The recent natural accidents lately made me think, Hurricane Irene and that earthquake. I swear when that earthquake happened I was going to die (my area doesn't get earthquakes so everyone went hysterical), and the first thing that came to mind was "I'm too young, I have my whole life ahead of me, and I don't want to be buried a girl".
Most people expect to live a long life, at least until they're 60. However life isn't that simple. You can die in many ways.
Illness, injury, catastrophes, attacks, suicide.. I remember someone I know told me he had a friend when he was fifteen who had his whole life a head of him and had big plans, but he got hit by a car and died.
This is aimed at pre-ops mainly, but how would you want to be buried (if buried at all)? I've heard several times where family buries their family members as their birth-sex.
I presume if I died anytime within the next ten years my parents would put me in a pretty little dress and have an open casket funeral. Then they'd bury me and put some cute little line on the tombstone about their adorable little girl who died too young..
I've never given much thought to my burial however I'd rather have a Natural Burial than anything.
If they wait until I'm dead I'll be happy with that.
I personally would like to be partsed out as much as possible (for tissue/organ donation), with whatever's left over dumped in the woods for the coyotes. Failing that, I'd like to be cremated and poured out somewhere. I don't want a grave.
No burial for me either. I don't like cold, dark places and wouldn't consign my earthly remains to one even if I wasn't using those remains anymore. But I LOOOOOVE fire and heat! So stick me in the flames, turn me to ash, and throw that ash to the wind.
Because you know what else is cool? Ashes fly. ;)
Now as for a memorial service? I already know my family would respect who I am, not the disguise I wore for too many years. My mom would see to that, in fact, she'd be adamant about it.
If I had a choice, Anglo-Saxon barrow on my own land, assuming I own a property. Lots of grave goods, just to confuse future archaeologists. >:-) And lots of carousing afterwards, love a good party!
Karen.
Tekla,
* If they wait until I'm dead I'll be happy with that. *
Surely SOME must be at it right now for you, just busy trying do get more depth --- 5" - 6" will just never do!
On the more serious side. I'm starting to think it's up to who ever has to deal with my 'leftovers'.
As long as I'm really dead before I be pushed into a furnace! The ashes??? Do I REALLY need to know?
If anyone still wants and does care for me, I trust they can do what they feel best with my 'leftovers'.
Yet note: "It is the prerogative of a women to change her mind" ---- and YMMV
Axelle
Funerals are for pets and christians. I am neither XD
No funeral , no grave. Cremate me and spread my ashes over the ocean. Save a small sample and launch those into space.
Buried?
No coffin, washed and wrapped in a white cloth facing Mecca. Don't care if I'm buried as a woman or as a man, this life will be over anyway.
In a meadow, no casket. Only a white stick to tell them where I am.
hefty bag and a dumpster works for me...funerals and all of the attendant crap are for the living. I'll be dead and won't know the difference.
Honey, you earned one big +1 from me for this one.
Are you coming out here OR WHAT? :-) Oh, f**k you can be funny, like it or not.
Thanks for a good laugh,
Axelle
I'll be dead and won't know the difference
Yeah, that figures into it somehow.
Here's what you do:
Get a couple of sheets of plywood and a couple of cases of Red-White-Blue beer (or something better).
Have your friends knock together a coffin.
Have somebody cremate it.
Dump the ashes wherever people normally throw burnt refuse.
That's a felony in most states.
Quote from: tekla on September 09, 2011, 12:55:23 PM
That's a felony in most states.
So what? You're dead.
By "somebody" I meant somebody legally entitled to burn dead, burnt bodies.
(*with a nod to Arlo Guthrie)
Well let us all in on the secret of how you are going to do your own cremation and ash scattering once you've passed on. Unless your like me and would just say "->-bleeped-<- it if they wind up in jail, what would I care, I'm dead."
i always thought we should bury people feet first instead of laying down
As far as I know, it's not illegal to have a coffin manufactured by your friends.
Then a crematorium would burn everything down and return the ashes.
As far as I know, it's not illegal to throw cremated ashes in the trash.
There are ton of laws, both at the state and local levels about who, how and where bodies can be disposed of.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/Build-Coffin.aspx (http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/Build-Coffin.aspx)
Quote from: tekla on September 09, 2011, 12:58:17 PM
Well let us all in on the secret of how you are going to do your own cremation and ash scattering once you've passed on. Unless your like me and would just say "<not allowed> it if they wind up in jail, what would I care, I'm dead."
