I’d prefer to be harvested for spare parts and/or used as a medical school cadaver. Whatever’s lost over can get tossed in the incinerated and the ashes tossed into the nearest ocean. No funeral or service of any kind.
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Organ/tissue harvesting, donate anything else that’s useful to research or teaching, dispose of what’s left in the least expensive possible manner (probably cremation w/o casket).
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Plain old cremation, no casket, no urn.
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Yes, with the possible exception of the “no casket” part. I’ve been told that some states require that the body be in some kind of container, so my surviving relatives might have to pack me up some kind of cardboard eco-coffin.
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In principle, it bums me a little, because it will end up costing my family more than necessary. In practice, I’ll be dead, so it won’t be my problem. It’s not like the government can keep me from dying just because I don’t have all my ducks in a row.
I’m torn. On the one hand, I’d like whoever found me to bury my corpse in the woods a couple states away and pretend that I went missing. I detest the idea the idea that those closest to me would have to shell out thousands of dollars just because I died, and I couldn’t give less of a damn about a casket, “final resting place”, or cremation.
The problem with doing that, other than wasting taxpayer dollars when somebody files a missing persons report, is that I’m an organ donor, and would very much prefer my death to save and improve others’ lives if possible. Obviously, that can’t happen if I’m decaying in the Pine Barrens.
The ideal situation would be that a box and a hole in the ground didn’t cost ridiculous fucktons of money. In that case, I’d have the best of all sides; I could donate my organs, what was left could be buried closed-casket (or duct-taped-Frigidaire-boxed as the case may be), and my friends and family would be able to make their peace with my death. As it is, I’m told – and certain posts to this thread support – that the chance to say goodbye is worth more than the cost of the arrangements, so I guess that’s it. Still, it annoys me to think about it.
(And yes, I’m aware of the existence of life insurance, and have it through my job even though I’m only 24…but I don’t see why I should have to pay to ensure that my loved ones don’t have to pay for my death, either.)
I wrote a thread about this in MPSIMS about a week and a half ago; Eternal Reef Balls! THIS is what I want done with my body when I die!
I’m also an organ donor, but didn’t mention that in the previous thread, so if anything can be used, I’d certainly want them to take what they can first.
Organ donation.
Cremation with scattering, unless they can be shot into space. I don’t have a second choice.
Yes, whatever I want is what will happen.
Sounds like there is a lot of interest in eternal reef balls.
Can we get a volume discount?
Can we get a reef named after us?
Contentious Shoals? Doper Shallows? Marianas Anti-trench?
I want to be cremated and some of my ashes scattered in the ocean in front of my grandparent’s house- it a family tradition.
The rest of the ashes? I want them funneled into little glass vials (decorated or embellished ones would be nice) and given out to my friends and loved ones. Then, they should take me somewhere really cool and scatter me. I could end up in a volcano, on Mt. Everest, in Tahiti, in Belfast, on Rapa Nui, or just about anywhere else.
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E sort of. Creamation with ashes in an Urn, but buried. That is what my dad had requested and what we did when he died 2+ years ago. He is buried on top of a casket in a family plot. Our cemetary is letting 2 to 3 urns be buried on top of old caskets, because of space issues.
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E, with Urn kept by someone who loved me.
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Yes, I think they would respect them. My family is pretty good that way.
- Whatever is cheapest (after having my organs taken)
- Cut into bits and processed at a sewage plant (after having my organs taken)
- Who knows.
- My family can afford it.
G. Something Else.
I have left instructions that I want my body to be put on a small wooden boat along with various of my favorite possessions (some of them are listed in the instructions: my 1972 Les Paul Custom guitar, my chess set my grandfather got me when I was 8 years old, etc.). I want them to set me adrift and light the boat on fire while The Kingsmen’s version of Louie, Louie plays very loudly until the boat finally sinks.
I’ve wanted this kind of Viking funeral ever since I first saw Blake Edwards’ S.O.B. way back in 1981. If they can’t do this with my actual body, I want them to cremate me, and then just send my ashes on the boat.
Then I want everyone to have a killer party and rock out as best they can. Life is for (the) living.
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Green burial. I’m already planning the stuff I’m going to put on my shroud, which I will embroider myself. It’s gonna be neato. No headstone. Maybe a rock.
