# What do you want to have happen to your body after you go? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653 "2006-03-23T23:27:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/61 "2006-03-24T14:23:22Z")
> [@Stinkum](#): > > If there’s any left over, I think I would make a good rose fertilizer. According to _Stiff_, cremains make a very poor fertilizer. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/62 "2006-03-24T14:35:03Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > According to _Stiff_, cremains make a very poor fertilizer. Cremains do, but not whole human bodies. Those putrify very well. That’s why I’d rather be buried whole than cremated, although I guess I can see why it’s illegal most places. And I just noticed that **Ice Wolf** lives in NZ, making my advice about the state ID moot. But maybe there is something like that in other countries, nondrivers need ID too. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/63 "2006-03-24T14:55:22Z")
Did you know…that Donner Pass is a [STATE PARK](http://parks.ca.gov/?page_id=503)? And it has a picnic area? With outdoor barbecuing permitted? Did you know that BBQ Sauce comes in Plastic Barrel-sized lots? Let’s give some Tourists from LA, preferable from the Entertainment Industry, [A SUPRISE!!](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1880448823/qid=1143212015/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-9607823-9818313?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/64 "2006-03-24T15:41:57Z")
How much atmospheric carbon is bound up in human corpses? maybe cremation isn’t the way to go-it probably contributes to Global Warming? I would imagine that Egyptian-style embalming would be best foir the environment-your body carbon never gets released into the atmosphere! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/65 "2006-03-24T16:40:22Z")
> [@Leibowitz](#): > > I think it would be cool to compressed into a diamond. My friend Holly is kind of counting on being able to do that with a grandma she dislikes. Presumably Holly is waiting for grandma’s death; otherwise it’s going to be a big, big surprise. 🙂 As for myself, ideally, I would like my body to burn up on orbital re-entry. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/66 "2006-03-24T19:07:14Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Damn it, FCM; I read that as ‘sprinkled on eBay’. > > 😃 So did I! If possible, I’d donate my organs, then probably cremation. Booring! ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/67 "2006-03-24T19:53:35Z")
Like someone else said, I want to be stuffed. Specifically, I’d like be stuffed in a sitting position wearing some comfortable yet nice clothing. The expression on my face would be one of genial inquisitiveness, with one eyebrow raised, as if someone in the room had just scored a telling point in an engrossing intellectual debate. Maybe I could have reading glasses held in my hand, although I don’t wear glasses. Anyway, future generations could park me in the study with a book on my lap, or at the dinner table, or whatever. They could put me in the atrium to frighten away burglars and Jehovah’s Witnesses. In my waning years as a mummy they can relegate me to the attic, where great-great-grandchildren can scare the crap out of their friends in the dark. Pulling down my corpse at Halloween would become a family tradition akin to fetching the ornaments at Christmas time. Mummification for teh win. But assuming I can’t devise the system of interlocking perpetual trusts to inflict myself on my descendants, I’ll be stuck in the mausoleum like everyone else. That place sucks. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/68 "2006-03-24T20:29:19Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Take whatever organs are useful, let a medical school have at me if that’s useful, then cremate whatever’s left and dump me in the mountains somewhere. Ditto. Mountains are nice, but optional. At that point, I won’t really care where my ashes wind up. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653/69 "2006-03-24T22:26:59Z")
They can reanimate the brain and transplant it into the healthy young body of a supermodel where I can then live the sweet life and see how the other half lives. The rest can be cremated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-have-happen-to-your-body-after-you-go/349653.md?page=3)