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

[zoe420]

I like the idea of becoming part of the world after I die. So cremated and thrown in the ocean or into the desert wind or buried in a nice field or something like under a tree. No fancy coffin or funeral, never liked those things.

 

[crow jane]

I want my friends to harvest my bones and use them to make an instrument or series of instruments

 

[Melody]

Cremated, ashes included in the blowing of an awesome bong or a few pipes.

 

[dprogram]

I want my good organs to be reused. Then I'd like to be cremated and made into a diamond with the remaining ashes dumped on my parents farm land and some used as fertilizer for my dad's flowers at his grave. Instead of a funeral I'd like people to throw a huge party and celebrate my life and not mourn my death.

 

[dprogram]

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!

Yeah you'd think that after you die you wouldn't owe shit. They get you when you're alive and when you're dead.

 

[happyearthhomes]

Told my wife burn me have a party n mix my ashes in the compost pile

 

[urbanflow]

i would like to be placed somewhere in the wilderness and let the animals and nature reclaim my energy

 

[Everymanalion]

Feed me to a pack of lions.

 

[scatwomb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey#Death_and_burial

 

[Mad Max]

I would like to have my body cremated except for my bones. My bones can be made into jewelry and worn by my friends. My ashes can be loaded into rifle bullets and used for hunting.

 

[Mongo]

I was just thinking the other day while riding my bike "If I was cremated I want my ashes to be spread in a childrens sandbox".

 

[Hal]

Ok. I'm 100% dead serious about this game plan and have given detailed directions to my closest friends.

Firstly, my skull will be given to theater friends to be used in all future productions of Hamlet.

The rest of me will be cremated. My closest road dawgs will take me for one last West bound ride and leave my ashes on the train.

Most importantly, if my family somehow insists on a Christain burial all of my friends will show up on the church steps for a rowdy, drugged out , super fun anti-funeral.

I really enjoy this thread.

 

[Pheonix]

A good insight on what the options are and what their environmental impact is.

 

[1544c]

put me in a wooden coffin in an unmarked grave.
the bugs will eat me and i will return to nature

 

[3knd]

Scraped off the sidewalk.

 

[Pheonix]

http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/how-to-turn-into-a-tree-after-you-die/
here's another good concept.

 

[Rob Nothing]

Ideally, hell. bury me in the earth somewhere quiet.

But what is done with me depends on where I am, as it always has. Not even the living have control over what is done.. and I have no strong wishes on the subject of a corpse.

 

[Odin]

Scraped off the sidewalk.

I hope not...

For me... cremated on a funeral pyre while everyone gets drunk and dances. ::drinkingbuddy::

Laughing all night long.
::woot::

Though my dear ladies can take a moment to shed those heavy tears...
Yet be comforted by the thought that I will always be there.
In hearts and memories if not space and time.::eyepatch::

 

[Endy]

Burned. Or shot into space. One of the two.

 

[6bummin6it6]

i have a love for rivers that runs just as deep as a river itself, so when i die, i want my body to be dumped into a handmade canoe and sent down river, but i was my body to be really pale when they do this, dressed in a (stolen) tuxedo, holding some sort of white and purple flowers. i have also asked that they put my banjo in the boat with me. this would have been a lot cooler 600 years ago, so nobody would ever find my body and i would turn into food for the fish or coyotes or something, now i will probably just be found by some kindly fisherman, stone skipping kid, or river clean up crew.


if i were buried, it would have to be on a private plot of land, a friend of mine has a place in new england, my tombstone would read "here lies the biggest asshole who ever lived. he was a fucking dick and you should be glad he's dead" with some bullshit date and name.