So you're dead... now what?

[GL]

I wanted to be fed to sharks but as I've been told by my family "No Way!" I will opt for cremation.

 

[RationalLunacy]

"The secret's in the sauce."

 

[Green_Man_007]

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?

Jeeeez --- and ppl thought *i* was morbid for planning my last will and testament.

(Fact is, it's just responsible, since it saves your survivors the chore of dividing up your stuff, and you never know when some piano's gonna crash on your head or some psycho's gonna open fire at the mall food court.)

Ppl also called me morbid for my list of "Things to Do Before I Die," which I published online. http://greenconner.tripod.com/random/index.blog?topic_id=28918

As to provisions for the disposal of my corpse, I'm stipulating cremation, because it's less costly, and my remains must be divided out for placement at my father's cemetery, my mother's cemetery, and my home coven.

Plus, cremation of the physical shell helps the astral shell disintegrate more efficiently, and enables the soul to cross over with greater ease (unless I choose to hang back and spook around a little.)

 

[FirePhoenix]

I told my family to just put me in a box and shove me in the ground. I might change my mind later though... not sure.

 

[metta]

If I die young, and still have my body, I'd like to be preserved in that plastination technique, and displayed. If I live to be old, cremate me. Do what you want with the ashes.

Some of the older bodies were fascinating as well. For example, they slice the body in half and you could see where they put the pacemaker and pins in the hip, etc.

I saw one older man that was way over weight as well. Also interesting.

 

[metta]

 

[eddielee]

I'm going to be buried. I already have a grave in the local cemetary. It's a nice place near a pine forest.

 

[twardmo]

cremated, i figure i'm going to hell anyway may as well burn the body too

 

[Aussieguy01]

cremation all the way for me, i dont like th idea of my body being under metres of dirt in a small box , and beside i dont want little bugs and maggots to eat through my coffin or my body , at least with cremation i can be put into a special place and remembered better , as opposed to being a decomposed maggot eaten skeleton

 

[-live-]

id go with burial!

 

[irish1]

On my donor card, I have will all my organs to be used by others, if they are still viable. Since I will no longer need them, I hope that, even in death, I am able to help someone else.

One caveat: that the recipents NOT be charged for the organ transplant surgery (there are doctors who do this surgery free-of-charge).

The rest is to be cremated, and scattered on the ocean.

Dust to dust.

 

[bedbugy]

first time that i went to indea bombay from the airport to the hotel i saw alot of bodies in the gutter i said to the taxi driver who are them in gutter oh they pick them up at daylight and put on train to varanasie there dead and want to be burned and put in the ganges how do you know there dead i said they don't talk any more made me think ok your dead

 

[Alan]

Probably cremation for me!

But, saying that, I was talking to a friend of mine about this very subject just the other day. A relative of their's had donated their body for medical research.

It got me thinking that it was quite a cheap ending - no funeral costs - and it might just do some good.

I'm still thinking about it.

 

[buzzj]

I went with cremation--- but, I have to admit, I'm surprised to see that I'm in the majority! I have no objection to scattering, but my choice will be to have the ashes interred in the columbarium at my church.

 

[dpnice]

When my grandmother died she was cremated. At the death of my older brother my father had his ashes interred next to hers and proudly told me that he had bought two more plots, one for him and one for me.

It was weird but slightly comforting knowing that there was a little corner of this earth just waiting for me to arrive and settle down for eternity.

I then found out he had given my plot to the women who was looking after him. That was one of the first major disappointments in my young life.

Since then I have taken control of my destiny apart from what I would like for the final episode. Something that I really must think about and put down on paper.

 

[dolphwasser]

I want to be stuffed and mounted.

That's so nice of you to be thinking of some poor, gay necro after you're dead!

Oh, I'm sorry.

That would have been 'mounted and stuffed'.

 

[cynicus]

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.

I'm with you. Don't want no extra parts of me kicking around. Here is a poem I copied out years ago.

Barbara Brown

To the Embalmer

Do not tug my juices from me
when they have ceased to flow
when my backside is sad violet
when my jaw has let go
to give me that eternal look
of open-mouthed astonishment.
Leave me full and fetid:
let the heart keep its black blood
its timeworn fuel
and the belly its cold stew.
Draw shut the lids
align the toes
give the hands to one another
and show me the fire.
I want to go up in hot colors like
Christmas wrapping.

 

[TriBi]

Cremate - and scatter me in the ocean.

(Gotta feed the fish!)

 

[GayBoyKellyCfan]

Doesn't matter to me really.

I just hope people throw a party, throw on a little, "Celebration" and have a good time. I would hate to know that people were sad...when one life ends, another begins.

 

[shortguy]

I want to rot somewhere odd.. be one of those 'bones discovered in the forest' types.

After doing the body hanging in a tree for 3 months routine. It's awesome how the faces melt.

reminds me of cheese..