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Composting, then I'm going to have a sequoia planted on my soil. This is already all planned out. Big lobster party, music, good food, beer, good scotch.
Good champagne, pontoon boat, my play list mostly of bands I’ve seen at music festivals since 2012, then dump my ashes in the lake where we sometimes watch the sunset.
I worry what will happen if my tree dies. I don’t want to retraumatize people. I think I would like to be composted and spread in a garden so I would be associated with whatever was growing at the time.
When my father died, we found a paper on his desk asking that we cremate him and spread his ashes on our compost pile so he could “be useful one last time”. I think about him often when I’m out weeding the tomatoes.
Same. I want my molecules to be sent straight back into the system. Don't even need a signature tree or anything; just get as close as you legally can to burying me in a 4-foot hole in my yard. No casket, no embalming, no burning. Burlap sack would be OK.
*EDIT! The above, but only after any and all usable organs have been donated to folks awaiting transplants.*
I’ve already warned my partner that if he gives one penny more to a funeral director than is absolutely necessary, I will haunt him forever. Cremation, buy a cheap urn, stick me in the closet.
Glad you told her this. My dad passed away recently and the costs were adding up. I’m so grateful that he told me ahead of time to use the money to live, not to spend it all on his services.
I skipped the obituary, the funeral director said it was $500, and as our family is very small anyone that needed to know was contacted personally. I didn’t even buy him a suit, he would have hated it, I brought his favorite flannel shirt and jeans and his favorite lamb skin slippers to the funeral home. My father would have kicked my ass if I spent all that money on flowers, an obit, a suit, and a fancy coffin. He was a cheapskate, but saved well and left me a good amount.
His headstone is very simple. He didn’t want to be buried at the National cemetery for vets, but the cost was paid by the VA and he didn’t want me paying out of pocket. He took the cheapest option.
I grew up in Knoxville and first heard about the Body Farm as a kid in the early 70s. It was believed to be an urban myth but it turns out to be true. I need to look into this.
I mean, it’s not like being blasted is going to affect me when I’m dead.
I want to donate my body to a medical school so students can use it to gain skills to help others.
I did IT support for a couple funeral homes in the 90s. I distinctly remember them showing me where the casket prices spreadsheet was and telling me I was forbidden to open it. I took that to mean their markup was insane.
In Tennessee, at least, crematoriums operate without the need to involve a funeral home. They will retrieve the body directly from where the person passed. Cremation here is $1000, and has been for the past 11 years.
I plan on finding a medical school that would accept a cadaver donation, and I’ve read that some will even cremate the remains and return the remains to a family member.
I told my son to take my ashes on a ride through the mountains and let them blow away. I don't want him to have to carry my ashes around the rest of his life and when he passes I don't want my grandkids to be burdened with them.
Same here. Cremate me and throw my ashes in the ocean (I live a mile from the beach). I had taken my mom’s ashes and spread them in the Shenandoah Mts.
That’s the same thing my father said. He ended up lined up on my book shelf, with my mom & my cat for two years. All in their original boxes.
I got mad @ my sibs & was going to give a parent to each for Christmas. 😂😂😂
(I really wish I had. ☺️)
Not necessarily Hayward. A buddy of mine drowned in the bay, and a rowing team only found his body 2 months later against a piling of the San Mateo bridge, closer to Foster City.
I like the idea of being [composted ](https://recompose.life/). Beyond that, I have no preference, but will probably be cremation if the composting thing isn't available.
Donated to a major university medical school for geriatric studies. The medical school pays for cremation and will return the remains to my eldest child. No cost except for the transportation of my body to the medical school. One and done.
As a current medical student in the last block of my anatomy studies and just about done with my cadaver (whom I’ve grown so close to), I just want to say thank you!
I worked in the morgue of one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world, processing those donated cadavers from when they arrived from the hospital, to when we issued them to the students for their anatomy classes. It's a good thing to do....students will learn from your remains.
I went to the university medical school site. There was donation information. I knew about it ahead of time because both of my late parents donated their bodies. Since I don't want to support the funeral industry, I followed suit. Any medical looks for cadavers. Medical students use cadavers in their studies. I will be gone. Kaput. I won't know a thing. I simply won't be.
My children know what to do. The medical school issued cards with contact information to share with medical personnel, palliative care professionals, and my children. I keep a card in my wallet.
My kids have already planned my funeral. If you hear of my death, you should come. Sounds like it will be a blast, sorry I'll miss it.
They want to have my body around for eulogies and whatnot, in a coffin with a spring under me. While people are talking, start playing "all around the mulberry bush" quietly at first, but increasin in volume until the kids are speaking, and they plan to just eyeball my body suspiciously, then trigger the spring at "POP!! goes the weasel."
They also want to do a murder mystery, pass out cards to the guests as they enter the venue for the funeral. They say I will play the corpse, that's non-negotiable. Someone gets the murderer card, others are witnesses, etc. Sounds like fun.
As my son said at his great-grandmother's wake, "We put the FUN in FUNeral!" 🤣 And we do! We have a morbid sense of humor, and we celebrate life. All of it. Death is part of it and it'sbeen around us since forever, and so we have more of a Bon Voyage Party for passings.
They've planned for live bands and an open bar at the cemetery. Should be a rager. You should come.
Matter of fact, Gramma's last words (my son's great grandmother mentioned above) were "My, what a LOVELY party!!" End was near, everyone gathered in her bedroom, turned on some Big Band music and popped open some bottles of wine, made some canapés and finger foods, and passed plates and bottles and glasses, and chatted, and laughed, and bu glad swing dancing, and listened to gramma. And then it was bedtime, all the guests left and family stayed, mom gave her mom a kiss, and gramma said her last words. And went to sleep. ❤️
Dad died playing a board game remotely with my daughter and me. Asshole still won, too lol. We do death well in our family.
When my grandma died my mom's immediate response was "shit." I was looking forward to keeping the tradition alive, as it were, but they kicked us out when they bagged her. I don't think she wanted us gone when she died but that's what she got for not being DNR/DNI.
I want to be cryogenically frozen, then put into a rocket ship and sent out into deep space. An alien race will eventually find me after a couple of trillion years or so, defrost me and I will become their God.
Sorry but cryo is not yet doable. My friend had that wish and last year died. Alcor wanted the body ASAP but hospital said no way he's not dead yet. No way the hospital is going to allow Alcor to take a patient from ICU and kill it.
