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.