When you die, do you want to be buried, cremated, mausoleumed...

[maveric]

or "other". Whatever that "other" may be.
Seeing that I'm not into religious rituals, I'm going for cremation. It'll save my family a ton of money for starters.

[ZombieNixon]

1. Deified.

:evilgrin:

[Joey Liberal]

32. I'm an organ donor and I want cremation

If my organs can help someone, then great. Then just cremated me with "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" by the Eagles playing. Then end it with "Fortunate Son" by CCR as a last insult to Herr Boosh.

[bikebloke]

67. An idea from Scandinavia

They flash freeze your body, then vibrate it into granular form. Afterwards, it's poured into a hole with a tree planted on top. My body would then nuture life.

If it's too dear, then wrap me in sheet, bury me and still plant the tree.


***oops, this wasn't supposed to be a reply. I goofed. Sorry.

[Richard Steele]

2. Liquidated on impact!

And no, 'mausoleumed' isn't a word, but it works just fine anyway.

[maveric]

5. I like the HST way. Ashes shot out of a cannon.

Actually, my ashes will be divided into two equal parts. Half will be dumped into the Merrimack River in Lawrence MA, my original hometown. That river goes into the Atlantic.
The other half wil be dumped off the Ocean Beach Pier in San Diego (Pacific Ocean), and perhaps someday the particles will meet.
Corny but its how I want it.
I also like the "Green" idea from Six Feet Under. No embalming, casket or fancy-shmancy ceremony. Just wrap me in a sheet, dig a hole in the woods and bury me there.

[Ivan Sputnik]

3. I voted for cremation

but I think what I'd really like is to be zapped, like in a science-fiction movie. Just nothing left at all. Bzzzzt!

Either that, or this:
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/sylviaplath/1406

[Orangepeel]

4. take all the usable organs for transplant and burn the carcass

I'll be gone -- I don't want my body lying around.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. fry me but don't use my organs

unless i'm cured of hcv

my ashes go into the pacific, off huntington beach

:hi: buh-bye, cruel world :hi:

[Danmel]

7. I don't want to be cremated

Most of my fathers family was killed in Auschwitz and my Dad and his brother were the only survivors. This is one Jew who doesn't want to go into an oven.


My brother wants to be stuffed and put in the living room.

[realisticphish]

8. Fired into the sun

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Hi, maveric!

I voted "other" since I do want to have any usable organs harvested first...

And THEN I want whatever's left to be cremated.....

All my family members who have died have chosen to be cremated...at least all the folks out here in California....

I do not relish getting moldy!

:hi:

[maveric]

10. I can accept the rotting in the ground. Its all the embalming & cosmetic..

BS that I have no use for. Cremation is economical and eco-friendly. I just buried my Ma last year and its very expensive. But she being a strong catholic lady, that was her wish.
Now my Dad wanted to be creamated but when he died, Ma insisted on burying him in a family plot that includes people that have always hated each other. Now that is an insult IMHO.
Burn me Baby!
In spite of this morbid thread, How are you Peggy?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear maveric!

I don't think your thread is one little bit morbid! I do think that people need to consider these end-of-life issues well before their lives end!

I am well, thanks! Hope your new job is agreeing with you!

:loveya: :hug:

[maveric]

16. Its doing great. I'm back in my element once again, and thriving.

Thanks for asking Peggy. :loveya: :hug:

[bif]

11. On display like Lenin.

[NoPasaran]

12. Viking funeral for me

Sort of a cremation/cast into the sea combo.

[maveric]

14. I should listed a choice for made into "Soylent Green".

Because we all know that "Soylent Green is Peeeeeople! Its Peeeeeople!"

[Deja Q]

15. I want to live forever.

Or die trying.

All that said, grill me to a fine ash and use me as an aphrodisiac. SpanishToad.

[fortyfeetunder]

17. One more time to make an ash of myself.

None of this embalming stuff for me!