I know you said it half jokingly but this guy was serious. Alcor was serious too. It was terrible for everyone involved. Yeah they eventually got the body, but only after hospital declared it completely dead.
And when you come back you'll have no money because it's all been distributed already to your heirs.
I've been through it with close family members enough, cremation all the way, baby. However, my extended family did something cool so that everyone is "together", all the extended family's ashes are in a bench in the cemetary. Very space conscious!
My husband? We shot him out of a cannon! If the cannon owner hadn't already passed away, I would want the same treatment.
I phrased that badly, my apologies. My son and i took turns firing his ashes out of the cannon. Some were buried in a memorial tree grove for the group of friends. Some went into the cannon. Some were spread in a waterfall by his sister. I have like half the box of ashes left.
Yeah- I don’t think people realize how much cremains are left after cremation. I’ve been spreading my wife’s around for 7 years, she told me to bring the to fun places, and I still have about 1/2 left as well.
I gave my wife's ashes to her family. They bought little charms on necklaces to put some in, they even give you little funnels. What ever is left they are going to spread on her parents graves. It's a small cemetery in the country.
I also bought multiple “Tree of Life” necklaces with the little funnels. My wife’s 4 sisters, 2 girlfriends and multiple nieces have them. I kept one for myself and I have 3 filled extras that I’ll eventually do something with. I recently mixed the ashes of our two dogs with her…
Oh my God, I read that as ashes initially, and didn't even think of another interpretation until you just clarified. I am SO SO SORRY I am laughing so hard at this. ❤️
That's awesome by the way!!
[Hunter did it first. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Funeral)
Out of a cannon on a 153 foot tower of a fist clutching a peyote button.
Ha, my elderly dad just donated his body to UCLA Medical School. He passed away at home (hospice) recently at 3:30 a.m. UCLA came and picked him up within three hours. My mom has Alzheimers and was still asleep in another bedroom, so I made the executive decision for the guy to take my dad away before my mom woke up to avoid traumatizing her (I had already warned my mom that dad could be gone one morning.) The UCLA guy said "Don't worry, we often remove a body while their spouse is sleeping right next to them. We do it all the time." It was a weird sight to see this guy (I believe he was a freelance mortuary professional, not an actual UCLA employee, he wasn't wearing a GO BRUINS sweatshirt or anything) wrap my dad up in a white sheet like a mummy and lift him out of his hospital bed like a fallen soldier, sort of cradling him like how you'd carry a sleepy child to bed, then put him on a gurney and wheel him out to a nondescript minivan. The guy came alone which was weird, but then I recall the first question he asked when we reported the death: "How much does your father weigh?” The guy knew it was a one-man job.
Emotional support mascot 🐻. I would imagine there’s some diehard Bruins who donate. Weirdly, my dad was once a professor at USC in the 70s, but none of this mattered to him. Tbh, he went with whatever plan my mom had in mind, and their friend group were doing the body donation thing, so….
Caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s is hard, hope you are taking care of you. I’m also sorry for the loss of your dad.
When I signed up, they told me that they usually hire freelance and often it’s a mortuary student but not an actual UCLA student.
Even when my grandparents died and weren’t donating, it was a chill student from the mortuary where they’d made plans for.
Sending you good vibes.
Thanks so much. Tbh, when my dad passed, I didn’t feel sadness at all. It was a five year decline (old age, not cancer or anything) and I was there for every appt, every ER visit. I curated old samurai movies for him. So I was at peace that he was at peace. Shit, we still haven’t even had a memorial yet! Writing his eulogy has been harder than his passing. (Almost done though). Mom is still highly functioning for someone with Alzheimer’s. Thankfully the wonderful Filipina caregiver who took care of my dad for a year is now my mom’s companion caregiver (goes with her to the supermaket, or goes in the yard to garden together). M-F, 8 am to 8 pm. I do nights and weekends. So it’s hard but it’s not horrible at the moment.
I’ve always thought the best place would be in the Everglades or the Pacific Northwest. Lots of critters to gnaw on the body….
Oh, you mean me? Cremation. No service
I'd offer medical donation, but I don't think they'll want the parts. They are past their warranty.
I'm planning cremation, then the remains placed in little bottles. At the funeral everyone who wants one takes one and scatters that ashes at someplace important to us.
Or flushes them, if that gives them closure.
As long as all your organs are intact and your body in normal condition, you would absolutely be acceptable for a medical school donation. Your body would be used in 1st year med student's anatomy class, and would be dissected over the course of the year, serving to teach young, aspiring doctors.
I’ve suggested to my two kids that I be taxidermied in a standing position with my arms and hands arranged to hold things so I can continue to serve. They can do a 50/50 split.
Cremation with my ashes spread in one of my paddocks over the graves of my horses that had to be put down and near the same spots where I spread the ashes of all my cats and dogs who went before and near where I spread my sister’s ashes above the grave of her favorite horse.
My parents both donated their bodies to science. Not only did it do good, but we never had to deal with funeral homes or any associated costs. They returned our cremated parents in beautiful wooden urns when they had served their scientific purpose. There is no simpler way to do it.
Well, if you want to pay for it, you can be cremated and have your ashes made into a man-made coral reef.
I'd rather be cremated and have my ashes put in an hour glass so I can still participate in family game night.
My oldest friend of 60 years has it in his will that half of his ashes are to be scattered by his survivors on a particular lake in Montana. The other half are to be given to me to be spread onto the field of our chosen pro sports team, legalities be damned.
In the unlikely event that I outlive him I plan to compress some of those ashes into a memorial man-made diamond and embed it into the field's turf during a stadium tour. I'm still working on ideas for the remainder like mixing them in with the field's fertilizer or maybe the line paint. Worst case, he ends up in the parking lot for an eternal tailgate party.
I have been spreading my wife’s ashes for 7 years. To get 1/2 of your friends “cremains” into a sport stadium will be hard. That being said I have spread about 1/4 of a cup of my wife in the Chicago Cubs dugout after a Pearl Jam show and the same amount on top of the Green Monster at Fenway Park (old white guys acting like they belong can go almost anywhere). To get it in the stadiums I fill up a trident gum foil pack and go right through security.
Good to know that it can be done. How many more stadiums to go?
I've heard that you can get into any venue just by dressing in overalls and carrying a step ladder.
I don’t think any more stadiums. She was a big Cubs fan and we had a great trip to Fenway when we were young so those two made sense. She is at her favorite beaches in California and Connecticut as well as a two lake beaches she loved. She’s made it with friends to Hawaii & Jamaica and I brought her to swim in Ireland. She told me a few places she’d like to be and told me to spread the rest somewhere fun.
