You can definitely take The Grand Canyon off that list of parks that allow the spreading of ashes.
Probably because they don’t want people flinging urns into the canyon.
I used to joke with my wife that when I died I wanted to be cremated on a funeral pyre of all my books.
She always replied that she didn’t think she’d be able to get a permit to re-create the Great Chicago Fire.
This, too, is my plan. There is a large university medical school near me, I would like the students to gain some benefit from my demise.
Then, skin, corneas, stem cells…what can be salvaged should be salvaged.
I have a will stating this, but on reflection, I should have a “living will” too.
(Edit… I doubt they would use one of my tattooed parts for a skin graft, but that could be a cool way to remember me)
Nothing regarding funerals, scatterings, organ donations etc. should be in a standard will.
Those go in a separate document which should be kept in a location the right people can access. Esp. do not put a will or living will in a safe deposit box. Those can be locked until probate.
Mine is simply online, in a folder all my adult family have access to.
The paper copy is with my accountant, which I assume would be the definitive. (Some accountants here can do some low-level legal stuff, a concept called “Commisioner of Oaths” and I don’t have a lawyer).
This is exactly what I want, though I have joked that I would like my body donated to a cat food company, or just dumped in a dumpster somewhere.
I have been bitten by cats many times, but they always let go. Apparently I am not tasty enough for our feline overlords.
I no longer have dogs, but when I did, both would have eaten me as soon as I was unresponsive and they were hungry. Both hunting dog breeds, Weimeraner/German pointer and mixed/German pointer.
The Weimeraner mix was significantly stupid, so I doubt he would realise I was made of meat until his sister started tucking into my liver.