# When I die, I want to be \[...\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834 "2015-09-28T13:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/41 "2015-09-30T11:36:46Z")
I don’t want to be embalmed and buried in a box. I don’t want to be buried at sea. Neither do I want to be cremated, my ashes scattered to the four winds or stored in an urn on the mantel. No, I want to be preserved like a **spicy Slim Jim**. I want to be marinated in salt, sodium nitrite and a secret blend of spices that will leave me dark red, desiccated and with a shelf life that needs no expiration date. Instead of a shroud or coffin, I want to be sealed in a convenient single serving wrapper. At my viewing, any who choose to do so are more than welcome to snap into me. Tear into the spice, as it were. So it is written, so let it be done. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/42 "2015-09-30T11:44:45Z")
**…a lumberjack!** Leaping from tree to tree as it floats down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! With my best girl by my side! The larch! The…no, hang on, I’ve gotten distracted. I’d either like to be doing something heroic or at least worthwhile, or I’d like to have done something heroic or at least worthwhile. Also, I’d like to be rich, if only to leave my family financially secure. As for bodily disposal: harvest me for parts and cremate the rest. Afterlife-wise: I dunno. I’m expecting oblivion, so if that’s wrong I’m hoping for something at least reasonably pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/43 "2015-09-30T13:17:08Z")
Fun answer? With The Doctor, so he can go back in time and save me. Serious answer – When I physically die? Honestly, I’m asthmatic, and the idea of not being able to take that final breath scares the crap out of me. I’d like to miss out on that, and any fear. In my sleep, very old, at home, but with someone looking after me so the cats don’t have to eat me. I plan to donate my body to med school, if possible. I’m going to medical school one way or another. If that doesn’t pan out, I kind of like the idea of the [tree pod](http://www.treehugger.com/culture/egg-shaped-burial-pods-fertilize-forest.html). Though with the meds I take, the tree might die. > [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Reincarnated as L and P’s dog. > A couple I used to pet sit for. They had some seriously spoiled dogs. My family has a running joke that we want to be reincarnated as one of our cats. They really have the life (I say, as one is sleeping on my feet, the other is getting into “her” kitchen cabinet, and the third is snoozing on his blankie.) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/44 "2015-09-30T17:06:58Z")
I saw a good one on Facebook: I want to be shot by Clint Eastwood, and have it narrated by Morgan Freeman. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/45 "2015-09-30T19:44:24Z")
…finished with all my books. Wouldn’t that be awful, to never know how it all turned out? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/46 "2015-10-01T03:45:19Z")
See what happens as it progresses. Out of body experience. But not forever. Or, be reincarnated as a bird. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/47 "2015-10-01T03:52:41Z")
… surprised. Another vote for “not wanting to see it coming.” ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834/48 "2015-10-01T04:11:00Z")
Really, completely, truly dead. Those stories of people who are thought dead, but turn out not to be give the the heebie jeebjies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-die-i-want-to-be/732834.md?page=2)