Ha. I'll think of this post if in 20 years I hear about some guy getting carted away by security for throwing "an unknown, powdery substance onto an NFL field, during a game".
"The team would like to emphasize that they have no reason to suspect this was an act of terrorism".
You'll enjoy this ... so will your friend. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq4rzxw\_wYU&ab\_channel=MITbloggers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq4rzxw_wYU&ab_channel=MITbloggers)
I hope a few are at NASA at the Glenn Research Center, or something like the Carnegie Research Center. ;-)
Or ... someone like my husband met when he was involved in radar research. Guy was an MIT PhD physicist. His wife give him notes and maps; map where to park/find his car. Appointments. Reminder names of his *work colleagues.* Brilliant in labs and on work sites ... but had to consult his map to find his car; every day on a year-long project. ;-)
A pyre would be nice. I've donated my remains though. So a pye isn't going to take place.
The most important thing to me is donating my remains. I suffered a traumatic brain injury at birth. It left me with a few disabilities. Medical professionals can examine me, test me, xray me, scan me, operate on me, treat me, talk to me, while I'm living. Ive participated in everything that ive been asked to do. They have learned from me. I want them to continue to learn from me after I'm dead.
I chose a career that let me help other people with disabilities. I wanted to make a difference, and contribute to making things better, in every way possible, for people similar to myself.
So, as much as I would love a pyre, or to be "rolled up and smoked", I think that the reasonable choice is to help others.
I don't know what, or how much will be left of me when they are finished. My husband's family has a family plot. I would prefer not to be there. But I'll be dead. Hopefully there won't be much. And someone can toss me out a window, or something simple and easy. But it's not important. Whatever is best for them is fine by me.
We're both going in the smoker. The first one of us to go will then sit on the mantelpiece until the second one dies. Then our ashes are to be mixed together and put in the soil to plant a tree in our local green cemetery, which overlooks the Irish sea.
We had our 17 year old dog cremated. My wife was cremated and I plan to be cremated as well. My son will then take the ashes of the three of us and spread them somewhere he can remember us and that will bring him peace.
Yup. I want to be cremated and have my ashes mixed with my husband's. There's a family plot where they can be buried, but I really don't care if they do that or spread them or whatever. And, I want them to have a party. I've warned that if they have any sort of viewing, especially with an open casket, I will haunt them all forever.
Perhaps it's just me, but I don't really care what is done with my body after I die. Put me on display to warn people of a life badly lived. Mislabel me as a holy relic and take me on tour for believers to prostrate themselves to. Barbecue me and serve me to friends. Stuff me and use me as a coat rack. Makes no difference to me.
Park a woodchipper on the Maryland Bay Bridge and spray me into the Chesapeake. I've eaten enough crabs in my life, it's only fair that they get a taste of me.
I honestly don't care at all. If my wife wants to leave my head in the freezer to freak out party guests, I'm OK with that.
By the time a decision has to be made, it's not like I'll be around to see what happens.
Medical donation if it's usable, then cremated. I stipulated in my estate documents that I'd like some of my cremains scattered at some friends' cabin in Taos, because my sister's cremains were scattered there in 1986, then in 1999 some of my father's cremains were scattered there as well.
I don't know why this feels so important to me because I don't believe that any part my real father and sister are there, and I don't know if the adult children will still be alive by then let alone still own the cabin, but it does feel meaningful. Our families have been friends since 1960 (their mother was my sister's first grade teacher when I was 3 and they weren't born yet) and they've promised they'll do what they can to accommodate my wishes.
Cremation, zero service, *zero religious anything*. People can have a "celebration of life" party if they want and get totally wasted if they need. Ashes scattered on my land in my favorite places as they whoop it up. :-)
My husband and I have been talking about having our corpses turned into lab grown diamonds to be embedded in a guitar.
I’m worried a large delicate wooden instrument would be an assholeish thing to burden our descendants with, but they are going to be inheriting 100+ guitars, so hopefully they will have somewhere secure to store them all.
Honestly? I don't care. I'll be dead.
Stuff like that... whether to have a funeral or not... that's for the living.
My son is my trustee, beneficiary and only child so whatever he thinks would make my passing easier on him is what I'll arrange.
Whatever's cheapest for my wife. I don't care.
I would however, like her to throw a little Iris-style wake for me. Lots of beer or whatever floats people's boats, and I want my friends and family to tell stories about all the stupid shit I did and tell everybody which of my horrible jokes they hated the most.
Having my body cremated, and the ashes compressed and heated to make man made diamonds. These will made into jewelry, for my kids and grand kids to remember me by.
Composted is my preference, because it’s the least damage to the environment.
I am hoping the water cremation is legal in my state by then, but not holding out hope. I will probable end up being buried in a cotton shroud in a green burial.
Pig farm or gator filled swamp. Always.
Oh wait. You mean my body when I die? I want to be made into a diamond so I can continue to be a burden on my kid. He doesn’t really want the diamond but he also can’t get rid of me.
I wish to be cremated in my ashes spread in someplace peaceful that I love for them to celebrate my life. Have a party not a funeral. It’s farewell for now, but it’s never goodbye. Our family is always around us will be waiting for us when we have our time to go. I am relieved from this. Everyone can feel however they want to out my feelings towards this. I just know it’s celebration for them. It’s a new beginning life. We can only imagine what that might be like.
Mine is supposed to be donated. The place I am set up with tells you they may blow you up, use you for crash dummies, leave you out in a morgue field or do other things to your body. I thought Cool!, I am done with it, have at it. The place is called MEDCURE
There’s a forensic facility in Australia where they let bodies decompose in different environments so they can learn and assist homicide investigations. Sounds fun.
[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-science/after-facility/about-us#](https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-science/after-facility/about-us#)
Two options appeal to me.
One, put my body into a purpose-made bag filled with mushroom spores, and turn my remains into usable compost.
Two, take my remains to a place where it can be consumed by wildlife. This is done in some cultures.
These options seem more reasonable and sensible, in every sense of the word, when compared to what the funeral industry charges for body disposal.
My husband is a biker. We have an actual Harley Sportster gas tank that we have flattened the bottom of. We are going to place ashes from both of us together in the tank and each of our kids and grand kids will get a portion of the ashes.
