Burial or Cremation

[Ele'ill]

Which and why

[Angry Young Man]

Well, neither in their typical sense are particularly sustainable, so I'll go for
1. Having my muscles butchered for a nice roast Michael.
2. Having my organs donated to those who need them
3. Having my skin flayed and turned into a rather fetching jacket. Always wanted a tan
4. Having my skeleton processed into raspberry jelly.

Anything left gets dumped in a woodland.

Saying that, I do fancy my own take on the traditional Viking funerary rites - on a flaming boat down the Ouse as people watch by the banks.

Now some topical Monty Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce0UEb05DXI

[Political_Chucky]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/global-warming-uncovers-p2007462/index.html#post2007462

After seeing that thread, thats the way to go.
http://www.treehugger.com/frozen-inca-child.jpg

You could keep your body preserved amazingly well that way

[Magón]

Cremation for me, please! Why? Because I don't really want to be laying there for the rest of the time, rotting away, turning into worm and whatever else's food, taking up worthless space. And because I think it's easier to transport a urn, instead of a casket all the way up on top of Everest. (Or whatever mountain/high point I feel like being scattered on when I'm older.)

[psgchisolm]

Cremation for me, please! Why? Because I don't really want to be laying there for the rest of the time, rotting away, turning into worm and whatever else's food, taking up worthless space. And because I think it's easier to transport a urn, instead of a casket all the way up on top of Everest. (Or whatever mountain/high point I feel like being scattered on when I'm older.)
this I dont want worms crawling through my fucking body noming on my fucking skin. We're running out of space for burying people. We have to dig up old graves and double stack and that's not for me. Burn me and scatter me on the ground PLEASE.

[Sentinel]

I really don't care one way or another, but I hope at least some of the organs can be used to donations and scientific research.

I'd advice them to leave the liver alone, though.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

dont really see the point of cremation
just throw my body into a hole
give a little something back to the wilderness for a change
yeah, donate organs to science and medicine and bury the rest i suppose

[Tablo]

Don't care, but if I chose I would choose cremation.

[Ele'ill]

I want my body to be left untouched in a forest somewhere in south eastern PA.

[kitsune]

Cremation is the norm. Embalming or even interment seems bizarre to me. I kind of like the idea of fuusou, a weathering open-air disposal where the body is placed on a raised platform and left to the elements.


I want my body to be left untouched in a forest somewhere in south eastern PA.

This, but outside Kyoto. My preferred way to be disposed of would be to have my body set in the wilderness, sitting propped against a sugi tree. Let the scavengers take whatever they want, and the insects and microbes and fungi break down the remains. Just a simple way to disperse my elements back into the environment.

[Il Medico]

I'm not quiet sure. I don't really want to be buried, unless I'm mummifed or something.

Cremation wise, they list on 'coolness' as follows:

1. Shot into the Sun.
2. Pyre funeral
3. On a boat, flaming arrow, lake, you know the deal.

Being frozen might be cool too.

Or just launched into space to float through the universe forever.

[Delirium]

I want my body to be left untouched in a forest somewhere in south eastern PA.

I agree, if it were legal i would want my matter and energy redispersed throught the biosphere via decomposition. Its as close to reincarnation that i can belive in.

I dont think you can just leave bodies laying around in the woods though lol. Since that really isn't an option i'd choose cremation. I dont like the idea of my body preserved in a box for eternity.

I suppose you could just get dumped out at sea somewhere and that would work.

People who recieve organ transplants have to be on immunosupressents thier whole life, which in my opinon really isnt a good quality of life. But i guess that is a personal choice.

[Ele'ill]

I agree, if it were legal i would want my matter and energy redispersed throught the biosphere via decomposition. Its as close to reincarnation that i can belive in.

I dont think you can just leave bodies laying around in the woods though lol. Since that really isn't an option i'd choose cremation. I dont like the idea of my body preserved in a box for eternity.

