Speaking of dying, and drying....

[Flaxbee]

How do you want your body disposed of when you die? Not to be morbid, but I just read an article about a 'green' burial preserve near Westminster, South Carolina (northwestern part of state) where you or your ashes can be buried in a cardboard or simple pine box, no embalming, no big headstones (but it seems small flat in-ground plaques are OK). The preserve is in a greater nature preserve with hiking trails, etc. I always thought I'd be cremated and flung into the wind from a sailboat or something (haven't really worked it all out yet), but I've also thought it might be nice to have a place to be visited if anyone ever so desired to visit 'me' after I have died, so long as it wasn't one of the huge, sterile, heavily- manicured-lawn (with nasty pesticides), commercial cemeteries.

Anyway. Just curious. :hi:

[Flaxbee]

1. no one else is interested in my poll?

where are all the Six Feet Under fans? :P

[Danger Mouse]

2. cremation. i'm not interested in being a worm's dinner.

decay disgusts me.

[LaraMN]

3. Other: conversion to gemstone.

"The LifeGem® is a certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique life."

http://www.lifegem.com/

:P

[Richard Steele]

4. There's a new version of cremation now, as well...

They freeze-dry the body, way below zero, and then vibrate it to dust.
I want the regular old cremation, though. I HATE the cold!

And I think I'd like my ashes dumped into a hole, and a sapling
planted on top of them. I'll be part of that tree for a lot
longer than anyone who knows me will be alive, so it would be
a great "marker" for anyone who wants to visit.

Walnut tree, now that I think of it. Ive eaten a few squirrels
in my day, so why feed them after my death? It only seems fair.

[Blue Diadem]

5. DH and I are considering donating our bodies to science.

Then if our children wish, a nice bench can be donated to a park/preserve of their choice with our names on it.

I've been to a few parks with benches given in memoriam..I always thought it was a nice way to remember someone.