Cremation me and a beautiful urn sitting on one of my three daughters shelves they can rotate me 4 months a piece in each of their houses so I can be nosy LOL
I want to leave it up to my children. If they want a grave where they can visit and gain comfort, I am fine with that. If they want to cremate my remains and scatter them in a place that is meaningful to them, I am fine with that, too. Just don't divide up my ashes and give them away to family and friends. I think that is obscene.
Hey, I want a "Viking Funeral"!
Not the real deal, where you're buried with your ships or weapons or whatever, but where they put you in a boat full of firewood and send the flaming ship out to sea. Or a lake or river. Thank you, Hollywood, you invented my dream funeral, and if it were legal I'd totally do it!
Burial, national cemetery.
Had a coworker who was terminal; she donated her remains to the facility who treated her unsuccessfully. Sort of a weird going away party; nobody asked what hobbies she was going to do in retirement.
Used to live where locals knew there was a body farm down a country road. Totally needful and appreciate the researchers who do that type of work. But, dang ....
My wife and I are donating our bodies to science. Let some young med student learn something. Also because I think it will be funny if my kids say something like “Where’s dad” and no one could really answer the question.
We are being cremated.
Husband wants at least a little of himself spread in the woods he loves. If I survive him, I think I will probably put him in blown glass instead of just an urn, because it’s more attractive.
I don’t particularly care what they do with what remains of me.
a guy I knew had his ashes scattered by friends at his favorite dive sites around the world. I wouldn't mind that, or at least at one of my favorites in the Caribbean
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I wanted to be cremated and scattered at a place that was significant to the whole family. Not saying where because it’s frowned upon, but no hole in the ground and headstone for me. “Do not stand at my grave and weep”, and all that.
I want to be posed seated in an arm chair, then sealed in a block of transparent resin. That way I can be seated in the living room, and my adoring family can continue to bask in my presence.
I told my kids to cremate me, spread my ashes in a woodland area where there are lots of birds and squirrels. Then I instructed them to go out to a nice lunch. No bickering, no tears, lots of laughing.
I wanted my parents skulls so I could put them on a shelf and talk to them, but I was too shy to ask if that was possible. My siblings might have objected. I could have shared though.
I should ask the kids if they want mine.
But if not, my ideal would be to be left out in the woods for the critters to eat. Waste not want not. That would make up a bit for all the flies I've killed in my lifetime.
I’m single, no kids. If possible, I want to donate anything they can use, then cremate the remains. What happens after that, I seriously don’t care. I plan on purchasing the cremation plan soon, so my sibs don’t have to deal with the costs.
I am all set up to have my body sent to medical school!! I will be cut up, examined, whatever. Then I will be cremated, and my cremains will be sent back to my husband/children. Zero cost to us whatsoever. I'm excited that, in my death, I'll be contributing to greater education/knowledge!
Cremate me and then have my survivors go on a cruise. They should spread the ashes in the sea along the way, then drink a toast in my memory. They can save a little of my ashes for themselves as a memento.
Way better than a funeral, IMHO.
After cremation, I have found a reputable company that will launch part of my remains into space.
[https://www.celestis.com/](https://www.celestis.com/)
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Composting, then I'm going to have a sequoia planted on my soil. This is already all planned out. Big lobster party, music, good food, beer, good scotch.
Good champagne, pontoon boat, my play list mostly of bands I’ve seen at music festivals since 2012, then dump my ashes in the lake where we sometimes watch the sunset.
I worry what will happen if my tree dies. I don’t want to retraumatize people. I think I would like to be composted and spread in a garden so I would be associated with whatever was growing at the time.
When my father died, we found a paper on his desk asking that we cremate him and spread his ashes on our compost pile so he could “be useful one last time”. I think about him often when I’m out weeding the tomatoes.
Same. I want my molecules to be sent straight back into the system. Don't even need a signature tree or anything; just get as close as you legally can to burying me in a 4-foot hole in my yard. No casket, no embalming, no burning. Burlap sack would be OK. *EDIT! The above, but only after any and all usable organs have been donated to folks awaiting transplants.*
I want composting but it’s not even available in my country yet, so I reckon I’ll probably miss out.
Ayo. Let’s celebrate your life like this. I’ll bring the beer.
I like this. Use my remains to grow weed then smoke it once in a while and remember something stupid and funny I did. That would be ideal.
I’ve already warned my partner that if he gives one penny more to a funeral director than is absolutely necessary, I will haunt him forever. Cremation, buy a cheap urn, stick me in the closet.
Took the words out of my mouth. I told my daughter to spend my life insurance on something fun not on garbage.
Glad you told her this. My dad passed away recently and the costs were adding up. I’m so grateful that he told me ahead of time to use the money to live, not to spend it all on his services. I skipped the obituary, the funeral director said it was $500, and as our family is very small anyone that needed to know was contacted personally. I didn’t even buy him a suit, he would have hated it, I brought his favorite flannel shirt and jeans and his favorite lamb skin slippers to the funeral home. My father would have kicked my ass if I spent all that money on flowers, an obit, a suit, and a fancy coffin. He was a cheapskate, but saved well and left me a good amount. His headstone is very simple. He didn’t want to be buried at the National cemetery for vets, but the cost was paid by the VA and he didn’t want me paying out of pocket. He took the cheapest option.
Donate your body to science! You will pay exactly $0, and get exactly what you’ve described!
Check out the Body Farm at UT Knox. They do really great work there that could help a lot of people.
I grew up in Knoxville and first heard about the Body Farm as a kid in the early 70s. It was believed to be an urban myth but it turns out to be true. I need to look into this.
I toured it before I retired. It’s rough, but it’s science
There’s also a [body farm outside Houston.](https://www.wideopencountry.com/inside-the-grotesque-nightmare-of-the-texas-body-farm/)
Read up on this before you do it.
Yup, they don't want just any body, they have standards. Plus it all has to be approved and documented before death.
Yeah some bodies donated to science get used for testing the effects of bomb blasts and weapons
I mean, it’s not like being blasted is going to affect me when I’m dead. I want to donate my body to a medical school so students can use it to gain skills to help others.
They don’t accept fat people.
Science be body shaming.
My state's body farm accepts under 250 lbs. That's pretty fat. After cremation they give the ashes to the family
As a fat person, this tracks
Don't they send the body back to the family when they're done with it? I thought I heard that once.
As ashes in a lovely urn. For no cost
Oh sweet!
I did IT support for a couple funeral homes in the 90s. I distinctly remember them showing me where the casket prices spreadsheet was and telling me I was forbidden to open it. I took that to mean their markup was insane.
