# Where Will You Spend Eternity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897 "2010-03-26T16:44:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/41 "2010-03-27T03:59:18Z")
Buried. I already have the plot. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/42 "2010-03-27T05:52:25Z")
Organ donor and then cremation, ashes buried in my daughters grave. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/43 "2010-03-27T05:59:19Z")
Organ donor. After that, I don’t give a shit. I mean, it’s just my body – it’s dead meat. (And yes, I believe in an after life, but my _body_’s not part of it) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/44 "2010-03-27T06:00:14Z")
I want to be an organ donor and then cremated. The idea of donating my cadaver to the U sounds good in theory, but is too creepy. They have a body farm. Ew. Actually, I’d really prefer to spontaneously combust- thereby taking care of my death and my cremation in one fell swoop, but you know, that so rarely happens. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/45 "2010-03-27T06:13:56Z")
Organ donation, and I don’t care about the rest. Cremation seems appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/46 "2010-03-27T06:18:05Z")
Yet another for ‘whatever’s useful harvested, cremate the rest’. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/47 "2010-03-27T07:39:01Z")
It’ll be just like a [Hard Candy Christmas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZ1IYRirtQ), that eternity… it’ll be fine and dandy. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/48 "2010-03-27T07:52:08Z")
My various useable parts will go to anybody who needs them. The rest will be cremated and scattered over the hills of Tennessee. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/49 "2010-03-27T07:53:18Z")
I voted “other” because I don’t care. Anyone who cares about my remains can do anything thy want with them. The deposition of those remains would be for their benefit, not mine, so it should be totally up to them. I won’t object to anything. They can dump me in a ditch if they want, I don’t care. ETA, if anyone wants my organs, they can have them. I don’t know how much good they’ll be, but they’ll be free. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/50 "2010-03-27T08:57:57Z")
Take whatever parts are useful, cremate what’s left. Ashes to be scattered in the sandtrap to the left of the third hole at a particular golf course. I’ve already spent eternity there, so it’ll feel right homey. And after a few thousands players play through the course, I might actually make the green. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/51 "2010-03-27T09:42:46Z")
I want to be cremated after donating my organs to science fiction. Then take the ashes and shove them down that bitches throat so the last thing I do is finally off her like she said I would do all those years of marriage. Honestly, I don’t care. They can turn me into Soylent Green for all that it’ll matter to me. I’m already an organ donor, if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/52 "2010-03-27T12:32:16Z")
I’m an organ donor. Parts of me will go to other people, if there are any parts that are any good. The rest will be cremated. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/53 "2010-03-27T12:40:06Z")
Cremation would be better from a real estate standpoint, but I’m Jewish, so burial is it. I’m an organ donor, too. Besides, the anthropologists and archaeologists of the future need _some_ bones to look at. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/54 "2010-03-27T13:54:14Z")
I’m an organ donor, but there are lots of situations which render the organs unusable, so whatever is left, or the whole thing, if applicable, will be donated to science. Having just read Mary Roach’s book _Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers_, I now know that there sure are some interesting options out there! ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/55 "2010-03-28T06:32:01Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > I’m signed up as an organ donor too, so I thought it would be a bit of a waste asking for my corpse to be donated for medical science, what with all the bits missing. They could probably find some use for it. I was in a lab the other day where we were studying the bones and ligaments of the upper limbs and shoulder girdle. Lots of arms and hands to examine. I too plan to donate my organs and give the rest to science. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/56 "2010-03-28T07:01:20Z")
Won’t know, don’t care… ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/57 "2010-03-28T07:16:33Z")
> [@2nd\_Law](#): > > Take whatever parts are useful, cremate what’s left. > > Ashes to be scattered in the sandtrap to the left of the third hole at a particular golf course. I’ve already spent eternity there, so it’ll feel right homey. > > And after a few thousands players play through the course, I might actually make the green. \*\*golf clap \*\* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/58 "2010-03-28T08:03:32Z")
Saw this thing online where they cremate you, then take you out to sea to form a reef out of your remains. Sounds awesome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897/59 "2010-03-28T08:49:40Z")
Burned in a giant wicker man. Actually I have no plans. I don’t care, I’ll be dead by then. I suppose I should look into organ donation, though it does sort of squick me out a bit when I think about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-will-you-spend-eternity/533897.md?page=2)