You callin' me heartless?! :P
Nah, I get what you're saying, I'm just being facetious.
Edit: I think we're pretty similar in this regard, probably.
I want to be "buried" in a black hole, no one on earth has ever died that way. Death by spaghetification sounds like a good way to go.
Quote from: Axélle on September 09, 2011, 01:30:21 PM
Oh heck, a dead felon -- what next :-)
Hey, I almost was one, and I still shake every time someone brings in the mail or the phone rings. Screwing up big time is scary as hell, expensive, and traumatizing.
Not all felons are bad people, just <explicit> stupid.
I don't want to be buried. There's this thing...where this company takes your ashes, mixes it with top soil and plants a tree in the potted soil. I want something like that.
I can't link it up, but there's a place that will compress your ashes into a synthetic gemstone as well. Awesome.
Between 3300 and 25000 dollars.
http://www.lifegem.com/index.aspx?BType=GTxt&BAg=HCrem&gclid=CLXRj6zokasCFQwaQgodG2w5tA (http://www.lifegem.com/index.aspx?BType=GTxt&BAg=HCrem&gclid=CLXRj6zokasCFQwaQgodG2w5tA)
Two words: Soylent Green.
I won't need no funeral...
If you want something done right, do it yourself...
I will turn myself into ashes sooner or later...
That's inevitable...
I don't care as long as I get to wear nice dress and have my real name on the memorial.
Quote from: Lisbeth on September 11, 2011, 02:08:38 PM
I don't care as long as I get to wear nice dress and have my real name on the memorial.
exactly the same :)
Quote from: EmmaM on September 09, 2011, 11:15:10 PM
Between 3300 and 25000 dollars.
http://www.lifegem.com/index.aspx?BType=GTxt&BAg=HCrem&gclid=CLXRj6zokasCFQwaQgodG2w5tA (http://www.lifegem.com/index.aspx?BType=GTxt&BAg=HCrem&gclid=CLXRj6zokasCFQwaQgodG2w5tA)
OK. So it takes 1.00*10^22 power carbon atoms to make a one caret diamond. There are 7.00*10^26 carbon atoms in a 70 kg human body. So 69,733 carets of diamond could be produced from the average human body.
Quote from: Lisbeth on September 11, 2011, 02:25:09 PM
OK. So it takes 1.00*10^22 power carbon atoms to make a one caret diamond. There are 7.00*10^26 carbon atoms in a 70 kg human body. So 69,733 carets of diamond could be produced from the average human body.
Well, at 25k per 1.5 carats, that would be about 1.2 billion dollars. It is a niche market.
Religion aside, the atoms that make us up will go onto become other things as they already do. I like that.
Quote from: EmmaM on September 09, 2011, 02:49:41 PM
I can't link it up, but there's a place that will compress your ashes into a synthetic gemstone as well. Awesome.
I saw that on a documentary about burials and death, I believe it was called "The Science of Death". It's.. Interesting but imagine if you broke the gemstone or you lost it.
Natural Burials are really nice though. They're far better for the Earth then crappy ol' cremations or traditional burials.
I don't want my funeral to be a sad affair - i want it to be a party and a celebration of my life. My idea is to have some rock and roll playing and have a keg of beer there - after all, its the one last thing that i can do for my friends :angel:
They can do whatever they wish with my body; i won't be needing it any longer.
After pondering this, I think I'd like to have my brain studied to help understand the biological basis of gender identity (like the BSTc study), adding to the body of evidence that we're born this way and cannot change it. That might help trans children avoid being mentally tortured by nuts like Kenneth Zucker, and increase awareness and acknowledgment amongst the more educated cisgendered demographics.
The rest of my organs will be donated. (Can I request my lower bits be donated to an FTM? ;) )
If pre-op:
- My remains shall be cremated and dumped in such a manner where recovery of ashes is virtually impossible. Such example is the ocean/river.
- No physical trace of me shall exist by my own will, and all personal belongings should be disposed of or donated anonymously in whichever way is seen fit for each particular item.