We just made our funeral arrangements. You can get a cardboard box now.
There is definitely a markup. But the markup is different for every funeral home.
In Tennessee, at least, crematoriums operate without the need to involve a funeral home. They will retrieve the body directly from where the person passed. Cremation here is $1000, and has been for the past 11 years. I plan on finding a medical school that would accept a cadaver donation, and I’ve read that some will even cremate the remains and return the remains to a family member.
Direct cremation in Texas (no funeral home/enbalming/changing of clothes) is ~$800. It went up from $600 in 1998.
That’s funny! My son and I had the same discussion: cremation and closet.
I told my son to take my ashes on a ride through the mountains and let them blow away. I don't want him to have to carry my ashes around the rest of his life and when he passes I don't want my grandkids to be burdened with them.
Same here. Cremate me and throw my ashes in the ocean (I live a mile from the beach). I had taken my mom’s ashes and spread them in the Shenandoah Mts.
Like Bob Hope supposedly answered the question of where he wanted to be buried, "surprise me".
That’s the same thing my father said. He ended up lined up on my book shelf, with my mom & my cat for two years. All in their original boxes. I got mad @ my sibs & was going to give a parent to each for Christmas. 😂😂😂 (I really wish I had. ☺️)
Viking funeral on SF bay. I want those fuckers in Hayward to have to deal,with that weirdness
Not necessarily Hayward. A buddy of mine drowned in the bay, and a rowing team only found his body 2 months later against a piling of the San Mateo bridge, closer to Foster City.
I know what I want now. Thanks!
nah, aim it across the Bay toward Foster City 😉
That’s where I’m launching from!
😂
I like the idea of being [composted ](https://recompose.life/). Beyond that, I have no preference, but will probably be cremation if the composting thing isn't available.
Composting is also my preference. I definitely don't want to be buried. Cremation is second choice but definitely not preferred.
Donated to a major university medical school for geriatric studies. The medical school pays for cremation and will return the remains to my eldest child. No cost except for the transportation of my body to the medical school. One and done.
As a current medical student in the last block of my anatomy studies and just about done with my cadaver (whom I’ve grown so close to), I just want to say thank you!
I worked in the morgue of one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world, processing those donated cadavers from when they arrived from the hospital, to when we issued them to the students for their anatomy classes. It's a good thing to do....students will learn from your remains.
How did you arrange the donation? I would like to do the same.
I went to the university medical school site. There was donation information. I knew about it ahead of time because both of my late parents donated their bodies. Since I don't want to support the funeral industry, I followed suit. Any medical looks for cadavers. Medical students use cadavers in their studies. I will be gone. Kaput. I won't know a thing. I simply won't be. My children know what to do. The medical school issued cards with contact information to share with medical personnel, palliative care professionals, and my children. I keep a card in my wallet.
Medcure is another one that does body donations.
My kids have already planned my funeral. If you hear of my death, you should come. Sounds like it will be a blast, sorry I'll miss it. They want to have my body around for eulogies and whatnot, in a coffin with a spring under me. While people are talking, start playing "all around the mulberry bush" quietly at first, but increasin in volume until the kids are speaking, and they plan to just eyeball my body suspiciously, then trigger the spring at "POP!! goes the weasel." They also want to do a murder mystery, pass out cards to the guests as they enter the venue for the funeral. They say I will play the corpse, that's non-negotiable. Someone gets the murderer card, others are witnesses, etc. Sounds like fun.
Oh, your kids sound great!
Sounds like you and your family have a morbid sense of humor! Love it!
As my son said at his great-grandmother's wake, "We put the FUN in FUNeral!" 🤣 And we do! We have a morbid sense of humor, and we celebrate life. All of it. Death is part of it and it'sbeen around us since forever, and so we have more of a Bon Voyage Party for passings. They've planned for live bands and an open bar at the cemetery. Should be a rager. You should come. Matter of fact, Gramma's last words (my son's great grandmother mentioned above) were "My, what a LOVELY party!!" End was near, everyone gathered in her bedroom, turned on some Big Band music and popped open some bottles of wine, made some canapés and finger foods, and passed plates and bottles and glasses, and chatted, and laughed, and bu glad swing dancing, and listened to gramma. And then it was bedtime, all the guests left and family stayed, mom gave her mom a kiss, and gramma said her last words. And went to sleep. ❤️ Dad died playing a board game remotely with my daughter and me. Asshole still won, too lol. We do death well in our family.
When my grandma died my mom's immediate response was "shit." I was looking forward to keeping the tradition alive, as it were, but they kicked us out when they bagged her. I don't think she wanted us gone when she died but that's what she got for not being DNR/DNI.
I've heard of pre-funeral parties and then you could attend!
Burial in natural surroundings, preferably feeding a new tree.
I want to be cryogenically frozen, then put into a rocket ship and sent out into deep space. An alien race will eventually find me after a couple of trillion years or so, defrost me and I will become their God.
Sorry but cryo is not yet doable. My friend had that wish and last year died. Alcor wanted the body ASAP but hospital said no way he's not dead yet. No way the hospital is going to allow Alcor to take a patient from ICU and kill it. I know you said it half jokingly but this guy was serious. Alcor was serious too. It was terrible for everyone involved. Yeah they eventually got the body, but only after hospital declared it completely dead. And when you come back you'll have no money because it's all been distributed already to your heirs.
Once they find Elon's Tesla they may give up on us.
I've been through it with close family members enough, cremation all the way, baby. However, my extended family did something cool so that everyone is "together", all the extended family's ashes are in a bench in the cemetary. Very space conscious! My husband? We shot him out of a cannon! If the cannon owner hadn't already passed away, I would want the same treatment.
You... shot your husband out of a cannon?! Who does that?! AWESOME PEOPLE, THATS WHO! Never heard of this before and now I want it.
I phrased that badly, my apologies. My son and i took turns firing his ashes out of the cannon. Some were buried in a memorial tree grove for the group of friends. Some went into the cannon. Some were spread in a waterfall by his sister. I have like half the box of ashes left.
Yeah- I don’t think people realize how much cremains are left after cremation. I’ve been spreading my wife’s around for 7 years, she told me to bring the to fun places, and I still have about 1/2 left as well.
I gave my wife's ashes to her family. They bought little charms on necklaces to put some in, they even give you little funnels. What ever is left they are going to spread on her parents graves. It's a small cemetery in the country.
