We did this for my dad, and my mom will follow the same path, I think.
Some burocracy (and educating burocrats, as the law allowing for this in my country 🇦🇷 is recent) but it's worth to do something useful of oneself after death while not enriching the post-mortem mafia.
Of course both my brother and I want the same for ourselves.
I don't thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone's dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.
I don't thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone's dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.
I found a service that will mix your ashes in concrete and make you into an artificial reef. I like the idea of getting coral and sea fans to grow on me.
I'm not into this as a sexual thing. I will ascend and take control as my body becomes part of your chemical processes. I will become a part of you. mwahahhahah!
viking style. I want to be pushed out to sea on a magnificent hand-crafted canoe. Then someone is going to shoot a flaming arrow into my canoe and I'll go out in a blaze of glory. No one said you can't request this and I think it would be pretty sweet. Needs instrumental accompaniment.
People think anything matters after they die, like anything in the future at all, but there is no future... You skip right to the end of time. Nothing happens to your body at all.
I don’t personally care. Burials and other ceremonies are for the living. I’d prefer something that doesn’t harm our environment and to donate as many organs as possible, but that’s pretty much it.
I like what you said about being a tree. I may steal that.
I don’t have kids. I plan to leave my assets to a charity. Probably something for animals but I haven’t really planned that far ahead yet.
Reminder to leave instructions for your loved ones, regardless of your age or health. One of the hardest decisions your family will go through is trying to guess what you'd want.
I had planned on (organ donation first of course, but then) cremation, mostly to make my leftover remains easier and cheaper to deal with. Lately I've heard about rapid-composting, which is supposed to be more environmental. So that might be good. But it might be more expensive, in which case back to the plan.
You can never truly be prepared for death, natural death just like accidental death can happen at anytime in any place with out you knowing until it’s too late.
Not sure about being registered as an organ donor because it’s different for every country, maybe try looking up what to do for your specific area and see what comes up.
If it is possible for the mind to survive the death of the body, I also think uploading would be fine. It's a risk to be sure, but not having a body would actually address a lot of my current disappointments.
If resurrection is possible, I'd like to think the death could be prevented. But, I'll take it if uploading is not available and death of the body is still inevitable.
Makes me wonder what the experience would be like for the mind being uploaded. Do you feel like you have a body? Can you change what that body is? And before you do anything fun with that new hot body, you should know that anywhere you can go is still in a simulation, so you can be tracked and observed at all times.
Speaking of that, can you adapt to the concept of "being somewhere" becoming meaningless?
There’s still some active tar pits. I’m surprised nobody is intentionally trying to become a fossil. It would be cool to do some weird shit to mess with the aliens who find your fossil in 10,000 years or so.
I'd like my corpse to be used to frame someone for murder. Obviously I can't name names, because that would undermine the plot, but I trust my loved ones to frame up someone who has it coming.
Fuck it, I wanna be cryogenically frozen, if I can have the chance of living hundreds of years in the future, no matter how slim, I'd rather be prepared.
Just throw my body in the trash. And no religious burial. I'll be damned if some pastor who doesn't know shit about me give an hour long eulogy about Jesus over my corpse.
The pastor I hired to deliver the sermon at my dad's funeral literally implied that my dad was not "up above" but "down below". I think it's because we asked him to keep it non-religious and he was being petty.
I would like someone to rent a tree spade, one if those trucks that can pick up a mature tree with its root ball, pick up a nice tree, wrap me in linen, throw me in the hole, and drop the tree back into the hole on top of me.
That means that green burial, human composting, burial at sea, and aquamation are all options.
I absolutely do not want cremation. It’s an energy intensive process that also renders the deceased’s accumulated nutrients unavailable to other organisms.
This thread also reminds me that I need to revoke the organ donor status from my driver’s license. As much as I like / appreciate the concept, a viable organ donation requires dying in a hospital. I would prefer to pass outdoors in a natural setting that I feel connected to or, at worst, in my own home.
I've organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won't accept my body if I've died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they're done with me I'll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.
They are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn't seem at all respectful.
I would also like to become a tree! My grandma’s cabin that I spent a lot of time at growing up is right next to a national forest. I hope that type of service is more widely available when I die
You ever get rid of a couch by having that garbage truck with the grinder on the back chew up that couch in about 3 seconds and leave nothing but a tiny bit of sawdust on the pavement? I want that.
I want my skin and muscle tissue removed, and then I would like to be shot into space.
