When your time comes, do you want to be buried or cremated?

[Deja Q]

I wanna be cremated...














And shoved into this urn:

[Dangerously Amused]

1. Cremated. No question.

[Cannikin]

2. I want to be buried ass-up so my friends can park their bicycles.

[Deja Q]

3. Um, we need to see a picture for that...

or do we? We don't need anything locked! O8)

[terrya]

4. I'm going to be cremated

I think it's morally and ethically indefensible to be buried. I'm going to further specify in my will to have my ashes scattered...I don't care where.

[xmas74]

5. I've thought about cremation

but I've also thought about donating myself to a body farm for further studies.

My uncle has already signed his forms to be donated to a university for studies-whatever they see fit. And one of my cousins filled out a form last year, donating her body to Plastique.

[Ariana Celeste]

9. I'd love to have my body donated

And fortunately I have a cool SO who would actually do that for me. :)

[xmas74]

14. You can fill out the forms at any time.

My uncle had to have his notarized which was easy.

Contact any large university and tell them you are interested in donating your body. He did and they mailed the forms to him.

[Ariana Celeste]

20. Right on, I'll have to look into it

Just seems appropriate. :).

[xmas74]

27. I think so too.

I'd rather my body go to use, either to aid in medicine or for other forms of research.

Seems like the right thing to do.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Cremation and spreading ashes is the most ethical choice.

Or burial without embalming and without a vault and in a wooden casket if one simply MUST have a casket...

I choose to be cremated and spread - I want my remains back to the earth from which they came. It's the only natural, logical, and ethical course of action, to allow the body to go back to the earth as quickly as possible.

As a species we need to decide that valut burial is not ethical and selfish; that it makes no sense. And that putting one's loved in an expensive casket is a waste; to put them in a metal casket is to defy nature.

[AlienGirl]

34. Vault burial is silly, but cemetaries are good habitat for urban wildlife

Trying to keep the body from rotting is kind of a goofy idea, but having cemetaries in the city can be a way to keep some of the land un-built-upon, and the margins of cemetaries are often great habitat--brushy, lots of cover, relatively undisturbed.

Tucker

[Broken_Hero]

7. cremated also

take up less space, all i am is ash...biodegrade quickly....hmm, yep. :)

[Iniquitous Bunny]

8. cremated

Just had this conversation at a funeral a couple of days ago with my SO. :(

[bleedingheart]

10. I used to think I wanted to be buried...but now I don't think so

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I'll be dead, and as such, won't really care.

[swag]

46. This primate1 makes some sense.

[auntAgonist]

12. cremated. n/t

[Nicole]

13. Cremated

I've donated my body to The University of Oklahoma's Willed Body Program. They will perform the cremation when they are done with me. They will then return the cremains to my survivors or scatter me on the O.U. campus, I don't much care which one my survivors decide to do.

[xmas74]

16. My uncle has filled out his forms for donation

(I believe his was for UMKC School of Medicine but I'm not sure). You're right-they'll cremate when they're done at no cost to the family.

I've really considered giving mine to a body farm so they can study the level of decomp. When they are eventually finished they will also cremate and give the ashes back to the family, to do as they want.

A cousin filled out her form for the Plastique exhibit a while ago. She saw it and thought it was fascinating. She said that if her body could teach others outside of a school environment so be it.

[Mutley]

15. Cremated.

[NJ Democrats]

17. Am I the only one who wants to be buried?

[Skittles]

24. I hope so

I find the idea of a body rotting in a box very unappealing

[azmouse]

18. A cat will probably just drag me away...

[Book Lover]

19. Shredded and tossed as confetti at the next Women's March on Washington/nt

[rug]

21. I just want to be lightly toasted.

[nuxvomica]

22. My only wish is that the body is discovered quickly

Before the cat food dish is empty.

[City Lights]

23. Cremated. eom

[LaurenG]

25. If you really want to save some trouble for those left

Donate your body to science. Medical schools always need cadavers and they will cremate you as well.