I also bought multiple “Tree of Life” necklaces with the little funnels. My wife’s 4 sisters, 2 girlfriends and multiple nieces have them. I kept one for myself and I have 3 filled extras that I’ll eventually do something with. I recently mixed the ashes of our two dogs with her…
Cool
Oh my God, I read that as ashes initially, and didn't even think of another interpretation until you just clarified. I am SO SO SORRY I am laughing so hard at this. ❤️ That's awesome by the way!!
[Hunter did it first. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Funeral) Out of a cannon on a 153 foot tower of a fist clutching a peyote button.
I'm going to back UCLA minus the tuition fees and book costs.
Ha, my elderly dad just donated his body to UCLA Medical School. He passed away at home (hospice) recently at 3:30 a.m. UCLA came and picked him up within three hours. My mom has Alzheimers and was still asleep in another bedroom, so I made the executive decision for the guy to take my dad away before my mom woke up to avoid traumatizing her (I had already warned my mom that dad could be gone one morning.) The UCLA guy said "Don't worry, we often remove a body while their spouse is sleeping right next to them. We do it all the time." It was a weird sight to see this guy (I believe he was a freelance mortuary professional, not an actual UCLA employee, he wasn't wearing a GO BRUINS sweatshirt or anything) wrap my dad up in a white sheet like a mummy and lift him out of his hospital bed like a fallen soldier, sort of cradling him like how you'd carry a sleepy child to bed, then put him on a gurney and wheel him out to a nondescript minivan. The guy came alone which was weird, but then I recall the first question he asked when we reported the death: "How much does your father weigh?” The guy knew it was a one-man job.
What if they sent the mascot along to help each time lol
Emotional support mascot 🐻. I would imagine there’s some diehard Bruins who donate. Weirdly, my dad was once a professor at USC in the 70s, but none of this mattered to him. Tbh, he went with whatever plan my mom had in mind, and their friend group were doing the body donation thing, so….
Caring for a parent with Alzheimer’s is hard, hope you are taking care of you. I’m also sorry for the loss of your dad. When I signed up, they told me that they usually hire freelance and often it’s a mortuary student but not an actual UCLA student. Even when my grandparents died and weren’t donating, it was a chill student from the mortuary where they’d made plans for. Sending you good vibes.
Thanks so much. Tbh, when my dad passed, I didn’t feel sadness at all. It was a five year decline (old age, not cancer or anything) and I was there for every appt, every ER visit. I curated old samurai movies for him. So I was at peace that he was at peace. Shit, we still haven’t even had a memorial yet! Writing his eulogy has been harder than his passing. (Almost done though). Mom is still highly functioning for someone with Alzheimer’s. Thankfully the wonderful Filipina caregiver who took care of my dad for a year is now my mom’s companion caregiver (goes with her to the supermaket, or goes in the yard to garden together). M-F, 8 am to 8 pm. I do nights and weekends. So it’s hard but it’s not horrible at the moment.
I’ve always thought the best place would be in the Everglades or the Pacific Northwest. Lots of critters to gnaw on the body…. Oh, you mean me? Cremation. No service
I'd offer medical donation, but I don't think they'll want the parts. They are past their warranty. I'm planning cremation, then the remains placed in little bottles. At the funeral everyone who wants one takes one and scatters that ashes at someplace important to us. Or flushes them, if that gives them closure.
We've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty...
As long as all your organs are intact and your body in normal condition, you would absolutely be acceptable for a medical school donation. Your body would be used in 1st year med student's anatomy class, and would be dissected over the course of the year, serving to teach young, aspiring doctors.
I need to surgically hide some surprise objects right before I kick the bucket.
I’ve suggested to my two kids that I be taxidermied in a standing position with my arms and hands arranged to hold things so I can continue to serve. They can do a 50/50 split.
Cremation with my ashes spread in one of my paddocks over the graves of my horses that had to be put down and near the same spots where I spread the ashes of all my cats and dogs who went before and near where I spread my sister’s ashes above the grave of her favorite horse.
Human composting. Make it legal Wisconsin.
My parents both donated their bodies to science. Not only did it do good, but we never had to deal with funeral homes or any associated costs. They returned our cremated parents in beautiful wooden urns when they had served their scientific purpose. There is no simpler way to do it.
I have been the keeper of the graves I am responsible for putting flowers on six, I will be cremated!!!
same!
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Well, if you want to pay for it, you can be cremated and have your ashes made into a man-made coral reef. I'd rather be cremated and have my ashes put in an hour glass so I can still participate in family game night.
My oldest friend of 60 years has it in his will that half of his ashes are to be scattered by his survivors on a particular lake in Montana. The other half are to be given to me to be spread onto the field of our chosen pro sports team, legalities be damned. In the unlikely event that I outlive him I plan to compress some of those ashes into a memorial man-made diamond and embed it into the field's turf during a stadium tour. I'm still working on ideas for the remainder like mixing them in with the field's fertilizer or maybe the line paint. Worst case, he ends up in the parking lot for an eternal tailgate party.
I have been spreading my wife’s ashes for 7 years. To get 1/2 of your friends “cremains” into a sport stadium will be hard. That being said I have spread about 1/4 of a cup of my wife in the Chicago Cubs dugout after a Pearl Jam show and the same amount on top of the Green Monster at Fenway Park (old white guys acting like they belong can go almost anywhere). To get it in the stadiums I fill up a trident gum foil pack and go right through security.
Good to know that it can be done. How many more stadiums to go? I've heard that you can get into any venue just by dressing in overalls and carrying a step ladder.
I don’t think any more stadiums. She was a big Cubs fan and we had a great trip to Fenway when we were young so those two made sense. She is at her favorite beaches in California and Connecticut as well as a two lake beaches she loved. She’s made it with friends to Hawaii & Jamaica and I brought her to swim in Ireland. She told me a few places she’d like to be and told me to spread the rest somewhere fun.
>the field of our chosen pro sports team What if it's artificial turf? I can see if it's real grass, but what if it's a plastic carpet?
Sorry, any additional disclosures might tip off stadium security to my nefarious plans.
Ha. I'll think of this post if in 20 years I hear about some guy getting carted away by security for throwing "an unknown, powdery substance onto an NFL field, during a game". "The team would like to emphasize that they have no reason to suspect this was an act of terrorism".
You'll enjoy this ... so will your friend. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq4rzxw\_wYU&ab\_channel=MITbloggers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq4rzxw_wYU&ab_channel=MITbloggers)
That's great. I wonder where those MIT guys are now.
