Simple Burial Quotes

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

I desire to be buried as far from kings and politicians as may be

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

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

I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

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 would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.