what do you want done with your body when you die?

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i think it'd be pretty friggin awesome to go to a taxiderm and get my body stuffed. then my family or friends could put me in their living room in my leather jacket, dr.martens, with my hair up, smoking a cigg and drinking a 40 oz.
but pretty much taxiderms only stuff animals so i like the idea of just decomposing naked in the middle of a forest or being cremated and having my ashes thrown on the beach of rehobeth, delaware.
 
well I'm registered for organ donation, but after that I'd like to be cremated, then have my ashes scattered in the ocean, so I can be free, y'know? plastinates are cool, but I wouldn't want people laughing at my dead body...
 
I wanna be chopped up into pieces, wrapped up in garbage bags and sent to ride the gulf stream of the coast of Miami...ya know, Dexter style.

awesome! i would love for dexter to chop me up!

other than that... i don't really care. once my body is dead, it really doesn't matter what happens to me. i'm an organ donor as well as some of you, but i don't want a fucking grave. cremate me if you will. leave me to be eaten by bears. i don't care. my body is just a vesel for ME. just a shell until i reach the next dimension.

fuck caring about what happens to your body after it's dead. it's just a corpse... just a shell.
 
I really don't care what the hell is done with my remains after I die.
However it sure would have been nice to have been an episode of unsolved mysteries, DAMN IT Robert Stack,
why'd you have to go and kick the bucket!

My grandfather says some crazy but funny shit about what he wants done with his body when he dies, he says
"I don't care what they do with me when I'm dead, for all I care they can shove a bone up my ass and let the
dogs drag me away!" That shit always makes me laugh.
 
In Buddhist tradition, they cut up the body and feed it to the vultures. The bones are gathered and reused to make bowls, knives, musical instruments, whatever. It'd be nice to have that done. More realistically, I'll probably just end up being cremated with the ashes dumped in the nearest river or large body of water. I'll probably insist on having no autopsy and being embalmed with morphine first, though, whatever is finally done. My worst fear is being paralyzed, mistaken for dead, and autopsied alive or some such horrible thing.
 
Cremated. And I don't need a plot or anything - why bother. However one thing kinda bothers me - I'm taking a Forensics course (for fun believe it or not - I work at a college so it doesn't cost much) and of course it's a study of bone. And since it's a study of bone - I found out that cremation really doesn't reduce your bones to ash (more like sand) - that your long bones, bigger bones especially don't reduce - so your remains are swept down the hole to a grinder - so you're ground into that sandy dust. Hmm.
 
Since I am at the end of the line - meaning nobody follows me - while I'd like the dirt burial which Nelco mentioned, it would be pointless in my case since nobody would ever come to pay respects, so I'm going with a sea burial, which is performed here in CT.
 
i wish i could say something romantic like a viking burial or taxidermy or something awesome, but in reality because after the experience of having to sort out my dads funeral i will just be cool with whatever is the easiest and cheapest option (disposing of bodies legally is expensive!). No ceremony, cardboard coffin, cremation, scatter me somewhere, job done!