It's playing a long con, and I might fall into a star before I ever get the chance, but it would be really funny if some space explorer encountered a floating human skeleton and got spooked.
Don't think I’ll have the capacity to care, but put me in the ground with nothing but a light porous cloth covering so all the nutrients and microorganisms can be utilized by nature.
Organ donation process, then load my body in to my shitbox car along with as much of my bullshit that fits in it, light it all on fire and trebuchet it into a quarry or something.
Very honestly, since I was a child I wanted to be burned to a point where the flesh is gone but the bones are still intact and have the bones buried.
I think it is even possible to do that in Austria but I live in Germany and obviously no one is going to spend time, money, and energy on these shenanigans once I am dead. But if I could selfishly wish for a way, this would be it. There are reasons for why I don't want to be buried and why I don't want to be cremated and this would feel... The rightest.
I've always thought sky burials are pretty cool, but as a person living in North America who has no plans to move to Tibet or take up Buddhism, that's completely impractical. Next best thing might be for my to be placed on a body farm.
I said body farm, my wife was too creeped out by that. So then it was "donated to science" but then those nasty body brokers get your parts and sell them wherever so now it's natural burial.
In Colorado one can be buried on private property not designated as a graveyard so if whatever county I end up in is cool with it, just plant me in the back yard.
donate me to an artsy goth who really wants to make a goblet out of bones for social media clout for all I care. Let a reclusive cannibal coven get a few pieces. Liquefy the rest and chuck it out a window. I'm dead, what do I care?
The matter that makes up my cells has been going through the cycle of life for god knows how long. All I know is I’ll be pissed if that cycle is cut off to isolate that matter in a metal box in the ground.
Harvest for transplant whatever organs I haven't managed to destroy and then put my ass in one of these. And if I am lucky enough to still have any money at all by then, please bury it in the Pacific Northwest.
Ideally there would be no body to bury. Think about it, can you think of a boring way to die where your body is never found?
Of course i'm making sure my death will be adventurous by staying at my computer and never going outside. Totally won't die of a heart attack like a loser.
Green burial. No preservatives, no permanent structures, just natural decay and completing the circle of life. Don't pickle me for a funeral just get me in the ground asap.
I took up enough precious space on this bitch of an Earth in life, so my only wish is to take up as little of it as possible in death.
No giant overpriced wooden box in a concrete case on a dedicated plot of land, filled with fanciful linens to wrap my lifeless husk specifically treated to rot away as slowly as possible. Not if I get a say. Burn my dead ass to ashes and preferably scatter them to the wind, I don't care where. Or, as a wise Danny DeVito said, throw me in the trash. Nature will have its way with what's left. I'm crumbling to entropy anyway, might as well get it over with as efficiently as I can.
I will not ""become"" a tree, or ""return to"" anyplace. I want to be gone. My lease on this world is over. I explicitly want that lease returned, to the fullest extent it matters.
Not like I'd necessarily get a say, though. Funerals and their rituals are for the living. The ultimate conclusion of my wish to command nothing of the world after I'm gone is that I also can't command what happens to my remains after I'm gone. I can express my wishes, but if no one agrees to honor them, so be it.
If my loved ones want to stuff my corpse in a monkey suit and bury it in an expensive box on a dedicated plot of land for 100 years because that's how they want to greive my passing, who am I to stop them? I'm dead.
First, don't spend money on it. That is the most important. Second, if possible make something useful of my body, like donating to science. I listened to a podcast about this "cemetery" that is a research facility and they let the bodies decompose in a variety of situations to study the process. Third, don't do any funeral or rituals and that includes keeping a cemetery lapid or stuff like that.
One exception is if someone wants to do something really funny and weird, like the guy that wanted his skull preserved and the rest made into two diamonds that would be fitted to the skull and to be kept like in the living room to judge everyone or something.
Whatever my wife feels like, assuming she's the one to survive me. I don't hold any religious beliefs demanding me to do something specific with my body, so I'll leave it to her to decide.
Should she be passing before me, I'd just want to be cremated and scattered somewhere in the most cost efficient way to not affect anyone's finances.
Any parts that can be used to improve a human life should be used that way. Then any parts that can be used to improve animal/plant life should be used that way. Then the rest should be disposed of in the manner that consumes the fewest resources.
But, I'll be gone; you guys can do whatever with it; I won't care.
I'd be OK if they dismantled my body for parts but it's kind of unlikely that they'll find something usable. The rest is a big whatever - burn it, bury it, pet cemetery, I'm OK with it. As long as the body doesn't leave my city.