- Should my family, friends or Significant Others wish to declare a physical location to be my grave, it must not contain any of my pre or post-cremated remains. It must also be no larger in dimensions than 1x1x.5 yards of width, length and height, respectively. Any commemorative stones, boards or other media must not contain writings, engravings or other man-made markings that are gender-specific in nature.
- Disregard any of the above points and I will haunt your dreams and nightmares, your sleep and your waking and I will do the same to your family and friends. >:-)
* I really like Nygeel's idea too.
Whatever science doesn't want i would like to go to fertilze a fruit tree. Any kind of fruit is fine by me. I am sweet so i would make that trees fruit sweet :-*
I'm quite sure my mother would honor my wishes. I would want to be buried in a black casket in a suit and layed to rest beside my brother. Oh, and I would want only my mother and those who were close to me and accepted me to be there and no one else.
I don't care how I'm buried or if I'm buried - I'm dead. I just want my house to be in order and my loved ones to be taken care of in the best way possible. People concentrate too much on dead bodies and respecting them, I don't get it.
I think I'd like to be cremated, and have my ashes thrown from the roof of the hospital I was born at.
That way I won't come back as a zombie someday. :laugh:
Quote from: Ann Onymous on September 09, 2011, 10:33:32 AM
hefty bag and a dumpster works for me...funerals and all of the attendant crap are for the living. I'll be dead and won't know the difference.
You had better make that two hefty bags >:-) :angel: ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Crap I'm too busy living to worry about how I want to be buried
Oh okay...
When I die I want to be buried in a magic lantern so that when someone rubs me the wrong way I can fly out and bash them about the head and neck with something sharp and jagged. :D
I don't really care what is done with my remains. I'll probably leave it up to whatever makes my SO most comfortable.
I would like to be cremate and my ashes poured into the ground. Then there should be planted a tree or a flower or a shrub (doesn´t matter) on that place and my ashes and its roots will merge into one ;D
My funeral will be a party. I will wear on of my LBD's wrapped in a Pamela McCoy faux fur. If anybody cries, I'll have them kicked out. I have bouncer friends.
I've said that if it's available and affordable when the time comes, I want to be liquified.
The goop can be used as fertilizer and I want the water put in a water bottle with a picture of me on it. "OrionWater" :P
I want to be launched in a rocket into the sun
Ashes scattered or buried near the cabin where both my late cousin and beloved uncle resides. Perhaps further up the valley, deep in the forest. My Teutonic middle name means "Keeper of the Forest".
Joelene
I'm not entirely sure to be honest. I think that I wouldn't care at that point, me being dead and all. If I had a choice, I'd rather be buried genderless if nobody knew at the time, but if people knew I would rather be buried as my true gender.
On a related note, regardless of what gender I'm buried as, I want my casket to be dropped out of a flying plane while on fire directly into my funeral plot, without the fire burning my body.
Frozen. I want to be in good shape for the Zombie apocalypse. Preferably stored in a location where there are more brains to feast on as well.
Is Soylent Green an option? That way, when I say "Eat me!" I'll know that eventually it will be true.
I don't. I want to be burned and for my ashes to be thrown off a mountain to blow free in the air.
Quote from: Fighter Sadie on October 11, 2011, 09:47:06 PM
I'm not entirely sure to be honest. I think that I wouldn't care at that point, me being dead and all. If I had a choice, I'd rather be buried genderless if nobody knew at the time, but if people knew I would rather be buried as my true gender.
On a related note, regardless of what gender I'm buried as, I want my casket to be dropped out of a flying plane while on fire directly into my funeral plot, without the fire burning my body.
Wow! Just wow! Now that's an exit! Oh Sadie you silly girl you!
I want as much of me to go to medicine and science as possible. I don't want embalming fluid or to take up space in the ground. I don't want a funeral. I don't want to think about who would and wouldn't show up. I want to be cremated, and I'd prefer to be tossed into a river or the forest, or poured into a sewer grate or some other part of my favorite city, but I think my kid would want a physical location to visit.
So, yeah. If any living people love me when I die, what happens to my body is ultimately up to them. Death rites aren't for the dead.
I'd be fine with a viking ceremony. My body and my blade on a boat sent out (and set on fire). The only problem is that you can't do such stuff anymore without being in trouble here.
you can't do such stuff anymore without being in trouble here
It's OK, you'll be dead, they pretty much can't punish you more than that.
