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Burial or Cremation
- Thread starter MAJOR METAL
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If donating my body/organs to science means saving 1 life or getting closer to curing anything then they can have it. At this point (pushing up daisies), I'll have no further use for it.
My senior English teacher had a great plan. She wants to be cremated, then have her ashes spread over a field where dairy cows roam. Then after the cows ate the grass her ashes landed on, she would become milk. Then she would get back into school children. Her reasoning: "I want to stay in the system as long as possible" 
Me? Burial. Plain and simple.
Me? Burial. Plain and simple.
stubi19 said:My senior English teacher had a great plan. She wants to be cremated, then have her ashes spread over a field where dairy cows roam. Then after the cows ate the grass her ashes landed on, she would become milk. Then she would get back into school children. Her reasoning: "I want to stay in the system as long as possible"
Me? Burial. Plain and simple.
Wow i have never heard anything quit like that before.
which is your choice ? any particular reason ?MAJOR METAL said:
{ i guess my choice is cremation , but i'll need to discuss it with my wife ...}
both of my parents have already chosen cremation , i'll honor their wishes .
Viking burial at sea, and there will be no funeral, no eulogy. Wake. I want people absolutely blotto. Hell, I want bands. A "Brendan's Dead" festival, with thousands of people who never knew me pretending to give a crap while rocking out to some decent bands while drunk.
That's how I want to be remembered. "Man, for a dead guy, he throws a hell of a shin-dig." I want people cracking jokes at my expense.
Possibly save my skull, and give it to one of my friends to mount on their wall. "Nice skull. Almost looks real." "It is." "*shudder*."
If you think this all sounds cheeky, disrespectful, or outright stupid, just remember: so is our all consuming fear of death. I hold no truck with such frippery.
That's how I want to be remembered. "Man, for a dead guy, he throws a hell of a shin-dig." I want people cracking jokes at my expense.
Possibly save my skull, and give it to one of my friends to mount on their wall. "Nice skull. Almost looks real." "It is." "*shudder*."
If you think this all sounds cheeky, disrespectful, or outright stupid, just remember: so is our all consuming fear of death. I hold no truck with such frippery.
My preference is cremation- much less expensive, and my ashes are to be spread in the Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf, and over the Rockies. I've already made my plans known to my family, they will do it. I also specified no formal funeral, have a party, play a bunch of my favorite music, and remember me as I was, not as a dead person. I want my passing to have as little a monetary impact on my family as possible. Funerals are for the living, the dead don't care! 
I wouldn't mind cremation because it won't matter to my husk. However, I recently had a friend who's mom died after a long struggle with breast cancer. She was cremated per her wishes and it seemed to bother some of the friends and family for some reason. I guess I'll talk to my family and be cremated as long as it doesn't bother them in a big way. I don't think it would. Maybe I should have one of them put my ashes in a coffee can from Ralph's. That wouldn't work out though really since we don't have a Ralph's here.
brad cook
brad cook
The most ecologically sane option available - whichever that is - will be the one I choose, if given the chance to do so.
i don't really care yet what they do with me after i'm dead...it's not like i am going to know...
I want to be encased in concrete and then shot out of a cannon over the Pacific Ocean. Or, over the Snake River in Idaho. Well, why not, Evel Knievel couldn't make it so why shouldn't I have a shot at it?
stubi19 said:My senior English teacher had a great plan. She wants to be cremated, then have her ashes spread over a field where dairy cows roam. Then after the cows ate the grass her ashes landed on, she would become milk. Then she would get back into school children. Her reasoning: "I want to stay in the system as long as possible"
That's really, really creepy.
My father chose cremation, and my mother is leaning that way too.
I haven't decided yet. My wife and I have talked about it.
I haven't decided yet. My wife and I have talked about it.
I Want to be blown up with dynamite or some such explosive, maybe with fireworks giong off. That way all my friends can get a good show instead of a big downer ceremony. I'll take Woo Hoo over Boo Hoo any day (hopefully not too soon, though).
Cremation. My parents are the same way, well at least my dad wants to be cremated.
My uncle wants to be buried at sea because he is a fire fighter. Not sure how the logistics of that operation are going to work though. All I can picture is about five of his redneck buddies sneaking off with his body and then going a few miles off shore and dumping it with a weight of some sort.
My uncle wants to be buried at sea because he is a fire fighter. Not sure how the logistics of that operation are going to work though. All I can picture is about five of his redneck buddies sneaking off with his body and then going a few miles off shore and dumping it with a weight of some sort.
