Preferred burial method

[prolesunited]

Poll question: Preferred burial method

I hate open caskets and find embalming repulsive.

I had thought about cremation and having my ashes scattered, but then I learned how environmentally unfriendly cremation is so now I'm leaning toward a green burial. I don't know if they have any places like that near here but I know they do in California. I want to become a tree.




So, what's your choice?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Cremation, with ashes blown in the face of a select list n/t

I want the people on this list to cry when I pass away, and this is the only way it's going to happen.

[lizziegrace]

38. Ahem...

not so. :hug:

[Xipe Totec]

45. Awww....

Thanks for the :hug:!

:loveya:

[XemaSab]

2. Stick me in a pine box

and plant me.

No embalming. :P

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Taxidermy.

Stuffed and mounted on a rocking chair on my front porch. Whoever inherits the house gets me.

[prolesunited]

5. That's an interesting choice

Although I realize you're joking, will they really do that to people? Is it legal?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. No, it's actually not legal.

If it were, though, I bet there'd be a lot of stuffed people sitting around here and there.

[frogcycle]

85. maybe you could do a deal with Madame Tussaud's

they could taxiderm you (what the hell is the verb for taxidermy?) but then make it look like you were a wax figure and everyone would be fooled - until maybe some kid jabbed a pencil in you and found stuffing instead of wax...

[cobalt1999]

4. Donate body to science

If they'll have it.

Some med student can get more value out of it than burying it or burning it up. Once I'm dead, I'm dead...who cares what happens to the body.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

31. I've seen these cadavers

before, during and after the med students get ahold of them...

Never, not me, never.

Sorry - I know you are probably doing the right thing but after sitting through many bodies being taken apart... It is, not for my poor dead ass...

I voted for cremation and the jar...

[Merrick]

63. I'd be afraid the med students would make fun of me

or the center would just reject it outright for being too ugly. That would suck.

[mark414]

6. throw me in the woods and let wolves eat me

of course i will probably end up dying in the woods so it will most likely happen anyways

[flvegan]

7. Sell/use my spare parts.

Donate the organs, eyes, etc. Rest of me can go to science/experiments.

[MonkeyFunk]

28. Can I eat your liver?

[flvegan]

42. Since you asked twice

No.

[MonkeyFunk]

29. Can I eat your liver?

[Redstone]

9. "Please don't bury me down in that cold, cold ground

I'd ruther have 'em cut me up and spread me all around,
Throw my brain in a hurricane, and the blind can have my eyes,
And the deaf can have both of my ears, if they don't mind the size."

(Thank you, John Prine, especially for the part about "give my knees to the needy.")

Redstone

[NightWatcher]

10. I like the idea of simply tossing my dead body into a hole

mark my spot with a wooden marker. By the time the wood rots away, no one will remember me anyway.

I'd like to do the traditional Native American "walk off into the woods" as I feel death approaching. I love the idea of walking off into the distance never to be seen from again. After walking to the point of exhaustion, I would sit down and then pass away.

[txwhitedove]

11. Cremation, with my ashes turned into a diamond for my kids.

[Perseid]

12. My brother was cremated a couple of weeks ago

He was in a friggin' cardboard box that they opened up to show me that he was being burned up with the stuff I wanted him to, and made a point out of saying they had treated him with "respect".

It's one way to go without having the rest of the family have to see a dead person.

[Mojorabbit]

86. My condolences

on your brother's passing.

[AlCzervik]

13. cremated and i don't what happens to my ashes because i'll be dead.

no burial---no way.

[Catshrink]

14. I didn't used to care ...

but my Mom and Dad died. We had the memorial service two weeks ago and it was the first time I went to their grave. The thought of being with them forever is somehow comforting. I miss them both so much.

[swag]

15. Eat my liver with fava beans and a nice chianti.

The rest can go in my neighbor's yard debris can.

[NoPasaran]

16. Viking funeral for me, please

[EstimatedProphet]

32. Me too

Put me in a boat, kick it out in the river, and shoot flaming arrows at it.

[Tyler Durden]

93. You forgot the gasoline.

Someone has seen "EULOGY." GREAT film.

[Ikonoklast]

17. Come back as a Zombie

Then I'll run for office on the GOP ticket.


Braaaaaaiinsssss!

[Catshrink]

18. Sorry to say, you wouldn't be the first:

[oregonjen]

19. Body Worlds exhibit just came to town

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

According to the Oregonian, one woman was so impressed with the exhibit, that she filled out an application to donate her body when she goes.

[skyblue]

23. Body Worlds!! Coooooooool!!!!

[fortyfeetunder]

73. It was cool.

Very nice displays of human anatomy. Sorry I didn't get to see it a second time!

[Jamastiene]

20. Cremated, ashes scattered.

I'd like to at least feel free in death even if life has felt like one huge oppression. I guess it's romantic in a morbid way. Still, that's what I want. I want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in several of my most favorite places in life; places that made me feel the freest and the most spiritual. Town Creek Indian Mound, Morrow Mountain, and Highway 1 North in the northern part of Raleigh.

