Buried or cremated?

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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Be turned into a diamond.
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    Cremated - my ashes scattered out West somewhere. Near an ocean would be nice .
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  • ZiggyStar
    ZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Cremated.....and then when I get put in that little box with my little plaque, I want all my pets' ashes put in there with me. Then when my bf dies, his ashes are going in the same box too.
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  • milarso
    milarso Posts: 1,280
    Claireack wrote:
    At our local cemetary there's a woodland area, think I'd quite like to go in there in a wicker/cardboard coffin.

    I don't think that's legal here in the States. My dad looked into it because he wanted to build his own casket, but he ran into a lot of red tape. Apparently you can build you own, but the funeral home (or mortician) has to approve it. And because they are normally the ones making commissions on selling caskets, they don't approve them (at least in Michigan).
    So dad decided he wants to donate his body to science. I used to think it was creepy and weird, but now, I'm kind of leaning toward that too.
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • Hammerdonkey
    Hammerdonkey Posts: 550
    When you're buried here in the U.S., rest assured that you are definitely dead. Your body is drained of blood, your friends and family get to stand around you for hours during visitation touching your cold, lifeless skin. I would be unconcerned about being buried alive.

    I'm surprised we still have enough real estate to live on with all the billions of people put in the ground. Burial is a waste of space. I say that with a parent in the ground. I would have been better served shoving $8000 up my ass.
  • m0jorisen
    m0jorisen Posts: 516
    im burning either way
    Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse
    Of my innocence... got back my inner sense...
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    id like to be cremated, kept in a empty folgers can, driven to the coast by The Dude and Walter, then set free all over The Dude's beard and-

    SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNIE!
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  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    cremated is what I want.
  • Back_Pedal
    Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    Lit on fire moments before I die.
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  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    I think trash is better burned than thrown into a hole.
  • zenith
    zenith Posts: 3,191
    i have pretty specific, but basic plans for my end day - and ive told my family if any of it is broken, i'll haunt them for the rest of their days ;)

    burial is morbid to me - staying in a box in the ground going all gunky, surrounded by acres of other dead people ... eerrg, it's a huge rip off.
    I want whatever is donatable to go, then to be put in the pine/cardboard box that a regular coffin was packed in - paying for good wood to be burnt is another rip off; then put in the furnace; then i want my ashes planted with a new tree (prob a golden ash or suchlike, and thats not being sarcastic - they look so pretty in autumn loosing their leaves, then they grow back in summer all strong & green - its a cycle, like life.) My family or whoever can visit that tree just as easily as a gravesite, and im betting it'll be a lot less depressing & morbid.
    impatience is a gift ........
  • idlebutterfly
    idlebutterfly Posts: 28
    zenith wrote:
    i have pretty specific, but basic plans for my end day - and ive told my family if any of it is broken, i'll haunt them for the rest of their days ;)

    burial is morbid to me - staying in a box in the ground going all gunky, surrounded by acres of other dead people ... eerrg, it's a huge rip off.
    I want whatever is donatable to go, then to be put in the pine/cardboard box that a regular coffin was packed in - paying for good wood to be burnt is another rip off; then put in the furnace; then i want my ashes planted with a new tree (prob a golden ash or suchlike, and thats not being sarcastic - they look so pretty in autumn loosing their leaves, then they grow back in summer all strong & green - its a cycle, like life.) My family or whoever can visit that tree just as easily as a gravesite, and im betting it'll be a lot less depressing & morbid.


    I like the sound of that plan! :)
    "makes much more sense to live in the present tense"
  • milarso
    milarso Posts: 1,280
    restlesssoul wrote:
    id like to be cremated, kept in a empty folgers can, driven to the coast by The Dude and Walter, then set free all over The Dude's beard and-

    SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNIE!
    +1 (for obvious reasons)
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • philthehip
    philthehip Posts: 2,084
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    Cremated.....and then when I get put in that little box with my little plaque, I want all my pets' ashes put in there with me. Then when my bf dies, his ashes are going in the same box too.

    We are doing that exact same thing with our pets and us. We had 3 scottie dogs, sadly only one left now but we have our babies here with us till we are all ready for the box. Oh what a lovely thread :lol:
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    zenith wrote:
    i have pretty specific, but basic plans for my end day - and ive told my family if any of it is broken, i'll haunt them for the rest of their days ;)

    burial is morbid to me - staying in a box in the ground going all gunky, surrounded by acres of other dead people ... eerrg, it's a huge rip off.
    I want whatever is donatable to go, then to be put in the pine/cardboard box that a regular coffin was packed in - paying for good wood to be burnt is another rip off; then put in the furnace; then i want my ashes planted with a new tree (prob a golden ash or suchlike, and thats not being sarcastic - they look so pretty in autumn loosing their leaves, then they grow back in summer all strong & green - its a cycle, like life.) My family or whoever can visit that tree just as easily as a gravesite, and im betting it'll be a lot less depressing & morbid.
    wow that tree thing is an AWESOME idea...
    on a side note, just make sure you get planted in some sort of forest reserve :shock:
    you don't want to end up being someone's hockey stick or cabinet...
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    cremated!
    ashes tossed out to sea. no embalming, just take my useful organs and burn baby, burn.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


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  • eyedclaar
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    Just let the herd of wolverines that killed me go ahead and eat the corpse.
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    decides2dream wrote:
    cremated!
    ashes tossed out to sea. no embalming, just take my useful organs and burn baby, burn.

    likewise ... although i'd like to add - no fancy coffin and please dump my ashes with my dogs ... :)
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    polaris_x wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    cremated!
    ashes tossed out to sea. no embalming, just take my useful organs and burn baby, burn.

    likewise ... although i'd like to add - no fancy coffin and please dump my ashes with my dogs ... :)



    funny, all us dog owners have similar ideas. i've promised mr. dream to mix up his ashes with all our dogs and kitty before tossing out to sea. as of right now, we already have 2 dogs and a kitty. :( all earlier pets was before the option of individual pet cremation was available.

    and you bet, plain pine box will do me just fine. so much surrounding death is so wasteful imo.....if i'm gone, i'm gone. sure, be respectful, but yea, no need to spend mega-bucks to do so!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    decides2dream wrote:
    funny, all us dog owners have similar ideas. i've promised mr. dream to mix up his ashes with all our dogs and kitty before tossing out to sea. as of right now, we already have 2 dogs and a kitty. :( all earlier pets was before the option of individual pet cremation was available.

    and you bet, plain pine box will do me just fine. so much surrounding death is so wasteful imo.....if i'm gone, i'm gone. sure, be respectful, but yea, no need to spend mega-bucks to do so!

    my gf took a course in conducting in-home funerals ... so, people can be in their homes when they die ... part of it was learning how to build a coffin! ... ;)

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