funeral preparations

i've been putting this off for a few weeks now but the time is drawing close to when i must put Manis to sleep. i am making preparations partly to help me cope with what i must do as well to to leave an indication to posterity how cherished and special she is (not that i expect her to be exhumed).

i've got a beautiful silk scarf to wrap her up in and am thinking of writing her story down. but a cd will scratch and paper will rot...any suggestions? wanted to put in a few photos if possible too. may have one laser cut into a crystal block.

i guess this is a little morbid but i want to honour her memory...
any ideas would be appreciated

As a child, I had some neighbors that had a tombstone made for their toy poodle - nice granite stone with a picture of their dog sealed into it somehow. Maybe you could check into something like that? And if you look for the time capsule type things (where you can put stuff inside and bury them), you could put her story and pictures next to her - outside the box or whatever you bury her in.

You could put her story along with pictures in a glass bottle with a cork on it so that they would be preserved. You can get already made coffins for your kitty at a site called the rainbow bridge! I hope you dont need any of this advice for a long long time though!

Originally Posted by glitch

You could put her story along with pictures in a glass bottle with a cork on it so that they would be preserved. You can get already made coffins for your kitty at a site called the rainbow bridge! I hope you dont need any of this advice for a long long time though!

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wouldn't a cork rot?
i am making preprations now as she really is on her last legs...
this may seems kooky but when i sit with her, she gives me a little look that says she's ready when i am

Originally Posted by aliciahorsley

i guess this is a little morbid but i want to honour her memory...

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No it's not morbid at all. It's lovely that your sharing it with us

I think it is wonderful that you are preparing, because in my experience, when it happens you are often too upset to make the right decisions. My Napoleon died suddenly of poison 18 months ago, and beyond burying him (with his collar and ID tag of course) I could not think straight. But several months afterwards I thought of planting a memorial garden round his grave, all in white as he was a white cat. Then I got a little white stone cat statue to place there. I have also named my house 'Le Chat Blanc' in his honour. I feel that his memory will live for ever through these things, plus the cat pages here on this site.

a snadow box with a favorite toy, her coller and a good picture to sit as a momento of her life. I think that would be beautiful. I have been putting off making somthing similar for Duke.
I have actually been wareing his coller around my wrist since the day we burried him. I can't bear to take it off yet.

If you can get a ink pad and make of stamp of her pawprints on a mat for a photo keepsake for you.
When I buried Sheba I planted a dwarf conifer close to her burial spot. In December I happened to find a plaque with a saying I had written down and will place it there in he spring after the snow melts.
"gone but not forgotten although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heart".