Your own, I mean. You know, when you one day (may it be a long time in the future) cease to be, kick the bucket, snuff it, join the choir invisible.
(I guess maybe this could have gone in MPSIMS, but then I couldn’t have made a poll! And polls are fun, right?)
Fossilization. Please bury me in a very fine silt.
I have a better idea - organ donation! No sense in throwing away perfectly good bits - potentially life-saving ones, that that.
Acid.
Organ donation, followed by burial in the woods wrapped in biodegradable fabric. I want nature to take back from my body everything that I’ve been taking from it all these years. The idea of being put into a casket or burned up into ash just pisses me off.
Since I can’t donate any of my tissues, it can all go to a medical school. CUT ME UP, FUTURE DOCTORS!
I wanna sleep with the fishes.
Creamation is my plan, after the docs remove the choice bits for others, of course.
I figure I will be cremated and then my friends and family can divide me up and do with me what they will. They will care much more what happens to me then I will.
I am not going to be doing anything with my remains as I will not, well, remain. I told DH to do whatever is cheapest so probably he’ll either have me cremated or bury me in the back yard next to the cat.
Ideally I wish to have my remains cremated and the ashes scatter from the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge into the incoming fog.
Most likely it will be up to the City & County of San Francisco to do what ever they do with the bodies of the poor.
Thanks to an idiot doctor, it may be the next few years. With family here, at Thanksgiving I am going to discuss donation to a medical school again. There has been a lack of enthusiasm in th epast. I find the current funeral practices very pagan. My corpse won’t be me. I don’t want the same for myself, but I love my great, great, grandfather’s tome stone. It has a hand pointing to heaven.
After any usable organs and tissues are harvested, Whole body donation through my state’s Anatomy Board.
Once they’ve taken everything they want they cremate the rest of me (or any donors) and return cremains to the family if that’s desired. (Mine won’t, but I think it’s a nice option for families who would want that sort of thing.)
From the title I expected to be sharing a more nefarious plan. Oh well, I’m sure that thread will roll around.
Science! I’ll give it up for organ donation first, scientists can have the leftovers, and what they don’t want can be discarded or cremated as best seen fit.
Burial. But not in one of those horrid metal hermetically sealed liquefaction caskets.
Bury me in a simple wooden box, and plant a couple of trees over me. Right on top. In fact, plant a blackthorn at my head and a whitethorn at my feet, and maybe the fairies will let me join their song. . .
Organ/tissue donation followed by cremation. I think current burial practices are deeply creepy.
I haven’t died yet. When my pets die, I take them to the desert and leave the body for the gouls. I have a doner card, so I hope that my organs and skin will help other people, but I’d really like to know that the remains will feel coyotes and vultures.
It won’t matter when I’m dead.
Interesting name / post combo…
I want every useable body part to be harvested. They can have the non-useable stuff to experiment on or whatnot.
I’d leave my body to a medical school, but having read up on it it appears they wouldn’t want me.
So after my organs are hopefully safely tucked away in other people, I want my family to do whatever is easiest for them. I lean towards cremation, I don’t want peoples’ last memory of me to be me laying in a casket.
Gotcha ya!
StG