quandary, indeed. I believe the protocol depends on how she manages to off them. If, for instance, she pushes the second one overboard over deep water, the gnarly problem of whom to be buried with is resolved. Just a thought.
November 7, 2005 at 12:29 pm
Indeed. It should have occurred to me that in the process of waste disposal there are more than one way she could resolve the problem in advance.