Final Choices

[Sundae]

I'm with Glatt - I carry a Donor card so they'll hopefully take whatever is useful. Then it's up to whoever is around to dispose of me.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

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"?

I dislike the idea of rotting away in a box 6 feet under. even though i understand that i wont feel it, it's still nasty. better to have done, and move on, give something back if you can. if the freeze drying thing is accessible when i kick it, i think i like that even more than cremation. seems like the nutrients would be more helpful unburned. less stinky, too i expect.

[zippyt]

Burn my dead ass up !!! I don't want any body to have to try and come up with the thousands of dollars it takes to plant a body ,
as I said cremate me , put my ashes in a straw hat , go to a certin place on a certin river( those who need to know , know where it is ) , light the hat , float it down stream and pop open a beer for the memorys .
Say a few words if you want to .
That is all .

ashes to ashes ,
dust to dust ,
from wents we came,
we shall return .

[Skunks]

There's sort of a running joke in the ceramics studio about how it'd be cool to make an urn for yourself, be cremated, and have somebody turn you into an <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/glazes.htm">ash glaze</a> (<a href="http://www.aquariusartgallery.com/Dec2004/IMG_6967.JPG">img</a>) to put on the outside of the urn.

A bit more hands-after-death-on than the whole diamond thing, I'd say.

[keryx]

I choose cremation. I hate the idea of being stuffed in a box six feet under. I prefer to leave little as possible behind, and I like the idea of cleansing by fire.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Skunks

There's sort of a running joke in the ceramics studio about how it'd be cool to make an urn for yourself, be cremated, and have somebody turn you into an <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/glazes.htm">ash glaze</a> (<a href="http://www.aquariusartgallery.com/Dec2004/IMG_6967.JPG">img</a>) to put on the outside of the urn.

Damn. I'm going to have to suggest that to a friend of mine who is a potter that happens to really like that technique.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

That's how Harold met Maude.

One of my all time favorite films.

[monster]

Originally Posted by marichiko

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.

Seconded.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Skunks

There's sort of a running joke in the ceramics studio about how it'd be cool to make an urn for yourself, be cremated, and have somebody turn you into an <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/glazes.htm">ash glaze</a> (<a href="http://www.aquariusartgallery.com/Dec2004/IMG_6967.JPG">img</a>) to put on the outside of the urn.

A bit more hands-after-death-on than the whole diamond thing, I'd say.

You missed the bit about the bisque fire in the cremation furnace.....

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

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"?

I've made it clear to mine that I do not want to be buried. I've suggested lifegem but will leave it to them. While lifegem can make diamonds from cremated remains, they don't use all the ashes leaving some for distribution in a meaningful place.

I just think its the height of human selfishness to tie up a peice of earth for all eternity just to house a lousy skeleton. I understand burial and respect the idea of having a place to pay one's respects but there should be a moratorium on how long you can tie up that patch of earth. If no one alive knows who you were, then maybe its time to surrender the claim.

If I had to decide now, I'd go for three diamonds with the rest being scattered in the small town in France where I made my debut.

[simlingcynic]

Promession sounds good, but if I can't afford that I either want them to leave me where I lay or shoot me out of a cannon into the sea.

[wolf]

Hiya, simling.

The darndest thoughts get people to post, don't they?

[lookout123]

i'm thinking that if i got to go the way i wanted (non-opening chute - what a rush) the choices listed are kind of irrelevant. if i live long enough to go from natural causes then cremation.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by lookout123

i'm thinking that if i got to go the way i wanted (non-opening chute - what a rush)

Ah, the ol' Sudden Decelleration Injury. Me like.

[Aliantha]

...dead...