I want any organs that can be used to be taken and then to have my body cremated with the ashes buried in a cemetary near my family.
I have two choices for my remains. Both are probably impossible, but I’ll still require either of them in my will.
- To be artificially fossilized and deep sixed into Challenger Deep to be found centuries from now and thought to be as old as dinosaurs. Hopefully It’ll screw with their heads if I don’t erode.
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- To be entombed on a small asteroid sent into uncontrolled re-entry so that I burn up. Might as well be spectacular in my exit.
Remove any organs that might be useful to someone, give the rest over to medical science, and burn the leftovers. I don’t really care much one way or the other what happens to the ashes, as long as I’m not taking up any fertile land. I.e. I don’t want a spot in the local graveyard – shelf me or spread the ashes somewhere.
No time to read all of the above. Hope I don’t repeat. If possible leave it where it falls and walk away. Realistically that probably won’t happen. If possible (I understand it is in certain cases and in some states) don’t waste money on embalming. Just dig a hole, shove it in. Say a prayer if you are so inclined, then get on withyour life. A backhoe could come in handy.
Or… Grind it up into the smallest pieces imaginable then put it into Ernesto and Julio Gallo’s vats. (the special ones that go for communion wine.) OOPS what’s the name of the unleavened bread factory?
Bury me face down, so the world can kiss my ass.
Or build me one of those pyramid things. That would do nicely.
After working in a funeral home, I can say that I’ve few things more heartening than an organ doner. Whatever that person was in life, now he’s fucking dead and his eyes, internal organs, and skin are helping another person live, see, and/or recover from disfiguring burns. Anything I have that can be used I want used. As for what’s left over, just poke a few holes in my guts to let the gasses escape and throw me in a ditch.
MajorTom, I think you at least want to read the first reply on this page (the one by Ranchoth)
In the United States, it isn’t, but it is in Japan. I’ve seen some preserved tattoos, but it just doesn’t look right not on a person and everything.
Plastination - then all my friends can come and see me.
More Info ( not for the squeamish)
http://www.koerperwelten.de/en/pages/ausstellung_muenchen.asp
My aunt’s mother did this. The hospital (or medical school, I forget which) picked up her body and took it away. Then her husband had a memorial service for her, with just a picture of her on the altar. It was kind of interesting, but I personally get a little creeped out about the idea of lots of people examining me that way.
I plan to have my organs donated, body cremated and ashes scattered somewhere. New Zealand would be nice. I really loved New Zealand. My husband’s set on the Canadian Rockies for his ashes.
No pun intended?
As for me, organ donation, then bake and shake©.
And I hope this isn’t insensitive of me, but can anyone explain why we still embalm corpses?
Yes, there are a few people who believe that they will be resurrected in the body, i.e. their corpses will be brought forth from the grave and they’ll go to heaven in a physical body. But God will restore the bodies, right? Are we trying to make His job a little easier? Anyway, most people who believe in an afterlife believe in an incorporeal form.
Is there a public health or environmental issue that I’m missing?
I’m thinking of posters here who have lost loved ones, and I don’t want to be graphic, so I’ll just put it like this: Does embalming provide some measure of comfort for the surviving family members? I’m asking honestly, because it seems to me that most people don’t want their remains embalmed, and yet the practice seems widespread in our culture. Do funeral directors push it?
After that, sprinkle me some place I’ll never probably get to go in real life. Like Disneyland.
:::Weeee! The Matterhorn!!:::
Being of Ojibwa heritage, I’d preferably like to have my remains left in the wilderness, one of the respected choices. The dying would simply go into the forest to die (as seen in the movie The Black Robe)
In Michigan it’s state law that you must be embalmed with in a certain period of time. Plus I think people start to ripen before too long and so embalming helps people push the funeral off a couple of days.
File me away in a mausoleum. I dont want to be in the ground.
But I would request a party game at my wake-kind of like a combination of telephone and a shot game. Everyone gets in a circle. One end starts with a " I remember the time NVME…" while the person at the opposite end takes a shot and passes it down. This continues until a story makes it around the circle of they all keel over drunk and pissing their pants with laughter.
Oh, and its black tie.
Cremation for me and I also want a grave stone.
Ideally I’d like my ashes to be stored in the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, where a number of Roman Emperors’ ashes were put. I’m sure one of my relatives could sneak in and “accidently” spill my ashes.