Burial or cremation?

[WI_DEM]

[terrya]

1. Cremation

I think burial is unethical.

[Monkeyman]

2. Just toss me in the trash

[Mojambo]

3. I want my body donated to science.

Frankly I really don't care what they do with it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Okay, I'll bite

What other form?

[WI_DEM]

12. I'm not sure, but I thought there might be something else

maybe burial in sea or outer space? or cryogenics?

[Divernan]

13. Donated to science qualifies as something else.

nt

[Graybeard]

56. Resurrection?

...that would really be my choice.

[BuyingThyme]

5. Just leave me be.

[sweetheart]

30. yes, a sky burial

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

[Nite Owl]

6. Donate my body to a med school,

use whatever is needed. After that I don't care.

[jakem]

7. Tibetan Sky burial...

cut me up and feed me to the vultures.

alternately, lifegem anyone? lol..

[riverwalker]

17. hey, I was gonna say that ;) n/t

[jakem]

26. dont let me stop you-

the vultures are hungry enough for all of us...

well, if there are any vultures left:

http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2005/03/diclofenac.html

[Az]

8. I'm donating my body to science fiction

It only seems appropriate.

[Madspirit]

55. Best of All!

You're donating your body to Science Fiction?! Hee...I LOVE that.
Any particular 'Verse?
Lee

[Divernan]

9. Choice is as appealing as picking between being w/ W or his mother on a desert island!

However, I know that the responsible and caring thing for our survivors is to make that choice (and whatever concommitant arrangements are required for final disposition of our earthly remains) for ourselves, so that our survivors don't have to deal with such painful details, or worse yet, get into an interfamily fight about it when we die. Cremation is much less expensive, and I hate the thought of embalming, so I've told my kids to have me cremated and have a great family reunion/party/wake with the money that's been saved.

As for dispersal of my ashes, I want them scattered from a sailboat over Santa Monica reef in the British Virgin Islands.

[Mojambo]

10. Where's the love for the necrophiliacs? n/t

[TahitiNut]

11. Hefty Bag and curbside pickup.

My body will have decayed beyond description by the time anyone notices the stench seeping into the neighborhood, so it'd probably be a Hazmat Team that'll bag it. Any 'funeral' would need no more space than an average office with a desk and two chairs. Let the maggots feast. The "Circle of Life."

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Although I picked cremation, I have always thought that the most

responsible thing would be just dump my body in a hole and plant a fruit tree on top and let me be fertilizer. The only problem is (or so I've been told) there are laws that require embalming before any burial and that would only add to the toxic chemicals in the soil. So ashes to ashes for me.

[noamnety]

18. They do green burials now

no pickling, none of that nonsense. It's less destructive than cremation for the environment.

http://www.ethicalburial.org/

[lonestarnot]

15. Plastination woohoo.

[dysfunctional press]

16. i want to be plasticized as part of Body Worlds...

i have a spine that's deformed due to an adult-onset condition, so i hope that will give me a leg up on getting in.

as for my wife- i've told her that if she goes first, i'm going to have her stuffed and mounted...possibly made into a floor lamp.

[lonestarnot]

22. Heh... a floor lamp.

[dysfunctional press]

35. i'm thinking a lightbulb in each ear, with a pull chain coming out a nostril...

but it pisses her off when i talk about it.

[roguevalley]

19. when my dad died in July, I felt the most terrible sense of dislocation.

when my brothers and sister came to my house and brought my dad's ashes, I could feel such relief. I can't describe it. It was HUGE and a warmth that had gone for a while. I believe in cremation because it is good for the environment, you can keep your loved one with you as long as you want and it feels right. My dad is with us and we don't feel alone.

[Ignacio Upton]

20. Cremation

If not, then I want my body embalmed like Lenin or Eva Peron and put on display in some museum.

[fed-up]

21. in last 5 weeks had my bro and BF's bro cremated-BRING your own urn-

no need to pay the extra $100 for their cheapo plastic one.

Bare bones (pun intended) cremation runs about $1,050 here in California-no viewing, no service, no nada.

State law requires that mortuaries provide you with written price lists ahead of time.

You do not have to go into their office to discuss prices (and where they can try to UP-sell). Everything can be handled on the phone.

Please let your next of kin know what your final wishes are-and if possible easily accessible money to pay for them.

If the deceased was not under the immediate care of a doctor (in hospital or hospice already) an autopsy is usually required by law. The county usually has a few mortuaries and they take turns (one month at a time).The county usually pays for storage of the body until the autopsy is done, they also pay for the autopsy if they require it.

It is no problem to have the body transferred to the mortuary of your choice if it is a coroner's case after the autopsy is done.

An autopsy can take 2-3 months due to the long wait for toxicology reports. Since they don't want to be held liable they will not even hint at cause of death until then.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

61. Got my mom cremated for $650.00

Friend of mine said he was the cheapest guy in the whole area.
She has had experience because a lot of her friends have died, because we are at that age --we are both in our fifties.

My favorite story is one she told me about her friend whose husband died, and she put his ashes in a statue of Anubis, the jackal headed Egyptian god of Death. The dog with pointy ears. I thought that was quite cool.

I have mom's ashes in the box on top of a file cabinet next to her picture and a dancing Shiva statue. Shiva's all about recycling, so I think it's appropriate.

[scarlet_owl]

23. I want to be mummified, but it isn't going to happen.

I'll probably be cremated because it's cheaper.

