Good evening guys and dolls.

Your burial wishes?

Is your preferred method of disposal dependent on culture or religion?

Does the environmental impact of the disposal method you choose concern you or affect your choice?

What are your reasons for choosing a particular method of disposal?

if i were chocolate, it'd be creamiation
if i were water, evaporation
i could be a bitch: death by itch

wandering the earth as a restless spirit, for the homebodies
popularity to the point of distraction, for the nobodies
if i were a cat, death by becoming a rat

you can do as you please with the bones
bury them or marry them
they're very high in calcium

Cremate me and feed an oak tree with what's left over.  I like that.

Cindi

Cremate me, put my ashes in a huge mausoleum like the ones they have in the cemeteries in Peru, and then worship me. 

Why?  this body is expensive, it has cost thousands of dollars so far so I would really hate to see it eaten by maggots.

tink

Cremation definately (I hate this body now). If I get this right  (with thousands of dollars I don't have), then...well, let me try to get there first and I'll come back...

I want to be ejected out into space in a black coffin (kind of like Spock in Startrek, but without those damned pipes playing).

Apart from that I would prefer to be cremated and placed in a bronze statue of a cat, that would be left sleeping in the sun within a beautiful garden.
Or I want my ashes made into a diamond.

This is not cultural or traditional (unless you count treky culture  ). My mum reckons if I die before her she would do me the dishonor of burying me in a coffin. That reminds me I need to update my will...

Well, first there's the part where I'm a donor so I'd wave some organs bye-bye... Then I'd prefer the remains to be donated to science (who knows? they might be useful and help another person), and lastly whatever is left of me can be cremated, the ashes tossed in a bag and shuttled into space, right at the 'Welcome Home' banners. 

Quote from: no_id on September 16, 2007, 11:43:11 PM
Well, first there's the part where I'm a donor so I'd wave some organs bye-bye... Then I'd prefer the remains to be donated to science (who knows? they might be useful and help another person), and lastly whatever is left of me can be cremated, the ashes tossed in a bag and shuttled into space, right at the 'Welcome Home' banners. 

Would you be willing to have your remains donated to the Body Farm?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm

http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/index.htm

Take all the parts you can use and then burn me and fling my ashes in the ocean.
(which is pretty well what we did with my dad and I always think of him when I go down the front yard (which is ocean front) )

Dennis

bury me in the ground

Quote from: Dennis on September 17, 2007, 12:56:21 AM
Take all the parts you can use and then burn me and fling my ashes in the ocean.
(which is pretty well what we did with my dad and I always think of him when I go down the front yard (which is ocean front) )

Dennis

Ditto Dennis, I'd like the same thing for myself, science can take whatever and then cremate what's left....and fling my ashes out into the ocean!!  Any ocean will do, as I plan to travel, my final destination could be anywhere ... That was a nice idea for your dad.


This is a great topic Nero, as I have a morbid fascination with death.  Most people I know would never talk about dying and what they'd like done with their remains.   It's funny though, sometimes I think about being in the furnace and the massive pain!  It's illogical I know, I have to remind myself I will be dead!  lol

buttercup 

After my death I'd like to be frozen.  I want to be brought back some day in the distant future. 

dunno.  when ur dead ur dead so it dont matter what they do withur body.  i wanna be cremated & put in the sea.  they did that to my buddy Ronald when he died. i want da same for me.

When i die i want to be exposed to the elements. The more animals that can feed from my body the better. Nothing left to waste.

Cremate me and spread the ashes over any mountains.

Side note:  My dad was cremated and my mother and sister went to spread his ashes over a lake in Wisconson, they went out in a boat and started to pour the ashes out and a wind came up and blew the ashes back into their faces and the boat.

Sarah L.

Quote from: Nero on September 17, 2007, 12:53:37 AM

Quote from: no_id on September 16, 2007, 11:43:11 PM
Well, first there's the part where I'm a donor so I'd wave some organs bye-bye... Then I'd prefer the remains to be donated to science (who knows? they might be useful and help another person), and lastly whatever is left of me can be cremated, the ashes tossed in a bag and shuttled into space, right at the 'Welcome Home' banners. 

Would you be willing to have your remains donated to the Body Farm?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm

http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/index.htm

N-man, are you saying the only use my body has is to find better ways to determine the actual time of death?

Well, if I end up a vegitable, or know Im going to die... Id donate my life organs to those in need and cremate the rest...
If its sudden, take what can be used <science, donor if its not too late> and remate the rest...  Id want my ashes to be spread half in the desert, and half in the rocky mountians.....  <For some reason I think it would be a waste to do the Franklin mountians and the desert...  part of me will allways count this place home... but I cant suffer the thought that it would have all of me for all time.>

Hmm, never really mattered much to me. I suppose let science take what was good then anything goes after that 

    Cremate me.  I already have it arranged.  I get created then dumped into a nice marble receptacle and then buried.

    I was going to donate, but I discovered that doctors and some weirdos are claiming people to be dead now just to get the parts.  That's not the kind of world I want to be a part of.

Quote from: Rebis on September 23, 2007, 12:50:03 PM
    I get created then dumped

i get created, neglected, beaten, ridiculed, and then dumped