Cremation or burial ? What is your choice ?

[Nathan]

Being embalmed and having your corpse made up like a mannequin and put on display in a coffin for a funeral is...beyond gross. I regret viewing 'the body' at the funerals I've attended, I don't want to put my family and friends through any of that.
Cremation, then the living can do a celebration of [my] life if they choose. Whatever they decide, I promise I won't be offended.

 

[Nemo2]

I've told my supervisor to double bag me and drag me to the curb on heavy pickup day.

 

[multimodAL]

by then there'll be no real choice in the matter for me...

...so i'll just be soylent (green)

 

[LadyEmeraude]

For me I chose burial, but I don't want a viewing.

 

[1955]

I'm going to crawl out into the woods & let the animals cleanup the mess. I think the Indians use to do this too?

 

[deaver]

I never married and have no off spring. So there is no one to bury me. I have already arranged my cremation and burial plot.

 

[BC Flash]

I prepaid my funeral expenses including cremation. If my sons/daughter want to have a lunch or tea, they will have to pay for it themselves as I won't be there. (I told my family and I am the only one who think this is a funny comment!!)

 

[Sawfish]

I'm going to crawl out into the woods & let the animals cleanup the mess. I think the Indians use to do this too?

The elephants...

The Elephants' Graveyard

 

[Disgustedman]

Burn my body, churn it up, grind my bones. Then pour me around trees, then let dogs piss on me.

It's what dogs do!

 

[MikeyDude]

Kinda korney - We plan on cremation- then mix our ashes together and have them spread either in the Redwood Forest or the Pescadero River.

 

[1955]

Don't forget there is a new option available in some areas where they compost your body.

Now You Can Compost Human Bodies Too

 

[Pepper]

Kinda korney - We plan on cremation- then mix out ashes together and have them spread either in the Redwood Forest or the Pescadero River.

Yes, I have requested that my son mix my ashes with husband's and son can throw in cat ashes too. Mix well, and do with it whatever.

 

[Sawfish]

Like Hunter S. Thomson, I've requested that my remains be fired from a cannon.

 

[JaniceM]

Like Hunter S. Thomson, I've requested that my remains be fired from a cannon.

Who do you want it aimed at?

 

[Sawfish]

Who do you want it aimed at?

It's all in my will.

 

[Raddragn]

I have had a totally paid for burial for 8 or 9 years . I didn't want to have my kids foot the expense.

I did so because I want to be an archeological find for a future generation, so they can learn about our civilizations like we learned about Greece and Rome and many others other ancient civilizations.

 

[JaniceM]

I did so because I want to be an archeological find for a future generation, so they can learn about our civilizations like we learned about Greece and Rome and many others other ancient civilizations.

That's an interesting thought.

 

[TeeJay]

I prepaid my funeral expenses including cremation. If my sons/daughter want to have a lunch or tea, they will have to pay for it themselves as I won't be there. (I told my family and I am the only one who think this is a funny comment!!)

I get it ... it's funny! But it's a tad morbid.

 

[C50]

This will be the beginning of my final journal.
It's a natural spring in the woods behind my house and my instructions are to pour my ashes into the water. From there my ashes will flow thru the woods and then into the creek that flows across the property where I now live. Theres no place like home. lol

 

[Sawfish]

The pyramid that I ordered built in 1977 is just about complete...

 

[chic]

Burial for me. The plot was purchased in a hurry when my father died many years ago. The stone is erected and my name is already on it. It's just waiting for me to croak and become worm fodder. I'd like to be buried in a mausoleum on the hill and have my family buried there too. This is morbid. I'm not at ease with death.

 

[twinkles]

body donation--and like win231 said to get warm--the kids keep this house so cold it would be nice to know how it feels to be warm

 

[charry]

Simple Cremation for us both !!

 

[CarolfromTX]

Cremate me. Put me in a bucket of dirt and bluebonnet seeds and dump me out on a hillside in the country. I’ll be bluebonnets come Spring.

 

[VaughanJB]

Being embalmed and having your corpse made up like a mannequin and put on display in a coffin for a funeral is...beyond gross. I regret viewing 'the body' at the funerals I've attended, I don't want to put my family and friends through any of that.
Cremation, then the living can do a celebration of [my] life if they choose. Whatever they decide, I promise I won't be offended.

I'm totally indifferent. I suggest whoever deals with my remains does so in the cheapest, simplest, way possible. I'll be gone, so I won't care.