I would actually prefer a Viking funeral (well I’d prefer to skip dieing altogether) but I’m willing to settle.
Can I get a funeral pyre? In which states? Is it legal anywhere? I want to be cremated but not so thrilled about about being put in an oven like a holiday ham.
Any restriction about dancing naked around my burning corpes or toasting mashmallows?
Perhaps there is someone who, for a price, will find a locale, and make the arrangements. Getting there on time will be up to you.
Most likely it is not leagal anywhere in US. Might try the desert though.
You can do all the naked dancing you like at your funeral.
betenoir–to get a Viking Funeral, you must be a fully-qualified Viking.
Have you sacrificed to Odin, Lord of the Hanged? Was the sacrifice a chicken? A bull? A Thrall? Your Baseball Card Collection? (Preferrred by Lords of the Hanged everywhere.)
Have you pillaged? Recently?
Do you like Spam? If the answer to this last is “yes”, then you may qualify for a Silly Viking Funeral, in which your body is placed on a Giant Rubber Duckie, set ablaze, & cast out to sea.
I suspect the law is similar in other states.
How about if you held the pyre offshore? Make a raft, lottsa wood and shove off 50 miles from land. The best of pyre and viking…together.
Well, get a local permit for burning yard waste, and make sure you topple over out in your yard. 
What if you go offshore, outside the territorial limits of the state and the United States?
You’re still governed by the laws of whatever state or nation your boat is licensed in.
What about burial at sea?
Wouldn’t cremation, by definition, eliminate the risk of spreading disease? If there’s something out there that is A) going to cause disease and B) can survive the amount of heat required to reduce an average-sized person to ash, I don’t think we’d be able to do a whole hell of a lot about it regardless.
Yes, we’ve had this question before - no problem, for you. Before the moderator closes the thread, there is an unanswered question. Are there legal, moral, or ethical questions for the undead/uncharred/dancers/toasters? It will be big trouble anywhere in the east and midwest. Long histories of law, tight union/trade/professional organizations who have lobbied for exclusive rights to BBQ your remains. Best bet is out west preferably in an unincorporated area - fewer laws, less interest. Also, you and fellow cavorters should convert to an appropriate religion that practices funeral pyres as standard practice to introduce you to your eternal afterlife. By all means, the guests should have a death certificate for you as well - clears up a lot if you’re already dead. Local constables more likely to just blow off the event, “Man we’ve got enough sh** going on without chasing this crap.”
And this is paramount - use enough fuel (wood, propane for the weber if that’s your choice). No one wants to deal with some smoking ooze. It’ll just piss off the authorities. Go for complete reduction to ash. You can probably search the archives under “spontaneous human combustion” to get some data on what and how much burns.
I don’t believe a funeral pyre can sustain enough heat to reduce a body to ash-you’ll be left with a lot of charred remains.
I believe the remaining bone fragments have to be ground up.
IANAL but I believe the problem is with the unlicenced transportation of a body.
We have a crematorium in town and I know two of the people who operate it. Even in a chamber, cremated remains are not reduced to ash. Most of the remains of your dearly departed in that jar on the mantle are ground bone.