Some of us know that our way out will likely be suicide because euthanasia may still be illegal or expensive. For me, I will not let myself or anyone else deal with my inevitable dementia if I make it that long.
The plan can be to end in suicide without being suicidal, make sense?
Strip me for parts and give the rest to science. I'm not real sentimental about my body once I'm done with it.
Yeh. This.
We did this for my dad, and my mom will follow the same path, I think.
Some burocracy (and educating burocrats, as the law allowing for this in my country 🇦🇷 is recent) but it's worth to do something useful of oneself after death while not enriching the post-mortem mafia.
Of course both my brother and I want the same for ourselves.
This and compost the rest. Now available in WA!
Same + cremate anything that can be used and spread it somewhere insignificant
Scatter my remains across Disney World, although I don't want to be cremated.
How about dehydrated like jerky?
"This is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!"
I don't thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone's dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.
I don't thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone's dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.
install doom on me
What are your specs?
Toaster.
I found a service that will mix your ashes in concrete and make you into an artificial reef. I like the idea of getting coral and sea fans to grow on me.
Now that's an idea...
If I had my way about it, I'd have a tree planted over me, but I don't expect to know the difference, so I don't really think about it much.
Yeah, pick the usable parts, toss the rest into the woods.
Cremate me and grind my ashes into small particles.
Then take those ashes and mix them into dark spices like pepper as a filler. Sell it to the general population.
I will be vored. I will be inside you. I will become part of you. You cannot stop this.
I'm not into this as a sexual thing. I will ascend and take control as my body becomes part of your chemical processes. I will become a part of you. mwahahhahah!
We're all just recirculated stardust.
This is like the ass pennies
Start eating paprika. Like, lots of paprika.
viking style. I want to be pushed out to sea on a magnificent hand-crafted canoe. Then someone is going to shoot a flaming arrow into my canoe and I'll go out in a blaze of glory. No one said you can't request this and I think it would be pretty sweet. Needs instrumental accompaniment.
Just be sure you give someone a heads up so that they can practice their archery enough to actually set you on fire
It's okay, the band has "Entry Of The Gladiators" prepared in case this part of the send-off is missed.
I love that piece. I want it played at my funeral.
They’ll just blame it on cold fingers
Adagio For Strings. The proper version, not the dance track.
Gotta launch the arrows at the climax, too, for maximum effect.
Scoripon in Cyberpunk 2077 had a very similar idea.
THROW ME IN THE TRAAAASH
I tell my wife that I want to be cremated and then have a ceremony to dump my ashes in the bin. I find the idea hilarious.
Make me and my partner a tree, set up a hammock between us, and hang with us from time to time
Flay my skin, stretch and tan it into a hammock, hang it between these two people and then lay in it and smoke a joint
Know what? If it makes someone else happy then go for it. Hand me to some necrophiliacs while you're at it, I will literally not care.
The more the merrier!
Donate my body to science if possible, failing that, dispose of me in the most environmentally friendly way possible.
Once I am dead I have no care for my body, maximize the use of it or minimize the impact of it.
Forgot about the donation angle! I'm signed up for organ donation, need to get that more clear in my will, but whole-body donation would be great.
Worst case, med students can have a go, see how bones heal, stuff like that.
I don't give a fuck, I'll be dead.
People think anything matters after they die, like anything in the future at all, but there is no future... You skip right to the end of time. Nothing happens to your body at all.
I don’t personally care. Burials and other ceremonies are for the living. I’d prefer something that doesn’t harm our environment and to donate as many organs as possible, but that’s pretty much it.
I like what you said about being a tree. I may steal that.
I don’t have kids. I plan to leave my assets to a charity. Probably something for animals but I haven’t really planned that far ahead yet.
Right on.
Reminder to leave instructions for your loved ones, regardless of your age or health. One of the hardest decisions your family will go through is trying to guess what you'd want.
Literally just throw me in a ditch idgaf as long as my body is allowed to naturally decay and recycle the energy back into the ecosystem.
Stop locking bodies in boxes that take decades to decay.
Whatever is cheapest/easiest for my family.
Bury me "buns-up" in a sidewalk downtown so someone has a place to park their bicycle.
Now that is an idea I've not yet heard.
Not my problem... Whatever my SO/surviving descendants want is good by me.
We're gonna make you into a real horse chandelier then.
Excellent! Can't wait to find out what one looks like....
No.... Wait.... :)
Donate all my usable organs, plant a fruit tree in the empty chest, preferably in the yard of my family home.
