So you're dead... now what?

[duroc5088]

burial is the only natural way to do it.

Dirk

 

[stv21s]

A rather morbid question. Perfect in time for the holidays!

Ryan

 

[CO Bob]

I am arranging that there be no body left behind!

 

[Christopher123]

I don't care. If I'm dead it's not gonna matter.

 

[looseliam]

Cook me please. Well done.

From the Earth I came, and to it I shall return. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Oh, SurfBoy, it's called lifegem. And they're rather pricey.

 

[gmoney]

burial is the only natural way to do it.

Dirk

Don't know how "natural" it is, but I have no desire to break from what appears to be traditional. At least in my own family.

 

[Croynan]

Ok, just out of curiousity... those who have put any thought into this, what do you want them to do with your carcass after you keel over?

I am really not sure why, but this thread seems to me to be so ironic, given that a few days or so there was a thread posted by a dear friend of yours and yourself about this small matter of an "e-mail" that was sent off to a said person.


If my posting comes across that way, truly I do apologize and I hope i have not intruded in your privacy and space nor that of your fine "friend - i. e. Dirk."

Personally, back to the question at hand, i think cremation. I really do not want a buch of maggots crawling all over me - I hate bugs.

I originally wanted to be cremated and thrown into the North Sea. But someone else interviened in my wishes and so I shall be cremated and be placed in the ground next to a most wonderful person, my grandmother. My mother shall be around also, a wonderful favourite aunt, an aunt who when i last saw her, i walked by her without saying a word, and one of the loveliest persons I have ever known, a friend of my mother's who was nice enough to let the two of us spend the Jewish Holidays with her and her family and some of the most wonderful meals and times I can remember growing up, in a most mixed and rather unpleasant childhood.

I wanted to be near the ocean, an so I shall. My little plot for moi, will be about 6-8 miles from the ocean so there will always be an ocean breeze, plus the fact that i shall be under the shade of a tree.

And over about 1/8 of a mile in the cemetery is the most beautiful waterfall memorial in honour of the famed artist - Al Jolson.

Tranquility will aboud, the freeway is far enough away and all is just greenery and trees and peacefullness.

If I could just have all my Stephen Sondheim music and classical music playing 8-9 hours a day i think i would be in paradise.

eM.

 

[Swellegant]

Cremation and a nice little jar. Or a tea-tin (I have a pink elephant tea-tin that would do nicely ). It's the tidiest and most space-efficient way of dealing with human remains.

Of course, I care little for tidiness and space-efficiency, and am as fond of big bronze boxes as I am of tiny tea-tins. Brace yourselves for a confession, darlings: the real reason I decided to be cremated is that I am terrified of coming back from the dead. After I saw Return of the Living Dead, I immediately decided to be cremated, and have not changed my mind one whit since then. The idea of my corpse being reanimated and hunting for brains just scares the crap out of me.

There you go, abe98okc, you've dragged out my deepest and stupidest fear, the fear of becoming a zombie. I wonder what that phobia is called.

 

[joer]

I've really never given any thought to being cremated. I have thought about where I would like to be put though. I'd like to be buried in the same little rural cemetary in western Pennsylvania where my grandparents are. That would suit me just fine.

 

[ronboy]

I want to be buried. I already own a double cemetary plot next to my parents' plot. I will be there for sure, and hopefully, if our relationship lasts to the end, Dave will be right there by my side.

 

[Bi Married Male]

Food for good thought......

I don't know who thought of this, but I think it's a great concept!!
I think the life cycle is all backwards

You should start out dead and get it out of the way.

Then, you wake up in an old age home feeling better every day.

You get kicked out for being too healthy; go collect your pension, then

when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink alcohol, you party, you're generally promiscuous and you get

ready for High School.

You go to primary school, you become a kid , you play, you have no
responsibilities, you become a baby, and then...

You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like

conditions; central heating, room service on tap, larger quarters every

day, and then, you finish off as an orgasm.

I rest my case.

 

[douseiai]

science have your way with me! i won't need my body after i'm dead so i don't care much though if its useful for someone i hope they use it well

 

[Centexfarmer]

Burn me then Urn me baby!



Scatter my ashes on a windy day off the crest of Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hill Country.

 

[theatreboi]

i want there to be a huge party where my embalmed body is danced with and everybody has a really great time and gets super drunk, then dump me in the ground and call it a night. no crying, no sappy eulegies, just burry me and get on with your life.

 

[metta]

cremation.....it is cleaner...and more environmentally friendly.

I had my best friend cremated. His ashes were put in small colored glass bottles, over 60 of them. We are slowly having them put in various beautiful/spiritual places around the World as well as places that he loved to go to.

He always wanted to travel all over the World. His kidney/digestive/heart problems always made it difficult for him to travel great distances. Some of his closest friends have taken his ashes to the following places:

• Bottle 1: Mountain Cove – tree dedication 8/14/2005
• Bottle 2: Southern Ireland – On top of the Blarney Castle: 2/2006
• Bottle 3: Northern Ireland – Giant Causeway’s Wishing Chair: 4/13/2006
• Bottle 4: Sandy Beach, Oahu, HI 7/16/2006
• Bottle 5: Haleakala, Maui, HI 7/30/2006

 

[Riverrick]

Cremation makes more sense than slowly rotting in the ground.

But I just can't stand the idea of being burned.

 

[metta]

science have your way with me! i won't need my body after i'm dead so i don't care much though if its useful for someone i hope they use it well

http://www.bodyworlds.com/index.html

Donation: http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/bodydonation/body_donation_program.html

 

[duroc5088]

Okay so I guess I am just a traditionalist when it comes to this. I being in not one but two dangerous fields of work, have been to A LOOOOOOT of funerals. I have only been to one funeral where the person was cremated. And it was just weird. During the entire thing all I could think about was that my friend of 8 years, Dave, was now a pile of ashes in a piece of ceramic cook wear of sorts.

His mother told me a few months later that she was still greaving. and that she wishes that she could have seen his face one more time after he died. That was 3 years ago and the last time I checked she was still greiving.

Personally i think that cremation deprives a persons family of saying their last good bye.

just my personal opinion. not that it matter so anyone but me.

Dirk

 

[theatreboi]

yes... buried corpses also run the risk of being humped by necrophiliacs... don't laugh. It's true.

hmm...maybe at the end of the party, i'll get cremated as part of a huge bonfire where everyone dances around and eats marshmallows.

 

[botboy03]

I want to be cremated and scattered in my favorite places. I would rather go back to the earth. As some others said, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.