How do you want your ugly bag of mostly water disposed of?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I know this has been discussed before, but I can’t seem to find it so I’m asking now.

Cremated? Burial at sea? Launched into space after being frozen in the hopes that one day they’ll find a cure for death?

I would love to have a Valentine-Smith funeral, but I don’t think that’s too likely. That being the case, I’ve decided that sky burial is the next option, let the critters have me. Better than embalming and dirt burial. So body farm it is for me I suppose. I don’t know that actual sky burials are allowed here in the US.

2

If it’s legal wherever I meet my demise, I like the idea of sky burial. Don’t waste a penny on any of the other options such as burial, cremation, or burial at sea. Well, maybe burial at sea would be okay, but only so long as the bag of mostly water is subject to decomposition and will not become yet another human blight on the environment.

3

I’m good with being reduced to a generally carbonaceous dust.

4

Aquamation. A much more environmentally friendly cremation method.

5

Green burial. Buried in the woods or meadow, wrapped in a sheet.

6

Buried underneath a Weeping Willow tree in a biodegradable bag next to a haunted mansion.

7

We accidentally did that to a kitten when it climbed into a front-load washer when I was a kid.

No. Cremation.

8

Whatever organs still work to be donated, the rest to a medical school to train surgeons.

After that? Well, hospitals regularly burn medical waste.

9

I had hoped to be buried under a Toys R Us. Now, I imagine a traditional Jewish burial- no embalming, nothing of value on the corpse, and either a rough pine box with rope handles or a cardboard coffin.

10

So, Girl Soup.

11

Unceremoniously tossed in ditch for the coyotes.

12

That is a standard S.E.P.

Somebody Else’s Problem.

13

I own six gravesites in a cemetery, courtesy of an elderly relative. I will be there, some day.

14

Full body donation to Science Care

15

If this really is your choice, you should sign up now and live a long time because there is a waiting list. A whole bunch of people are dying to get in! (Seriously, the waiting list is not a joke. We signed up many years ago so when we shuffle off this mortal coil, we will only wait in a freezer until the next place is open. Your survivors might be faced with figuring out what to do with you on the fly without prior planning on your part.)

16

In all six? One for each limb, torso and head? That’s pretty metal.

17

:laughing: Just one for me. The others are “reserved” for others, shall we say.

18

Put my ashes in Puget Sound. Ask the captain to blow the horn on the ferry.

19

I want to be wrapped in fine linens, mummified, and placed in a fancy stone sarcophagus surrounded by gold amulets and canopic jars containing my internal organs. Pets, family members, and acquaintances are to be sacrificed, mummified, and placed in my tomb along with abundant food to keep me satiated postmortem. Bags of Big Macs, fries, and chocolate shakes should suffice. Oh, and a few hundred Baked Apple Pies, too. One mustn’t journey into the afterlife on an empty stomach, after all.

20

Whatever costs the least.

Drag me out into a forest (if the forest don’t mind).

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