I have always wanted to go on a road trip and finally see what is north of Raleigh on Highway 1. Every road trip I have traveled in my life with other people has involved Highway 220 and going through Shenandoah to go north. Shenandoah has always been beautiful; don't get me wrong. I have always wanted to take Highway 1 as far as it goes just because no one seems to want to take that route when I'm going. It's almost like some force has always kept me from going there. Simple child psychology and my nature say, dammit, I MUST go or else die trying. So far, it seems that I have been dying trying.

[Silver Swan]

21. Green for me, but nothing fancy...

I'd like to be wrapped in a sheet and buried in the woods so I can rot away in the ground.

I don't want to be embalmed, entombed, etc.

I definitely do not want to be cremated.

[hedgehog]

22. The last thing I want to do is be turned into toxic waste!

[TK421]

24. Cremation, but I'm not so sure what would come after that

there seems to be a few options listed on that poll that I've never considered, but one thing is for certain...I don't want no damn viewing! Those things are just morbid and depressing.

Any viewing I've been to is depressing, and I would prefer to remember the person as they used to be, not laying in some box with their mouth glued open..ugghh..gotta stop

[prolesunited]

26. That has to be the worst

I was raised Catholic, so it's always open casket. I refused to go to funerals for the longest time because of it.

I agree with you about picturing people how they were alive. I wouldn't go anywhere near my mom's casket. My family knows how I feel, so there was not issue made.

My grandma had a daughter that died at 11 and she had PICTURES of her in the casket. I remember being so creeped out as a kid when she would bring those out.

And then all those people saying the body "looks good" or "at peace." No, they look gross and dead. YUCK! And don't even get me started about embalming.

[TK421]

27. Yeah, that's exactly what I mean...it's all morbid, and you should remember

the person as they were...full of life, laughing, crying....all of their emotions, but not motionless in a box with a phony smile on their face :scared:

[NNadir]

25. Excarnation for me.

I want to be eaten by rats at the top of a landfill.

Failing that, I'd like to be one of those skeletons in the corner in some seventh grade class room.

[MonkeyFunk]

30. It's in my will...

I'm gonna be cremated and my ashes spread over Jake Gyllenhaal.

[prolesunited]

50. And how does Jake feel about this?

That would be disturbing to have a drive-by ashing.

[LostInAnomie]

33. I don't have to worry about it. I plan on being raptured.

Sorry for your luck, losers!!!!

[Phillycat]

34. I'm donating the whole thing.

Organs, body, the whole shebang. I don't need it for anything. :shrug:

[yellowdogintexas]

35. Cremation, not sure about after. I think I will leave ash disposal up to my daughter

she can have a diamond made from part of it and put the rest in the coral reef restoration, for example. Or put them with my parents in Kentucky, or next to my grandfather, or in Mammoth Cave up to her.

I would of course want my organs donated, etc if at all possible first, I am a card carrying organ donor.

I wish I had known about the diamond thing when my uncle and aunt died. I would have had a portion of each of their ashes separated for me and had them combined into a stone that I could wear in their memory. I loved them, they were my second parents. I have her engagement ring so that is pretty neat, but the other thing would have been way cool Alas the boxes were long sealed before I even knew such a thing existed.

[Burma Jones]

36. Embalm me with Hash Oil, set me in the corner and light me up

is what I used to say when I was 18.

Now, I want to be entombed with thousands of slaves.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

37. I had to choose "other" because I'm gonna live

FOREVER

:silly:

[Chovexani]

68. Who wants to live forever?

[lizziegrace]

39. Cremation

with my ashes kept or buried or scattered wherever Lelapin chooses.

[guitar man]

40. I'd like to go

on a pyre. I don't know if that is legal though...

[FloridaJudy]

41. Sky Burial

I'd like to imagine the vultures licking their beaks and remarking "My! That one was delicious!"

Make something happy on your way out.

[Fleshdancer]

43. I want to be cremated and have my ashes shot into space

I want to become a star. :)

on edit: AFTER any usable organs or other parts have been donated

[wicket]

44. I'm with you - green burial

n/t

[momto3]

46. I'd like to be donated to a med school class.

They could use me in the gross anatomy class (what will I care - I'll be dead) and then cremated. I would like to have my ashes scattered over the ocean.

[Sweet Freedom]

47. I can't find a link for it

but last year I heard on the news that in Europe they are using a freezing technique for corpses. You are frozen, put on a vibrating table and shaken into pieces; then your "ashes" are used as fertilizer. (anyone know what this is called? :shrug:)

That's how I'd like to be disposed of. Otherwise, I am donating my body to science and will be cremated when they are done with me.

[MrCoffee]

48. Hefty Cinch-Sack out by the curb.

[SoxFan]

49. Fade away, like Yoda

Or Obi-Wan Kenobi. A proper Jedi ending!

[SacredCow]

51. Hefty bag at the curb....

is my first choice. Unfortunately, there are legal ramifications to that.

A burial at sea sounds pretty cool, but I don't think just anybody can do that. The next best thing is cremation, with the ashes scattered at sea, which is what I'm opting for.