I'm going to find a way.

http://www.abbeyweb.net/bio/death.html


I suppose you could just get dumped out at sea somewhere and that would work.

I don't feel an attachment to the sea.

[Political_Chucky]

For people that believe in reincarnation to some degree, wouldn't burning your body totally like destroy anyway for that to happen? Maybe not if you believe in your soul being incarnated. Thats not what I'm asking though.

When we die, we are basically eaten by bacteria and then Microscopic worms then eat that bacteria. Then this all moves up the food chain and I could see how physically your body is used for energy for all these living organisms, to then be reincarnated. I kinda believe life works somehow in that way or another and in my belief, burning yourself would totally kill off that cycle. No cremation!

[bcbm]

plastination

[Lobotomy]

I'd like to be buried, but with no embalming and none of that indestructible coffin bullshit. I'd like to "return to the earth" like Chucky said.

I'm not sure why I feel strongly about this. It shouldn't matter.

[Magón]

For people that believe in reincarnation to some degree, wouldn't burning your body totally like destroy anyway for that to happen? Maybe not if you believe in your soul being incarnated. Thats not what I'm asking though.

When we die, we are basically eaten by bacteria and then Microscopic worms then eat that bacteria. Then this all moves up the food chain and I could see how physically your body is used for energy for all these living organisms, to then be reincarnated. I kinda believe life works somehow in that way or another and in my belief, burning yourself would totally kill off that cycle. No cremation!

Wood ash actually strengthens and helps certain types of soils. (From what I've heard.) So cremating yourself wouldn't completely kill the cycle, because I've heard that people ash can do the same thing.

[TC]

I don't care...in fact I couldn't care...cause I'd be dead.

Aesthetically though I suppose cremation is more pleasant than natural decomposition.

[Pavlov's House Party]

Obviously I won't care because I'll be dead, but cremation just seems more convenient for everyone else.

[Bandito]

Use all you can of my organs, and do what you wish with the rest.

[Il Medico]

Use all you can of my organs, and do what you wish with the rest.
Careful who you say that to. You might end up a Bandito sandwich.

[Raúl Duke]

Either I have my own Leninesque mauseleoum with my impeccably preserved body or I'm cremated. However, I'll probably donate my body to science or have my ashes launched into space.

[khad]

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[Bandito]

Careful who you say that to. You might end up a Bandito sandwich.

Well, on a more serious note, Serbia is generally corrupted and fucked up, and that is the main reason I didn't officially sign up for organ donation.
Basically, a friend of mine who is a lawyer, made an official document with my signature that I'm a organ donor, which is meant to be kept secret until I actually die.
I really can't be completely positive that some military general or some ruling party schmuck is going to need a liver in the same time I'm at surgery for some other reasons. Call it paranoia, but shit like "oops, his heart failed during surgery" happened in the past.

[Tavarisch_Mike]

I really don't care one way or another, but I hope at least some of the organs can be used to donations and scientific research.

I'd advice them to leave the liver alone, though.

:thumbup1:

About being leaved in the wild, that sounds kind of cool but then i want it to be just like the Siouxes by putting my wraped corp on a streched hide which is attached to some polesin the ground, so my body will be upp frome some meters frome the ground with some ceremonial things like a flint knife.

[Princess Luna]

give my organs to those who need them , then feed the rest of me to my cats

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I want my body to be launched into a black hole in outerspace when I die.

[Quail]

I actually quite like the idea of my body being eaten by worms or whatever. I think it would be kind of nice to have a tree planted over my buried body, and then the tree could use the recycled nutrients from my body to grow.

I sound like such a hippy.

[Angry Young Man]

Careful who you say that to. You might end up a Bandito sandwich.

A little late in the day for saying this, but I'd sandwich you!

