# Green funerals -- pour your loved ones down the drain **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615 "2008-05-08T21:58:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/21 "2008-05-09T13:40:42Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] Ahhh, but the crabs eat the shark poop. It’s a great big circle of life! [/QUOTE] Yeah but if you believe in the afterlife then you also have to take the chance that you’ll be spending all eternity hearing that damn song from the Lion King. I bet it would wear after year 57 or so… ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/22 "2008-05-09T13:46:28Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefScott] Bob Smith of Manhatten, Kansas… the other white meat. [/QUOTE] See a better use would be to process and freeze the bodies: “Corpsicles, New Blood type A flavour, Yumm!” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/23 "2008-05-09T13:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=ShelliBean] Yeah but if you believe in the afterlife then you also have to take the chance that you’ll be spending all eternity hearing that damn song from the Lion King. I bet it would wear after year 57 or so… [/QUOTE] Or from South Park… “It’s the poo of the antelope, the poo of the giraffe…” ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/24 "2008-05-09T14:02:14Z")
[QUOTE=nikonikosuru] Or just bury me under a tree sans frivilous box… [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Valgard] My idea of a green funeral would start with donating every part that can be used to someone who needs it. Then plant a nice tree on whatever’s left, give people some shade. Reduce, reuse, recycle 😃 [/QUOTE] That’s exactly what my instructions say 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/25 "2008-05-09T14:06:12Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I’d like it if my body could feed some vultures or hyenas or something. [/QUOTE] That could be arranged today, if you like the idea so much… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/26 "2008-05-09T14:41:10Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] That could be arranged today, if you like the idea so much… 😉 [/QUOTE] I’m not so sure that work out so well, what with all the kicking and screaming scaring off the vultures and hyenas. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/27 "2008-05-09T14:48:37Z")
I quite like the idea of being buried in a cardboard coffin, with a tree planted over me. Well, you know, after I’m dead and all. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/28 "2008-05-09T15:00:59Z")
[QUOTE=Uzi] And after they’ve finished with the dead bodies, and developed a taste for human flesh in the process, where do you think they’ll be looking to get their next meal? The same goes for dumping bodies into the ocean for sharks. [/QUOTE] Polar bears don’t need to develop a taste for human flesh; they will stalk and kill humans when they see a chance—they’ve been doing it for many years. I don’t know that its ever been proven that sharks develop a taste for human flesh; if you have a cite, I would like to see it. Sharks are pretty opportunistic feeders, I think. A shark might well eat a human body if one happened to be floating by but I doubt it would make that shark hunt humans preferentially. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615/29 "2008-05-09T15:05:37Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I’m not so sure that work out so well, what with all the kicking and screaming scaring off the vultures and hyenas. [/QUOTE] After a while, the screaming and kicking probably wears off a bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-funerals-pour-your-loved-ones-down-the-drain/448615.md?page=1)