Organ donation then cremation since sky burials are not really legal here in the states.
I’ve already voted. 
Just thought I would share one of my cousin’s ‘weirdness’ with y’all. 
He says he wants to donate whatever is desired, then have the remainder cremated.
Here’s the ‘weird’ part. In his words, “Mix my ashes with some douche water and run me thru, one last time.” :eek:
I always wanted to be stuffed with my middle finger up for the world to see. I could also be used as a hat rack then.
My racing buddy wants me to put his ashes in with the oil-dry used at racetracks to clean up the track after a crash. He even has a list of tracks where he wants his remains spread. Now, that’s being useful!
+1
Once they’ve removed anything useful I wish to be cremated.
Cremation. I have no desire to end up in the ground. It’s way cheaper and a lot less misery than dealing with the circus that is a funeral and all of the attendant arrangements.
My sister and I honored our mother’s wishes for the kind of funeral she wanted. I can’t speak for my sibling, but I hated Every Minute of it.
Dump me in a mayo jar and stick me up on the top shelf of the closet. I don’t care. What I *****do *****care about is that the funds and property I have to leave behind I’d rather my survivors get as much of that as possible. And not only have I told my sister that - it’s specified in my will. Those are MY wishes.
Well, maybe not about the mayo jar.
I chose burial only because I already have a plot paid for (long story, BIL died young, inlaws saw they were having a sale and bought my wife and I plots (along with my SIL whose husband died)) and it would be a waste not to use it.
As for all you “donate to science” types, I think that is a very poor choice. Sooner or later the mad scientists are going to use you to make a Frankenstein’s monster and when you crush some little girl and toss her broken body in the water, and your friends and relative find out…the horror!
Prep my skeleton and hang me in a classroom lab. See if the students can tell how many bones I’ve broken. (16)
Um, I don’t see the connection. You can have a funeral with a urn full of ashes just as well as with a corpse in a casket.
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Cremation ***is somewhat ***cheaper, but not a whole damn lot.
My brother was cremated (at his behest), the funeral home stated that we had to purchase a container for the body to be cremated in.
When my Mom and I were first told that a box was required, (for ONLY $550.00) I was more than a little curious as to what kind of box cost so much.
We were required to pay $550.00 for a box made out of 1/2" particle board!
To put the body in, so they could cremate it! WTF!?
(Which by the way, was the cheapest container available for cremation purposes.)
A box made out of 1/2" particle board. We’re talking maybe $40.00 worth of materials, for something that I could construct in an hour or less.
When I said that I would build a box, exactly like the one they were trying to sell us, I was told “No, I would have to purchase their box.”
The whole thing ended up costing in the neighborhood of $7,000.00 +. The funeral business is a huge money gouging scam. :mad:
My apologies to everyone for the hijack.
Not to worry about the hijack, jbdivmstr.
Personally, I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor at what you related. Yowza… The cremation cost you seven grand??? That’s only a thousand less than my mother’s funeral - complete with casket and the accompanying dog and pony show.
My point was that I didn’t want a lot of fuss and bother when I die. I don’t want a service. I don’t want a minister. I don’t want a viewing, per se. Cremate me and then have a nice party for friends and family in my honor – not a wake and sure as hell not in a funeral home! - and then the intent was to leave something behind for my niece and nephew who will eventually inherit from their parents and from me.
Back to the original thought: how is it possible a cremation could cost that much? A couple of thousand at the most, I would have thought. Apparently, that’s not the case! LOL. Maybe I wasn’t too far off about the mayo jar at that.
I went with my mother when she signed herself and my father up for the local Cremation Society. Cost per person was about $1100. When my father passed, he was not required to have a coffin, particle board or otherwise. I wonder if this is a regulation that varies state-by-state.
Upon retrospection (and calling my Mom to pick her brain) I may have been just a little “hyperbolic” with that figure. It seems that the total cost was closer to $5,000.00.
That price represents the total cost.
The cost of the actual cremation was right at $2,000.00, maybe a hair more. Granted, this was back in 1998, and the total represents the price of the notice in the newspaper, (which wasn’t cheap, either) the cost to rent the room for a memorial service, the rental of a decorative urn for use during the service, etc. etc. etc.
Suffice it to say, funerals of any kind are pricey affairs. 
Although I’m sure it’s probably not legal in most locations yet there is always the Mushroom burial suit.
not my problem. What my family does with it I won’t know. Hopefully something cheap. But again, not my problem.