[maveric]

19. I forgot a "Donate body to science" choice.

Thats my 2nd option to cremation.

[no name no slogan]

18. blown out of a cannon

but cremated first.

[ghostsofgiants]

36. Real original, Hunter.

[graywarrior]

20. Stretched in canvas and painted on.

[Bzzzz]

21. We have our will...

made out that specifies where we want out ashes spread...our daughter is our executor and she knows the locations and the information to get the approval. The places we've picked are ones that my hubby and I related to and fell in love all over again. If the kids want their fair share of our ashes, that's been allotted for.

[Kali]

22. I had both my sons at home.

My personal first choice wish is for someone to fight the system and attend my death at home and bury me sans chemicals here on the ranch. (or do like Ed Abby and just don't tell anybody - heh heh)

If that is just too much for them, I would be satisfied with a cremation and scatter the ashes from the top of the peak.


Definetly changed my mind about having a gathering. Now I want an old fashioned gathering at the house with tons of people and tons of food, maybe even some music. Drinking of alcohol and smoking of whatever fully allowed.


edit to add I see this may conflict somewhat with organ/body donation and assumes medical/scientific rejection of my worn out old carcass)

[xmas74]

47. Talk to a death midwife in your area.

S/he might be able to tell you about your options in ref to being buried at home. Death midwives tend to be more open to natural burials.

[Kali]

55. Yeah I have looked into it

the problem is the rest of the family isn't as into doing everything themselves as I am. I could do it for somebody else but it seems a bit much to ask others to do for me if it makes them too uncomfortable.

[xmas74]

65. I understand that.

It's hard to ask people to do something that they might find unpleasant.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

23. Stuffed and set up on the front porch

to wave and greet all the people walking by.

[ET Awful]

25. I was gonna say that

:P

Put my hand up in a permanent "HELLO" wave and plaster a permagrin on my face and let me wave to all the folks that pass by.

Sounds good to me :)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

31. There was a rumor once that that's what they did to Evita

and set her up in a chair at the dining table. But I think I later heard that that was one of those urban legends. Too bad. Imagine the dinner conversation. :)

[MiniMandaRuth]

24. Cremated, just to make SURE I'm dead...

then have my ashes scattered on the beach.

[NV Whino]

26. Cremated

Already bought and paid for.

[Blue Diadem]

27. Other, I'm seriously thinking of donating my body to science

If I don't do that then I'll be cremated.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

33. I have thought about donating my corpse to a Body Farm.

If I could help the CSIs, it would be worth it.
Duckie

[Solon]

28. Other, as I told my family...

I want a mob burial, plant my feet in cement, then cast me in the river, its cheap too!

[WhollyHeretic]

29. Nothing elaborate, maybe something like this...

Either that or just toss me in the recycle bin. :shrug:

[Elidor]

30. Now when I die, don't think that I'm a nut

Don't want no fancy funeral
Just one like old King Tut

[Fleshdancer]

34. organs donated, cremated and ashes shot out into space to become a star

If space is still too expensive, then a field of wildflowers will do just fine. Just don't keep me confined to an urn and PLEASE do not force me to decompose in a box underground. I don't like that idea at all.

[mitchum]

35. Buried in the ground with a tree planted over me...

like my ancestors

[ghostsofgiants]

37. I honestly do not care.

Use me as a crash test dummy, for all I care.

[Shine]

38. Organ donor and cremation, followed by a memorial where everyone

talks about happy memories....

Yup, sounds good to me

:D

[buddhamama]

39. burned and scattered

there's a metaphor for life, somewhere :freak:

[enigmatic]

40. cremated, w/ the ashes flushed down the toilet

Seriously; I had to talk Mrs. E into this, but she says she'll do it...

[philosophie_en_rose]

41. Frozen

And resurrected when medical science can restore me to a healthy and desirable state of living.