Should they bury you as well, or do you plan to be a year-round Hallowe'en decoration?
That's a good point. Take out my skeleton and preserve it for display, bury the meat with the tree.
Much more reasonable, good for you!
I had planned on (organ donation first of course, but then) cremation, mostly to make my leftover remains easier and cheaper to deal with. Lately I've heard about rapid-composting, which is supposed to be more environmental. So that might be good. But it might be more expensive, in which case back to the plan.
Rapid composting, like, turn you into soil?
Yes
An example:
https://earthfuneral.com/
(I looked up "human composting" and Google knows I live in California, ymmv)
Edit: by "rapid" I mean faster than dumping you in the woods, it says 45 days.
Prop me up beside the jukebox.
church organ donation.
You can never truly be prepared for death, natural death just like accidental death can happen at anytime in any place with out you knowing until it’s too late.
Not sure about being registered as an organ donor because it’s different for every country, maybe try looking up what to do for your specific area and see what comes up.
Interested enough to mention it.
On my country (AR) you can express your decision when you renew your mandatory national ID.
When my mother went, the hospital staff asked us if she was a donor.
I'm an organ donor, but I suspect my organs won't be worth much by the time I'm done with them.
Resurrected or uploaded.
If it is possible for the mind to survive the death of the body, I also think uploading would be fine. It's a risk to be sure, but not having a body would actually address a lot of my current disappointments.
If resurrection is possible, I'd like to think the death could be prevented. But, I'll take it if uploading is not available and death of the body is still inevitable.
Makes me wonder what the experience would be like for the mind being uploaded. Do you feel like you have a body? Can you change what that body is? And before you do anything fun with that new hot body, you should know that anywhere you can go is still in a simulation, so you can be tracked and observed at all times.
Speaking of that, can you adapt to the concept of "being somewhere" becoming meaningless?
I think you can have a POV without having a body, and you can "be somewhere" based on your POV rather than your body.
But, I also think that probably not the only reasonable guess at what the uploaded experience is like.
Feed me to the mushrooms.
There’s still some active tar pits. I’m surprised nobody is intentionally trying to become a fossil. It would be cool to do some weird shit to mess with the aliens who find your fossil in 10,000 years or so.
I'd like my corpse to be used to frame someone for murder. Obviously I can't name names, because that would undermine the plot, but I trust my loved ones to frame up someone who has it coming.
Trebuchet my bloated corpse into Dick Cheney's living room
Having recently watched Andor, I think I'd like to be made into a brick and used as a weapon against fascists.
Well boy are you alive at the right time!
Sure am!
Fuck it, I wanna be cryogenically frozen, if I can have the chance of living hundreds of years in the future, no matter how slim, I'd rather be prepared.
Just throw me in the trash
Can’t believe this was at the bottom
Eat me, bang me, fill me up with cream. Who gives a shit?
Give my body to a cabal of necrophiliacs so I can continue to be fucked in death as I was in life.
I told my kids to claim my skull for the mantle and compost the rest
Medical school.
this, take whatever organs you find useful. leave the rest to decay in the wilderness somewhere
The bog.
That's honestly pretty bog-standard. That's a term I learned on here a few days ago.
I want my body donated to a body farm.
Just throw my body in the trash. And no religious burial. I'll be damned if some pastor who doesn't know shit about me give an hour long eulogy about Jesus over my corpse.
The pastor I hired to deliver the sermon at my dad's funeral literally implied that my dad was not "up above" but "down below". I think it's because we asked him to keep it non-religious and he was being petty.
I would like someone to rent a tree spade, one if those trucks that can pick up a mature tree with its root ball, pick up a nice tree, wrap me in linen, throw me in the hole, and drop the tree back into the hole on top of me.
I think just cremation. Get rid of this body suit. :)
I'm excited for what's next.
Do you know Jesus
Shoot me out of a cannon
I want my nutrients returned to the earth.
That means that green burial, human composting, burial at sea, and aquamation are all options.
I absolutely do not want cremation. It’s an energy intensive process that also renders the deceased’s accumulated nutrients unavailable to other organisms.
This thread also reminds me that I need to revoke the organ donor status from my driver’s license. As much as I like / appreciate the concept, a viable organ donation requires dying in a hospital. I would prefer to pass outdoors in a natural setting that I feel connected to or, at worst, in my own home.
Could you leave the organ donor status just in case you die in a hospital?
I would like to remain dead
I don't give a fuck because I'm dead and won't be there to see it.
