What is your preferred means of disposal for human corpses?

[puppetmaster]

hey Sphinx

I prefer cremation, so that my remains could be scattered into the Ocean or a Green Brazilian Forest.

 

[dewaddict84]

Well, my uncle is a pig farmer, so that works pretty well. There's a little bit of travel involved and you've got to be sure to remove the teeth, as those won't digest and the cops will match dental records.

... oh! That kind of corpse disposal! Whoopse-doo. Never mind that.

I dunno, I'm a fan of recycling. Other then that, donating the ol' meatsack to science and education is a good second. And as others have mentioned, plasticization counts as educational. Creepy as all get out, but very insightful. Before that exhibit I had never really groked what the diaphragm was.

I don't really care what happens to it all after I'm gone. All the ritual and whatnot is for the living. Some people need it, my kids won't. (I'll be lucky if they don't take me out back like old yeller)

 

[Mobiosity]

This is a nice idea for those who want green. Check out their web site.

EcoEternity Forest - a new alternative to traditional cemeteries

 

[SithDoughnut]

I want to be turned into a diamond. Apparently it can be done, and it sounds like a fun idea.

 

[Fenny the Fox]

I want to be turned into a diamond. Apparently it can be done, and it sounds like a fun idea.

Whoa, cool. Though, it kinda puts new meaning to the term "blood diamond"...

 

[Eudaimonist]

There's only one sure way to dispose of dead bodies. Matter-antimatter annihilation.

Cremation is fine as a second best alternative, though.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[daniel777]

we could use them to feed the jabberwocky, might have spring before never again.

 

[Chris81]

mummified and placed in a large tomb! I want lots of gold and nasty booby-traps to ward off tomb raiders.

 

[dewaddict84]

mummified and placed in a large tomb! I want lots of gold and nasty booby-traps to ward off tomb raiders.

No good. Given eternity, poor people will figure out your traps and grab your gold. Don't underestimate the time-rich and cash-poor. The pharohs with the pyramids didn't even last a few of generations. And most of the buried ones were robbed by their own guards. So far* there's just been ol' king Tut who made past antiquity.

I suggest you invest the gold in a trust-fund and get encased in a trap-themed amusement ride where kids duck and dodge through nerf traps to get to the big prize of seeing a real mummy. That way, the trust will have some income and will be able to sustain your tomb.

*they say about 2/3rds of Egypt's historical treasures are still buried under the sands.

 

[Chris81]

No good. Given eternity, poor people will figure out your traps and grab your gold. Don't underestimate the time-rich and cash-poor. The pharohs with the pyramids didn't even last a few of generations. And most of the buried ones were robbed by their own guards. So far* there's just been ol' king Tut who made past antiquity.

I suggest you invest the gold in a trust-fund and get encased in a trap-themed amusement ride where kids duck and dodge through nerf traps to get to the big prize of seeing a real mummy. That way, the trust will have some income and will be able to sustain your tomb.

*they say about 2/3rds of Egypt's historical treasures are still buried under the sands.

Darn-it your right, someone will likely find away into my tomb and steel my precious gold. Maybe I can hide my tomb somewhere really hidden, as you said many ancient Egyptian treasures are still hidden in the sands of Egypt. The tourist trap idea is not a bad Idea either. I hate the idea of people looking at my body as some side show attraction but it would be better to be in my own tomb than some crappy museum.

 

[kiwimac]

Have rocket motors attached to my cold, dead body and be launched into outer space.

 

[Chris81]

Have rocket motors attached to my cold, dead body and be launched into outer space.

Maybe you could launch my tomb into outer space with one of your rockets!

 

[halloween]

My preference is Cremation; to scatter the remains wherever the individual wanted.

 

[Sphinx777]

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[Rebekka]

That's in the crypt of the capucin church Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome, right? I visited it years ago. Was quite beautiful and not at all creepy.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Cryonic Suspension

 

[keith99]

If medical science can't use my remains, and if nothing useful can be done with them (e.g. dog food) then let them be burned and the ashes scattered.

Unless I die fighting defending something like Helm's gate, in which case burial in a mound the other defenders seems right, I'll go with your choice, with one little modification. If there is no other use, then ground up and used to fertilize the rose garden. (Davis clan influence).

 

[DontTreadOnMike]

Viking funeral. And I'm not just talking about a funeral pyre. I want my belongings and servants burned with me on a ship.

Either that or donation to science.

 

[Chris81]

 

[Chris81]

I would like my tomb built in undisclosed location on the moon. It is unlikely that anyone will be searching the lunar landscape for the tomb of some long dead earthling. My mummified body should be safe in a tomb filled with all my golden treasure hidden deep within the Moon.