[rurallib]

42. New process I heard of: freeze dried and turned into fertilizer

then used to feed a tree. After the organs are harvested of course.

[Guava Jelly]

43. I believe we (the human body ) are just machines

when you die the machine is broken..
and you are no more.
As you were nothing before the machine was created..
no before or after life.
..
so I dont care what is done with the broken machine

[Guy Fawkes]

44. Shot out of a mushroom shaped canon.

[Bullwinkle925]

45. I aint gonna do it - I have decided to 'go the way of the Vampires'

Shall outlive you all.



Bwahahahahahahahahahaha

[northofdenali]

46. Cremated.

Scatted in the Brooks Range. And whoever is left better have a hell of a party!

[bridgit]

48. Cremated

[LaraMN]

49. Stuffed, shellacked, and mounted on my front porch,

to freak out those obnoxious mormon twits who won't quit pounding on my door.

[barb162]

50. can we put a loaded shotgun on your lap?

(Ruth Gordon in "Any Which Way But Loose")

[LaraMN]

52. No. I'm scared of guns.

But people can come by and tip me over, once in a while, just for added creepiness.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

51. I don't care.

My body is meaningless. My soul is what's important. I don't think I want to end up in some box in the ground. I'd rather have my body dumped in the woods and devoured by animals or simply have my ashes scattered somewhere. Or be shot out of a cannon like the good doctor, Hunter S. Thompson.

[Fox Mulder]

53. I wouldn't care if my corpse was thrown onto a big trash pile.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, right? So what difference would it make if it were buried, burned, or pickins for seagulls? :shrug:

[leftofthedial]

54. stuffed and mounted

[TallahasseeGrannie]

56. Cremated with my ashed strewn in two places

1) my farm

2) over the Gaston Avenue Bakery in Somerville, NJ

[tjwmason]

57. Burial for a few years

So that the body is decomposed, then my bones moved to a charnel house (preferably in the crypt of a church). This would only really work if lots of others did so too - but I like the idea of my bones alongside other folk, like a little community of the dead until the day of resurrection.

[WeRQ4U]

58. "Bury me ass-up so people have someplace to park their bikes"

Patch Adams.

[Magrittes Pipe]

59. Stuffed and mounted in the "growly bear" pose.

[Ravenseye]

60. I want 3 days to come back from the dead

I have left instructions that my body must remain unmolested for three days. I wish to be placed on a slab of natural stone either within a cave, or in a room with a cave temperature in the fifties. Then my body must be allowed 72 hours so I have a chance to come back from the dead. After 72 hours I want my body buried for one year in the earth without a coffin. Then after that year I wish my bones to be exhumed now that my flesh is gone, and I wish for the bones to be burned with a 'greenbones' technique. Then I wish for my greenboned bones to be reburied in a coffin along with various burial goods such as pendants, jade figures, etc.

Just to fuck with future archaeologists.

[Hugin]

61. Abandoned in a suspicious looking package in any random airport.

:evilgrin:

[barb162]

62. ewwwwww

[blindpig]

63. Oh please don't bury me down in the cold, cold ground

I'd rather have them cut me up and pass me all around.

Since that is not currently an option I'll have to make due with cremation. Though lately I've been considering one of those natural burials where they rap you in a sheet, put you in the ground and plant a tree on you, perferrably a live oak.

[anarch]

64. eaten by wild dogs

Or cremated. Whichever's easier.

[hyphenate]

66. How about cremated

and then have your ashes sent up on a shuttle to be spread into space? For me, it's the only way I'll ever get there!

[KamaAina]

68. A "condo" in one of New Orleans' "Cities of the Dead"

They don't do it just to be creepy, you know. If you dig "six feet under" down there, you'll end up with about a five-and-a-half-foot-deep swimming pool for elves.

[SofaKingLiberal]

69. Other- I'm not going to die.

:yoiks:

[StellaBlue]

70. Viking fiery ship

The usual.