Do whatever you want with my corpse.
I've organised to have my body donated to a medical school for dissection. It was quite complicated, lots of forms to be filled in and witnessed. My executor has to phone the university when I die & they send a van to collect me. They won't accept my body if I've died of something communicable, or it was eg some accident that left me too mangled. When they're done with me I'll be cremated and my name goes up on a plaque in a special garden.
Sky Burial!!!
Something cheap for my family.
If you want to be a tree, go cremation. Trees get their carbon from the air not the soil.
I thought cremains would be worse for the tree.
They are. I researched it because my mother wanted to grow a lemon tree from her cremains. Human ashes are too acidic for most plants to grow in unless you mix them with soil or compost. Which doesn't seem at all respectful.
I believe they are mostly not even ashes, just ground up bone fragments
Thats just carbon though. Surely the nutrients in the ground are equally important.
The way things are going, I fully expect to be turned into Soylent Green
Dump my ashes into Mariana's Trench. That way I can contribute to the local ecology...somehow.
I would also like to become a tree! My grandma’s cabin that I spent a lot of time at growing up is right next to a national forest. I hope that type of service is more widely available when I die
Oh that would be nice!
Become dogfood
You got something against dogs?
Sky burial seems pretty cool: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
You ever get rid of a couch by having that garbage truck with the grinder on the back chew up that couch in about 3 seconds and leave nothing but a tiny bit of sawdust on the pavement? I want that.
I want my skin and muscle tissue removed, and then I would like to be shot into space.
It's playing a long con, and I might fall into a star before I ever get the chance, but it would be really funny if some space explorer encountered a floating human skeleton and got spooked.
I want to be explosively shot into space go back to being stardust.
When I read the question, I immediately heard Frank Reynolds saying "when I'm dead, just throw me in the trash". Lol
Don't think I’ll have the capacity to care, but put me in the ground with nothing but a light porous cloth covering so all the nutrients and microorganisms can be utilized by nature.
Sky burial! Hack me up and feed me to animals and plants. That way I can at least give some of the energy back that I consumed in my life
Organ donation process, then load my body in to my shitbox car along with as much of my bullshit that fits in it, light it all on fire and trebuchet it into a quarry or something.
Space burial
I don't care it's not my body anymore. The people left behind can decide.
My wish has also been to become a tree actually.
Its not legal where i live but i prefer if my body was buried as is without coffin in a forest so flora and fungi can feast on my nutrients.
Cremate, then spill the rest into an ocean. A few years later my star dust is consumed by other life forms around the world.
For the people after me it’s one big effort and then never again.
Very honestly, since I was a child I wanted to be burned to a point where the flesh is gone but the bones are still intact and have the bones buried.
I think it is even possible to do that in Austria but I live in Germany and obviously no one is going to spend time, money, and energy on these shenanigans once I am dead. But if I could selfishly wish for a way, this would be it. There are reasons for why I don't want to be buried and why I don't want to be cremated and this would feel... The rightest.
If I can have anything, I want to explode into a bunch of butterflies.
If only real options are available, I am hoping composting is legal by then. Just be turned back into dirt and plants.
I've always thought sky burials are pretty cool, but as a person living in North America who has no plans to move to Tibet or take up Buddhism, that's completely impractical. Next best thing might be for my to be placed on a body farm.
Take what someone else can use (not sell), chuck the rest in a hole in the ground in the middle of the woods.
Sky burial https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSky_burial&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
I said body farm, my wife was too creeped out by that. So then it was "donated to science" but then those nasty body brokers get your parts and sell them wherever so now it's natural burial.
In Colorado one can be buried on private property not designated as a graveyard so if whatever county I end up in is cool with it, just plant me in the back yard.
donate me to an artsy goth who really wants to make a goblet out of bones for social media clout for all I care. Let a reclusive cannibal coven get a few pieces. Liquefy the rest and chuck it out a window. I'm dead, what do I care?
The average human skull has a volume of about twice the average bottle of wine. Thanks to your sacrifice, some artsy goth is getting wasted.
The matter that makes up my cells has been going through the cycle of life for god knows how long. All I know is I’ll be pissed if that cycle is cut off to isolate that matter in a metal box in the ground.
Harvest for transplant whatever organs I haven't managed to destroy and then put my ass in one of these. And if I am lucky enough to still have any money at all by then, please bury it in the Pacific Northwest.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/05/25/coffins-made-from-mushrooms-cost-availability/70255979007/
Pretty much the same. I'd like to be useful for other living beings instead of being sealed in a useless wooden box or a glorified ashtray.
