Buried, cremated or mulched?

[Ivan Sputnik]

Ashes to ashes, dust to mulch? In Sweden it will soon be possible to have your corpse freeze-dried, powdered and made into tree mulch, says the UK's Telegraph. "Swedes will ... have the chance to bury their dead according to the pioneering method, which involves freezing the body, dipping it in liquid nitrogen and gently vibrating it to shatter it into powder. This is put into a small box made of potato or corn starch and placed in a shallow grave, where it will disintegrate within six to 12 months. People are to be encouraged to plant a tree on the grave. It would feed off the compost formed from the body, to emphasize the organic cycle of life."

Good idea. Sometimes I think I'd be much happier as a tree.

More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/28/wfreez28.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/28/ixportal.html

[Shell Beau]

1. I'll stick to burial! I don't really like to think about it though.

I am so claustrophobic that I want to be buried above ground! I know it is silly (and expensive), but :shrug:

[Ptah]

2. I can't decide, surprise me. n/t

[Angry Girl]

3. Mulching is a cool idea

I read about in Mary Roach's excellent book Stiff, the Curious Life of Cadavers (which tells you, always in a respectful way, about how they used cadavers to make crash test dummies and tons and tons of other interesting things)

Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak's site is here:
http://promessa.se/index_en.asp

[catmandu57]

4. Mulching

sounds cool if I have any say in it I'd do it. The Mrs Cat wants to chuck me in a hole for ever and ever amen.

[caty]

5. I'm want to be

cremated after I die and I want my ashes to be scattered near a body of water with a scenic view. When someone comes to visit, they will see a beautiful view instead of a small plot of land with a headstone. And, if they can't make it to that spot, they can go to any pretty lake and visit me there.

[prolesunited]

6. None of the above

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[miss_kitty]

7. cornfield

wished into the cornfield.

:rofl:

[Xithras]

8. Call me old fashioned, but I'm looking for an underground crypt.

I don't like the burial in a box idea, cremation creeps me out, and I can think of better things to do with my remains than mulch thankyouverymuch. I want to be placed in a tomb. Why? So that, in 5,000 years when some archaeologist breaks into it, they'll think that I must have been someone far more important than I actually am :)

[Dukkha]

9. decomposed

or eaten. either is good.

[suzbaby]

10. I have the best option of all...

I simply won't die. There, problem solved.
:rofl:

[bridgit]

11. cremated...

[Bzzzz]

12. Cremation...

thank you.

[no name no slogan]

13. Cremated and fired out of a cannon

just like the good Doctor, RIP

[In_The_Wind]

14. cremated

then spread with the wind over the ocean

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. Mulched sounds like a great idea.

Not as selfish as taking up space in the ground or in an urn. That's a very "back to nature" alternative.