How would you like to be buried?

[Riot Riot Riot]

I don't even want a funeral. I would rather my family just take the time and money and spend it on something else. Just toss my body in the woods and then head to Disneyland!

Congratulations, ma'am! You're husband is dead. What are you going to do with the insurance money?

"WE'RE GOING TO DISNEYLAND!"

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

 

[Satt]

I want to be tied to a raft, have fire-oil poured all over me, and set out to sea at sunset. When I get almost out of bowshot, I want flaming arrows to be vollied at me until I am set ablaze. The mourners can watch be drift into the sunset on fire. (unless the idiots miss and I just drift out to sea until I sink at some point)

 

[Trashionista]

Please reconsider a wake. It isn't for you, it is for the survivors. I skipped my mother's funeral - I was young, wanted to remember her alive, etc. - I had lots of trouble dealing with her death, Dad died, short (3 or 4 hours) wake and much easier time dealing with his death. The chance to see the body, if possible, makes it much easier to accept the death of a loved one. Honestly.

Well, it's my body, and my choice. With all due respect, if I would prefer a reception in my honour - with pictures of my at my best, my handbags and shoe collection displayed, and my body in an urn or underground - that is my choice. I find it macabre to just be on display like again, some sort of Madame Tussaud's wax figure, but that is my choice. If I would prefer to be remembered at my best - physically - that is again, my choice.

For all you know, I could have valid reasons for why I want a reception/celebration/Kielbalsa-and-Boursin event at home, as opposed to some morbid, macabre wake. (And I've been to both - with most of my family members' who've passed having a wake, and my surrogate aunt's father having a reception. I much preferred going to the reception, and from what I could see, the family preferred to mourn in private without every Tom, Dick and Harry staring at the body.)

And as far as I'm concerned, the reason for a living will is partly, to make sure the funeral arrangements are held in the manner or fashion with which the dead person wanted them handled. And if I'd like a reception, that is my choice to make.

 

[CrusaderKing]

I'd rather have a party at my funeral. Get the barbecue pits going and get some kegs of beer. I want my life celebrated and not mourned.

 

[Trashionista]

When it comes to burial, unless it's at Pere Lachaise in Paris, it's all or nothing.

 

[MacFall]

I'm with Trashionista, but I'll add that I would not want to have a wake not for my own sake (I'll be dead) but for my survivors. If they think that the morbid and pagan practice of a wake/corpse viewing is good for them, then I think I know a little better than they do.

 

[DragonFox91]

These days most people are cremated. I voted burial. I think that's the Christian thing to do.

My parents bought a plot for themselves next to my aunt & uncle in another town. My cousin's to be buried there too. They didn't get a plot for me there because they said if I get married someday, I'd be burried w/ her wherever that is. Sounded silly to me b/c I've never even dated.

I think I'll just get buried in my hometown. I've lived here my whole life. Seems fitting.

 

[.Mikha'el.]

I'm torn between burial and cremation. My family has typically gone for the latter, but opting for the former allows for an autopsy in the future if that ever proved necessary for any reason. It's not possible to do an autopsy on a pile of ashes.

 

[sampa]

Full military honors with a casket. Cemetery possibly next to my parents, but if I marry next to my spouse. There's something about a military funeral that's unlike any other.

 

[angelsaroundme]

I would prefer to be buried but I'm not too concerned one way or another.

 

[Sunshinee777]

What is biblical way? Because im not sure... I would think cremation and sprinkle my ashes in the sea would be my style. But you never know what happens. We can’t decide how we die so im not into planning anything like this. But if it is possible then it would be nice to end up in the sea... well my ashes lol

 

[public hermit]

I'm thinking cremation. It's easier on everyone else. That being said, I think it helps to have a space as a memorial for a generation or two. Part of the healing process for lots of folks is having that space where something of that person is located.

Personally, I wouldn't mind passing over in the woods and becoming part of the process. Like an old dog, I'm just going wander into the woods one day.

 

[peaceful-forest]

I would prefer to be buried. I don't like the idea of my body being burned (even though I wouldn't feel it) and I would be worried about what exactly would be done with my body "in the name of science".

 

[DragonFox91]

I would prefer to be buried. I don't like the idea of my body being burned (even though I wouldn't feel it) and I would be worried about what exactly would be done with my body "in the name of science".

Interesting. I never looked at it that way before. "Science" sounds good on paper, but, yeah, a lot of bad things have been done & will be continued to be done "for science."

I think you can donate only selected organs tho. Maybe that'd be a little better? You'd still have the whole rest of the body tho to bury or cremate so doesn't solve that problem.

These days they'd probably put the organ in a robot or something & call it a new human. Who knows. "Science" is messed up. Doesn't automatically mean it's going to cancer research or some other noble cause.

 

[timewerx]

I would prefer to be buried. I don't like the idea of my body being burned (even though I wouldn't feel it) and I would be worried about what exactly would be done with my body "in the name of science".

I'm not sure if this is a Christian myth or other cultural belief - cremating a body and scattering the ashes in the sea makes it difficult or outright impossible for a soul to gather all their remains and resurrect. This burial practice is typically done as punishment against criminals and generally anyone seen as evil or practicing evil.

This myth maybe related to the Bible verses where the dead are resurrected from their lifeless remains and their remains/bones are altogether in one place. To prevent their resurrection, they are cremated and their ashes scattered in the sea.

 

[peaceful-forest]

I'm not sure if this is a Christian myth or other cultural belief - cremating a body and scattering the ashes in the sea makes it difficult or outright impossible for a soul to gather all their remains and resurrect. This burial practice is typically done as punishment against criminals and generally anyone seen as evil or practicing evil.

This myth maybe related to the Bible verses where the dead are resurrected from their lifeless remains and their remains/bones are altogether in one place. To prevent their resurrection, they are cremated and their ashes scattered in the sea.

That is definitely a myth. Nothing is impossible for God - He can always get the body back together and resurrect a person.

 

[Andrew.H]

Just a brief video on the topic from an EO perspective.

 

[MehGuy]

Cremation. The idea of my body slowly rotting in a casket doesn't sit right with me. My grandfather felt and my father feel the same way. Almost a tradition, lol.

 

[RileyG]

Burial. No embalming. Just let me decompose naturally in my casket, please!

 

[RileyG]

Cremation. The idea of my body slowly rotting in a casket doesn't sit right with me. My grandfather felt and my father feel the same way. Almost a tradition, lol.

Not so fun fact. They've exhumed bodies that were embalmed decades later and they looked like they just been buried. It really makes you wonder how potent those chemicals are....eeeeek....