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Cremation, then tossed into a lush canyon in the mountains.
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Maybe, maybe not. Husband is Catholic and wants to be buried in sacred ground next to me, but I don’t think forcing myself to take up religion just to get buried is such a hot idea. Discussion either devolves into a general argument about faith/lack thereof, or a “That’s too morbid, let’s change the topic” from him.
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I’m not too worried about it, honestly. I’m more concerned about my living will being honored.
I want to be donated to science, possibly to a body farm, or plastinated and go on tour with Body Worlds.
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A brief but ghoulish poll suggested by the weekly *Pushing Daisies *thread, which is otherwise irrelevant.
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What do you want done with your body after you die?
g. Something I didn’t think of (please elaborate).
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If you died today, would your wishes be respected? Why or why not?
Yes. I’ve made it clear to everyone that knows me. Parents, boyfriend, friends. If they didn’t… I’d find a haunting type thing or mentally give them the hoodoo. It’s silly, but seriously, I’m now dead. Please do with me what I wanted to have happen.
- If your answer to (3) was no, how much does that bother you? I had said no? See (3)
Any useable parts will be removed for recycling and the rest will be cremated. My wife and sons know what to do.
Whatever is cheapest and/or makes my family happiest. I think that cremation and scattering is the norm in my family, and that is cool by me. Definitely no embalming or expensive caskets or anything. I hate wasting money in life and there is no reason to start wasting it when I die.
If I should die overseas I’d hope I could be cremated overseas and the ashes sent home instead of the whole corpse- so expensive. But if I should happen to die in Africa I’d want to be buried in Africa according to the local (ideally Muslim) custom. Unless, of course, that would upset my family.
I would like some kind of memorial- a tombstone or one of those tacky benches or something. Ideally something kind of wacky and interesting in a cool place. I love graveyards and I’d like to leave something for future generations to gawk at. If not just to look at my name and wonder what my story was.
The last thing is that I want a costume funeral (well, memorial service…viewings are kind of creepy). A Doper got invited to one of these once and didn’t know what to wear. You don’t want to be flippant with something funny, but scary costumes are a bit morbid. Angels and devils are a bit problematic. I loved the idea- one last way to be a pain in the butt to everyone I know. And hopefully it will make people laugh a bit.
I’m an organ donor.
I’d like a sea burial but that’s probably not legal. I’ve asked Mom to bury the leftovers from the harvesting in the family plot with the minimum amount of “conservation” allowed by law, if I die before she does. Please skip the “tin box inside iron box inside oak box” for me, thanks. I need to talk about it with the Bros. I kind of like the idea of becoming part of the ivy that’s been trying to take up that whole side of the cementery for decades.
That plot has been in the family for over 100 years. It’s a collective grave, with a big plaque where the names of the people buried there get added. We still have room for more than 30 names.
Anything useful donated to science (i. e. reused), then the rest composted and the compost donated (i. e. recycled) to the Midnight Fertilizers (guerilla gardeners who under cover of darkness rip up asphalt from traffic islands and other unnecessary areas and plant flowers). I’m already reducing in the form of exercise and getting healthier. Green all the way!
Sadly, I’m no use as an organ donor, so there is no point in harvesting my organs.
I’m up for a woodland burial - a way of preserving green belt woodlands from any other use (land with bodies in it can be identified for centuries from plants and chemical telltales), and there are no markers of any sort - just a restful, peaceful, natural place.
Otherwise cremation - I don’t want to waste space, and the God I believe in doesn’t need a body to resurrect me at His return.
Those who survive me know my wishes - I see no reason why they wouldn’t carry them out - they have disagreement with them.
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My verbal response is, “Stick a bone up my ass and let the dog drag me away.”
In actuality, I’m torn on where I would want to be buried, so my solution is I want to be cremated, and my ashes divided. The portions are to be spread in the following manner:
- 1 portion each on the graves of my grandparents;
- 1 portion each on the graves of my parents;
- 1 portion each to be buried with my wife, son, and sister;
- the balance to be spread at a stream in the Smoky Mountains on a hot summer morning where an active railroad has a bridge and the fish are biting.
I say there’s about a 67% chance of this happening.
Donated to science. Stripped of organs, studied, given to Gil Grissom for decomposition, whatever use can be made out of it.