Final Choices

[Pie]

Well, I chose cremation, but I meant it more in a re-entry sort of mode. Y'know, like into Jupiter's atmosphere.

- Pie (flambe')

[SteveDallas]

My older brother has expressed a wish to be stuffed and placed in a rocking chair on the front porch next to a cooler of beer, so that passers-by might stop and have a cold one if they wished.

[Sun_Sparkz]

I have always wanted to be cremated and scattered at our local national parks waterfall, where my dad and I used to bushwalk and picnic when i was younger.

Although, that "turned into a diamond" idea sounds awesome.. I could make my kids walk around with me in their jewellery for the rest of their lives! Although i dont like the prospect of being forgotten in a jewellery box somewhere.

[lumberjim]

cremation.

but ...that freeze dried thing sounds pretty cool too.

made into a diamond? definite big shot stuff there. but who would get to wear it? what if they lost you? or sold you when times got tough? you could end up the symbol of some couple's love? that sounds cool, too.

[SteveDallas]

Or you could end up planted here . . . . . .

[xoxoxoBruce]

I suppose when the time comes, it won't make any difference to me.

I imagine I won't notice what happens to my earthly remains. I would like to be recycled, though. Throw my body to the wild critters on the Uncomphaghre Plateau, or at least my ashes to give a little additional nitrogen to the sage brush out there.

[footfootfoot]

Tan me 'ide when I'm dead, Fred,
tan me 'ide when I'm dead.
So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
(Spoken) And that's it hanging on the shed.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport...

[BigV]

Organ donor.

Then, medschool cadaver for the rest. A plaque, or some other memorial suitable to the tastes of the day... I dunno.

The diamond thang sounds crazy-cool. How damn pretentious can you get?

[wolf]

I'm also an organ donor, but by the time I'm done with 'em, I'm not sure anyone will want them.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;
Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;
The flames just soared, and the furnace roared—such a blaze you seldom see;
And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.

[Kitsune]

I'm surprised by this -- cremation leads well over burial. I always thought burial was still preferred over cremation, but I couldn't say why it once was. Something to do with the catholic church, maybe? (I can't remember when they finally accepted cremation.)

Very interesting! If you do prefer cremation, is there any reason why you'd rather have it than burial? Expense? The idea of "returning to the land"?

[glatt]

I will say this, the one nice thing about burial is that there is a place with a marker that people can visit to pay their respects to you.

It's too easy in our fast paced society for us to forget those who have come before us. Graveyards help us remember our place in the scheme of things. We are but one generation of the vast story of mankind. There were many before us, and there will be many after us. It's humbling.

But personally, when I'm dead, I won't care. Do what you want with me.

[dar512]

I think nearly all the stuff we do for the dead is actually for the living - which includes the gravesite.

I played at a funeral yesterday. [UT plays with Poco. I play funerals.] It was a very nice ceremony celebrating the life that had ended. It caused me to be quite reflective. I think people should go to a funeral now and then to remind them of how little time we actually have.

[barefoot serpent]

Originally Posted by dar512

I think people should go to a funeral now and then to remind them of how little time we actually have.

That's how Harold met Maude.