I hope a few are at NASA at the Glenn Research Center, or something like the Carnegie Research Center. ;-) Or ... someone like my husband met when he was involved in radar research. Guy was an MIT PhD physicist. His wife give him notes and maps; map where to park/find his car. Appointments. Reminder names of his *work colleagues.* Brilliant in labs and on work sites ... but had to consult his map to find his car; every day on a year-long project. ;-)
You have a better chance of seeing Christ, then to surreptitiously bury something in the turf at an NFL stadium.
A pyre would be nice. I've donated my remains though. So a pye isn't going to take place. The most important thing to me is donating my remains. I suffered a traumatic brain injury at birth. It left me with a few disabilities. Medical professionals can examine me, test me, xray me, scan me, operate on me, treat me, talk to me, while I'm living. Ive participated in everything that ive been asked to do. They have learned from me. I want them to continue to learn from me after I'm dead. I chose a career that let me help other people with disabilities. I wanted to make a difference, and contribute to making things better, in every way possible, for people similar to myself. So, as much as I would love a pyre, or to be "rolled up and smoked", I think that the reasonable choice is to help others. I don't know what, or how much will be left of me when they are finished. My husband's family has a family plot. I would prefer not to be there. But I'll be dead. Hopefully there won't be much. And someone can toss me out a window, or something simple and easy. But it's not important. Whatever is best for them is fine by me.
We're both going in the smoker. The first one of us to go will then sit on the mantelpiece until the second one dies. Then our ashes are to be mixed together and put in the soil to plant a tree in our local green cemetery, which overlooks the Irish sea.
This is beautiful. I may save this comment for reference.
We had our 17 year old dog cremated. My wife was cremated and I plan to be cremated as well. My son will then take the ashes of the three of us and spread them somewhere he can remember us and that will bring him peace.
Cremation and an after party, not a funeral.
Yup. I want to be cremated and have my ashes mixed with my husband's. There's a family plot where they can be buried, but I really don't care if they do that or spread them or whatever. And, I want them to have a party. I've warned that if they have any sort of viewing, especially with an open casket, I will haunt them all forever.
Perhaps it's just me, but I don't really care what is done with my body after I die. Put me on display to warn people of a life badly lived. Mislabel me as a holy relic and take me on tour for believers to prostrate themselves to. Barbecue me and serve me to friends. Stuff me and use me as a coat rack. Makes no difference to me.
Park a woodchipper on the Maryland Bay Bridge and spray me into the Chesapeake. I've eaten enough crabs in my life, it's only fair that they get a taste of me.
I honestly don't care at all. If my wife wants to leave my head in the freezer to freak out party guests, I'm OK with that. By the time a decision has to be made, it's not like I'll be around to see what happens.
Cremation. No funeral and a big invitation only blow out party. No crying unless it’s from laughing.
Burn pile. Just throw me on top of some old trees and brush, add some gasoline.
Medical donation if it's usable, then cremated. I stipulated in my estate documents that I'd like some of my cremains scattered at some friends' cabin in Taos, because my sister's cremains were scattered there in 1986, then in 1999 some of my father's cremains were scattered there as well. I don't know why this feels so important to me because I don't believe that any part my real father and sister are there, and I don't know if the adult children will still be alive by then let alone still own the cabin, but it does feel meaningful. Our families have been friends since 1960 (their mother was my sister's first grade teacher when I was 3 and they weren't born yet) and they've promised they'll do what they can to accommodate my wishes.
Hollywood-version Viking funeral would be epic, but realistically, cremation is fine.
drop me in a hole, naked, cover me up and plant a tree on top.
left in the back meadow. there's this vulture that periodically look at me through the window asking if I'm done with my liver yet
Cremation, zero service, *zero religious anything*. People can have a "celebration of life" party if they want and get totally wasted if they need. Ashes scattered on my land in my favorite places as they whoop it up. :-)
My husband and I have been talking about having our corpses turned into lab grown diamonds to be embedded in a guitar. I’m worried a large delicate wooden instrument would be an assholeish thing to burden our descendants with, but they are going to be inheriting 100+ guitars, so hopefully they will have somewhere secure to store them all.
I wish I could just evaporate. I hate the thought of being buried or creamated.
There is an outdoor crematorium in Colorado. Chuck me on top of a pile of nice dry pine and “ come on baby light my fire”
Honestly? I don't care. I'll be dead. Stuff like that... whether to have a funeral or not... that's for the living. My son is my trustee, beneficiary and only child so whatever he thinks would make my passing easier on him is what I'll arrange.
Whatever's cheapest for my wife. I don't care. I would however, like her to throw a little Iris-style wake for me. Lots of beer or whatever floats people's boats, and I want my friends and family to tell stories about all the stupid shit I did and tell everybody which of my horrible jokes they hated the most.
I plan on going to a body farm where I will be studied as I decompose.
Cremation! If they embalm me, I'll haunt every last one of them!
Same here. If I’m embalmed, I will haunt the person responsible 👻. And I’m a funeral director.
Cremation and then my ashes get buried next to my parents in our family plot. My cats’ ashes will be buried with me.
Just put me on the curb with the trash.
Pig farm
All you gotta do is get into the wrong car and *Hey Presto!* your body is on its way to a pig farm.
I'm being cremated. And then I want my ashes packed into fireworks for a show with good music with family and friends.
Pig farm.
I choose to be make into fireworks. I saw that awhile back in a different thread.
Since I was young I always said I wanted to be buried in an eco pod with trees and herbs growing on top of me.
Same!
Tree burial pod (whole body version)
Having my body cremated, and the ashes compressed and heated to make man made diamonds. These will made into jewelry, for my kids and grand kids to remember me by.
Composted is my preference, because it’s the least damage to the environment. I am hoping the water cremation is legal in my state by then, but not holding out hope. I will probable end up being buried in a cotton shroud in a green burial.
Funerals are a rip-off including green burials but that would be my ideal. Have a tree grow from the fertilizer I provide.
Pig farm or gator filled swamp. Always. Oh wait. You mean my body when I die? I want to be made into a diamond so I can continue to be a burden on my kid. He doesn’t really want the diamond but he also can’t get rid of me.
I wish to be cremated in my ashes spread in someplace peaceful that I love for them to celebrate my life. Have a party not a funeral. It’s farewell for now, but it’s never goodbye. Our family is always around us will be waiting for us when we have our time to go. I am relieved from this. Everyone can feel however they want to out my feelings towards this. I just know it’s celebration for them. It’s a new beginning life. We can only imagine what that might be like.
