How do you want to be laid to rest?

[timothyu]

I never liked lying on my back. At least in the old days it appears a more comfortable position was used.

 

[durangodawood]

I've changed my mind. I'd prefer you all build a massive pyramid for me and stick my body in the middle of it, with all my toys.

 

[SaintCody777]

Cremation only makes sense to pagans, Hindus, humanists, and full-blown preterists. They all deny that there will be a visible, real 2nd coming and a real, physical, and a visible ressuruction of the dead.
God can see if your body has been completely burned up or exploded. But, has not God commanded us to take care of our body and have it ready for our ressuruction?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

The bottom of a mass grave would suit me just fine.

 

[Dynadin]

Although it's rather dubious historically, I'd prefer (if resources were available) this:

 

[Occams Barber]

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[Joni Steele]

This was the nearest I could manage at short notice.
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OB

 

[Joni Steele]

Cremated...ashes placed in any cheap container...not picky...carry me out behind my apt. and scatter me in the pond.

 

[Noxot]

I hope others do not find this thread too morbid, but I am curious how other posters feel about their method of being laid to rest? Do you want a traditional burial in a casket or do you prefer cremation? Ashes scattered in the forest? Or something more unique like donating your body to science?

As for me I am one who is very squeamish about death. I abhor the idea of my body decomposing in a dark coffin buried six feet underground. I'd prefer my body cremated as soon as possible. I wouldn't mind burying the cremated remains in the ground with a tombstone on top. That is what my grandfather did. I remember at his funeral being shocked when I saw a little cube instead of a large coffin. I thought they somehow stuff his entire body in that little box. My eyes were wide open when I first saw it and publicly said aloud "how'd they fit him in there?" I was like eight and everyone and the funeral starting erupting in laughter.

Apparently he had the same disgust for the decomposing process as I do. His was is the most appealing for me. My father expressed the same wishes. Although I can respect people who donate their bodies to science, I just cannot stomach the idea for myself. I do not want my loved ones to see my dead body on display either. I want their last memories of me to be as of an animated body, not a lifeless corpse.

I want the cheapest and the one that will not fill my body with chemicals. Preventing the worms and trees from eating my corpse is wrong. Bodies are worthless after the person dies. I hate people's fetishes that makes them spend thousands of dollars on a corpse. How hard is it to dig a hole and put the body in and fill it up!? But funerals are big business now, and human rituals and emotions are easy to prey on. People are so narcissistic that even in their death they're vane. Just my opinion. :/ No offense to anyone. You do you.

 

[Lazarus Short]

I want my body to be stuffed into a body bag and deposited in a chest freezer - it's cheaper than burial.

 

[Resto]

On a pile of Spent Brass.

 

[Nithavela]

I'll take a gold-plated pyramid, please.

 

[Arcangl86]

I've decided a few years ago I want to be buried wrapped in a shroud into a dirt grave. No casket, no vault, no embalming. If it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me.

 

[MyOwnSockPuppet]

I hope others do not find this thread too morbid, but I am curious how other posters feel about their method of being laid to rest? Do you want a traditional burial in a casket or do you prefer cremation? Ashes scattered in the forest? Or something more unique like donating your body to science?

Science probably wouldn't want me - apparently they're not overly picky but the med school at the university where I work prefer their cadavers lightweight and not over tall (I'm 6'3" and heavy) because they're limited on freezer space.
I've carried a donor card with the "help yourself to any bits you want" option ticked, so after I've been picked over I'm not sure I really mind whether I have a quick session at gas mark lots or not before I return to the carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Just as long as I don't finish up like my dad has (jokingly, I hope) asked for - wrapped in newspaper and chucked in the Thames.

 

[lismore]

This>>>>

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Freeze me solid, sharpen my head to point, and drive me into the ground.

 

[keith99]

The bottom of a mass grave would suit me just fine.

When our dog Joey died we had several choices regarding what to do with the remains. We took the least expensive which was having him be part of a mass cremation.

If I were given the choice I'd go with that for myself, cremated with the dogs and cats.

But the state will not allow that.

My second choice would be the Davis clan solution. Grind me up and use me to fertilize the roses. Unfortunately the state will not allow that either.

So I'll just settle for the cheapest. If someone wants to honor me in death spend the savings on decent beer for my college Rugby teams.