Bette Midler Quotes

When I die bury me in smoke.

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

purification in fire. public cremation

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.

I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.

My dad died of a stroke.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

Society has a fascination with death.

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.