Also, come on, I expect the Left to be a little more rational about their corpses. All this dreck about 'ewww I don't want to be eaten by worms!!!! xp'

As a matter of fact, here's my itemised plan for my corpse:

I give my heart to the leader of the Tory party at the time of my death. He's gonna need it.
I give my testicles to the leader of the Lib Dem party at the time of my death. He's gonna need them.
I give my liver to Keith Richards. On the off-chance that he is indeed mortal, I want to play my part in prolonging his life.
The brain, which has no use but to its original owner, shall be buried in a woodland.
The rest of my organs are first-come-first-served.
My skin shall become a rather fetching leather jacket.
My muscles will be fed to the dogs. I hear cannibalism can cause all sorts of problems, so it goes to the dogs.
My skeleton shall be boiled down and made into raspberry jelly (jello to Americans. Although calling jam jelly is a misnomer, since there is no gelatin in jam)

[Il Medico]

A little late in the day for saying this, but I'd sandwich you!

May I inquire as to the third party? ;)

[Kuppo Shakur]

Taxidermy.

[Tablo]

Taxidermy.
Changed my mind. I want this.

[gorillafuck]

I'd like to be soylent green.

[Angry Young Man]

May I inquire as to the third party? ;)

Any takers?

[Le Libérer]

Well I plan to live very old to the point no one would want my organs. Then I would want to be laid to rest with the man I loved, preferably on top, in his New Orleans Cemetary plot.
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/10/38/95/rows-of-tombs.jpg

[RedStarOverChina]

I've always been fascinated with Tibetan Sky Burial.

Basically, they chop you up into pieces and feed the meat to the vultures and eagles.

I wouldn't mind shocking my friends and relatives a little after I die.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I'll take a third option, please. Cryonic preservation, assuming my brain is reasonably intact at the time of death. Otherwise I'd have my healthy organs made available for donation, and the rest given to science.

[Jazzratt]

Have my body hacked up by medical students until it's no longer useful as a teaching aid and then blown up in the sky strapped to a rocket, preferably over something that could do with the little bit of fertilisation. If possible I would like my bones to be made into something though.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I change my mind. I want my corpse pumped with disease then put in a giant blender. I want it to be liquified and put in the drinking water system in Arizona.

[RedAnarchist]

For people that believe in reincarnation to some degree, wouldn't burning your body totally like destroy anyway for that to happen? Maybe not if you believe in your soul being incarnated. Thats not what I'm asking though.

When we die, we are basically eaten by bacteria and then Microscopic worms then eat that bacteria. Then this all moves up the food chain and I could see how physically your body is used for energy for all these living organisms, to then be reincarnated. I kinda believe life works somehow in that way or another and in my belief, burning yourself would totally kill off that cycle. No cremation!

"Ah, see? I knew I was right when I said reincarnation was true! Wait, what's that smell? What is that....oh fuck! fuck! No, don't cremate me! Noooooo...."

[RedAnarchist]

As for myself, probably donate every organ that can be used for others and be cremated.

[RedStarOverChina]

Come on, who wouldn't prefer this to a boring funeral?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Skyburial.JPG/800px-Skyburial.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Skeletonskyburial.jpg/800px-Skeletonskyburial.jpg
Warning! Images could be disturbing to some.

[Kuppo Shakur]

Um...:blink:

[Ele'ill]

I don't find that offensive or anything at all. My roommate and I talked about that yesterday. I think it's interesting.

[gorillafuck]

I'd rather be cremated, for some reason.

[kitsune]

I think the Sky Burial is very interesting, too. It's similar to the idea of a weathering burial, except with more prep. In practice, the jhator ceremony is often too expensive, and people just put the corpse out in a remote place.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

cremation is a waste of energy
a decadent bourgeois ritual
for the priviledged parasites who must consume in excess
who refuse decomposition
who must resist being on the receiving end of the natural process of consumption
even after death

[Il Medico]

cremation is a waste of energy
a decadent bourgeois ritual
for the priviledged parasites who must consume in excess
who refuse decomposition
who must resist being on the receiving end of the natural process of consumption
even after death
Or maybe it just makes more sense for large populations (as it takes less land and time/effort) to cremate instead of bury.