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What do yall want as your final resting place? For me I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread across the Runway at my airport. I love flying, and I will keep on flying until the day I die. So I think its only appropriate that my final resting place is at my home base.

So what about yall? What do yall want for your final resting place?

Cremated then shot into space. If not, scatter em down the local ski hill.

I want to be fossilised so that in thousands of years people can see what a 'modern' human looked like.

I want to buy a plot of land out in the desert somewhere, and make into a family burial ground. I want a semi-underground burial chamber, where I'll be placed into some sort of non-decomposing coffin, possibly stone, and all (or most) of my descendants will be too. And I want an obelisk damnit... AN OBELISK!

~loves the British Museum~ :D

Somewhere in the ground would be nice.

My instructions? Toss me in the woods, perferably somewhere way up north, possibly in winter when there are lean pickings for the local carnivores. I figure after they've stripped my body for its organs and such, I may as well be of use to the local wildlife. I don't need my body, nor do I particularly feel the need to have a memorial anywhere. If people wish to remember me, fine, that's their deal.

I was most want to be of use. The cycle of nature is a beautiful thing. I'd be eaten, cycled back into nature, the trees, the animals, the moss, the saplings growing out of some coyote's crap, whatever.

My instructions? Toss me in the woods, perferably somewhere way up north, possibly in winter when there are lean pickings for the local carnivores. I figure after they've stripped my body for its organs and such, I may as well be of use to the local wildlife. I don't need my body, nor do I particularly feel the need to have a memorial anywhere. If people wish to remember me, fine, that's their deal.

I was most want to be of use. The cycle of nature is a beautiful thing. I'd be eaten, cycled back into nature, the trees, the animals, the moss, the saplings growing out of some coyote's crap, whatever.

Yes but think about the hikers. They'll report your body and you'll be in the local morturary.

I would like to have my remains cremated and sprinkled on the earth.

In the belly of a great shark, speargun in hand.

I'll probably have myself bronzed and put up in a park. Either that or mixed into the cement shoes of my enemies.

I think it would be cool to be properly mummified. Odds are my descendants can't afford it so cremation is my second choice. They don't let people have cool things like obelisks in the graveyard here, just a flat slab made of something or other. I suppose it would be cool to put the various family coats of arms on it. the slabs aren't even very big. that's a drag. oh well I suppose they worry about the big mowing machines.

Stuffed and put in a university to creep people out as they walk by. Oh, and my head must be placed in a sack at my feet. That's right, Bentham style baby. While I might not agree with his philosophies, the guy sure knew how to die.

Va-Poo-Rized.

I'd like to be buried in Prague.

Spreading ashes is gross to me. I don't know about everybody else but I don't want to go swimming in the ocean and get a mouthfull of dead sailor penis ash or any other body part for that matter. :p

I plan to donate mine to science. There's a lot that needs to be learned about abnormal brain chemistry and function. And I'd rather med students learn on me carcass than on live patients.
If there's anything left they can bury it in a cardboard box. Someplace where worms and trees can make use of whats left.

i want to be creamated and have my ashes put in 2 bullets. The first bullet will be shot into a grizzly bear, killing it. The second will be shot into a moose, also killing it. Then i will have all three boddies cremated and put into the gasoline of a 79 monte carlo, then the car will be platnium plated and a plaq will read "Here lies Bryce. 1/3 human. 1/3 Bear. 1/3 moose. that'll be awesome.

Place in a glass coffin filled with a inert gas. The glass coated in lead, then steel and the coffin launched into deep space.

I want to be sealed in the Kabbah with all those demons.

I don't know, I guess either a nearby cemetary or the Staples Center.

Spreading ashes is gross to me. I don't know about everybody else but I don't want to go swimming in the ocean and get a mouthfull of dead sailor penis ash or any other body part for that matter. :p
Oh dont pretend you havent already.LOL

Me personally i want to have my ashes spread out to see so Kejott can get a mouthful of Dead Sailor penis!

Nah Ashes spread along the beach where my granddad was ashed!

Buy Africa, build a tomb over it. have my body ceramated, and placed in the middle of the structure.

Burial at Sea.

Cremated and then have my ashes dumped into the wind on top of Fuji-san.

Cremate me. Then burn the ashes. Hell, burn 'em twice. That way, if the christians are right, my body and soul can travel the same fiery path.

Side note: When I'm cremated, I'll have instructions to place a mysterious package, unopened, on my chest before I'm burnt. The package will, naturaly, contain fireworks :)

Just a small burial plot at the cemetary in the little country where I grew up.

heh, i dont really care. i'll donate my body to whoever needs it. its not like i'll be needing it. whoever wants it can have it.

well, I plan on living for quite a while (cryo until they figure out how to live for really absurdly long amounts of time) but after that I figure i'll be pretty much tired of living anyway and I'll have my mortal coil reduced to its component elements, but first I'll have my conciousness uploaded onto an ultra powerful computer with instructions that it only bee turned on for very important happenings (the end of the world of example I want to be awake for that)

Die? Who said anything about dying? With the power of cryogenics, I can live forever! Freeze me! :D

Space.

Throw me in a ditch and get on with life. It matters more to me how I am remembered.

as someone i know once said,

"should i fall in the struggle, scatter my ashes at waldheim (http://www.graveyards.com/foresthome/hmarket.html), but bury my heart at wounded knee."

Die? Who said anything about dying? With the power of cryogenics, I can live forever! Freeze me! :D

that'd probably cost more then its worth

I once heard about a sky burial! I think its in the Himalayas because its really rocky and impractical to bury someone underground.

What they do is leave the body outside and let the vultures pick at it and they fly off and yer gone! Not sure what they do with the bones tho :/

I dont really care because I will be dead......at least I hope so.

I once heard about a sky burial! I think its in the Himalayas because its really rocky and impractical to bury someone underground.

What they do is leave the body outside and let the vultures pick at it and they fly off and yer gone! Not sure what they do with the bones tho :/
That would be typical Tibetan tradition. It's part of their oldest animistic religion, Bön, which has influenced buddhism in Tibet.

They tear your body in pieces and watch as vultures and other animals eat you. Bones will be eaten too. Sounds practical.

Since I'll be dead I don't give a shit, but for cleanliness and so I don't take up space, cremation adn then... scattering into the sea maybe? I'm returning to my Hindu roots. ;)

Such a morbid thread... But, I'll be dead (*gasp* a rhyme!), so it really won't matter.

Burn my body, put the ashes in a dump, and forget about it. Hey, it takes a lot less money and space than a coffin in a graveyard.