[bikebloke]

52. Nurturing a new tree

Though I plan on living forever, however if I die first, then I want a tree planted over me. It seems to me as continuing the cycle of life.

I had an uncle who wanted his ashed placed in a mayonnaise jar and set on top of the TV. My cousin wanted half his ashes, but was talked out of it. I think he had a mayonnaise jar waiting.

[AngryAmish]

53. Shove me in a big cannon and shoot me into a swamp

[chaska]

54. The Body Farm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Farm

[redqueen]

55. Just leave me out to feed the animals.

It's nature's way. :)

[jpgray]

56. Send my corpse to somebody I don't like

[Rising Phoenix]

57. I would love to be turned into a diamond

expensive but thats my choice

[hyphenate]

58. Ashes

scattered over the Atlantic Ocean, preferably from an isolated cliff somewhere. I can;t stand the idea of burial--I have a major hatred (and fear) of bugs, and even though death is death, the thought of sustenance for the things I hate most is just too much.

[Merrick]

59. Donated to starving cannibals

because no cannibal child should go hungry.

[TrogL]

60. Quartered, remains sent to 4 corners of earth

[ellisonz]

61. Cryopreservation

Like Ted Williams...

[prolesunited]

72. Or how about one of those talking heads in a jar

like in "Futurama"?

[ellisonz]

92. That would require...

...Animation.

[noamnety]

62. Anything but green is selfish

I don't want my last act - after I'm dead, no less - to be consuming the limited resources of the living.

[DemExpat]

64. Freeze-dried, pulverized and used as mulch like in Sweden.

Sounds the most interesting to me at this time.
Second choice is a green burial.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/28/wfreez28.xml

DemEx

[Taverner]

65. Pump me full of chemicals and let me pickle with dignity

:D

[SteppingRazor]

66. I don't intend to die.

More specifically, I intend to mysteriously disappear, with no body ever found. You know, a Bermuda triangle sort of thing.

[Sugar Smack]

67. Oh, surprise me.

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[Cabcere]

69. I kind of want to be turned into a firework display.

You know, like have my ashes incorporated into some pyrotechnics, so that my "last message" can spell out "Peace" or something cool like that. :shrug: I don't know if that's even possible (and my friends say it's "gross"), but I think that would be what I would prefer.

[Boojatta]

70. What about feeding the body to sharks?

[Kali]

71. I would like to have a home death and body prep by loved ones

I don't think they would do it, although I would for any that wanted the same. I birthed my sons at home and was with my Grampa here at home too. I no longer have a fear of dead bodies. Of course as a kid I did, and my first few funerals were awful, so I wouldn't even mind an open homemade quickly degradable "casket" of some sort, but no make up. I would be dead. We are so afraid of death in this culture that we have to make our dead look like clowns. Not for me.

If there were some usable parts, of course those should be taken, and I don't object to being used for training either, really. I think it will be up to my survivors to decide what they are comfortable with.

[Richard Steele]

74. Ain't telling.

You'll know it when it happens. :evilgrin:

[NV Whino]

75. One of the few things my mother and I agreed on was cremation

She wanted to be scattered at sea. Okay, did that.

I decided I wanted to be more useful, not to mention I'm not really comfortable on/in water. So I asked to be scattered in the rose garden at the crematorium. Suckers charged me an extra $400 or so for that.

[noamnety]

94. Being cremated isn't really useful.

It burns fossil fuels and contributes to global warming. Green burial returns you to the earth without taking more out than you are putting in.

Green burial site:

[prole_for_peace]

76. just throw me on the compost pile in backyard.

since that isn't legal i guess cremation and don't care about ash disposal

i am really interested in swedish freeze dry thing. hope it comes here.

[Critters2]

77. Just throw me in a hole!

What the fuck do I care?!!

Critters
waffling between pissed off and depressed

[Perseid]

78. my brother just died

I have his ashes in a biodegradable container right here.

He wanted to go up to the top of his favorite mountain, and I'm damn well going to see that he does when the weather is ok for it.

[prolesunited]

82. Sorry for your loss

I hope your journey helps bring closure and healing for you.

[GoneOffShore]

79. Like the 'Green' idea but the ashes want to go to France.

[LeftyMom]

80. donate whatever's good, after that I don't care.

I'll be dead, you see.

[Book Lover]

81. Other: family mausoleum

Some traditions are worth keeping.

[frogcycle]

83. Woodchipper

I would love to be compost

mix in some oak branches, some hedge clippings, a few pine tree trimmings, and spread me in the woods

[Colorado Progressive]

84. ashes scattered. why waste land on cemetary plots? nt

[Inchworm]

87. Dead

After that I really dont care much :)

:hi:

[Drum]

88. At sea, please.

Simple, whole, right over the side.

[MilesColtrane]

89. Because the undead never die...

...snorted by Keith Richards.

[DarkTirade]

90. I want the whole world to mourn the passing of their god-king

and to build a pyramid to honor him...

and I'd hope one or two people show up at my funeral too. :)

[pokerfan]

91. Shot into a black hole

Or the sun, if a black hole isn't available.