I just conducted a funeral service

[MrsMatt]

for a shrew.

One of our cats caught it last night, and I tried to set it free but it seems that it suffered internal injuries from our cat toying with it, and it ended up as a carcass on our patio.

My seven year old daughter insisted we bury it, so we wrapped it in a paper towel shroud, dug a hole near the woods at the end of our property, said a few words ("Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Shrewy says "Heaven or bust"), and piled rocks over the gravesite to mark it.

edited for slight clarification.

[Teddy_Salad]

1. That's how I wanna go...

...wrapped in a paper towel shroud.

Preferably Bounty. :P

[physioex]

3. Have you considered being sent into space.....

[Teddy_Salad]

4. What, wrapped in Bounty?

Hey? That's not a bad idea!

I'm sure Bounty would see the promotional benefits this would have for them and maybe they'd fork out some cash towards the costs of the funeral and the subsequent launch into space.

I must look into this, thanks! :P

[physioex]

5. Nooo noo...

For a thousand bucks, they turn you into ashes and send the remains into space...

[k in IA]

2. Nice move, Mom. Parental skills and rhyming abilities at the same

time - you should feel proud.