I'll be dead so do what you want. I won't know the difference.
Quote from: JenJen2011 on October 24, 2011, 02:43:21 PM
I'll be dead so do what you want. I won't know the difference.
For the memories of the friends and family you left behind. I scattered my mom's ashes around a root ball of a blue spruce tree we planted near a place in the mountains where she and her teenaged friends went to back in the 1940's. Grandma and mom's siblings were present at that event and they still tell me how she loved that place. The tree is still thriving and me and the sibs refer it as "My mom the tree!"
Joelene
Being planted with a tree sounds pretty good :)
There's a place here you can be buried in bushland.. They pop you in a cardboard box, dig a hole and drop you in it.. No marker, no embalming.. You just feed the earth.. That appeals to me..
The other option is a cemetery in a small country town in Victoria - it's on a steep hillside, so you are buried standing upright..
to be quite honest, once i'm dead i dont care what they do with my body lol
In a cardboard coffin under an apple tree in my garden :-)
I'll be cremated
although,, Vacuum Desiccation and having the disks auctioned off to the highest bidder seems like a neat custom.
that's very morbid. by the way, i'm not dying, i'm going to Heaven.
For as long as I can remember, it's been to be cremated and have my ashes spread at the base of a cherry blossom tree in Japan. I was actually super-shocked the other day that the topic came up and my wife had no idea. I was like, "Well, you already know what I want done when I die" and she was like, "Uhhhh..."
I'd like to donate. I'm an organ donor. Failing that, I think I'd be happy as a med-school cadaver. One of the few reasons I've wanted to go to med school is for the dissections. I'd like to give someone that experience. If my shell's not in good enough shape for either of those, cremation is the way to go. Scatter my ashes over some of my favorite places. The shore of Lake Michigan, the Grand Canyon, the rocky shallows of the James River.
'Course, I'd be dead. Can't say I'd care that much.
I want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered into this beautiful lil creek that ran behind my childhood home. :angel:
Quote from: Imadique on October 12, 2011, 06:50:30 PM
Frozen. I want to be in good shape for the Zombie apocalypse. Preferably stored in a location where there are more brains to feast on as well.
This. Idealy I would like to be frozen so that one day I can come back to life in the far future.
If not then I say donate my body to science. If I can't do that then donate my organs. If that's not possible then give me a funeral. I want Sailor Moon song Fukkatsu no Serenade right after some Scottish b->-bleeped-<-ipes.
Just don't cremate me. Sell my body on the black market, use me for mine testing, make a rubber duck out of my body.....anything but cremated.
Not buried.
Bronzed. Like this:
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Well I've always told people to mummify me and build a pyramid to honor me and shove all my stuff in there with me. However the likelihood of that seems low, and even then grave robbers and archaeologist are a huge problem. I think I'd like to be cremated and buried. After any organ donation, We all become part of the earth, I'd like to simply become Ash, Then I can be placed in a chest and buried somewhere closer to my family instead of an expensive plot of land. That way my family gets a gravestone and I get assured that I won't eat their brains at a later date.
Inverted and very shallow, so everyone who wants to dance on my grave can kiss my cold, clammy ass instead.
On a less facetious note, I really don't care. Worm bait, kindling, fertiliser... it's all the same to me. :)
I probably will not be thinking about it
I probably would like many many roses around my grave and for them to be change every week for 100 years.
But i debut someone would pay this for me >:-)
Quote from: Nikki on May 06, 2012, 01:50:16 AM
I probably would like many many roses around my grave and for them to be change every week for 100 years.
But i debut someone would pay this for me >:-)
Lol this has made my day.
I will be cremated.
I srsly want to be frozen. It would be so cool to come back in 800 years and be able to travel around space and learn all the new discoveries about space and learn how society is now, and a bunch of stuff lolz.
And if it doesn't work then, oh well.
Quote from: Malachite on May 06, 2012, 01:56:33 AM
Lol this has made my day.
Lol why you say this haha and I'm glad it has then :)
Quote from: Nikki on May 06, 2012, 11:59:24 PM
Lol why you say this haha and I'm glad it has then :)
Because I can only imagine what the cost of that would be LOL. I laughed so hard that I was almost crying. It also made me wonder if it was really done then what if they stopped at 99 years? Would you haunt everyone?