" Death." Topic

What do you want done with your body after you Die ???

I hate to see all that protein go to waste, but as a slow session in the crock pot is not looked upon favorably in this society, I'm going with an extreme char-broil.

Allen

I want my painted dark purple with a black wash to highlight the details.

"I hate to see all that protein go to waste, but as a slow session in the crock pot is not looked upon favorably in this society, I'm going with an extreme char-broil."

That is so peculiar…and mildly disturbing…
If someone is that Green, they should have the courtesy to kick off into a compost heap, or maybe a biofuel engine…

For me, I don't care. But my family (well, my wife anyway), is dead-set against cremation, so I guess it is a box and a hole for me!

"Golf courses and Cemetaries; biggest wastes of prime real estate".

OK, I'd settle for biofuel, like grease from a deep fat fryer. Are there any facilities doing that?

If I'm in vaguely decent shape when I go (unlikely….) medical science can have it, otherwise just burn it….

I'm to be cremated, my ashes mingled with those of my pets who have predeceased me, and all of us stuffed in the same hole in the family plot in Augusta, Maine.

Yes, I have it all in writing already.

I most definitely do not want to go in the family plot in Buxton, Maine. I took care of that cemetery for too many years. And so I know that the deer pee on our plot.

Allen

That's easy.

I am gunna get placed in an old keg of beer, and then placed in the trunk of my 1974 BMW 2002tii, and buried all together.

Oddly enough, my wife is cool with the car part, but not the keg… But you need to know my wife!

They can remove anything still of use to anyone. The rest gets a Viking funeral. Neotacha promised.

I plan donating to the Forensic Anthroplogy Dept
at my Alma Mater:
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I really don't care, but it will be a cardboard box (one has to be in a coffin to be cremated, a cardboard one will do) and cremation.

Mike

Cremated and placed in a national cemetery no box for me.

Thinking about this reminds me of a few years ago doing military burials at the Riverside National Cemetery. This family had purchase this 35-40# bronze urn in the shape of a book. The entire time I was carrying it over to the podium I was afraid I'd drop it. Most of the time cremains are in a little cardboard box. Much lighter.

I'd prefer to be placed under a buffalo robe beneath a tree on a scaffold. Must be the Indian in me. Otherwise, I'll go with cremation.

Thanks,

John

I want to be preserved, dressed as a hussar, shrunk to 28mm, and take my place on the table top.

Or if that's not practical, cremation and scattering on the sea near my house in NZ would do fine.

[I hate to see all that protein go to waste, but as a slow session in the crock pot is not looked upon favorably in this society, I'm going with an extreme char-broil.]

I seem to recall Shakespeare described the path of a King from his exulted position in life to inside the belly of a pauper. But there were a few steps between death and dining involving dirt and worms, so no cannibalism was involved.

Ashes to ashes but after that, I've asked the kids to throw me at their mother instead of rice or bird seed if she remarries. Failing that I'll settle for a Big Lebowski moment.

I signed a donor codicil, if the medicos can find any spares they can use on others they are free to take them.

That also cuts down on polution, since I opted for cremation. I think I have enough body fat to ask for a fuel discount.

Burying over here, only opted for by about 50%, is not forever. The plot is leased, length depends on the city. 20-30 years is norm. With 16 million of us in a very overcrowded country there just is not enough space for more cemetaries. After that whatever is left is still cremated, so I might as well avoid the wait and get it over with.

I have this gnawing desire to be thrown into a volcano.

Preferably (but not necessarily) after I'm dead.

Stuffed, mounted and bequeathed to the descendants as a coat-rack. After the NHS gets any interesting bits they can use.

Ideally, I'd like my corpse (once anything medically useful is harvested) to be dumped in the woods for other animals to eat – fair's fair, after all.

Unfortunately that's illegal, so I suppose I default to "whatever's cheapest for the people who have to decide".
-Kle.

Burned to ashes, scattered over the battlefield in Battle, East Sussex….

The path of the king to belly of a worm is Hamlet- graveyard sceme.

I demand full state funeral, the cassion pulled by the Kings Royal Regiment of Dragoons, while the massed bands of the Light Infantry play the lament. Beautiful Blondes will scatter rose petals ahead of the cortege, while the Worlds Heads of State will follow behind. Bill will collapse crying, with the realisation he can never apologise for the DH'ing.

Viking Funeral for me also….and I think Guiness will probably realize what has happened and fly their flags at half mast…

Cremation, with my ashes spread in Lake Shasta just outside of Fisher's Rock; to mingle with my Aunt, Grandmother, Grandfather & Cousin's ashes.

CPR – fast!

Do I have the option of just not dying?

Take the scythe and start a new career