Cremated or buried? What do you want?

[DrGonzo]

Obviously I want to be encased in a giant bronze statue of myself stepping on top of weak children while holding an oversized chainsaw in one hand and a 40 of Old E in the other.


Serious response; I've discussed this with family and put it in paper. I just want a natural burial. No embalming fluid, just the body in a particle board coffin with burlap to suspend the body. I want a tree sapling of their choice planted over my coffin, and if they want, add a small engraved brass plaque as the memory-marker/headstone alternative to the base of the tree. Plot is purchased, arrangements are made. They also have my permission to donate my cadaver to students as an alternative.

What matters to me is following the example of economical and ecologically minded persons who have done this in the past, and to further serve as an example to my family to hopefully take a more environmental position on their death. Funeral services in this country are beyond corrupt, pray on the emotions of the grieving to up sell worthless things which winds up further burdening them. Including exploiting the faith of the family by bullshitting people into doing "proper burials" that have nothing to do with their respective religion. I can't stand it, and hope all of you who haven't been open to natural burials to rethink it.

I didn't even know you could do this. I assumed there were some regulations about preserving/encasing to prevent disease or something. And that's why I was favoring cremation. But if it's possible to just turn my body back into dirt/tree food I'm all for it.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

A lot of people prefer the proper burial for religious reasons, obviously, but I also think people want to have that gravestone where family members and loved ones can visit when they miss them. From my personal experience, it is nice to visit and decorate their gravestone but if your family doesn't live in the same area it can make it more difficult to visit. Then you almost feel like you have to go every few months just to make sure the Gravestone is being treated for, picking weeds, putting new flowers around it etc. I'd much rather have a tree planted in my honor with a plaque as another poster mentioned.

 

[Monster]

I didn't even know you could do this. I assumed there were some regulations about preserving/encasing to prevent disease or something. And that's why I was favoring cremation. But if it's possible to just turn my body back into dirt/tree food I'm all for it.

Depends where you are... I believe Illinois for instance requires a vault.
I suppose that depends on the cemetery... I also suppose doing it on private land is an all together different red tape nightmare.
I'm also fairly sure there are laws on scattering ashes... but who's going to know or care enough to fine? Unless you run out and do it on Soldier Fields 50 yard line...

Shame how complicated they've made dying.

 

[winos5]

My mom was cremated. My dad sent some of her ashes to a company that turns it into a diamond and had a pendant made which he gave to my sister. He gave small vials to each relative that wanted one. The remainder he sprinkled in her flower garden. I've got 5 vials of ashes at home and have no idea what to do with them. Next time I go deep sea fishing I think I'm going to sprinkle them into the deep blue sea.

For me, I'd like to donate my body to science or cremation. However, if I go before my wife she wants me to have a grave she can visit so I will get standard casket/burial. If she goes first she gets cremated and I get one of my preferences. Either way once I'm gone I won't have much to say about it or care.

 

[gpphat]

I always found it honorable to be cremated. I just think laying in a ground literally rotting is sad, with whatever you shared in your life.

But to be scattered at places that meant something to you in your life. People can remember you and know in a small piece, you'll always be apart of that and they can remember you in a spot.


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Sorry but this is the dumbest logic...whether your insignificant ashes are spread over some spot that has meaning to your life that isn't going to make some difference for someone to remember you. They aren't going to look down and think to themselves, "hey that grain of sand may be despedo, I remember him rambling about the boss here". Laying in a coffin rotting in the ground is sad, but having your ashes washed away in a thunderstorm is honorable? I get wanting to be cremated for cost reasons, that makes sense, but the bullshit of some higher reason that people will think "you'll always be apart of that [spot]" is just dumb.

Whether I'm dead and rotting in a box in the ground or burned to ashes, if one of my friends goes to one of my favorite spots they aren't going to be thinking of me there because my ashes were spread in that spot. They are going to think of me because they know that was one of my favorite spots.

 

[Ares]

I wonder how many meatballs would have their ashes spread on Soldier Field if it was allowed.... the place would be like 5 feet high in dead Bear fan ashes..... and ironically the field would probably be better for it.

 

[Monster]

Would be worse in Green Bay. They would do it with the family sheep and goats.
That and their sheer size alone creates more ash per person... the only good thing would be the lack of teeth in the ashes.

 

[Bigfoot]

Government is covering my costs, so I could care less what the wife wants to do with my body. Throw it to a pit of gators for all I care.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

Government is covering my costs, so I could care less what the wife wants to do with my body. Throw it to a pit of gators for all I care.

I don't know why but I always thought The Bigfoots had a sacred secret burial ground like the elephants do.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Cremate me. I want to see the reactions when I emerge from the fire alive and unburnt.

 

[Ares]

Cremate me. I want to see the reactions when I emerge from the fire alive and unburnt.

Can we do it today, while ur alive then?

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

What is an immoral cure?

 

[Monster]

What is an immoral cure?

Negative Eugenics. :yep:

 

[ClydeLee]

Why not both?

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[Ares]

What is an immoral cure?

When you cure a disease that is actually saving lives and then you force it on people?

Where is Spartan...?

 

[Dogstar]

I guess it will all depend on whether or not my wife/loved ones follow my wishes. If they don't, I'll go out as a symbol of mankind. Pumped full of chemicals, surrounded by 200lbs. of natural resources, and dumped in the ground for thousands of years.

I'm trying to avoid that whole haunting them for the rest of their lives thing though, so I've asked them nicely to donate me to science or stick me in the broiler.

And no services. **** that morbid shit. Throw a party instead. With lots of ice cream, naked people and Weird Al music.

 

[Monk]

What is an immoral cure?

You're not smart enough to understand

 

[LordKOTL]

Cremated. I've always wondered why we don't do something more economical and better for our planet. Can they just plant a tree in my memory and spread my ashes around it, maybe put my name in the tree? That sounds nice lol

I read somewhere that people being cremated and the remains *not* returning to the environment is hurting the environment more--it's like all of the organic stuff and minerals that are in the human body doesn't get recycled and in instead saved up for sentimental reasons.

Although "ashes sprinkled" partially alleviates the issue since the inorganic minerals does get returned.

Personally, I'd want to be buried, but my coffin filled with peat and thick, silty sediment. I'd love to be fossilized.

 

[BNB]

But seriously though... cremated.

I think I graveyards are a waste of space. jmo, don't go crazy.

 

[ClydeLee]

No donated to science folks here?

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