Seems only fair since I've been eating them my entire life.
Forgotten
Ideally there would be no body to bury. Think about it, can you think of a boring way to die where your body is never found?
Of course i'm making sure my death will be adventurous by staying at my computer and never going outside. Totally won't die of a heart attack like a loser.
Stuffed and mounted in a ferocious pose. Hide me in the closet of someone you don't like.
Green burial. No preservatives, no permanent structures, just natural decay and completing the circle of life. Don't pickle me for a funeral just get me in the ground asap.
Give me the oven.
catfood
Easy, just die near your cat(s) and the same day they’ll chomp.
A dog waits a little while, iirc. They lick your face, then nip, and if you don’t respond eventually chomp too.
they would both get thirsty pretty soon if nobody came to rescue them from the dead body apartment
I’d like to be put into a meat grinder and fed to a critically endangered species so the earth has an opportunity to say fuck you to humans
That's just a burial with extra steps
I won't be there, so I don't care as long as it's not something bad for the environment.
I took up enough precious space on this bitch of an Earth in life, so my only wish is to take up as little of it as possible in death.
No giant overpriced wooden box in a concrete case on a dedicated plot of land, filled with fanciful linens to wrap my lifeless husk specifically treated to rot away as slowly as possible. Not if I get a say. Burn my dead ass to ashes and preferably scatter them to the wind, I don't care where. Or, as a wise Danny DeVito said, throw me in the trash. Nature will have its way with what's left. I'm crumbling to entropy anyway, might as well get it over with as efficiently as I can.
I will not ""become"" a tree, or ""return to"" anyplace. I want to be gone. My lease on this world is over. I explicitly want that lease returned, to the fullest extent it matters.
Not like I'd necessarily get a say, though. Funerals and their rituals are for the living. The ultimate conclusion of my wish to command nothing of the world after I'm gone is that I also can't command what happens to my remains after I'm gone. I can express my wishes, but if no one agrees to honor them, so be it.
If my loved ones want to stuff my corpse in a monkey suit and bury it in an expensive box on a dedicated plot of land for 100 years because that's how they want to greive my passing, who am I to stop them? I'm dead.
First, don't spend money on it. That is the most important. Second, if possible make something useful of my body, like donating to science. I listened to a podcast about this "cemetery" that is a research facility and they let the bodies decompose in a variety of situations to study the process. Third, don't do any funeral or rituals and that includes keeping a cemetery lapid or stuff like that.
One exception is if someone wants to do something really funny and weird, like the guy that wanted his skull preserved and the rest made into two diamonds that would be fitted to the skull and to be kept like in the living room to judge everyone or something.
I've asked my wife for a closed coffin just because I think the open ones are weird as f-. Other then that I'm going to be dead so it won't matter.
Whatever my wife feels like, assuming she's the one to survive me. I don't hold any religious beliefs demanding me to do something specific with my body, so I'll leave it to her to decide.
Should she be passing before me, I'd just want to be cremated and scattered somewhere in the most cost efficient way to not affect anyone's finances.
Any parts that can be used to improve a human life should be used that way. Then any parts that can be used to improve animal/plant life should be used that way. Then the rest should be disposed of in the manner that consumes the fewest resources.
But, I'll be gone; you guys can do whatever with it; I won't care.
Vengeful spirit, for sure.
I want to be cremated. I want my wife to keep the ashes for as long as she wants and then eventually spread them so my atoms can return to the earth
I'd be OK if they dismantled my body for parts but it's kind of unlikely that they'll find something usable. The rest is a big whatever - burn it, bury it, pet cemetery, I'm OK with it. As long as the body doesn't leave my city.
I wonder if I could be made into quality boots and other clothes.
I'd like my mind to be uploaded into an AI heaven or whatever similar thing.
pack my ashes into a cannonball and shot me over Lake Michigan
Is vampirism or zombification an option?
Used as a prop for a Halloween haunted house.
Just throw me in the trash
I mean, I guess the heart and stuff will still be good. The brain is going to be splattered all over the wall though.
Hey man, are you ok? Do you want to talk about anything?
Some of us know that our way out will likely be suicide because euthanasia may still be illegal or expensive. For me, I will not let myself or anyone else deal with my inevitable dementia if I make it that long.
The plan can be to end in suicide without being suicidal, make sense?
LOL bad news for you...
Volcano don't become kitten.
Human don't become tree.
Sponge don't become transformer.