Oh and I have asked to be doused with gasoline and burned somewhere out in nowhere land. Too bad we really do that.

[zanne]

26. Having arranged and partially paid for a funeral recently......

I'd rather be cremated for $3,000 than buried for $10,000. The funeral industry is such a rip-off.

[RebelOne]

28. Definitely cremated.

In fact, I told my son and daughter if they didn't have me cremated that I would come back to haunt them. I think big expensive funerals are a waste of money because the departed one cannot appreciate it anyway.

[Fleshdancer]

29. organs donated and then cremated

if possible, I want my ashes to be shot out into space...I'm destined to become a star! :D

[AlienGirl]

30. What, no option for "fed to big cats and carnivorous birds"?

[Monk06]

41. Ah let's hear it for the Zorastrians. Now that's goin out with style.

[Jamastiene]

31. I wanna be cremated with my blue guitar

and the book, "Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie." I am not afraid of tight spaces, but I don't like tight spaces. A coffin to me just seems like an eternal prison.

[MsKandice01]

32. Cremated...

Something about being buried underground until the end of time just bothers me.

[SeattleGirl]

33. Cremated.

No question about it.

[Throd]

35. Stuffed and made into a floor lamp

A 75 watt bulb in my skull to shine through red glass eyes. Hmmmm, now where to put the on/off switch?

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. Parted out

I don't much care what they do with the unused stuff, but burnin' it seems the least intrusive/toxic to the planet.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

37. Cremated

and sprinkled on my farm. But I'd like it to be in a small area, and a tree or something planted there. Then a bench or something for my family to sit on and laugh at me.

[sarge43]

38. Cremated

My ashes thrown on either Alan Rickman or Viggo Mortensen

[grannylib]

39. I love your urn! Cremation for me too, and I have my urn as well. It's

blue and white porcelain with grape leaves and grape clusters on it. I like it a lot.

My dad's ashes were buried in a pot that a friend threw for him; it was really beautiful.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. My cats will eat me.

[RevCheesehead]

42. Organ donation, then cremation.

I already have my space reserved, too. :)

[yellowdogintexas]

43. cremated, definitely. In fact I really need to get that all set up

and prepaid. Saves a ton of money if you are part of a cremation society. My aunt and uncle did that, and cost of the cremation was something like $700. Which compared to average funeral costs these days is next to nothing.

on edit: then my kid can decide if she wants to :

a. keep the ashes in an interesting arty looking urn which she will probably make or at least paint herself

b. have the ashes compressed into a diamond or several

c. have the ashes compressed into a seeding capsule for future coral reefs

d. sink the ashes in the cemetary in Kentucky with her grandparents

e. scatter the ashes in some place she knows I would appreciate

f. none of the above, she's an artist she will come up with something good, I am sure

[hiro]

44. Cremated

Cremated, part of my ashes buried with my family, and another part taken to my ancestors' home city and scattered at the door of their house (which apparently still stands today).

-H.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. Cremated....after any usable organs are removed........N/T

[scarlet_owl]

47. I want to be mummified.

Actually, I don't really care what happens to my body after I die.

[caty]

48. I've told my husband and

son to have my body cremated. Then after two weeks to three months, scatter my ashes at a lake with nice scenery. That way, if the want to visit me, they can go to any pretty lake and visit me there.

[Arkansas Granny]

49. I want to be cremated and they can put the ashes in a

coffee can or a mayonaisse jar, for all I care. My kids have already said that they will scatter my ashes at a creek where we did a lot of camping and swimming when they were young. No need to waste real estate by burying me in a fancy box.

Edited to add: I love your urn. Very original.

[LuckyTheDog]

50. Chopped into small bits

Chopped into small bits and then fed to the carp in a local river.

[NoPasaran]

51. Viking funeral for me!

I guess that would count as cremation.

[Lautremont]

52. I did a documentary on viking funerals.

You kind of tend to burn only halfway or so, then your hideously half-burned body washes up on a beach and scares the children to death. Then all your relatives get arrested. That's how it was explained to me, anyway.