[Goblinmonger]

24. Other: I remember reading somewhere

that England was letting people be buried in unfinished pine boxes in national forests so that the body and box will decompose and feed the trees. I wish they would allow that in the US.

Short of that--light the fires, burn me up, and spread me somewhere where I can feed some plants.

[salin]

25. my maternal grandparents were cremated

my paternal grandparents died when my father was a young child - I have no idea whether they were buried or cremated - and sadly have no idea where their remains are (both died 30+ years before I was born). My father was cremated, and we have a place for my mother and other family for their cremains. I have no iea where my siblings fall now (both have become more religious over the years, and I don't know what that means per remains) - but I will follow my parent(s) and maternal grandparents.

[reyd reid reed]

27. Meh....

Stuff me and stand me in a corner somewhere. Either that, or the compost heap out back...

:shrug:

[Digit]

28. My mother and father both chose cremation

That is my choice as well.

I took an informal poll at my office last week and they were HORRIFIED at the thought of cremation.

All of them (they are all Repukes) wanted to be buried. Do they think that they will pop out of their caskets at the rapture and look better than Night of The Living Dead or what?
I don't get it.

[Cabcere]

29. I would like

to be cremated and put into a firework (or at least have some of my ashes put into the firework; the rest could go to my family or something), and I would want the firework to form a peace sign in the sky as my final message. My friends tell me that's gross, though...but I still think it would be cool. :)

[bridgit]

31. cremation - i'm not taking up any more space, i'm gone bang zoom!...

O8)

[Poiuyt]

32. I want my head frozen and put on a shelf next to Ted Williams

[Hissyspit]

33. Pickled in brandy. n/t

[Broken_Hero]

34. Cremation

with my ashes spread across Swan Lake...a lot of good memories out there.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. Cremation!

After any and all useful parts are extracted.....

I won't need them anymore......

And maybe someone else will........

But I want cremation because the idea of getting moldy is just too horrifying to contemplate.......:scared:

[ghostsofgiants]

37. I'll be dead, do whatever the hell you want with my body, I doubt I'll mind, haha.

[northofdenali]

38. Cremation after organ donation.

If they want 'em! Actually, I'll be "scattered", hopefully, in Atigun Pass.

[fortyfeetunder]

39. I just wanna be HOT STUFF

After seeing the Discovery Channel show on embalming, I figured NFW I was going that way.
As soon as I go lifeless, I want someone to get me hot, like 2500 degrees hot...

[donheld]

40. Cremation but really

I don't care.

[Evoman]

41. I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes to be put in a bunch of barbecues.

I asked my brother to spread my ashes (he is the only one who agreed, enthusiatically, because he is as depraved as I am) into people barbecues, without them knowing. And then those people would cook on the barbecue, and my ashes would get in their food, and they would eat me.

I'm just kidding....kind of.

[Meshuga]

57. Ask your brother to put your ashes

in pepper shakers in different restaurants. More people would eat you that way.

[DamnYank]

42. Misconceptions

I do want to be cremated and most definitely don't want to be embalmed and put on display. However, it's a misconception that cremation is good for the environment. It takes something like 100 gallons of propane to reduce an average-sized adult mail to ashes, and the process puts mercury into the air (from dental fillings) along with other pollutants such as hydrogen chloride, nitrous oxides and dioxins which contribute to acid rain. See http://naturalburials.co.nz/media4.php

Embalming is seldom required by law, exceptions being in certain cases of communicable disease (of debatable value as well as extremely dangerous to the embalmer.) If the body is to be shipped by common carrier the carrier may require it, and several states require it if the body is shipped across state lines.

Know before you go. :evilgrin:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/products/pro26.htm
http://www.handelonthelaw.com/article_details.aspx?Article=57
http://www.funerals.org/faq/myths.htm

[Auggie]

43. I don't know -- surprise me

[Rhythm]

44. Cremation... body made diamond...

When i heard about that, i thought it was a really morbidly cool idea...

[Ookie]

45. Cremation, and then

blow my ashes into the republican HQ where I can haunt their sorry asses :evilgrin:

[Strawman]

46. I pick immortality

Not personally looking forward to croaking. Don't like to think about it.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

47. I chose cremation

but I'd really rather have a green funeral and just get dumped in a sheet.

[Phillycat]

48. Neither: donate the whole thing to science.

What do I need it for? Harvest anything useful, then give the scraps to a med school.

Bodiless memorial service for my loved ones.

[Hobarticus]

49. Cremation, scatter the ashes, no marker or headstone...

I was here, that's good enough for me.

[tigereye]

50. I was reading about "green" earth-friendly burials...

cremation sounds creepy to me. Must be my Catholic upbringing....

[ashling]

51. Tan me hyde when I've died, Clyde

An leave it hangin' on the shed.

Anyone remember
Tie me kangaroo down?

[flying_wahini]

52. yeah, I loved that song, Have to put that one on my list of songs

to play at my "party"

[KamaAina]

53. Above-ground crypt

should I die in New Orleans -- still a possibility.

[Madspirit]

54. Compost Preferably n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

58. Could you wait til I die first? nt

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

59. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

In Genesis it states that man was made from the dust of the Earth. I want to be given back to Mother Earth as dust.

[Lautremont]

60. Viking funeral.

It can be done. I did a documentary on it. Either that or a green burial.

[graywarrior]

62. That's great. I'd like one of those, too.