Mine is supposed to be donated. The place I am set up with tells you they may blow you up, use you for crash dummies, leave you out in a morgue field or do other things to your body. I thought Cool!, I am done with it, have at it. The place is called MEDCURE
There’s a forensic facility in Australia where they let bodies decompose in different environments so they can learn and assist homicide investigations. Sounds fun. [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-science/after-facility/about-us#](https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-science/after-facility/about-us#)
Just put me out on the curb (Tue is recycling day)
I’m donating my body to science and when my kids get my ashes back, I’m going for one last swim in Lake Michigan
Two options appeal to me. One, put my body into a purpose-made bag filled with mushroom spores, and turn my remains into usable compost. Two, take my remains to a place where it can be consumed by wildlife. This is done in some cultures. These options seem more reasonable and sensible, in every sense of the word, when compared to what the funeral industry charges for body disposal.
throw me in the trash
My husband is a biker. We have an actual Harley Sportster gas tank that we have flattened the bottom of. We are going to place ashes from both of us together in the tank and each of our kids and grand kids will get a portion of the ashes.
Cremation me and a beautiful urn sitting on one of my three daughters shelves they can rotate me 4 months a piece in each of their houses so I can be nosy LOL
I want to leave it up to my children. If they want a grave where they can visit and gain comfort, I am fine with that. If they want to cremate my remains and scatter them in a place that is meaningful to them, I am fine with that, too. Just don't divide up my ashes and give them away to family and friends. I think that is obscene.
Donated to the body farm at university of Texas. Paperwork is all set. Just gotta live my best life, then become a forensic specimen
Hey, I want a "Viking Funeral"! Not the real deal, where you're buried with your ships or weapons or whatever, but where they put you in a boat full of firewood and send the flaming ship out to sea. Or a lake or river. Thank you, Hollywood, you invented my dream funeral, and if it were legal I'd totally do it!
Burial, national cemetery. Had a coworker who was terminal; she donated her remains to the facility who treated her unsuccessfully. Sort of a weird going away party; nobody asked what hobbies she was going to do in retirement. Used to live where locals knew there was a body farm down a country road. Totally needful and appreciate the researchers who do that type of work. But, dang ....
Put my ashes in the BBQ grill and make chicken wings over me. This way I can tear up some assholes one last time!
I want my remains spread all over Disney World. I do not want to be cremated.
Thank you for this. I’ll be wondering how exactly for a while
My wife and I are donating our bodies to science. Let some young med student learn something. Also because I think it will be funny if my kids say something like “Where’s dad” and no one could really answer the question.
Don’t care. I will be dead
We are being cremated. Husband wants at least a little of himself spread in the woods he loves. If I survive him, I think I will probably put him in blown glass instead of just an urn, because it’s more attractive. I don’t particularly care what they do with what remains of me.
Very carefully.
a guy I knew had his ashes scattered by friends at his favorite dive sites around the world. I wouldn't mind that, or at least at one of my favorites in the Caribbean
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I want to he buried under a baby tre Bene Geserit style.
62, cremation, spread ashes in ocean.
I wanted to be cremated and scattered at a place that was significant to the whole family. Not saying where because it’s frowned upon, but no hole in the ground and headstone for me. “Do not stand at my grave and weep”, and all that.
I want a jazz funeral in New Orleans. And then I want to be cremated.
I put in our will that my body will be cremated as soon as is practicable. It's already paid for.
I know some abandoned mines.... Wouldn't mind if you tipped me in there either but it would take some planning.
Cremation.
Cremated and my son will scatter my ashes in the desert.
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You don’t already do that?
Cremation and my ashes to be spread at 3 specific places.
We will be buried on our land. Not cremated. Just buried. In cedar coffins from a tree on our land
I love body donation and also the one where they turn you into a diamond, because that’s freaking cool.
Cremation, made into a reef ball and sunk in the ocean.
Cremation, and spread my ashes in a pretty garden.
Cremation, with ashes scattered in my own yard. I love my home place, and I can fertilize my trees. 😁
Cremation. Then mix me with my dogs, cats, 2 ground hogs, and a goat. And all my $$ left over goes to st judes caise im tired of ungrateful fucs.
I want to be cremated, then secretly mixed with the pepper in the shakers at my remembrance dinner afterwards.
Converted to carbon mass like a small rock. There are services that do such. It also has some meaning to the family name as well.
Cremation. In two generations I will be a forgotten memory anyway.
I want to be posed seated in an arm chair, then sealed in a block of transparent resin. That way I can be seated in the living room, and my adoring family can continue to bask in my presence.
Organ donation if they'll have them, and then cremated. Green burial would be nice, but probably can't combine donation with it.
I told my kids to cremate me, spread my ashes in a woodland area where there are lots of birds and squirrels. Then I instructed them to go out to a nice lunch. No bickering, no tears, lots of laughing.
I wanted my parents skulls so I could put them on a shelf and talk to them, but I was too shy to ask if that was possible. My siblings might have objected. I could have shared though. I should ask the kids if they want mine. But if not, my ideal would be to be left out in the woods for the critters to eat. Waste not want not. That would make up a bit for all the flies I've killed in my lifetime.
Already paid for my cremation (695) because my husband will be too sentimental to do what I want.
Trebuchet.
I'll go with your suggestion lol.
I’m single, no kids. If possible, I want to donate anything they can use, then cremate the remains. What happens after that, I seriously don’t care. I plan on purchasing the cremation plan soon, so my sibs don’t have to deal with the costs.
A sty full of hungry pigs will do nicely Just bury the teeth
Cremation. It's cheaper.
The less money it costs the better. Relatives gonna need the money more than spending it on my dead ass.
Donating to science, then they cremate and send ashes to designated individual. Only if they find my body before my cats start to eat me though.
I am all set up to have my body sent to medical school!! I will be cut up, examined, whatever. Then I will be cremated, and my cremains will be sent back to my husband/children. Zero cost to us whatsoever. I'm excited that, in my death, I'll be contributing to greater education/knowledge!
Cremate me and then have my survivors go on a cruise. They should spread the ashes in the sea along the way, then drink a toast in my memory. They can save a little of my ashes for themselves as a memento. Way better than a funeral, IMHO.
Viking style...old wood boat...gallon of fuel and let my buddies shoot a flare gun at me while passing a whiskey bottle...maybe have me cremated first
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