But, in the end, it's the only way into Valhalla, so do it we must.

[texanwitch]

53. Cremated. and spread some of my ashes over the Gulf of Mexico,

Spread the rest somewhere in the Texas hill country.

[NNadir]

54. I was kind of hoping for excarnation, followed by the ritual powdering

of my bones, but I don't think I'll get it.

Lacking that, I would like to be dissected.

Lacking that I want to be partially dissolved and hung in a class room as a skeleton.

If I can have that, I'll take cremation with my ashes being distributed as a fertilizer on calcium tolerant trees.

Actually though, being dead, I'll have no opinion on any of these outcomes in the actual case. It's my wife's decision. Whatever makes her happiest is fine with me.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

55. Donated to science.

I'm also an organ donor. My father had been a (botched) transplant patient and I want my body to be put to good use.

[Nevernose]

56. I'm tired of lugging around DEAD people! BURY ME!

Because I'm a traditionalist. I wanna go like so many of my ancestors before me. And I wanna big-ass slab of granite with my name and something profound written on it.

And I've got this step-father in my closet. Yes, he's cremated and in a sealed bronze container and supposed to go in the back yard, but I still find myself lugging him around and storing him in the closet. The townhome I finally bought has a very small yard, and that's where the dog shits. Should I let the dog shit on him? No.

I can't spread his ashes, either. I did that with my aunt, and can't bring myself to go back to a place that was very special to the both of us. He meant too much to my mother and I; one of the finest men I have ever known, and the one true love of my mother's life. He went early, and maybe as a result I want him close.

Personally, I want to be divided into three pieces: one for Texas (where I was born and raised and my ancestors fought for), one for Nevada (where I've made my home and where I love), and one chunk for Arkansas (because I plan on dieing old, older than Methuselah, and I plan on retiring to Arkansas, where I was happiest).

And if my kid feels obligated to me to drop off a wreath at Christmas time? Too freaking bad! I rasied her, she can damn well honor my memory once a year!

[SmileyBoy]

57. My religion forbids cremation.

I suppose I'll have to become worm dinner.

[Conan_The_Barbarian]

58. Better than that!

I want to be ground up into shark chum and then take everyone present at my funeral out to sea and throw the mashed up chunks of me into the water to attract great white sharks, that would be awesome.

[njdemocrat106]

59. Sorry, but I'd rather be buried

I know once I'm gone it won't matter, but I find being incinerated into ash extremely macabre.

[NMMNG]

60. Cremate me and sprinkle my ashes in the desert

If I'm nowhere near the desert then around any nice tree will do.

[gademocrat7]

61. I want to be cremated.

To walk away from a loved one's grave who has just been buried, is a very lonely feeling.

[KatyMan]

62. Neither! The Rapture is coming

that's how I plan on going... :D

[meegbear]

63. Creamated and my ashes smoked ...

the "tobaccco" to be used is up to the smoker.

[querelle]

64. Neither

I want my carcass to go to the nearest university where med students can use it for research. After that, they can burn it with all of the other pathalogical waste.

Q

[Callalily]

65. I plan on donating

all my bodies parts that I can for organ donation. What's left of me? Well, definitely cremation, and just sprinkle me into the river!

[outofbounds]

66. Buried

Worms gotta eat too! B-)

[Deep13]

67. Buried with a big scary marker.

Every place that is a grave site is a place that cannot be turned into tract housing or shopping malls.

[lies and propaganda]

68. Cremation for sure.

I dont know if its the bugs i imagine or the cost of funerals, but they are definitely not for me.

and nice urn btw.

[progmom]

69. cremated

as cheaply as possible.

no morbid viewings at a funeral parlor.

i wouldn't mind a quick church funeral, though...with lots of music. and then i want all my friends to get together and get rip-roaring drunk. :D

[Divameow77]

70. I feel that since I will be dead

I won't really care so let my boys do with me what makes them happiest. I also fear that they may not be able to agree so I may have to make arrangements...

[wildhorses]

71. neither....I will do as the indians do...

walk into the woods.