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Inspired by Smunkee having a relative cremated and placed in a Jack Daniels bottle.

so you have just died. What do you want done with your body? Cremation? Burial? Donation to science?

Personally, I want to be cremated. Then, I want my ashes divided into two equal piles. I want the first half to be put into a firework. I want the second half put into a snowglobe.

I really won't care, as I will be dead. My body has already been donated to science - whatever use they get from it will be its final fate, be it organ harvesting, or as a specimen for med students to practice on, or as a crash test dummy or who knows what.

Inspired by Smunkee having a relative cremated and placed in a Jack Daniels bottle.

so you have just died. What do you want done with your body? Cremation? Burial? Donation to science?

Personally, I want to be cremated. Then, I want my ashes divided into two equal piles. I want the first half to be put into a firework. I want the second half put into a snowglobe.burial... but instead of a tombstone, I would like to have a tree planted.

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I just wanna be buried on a pet cemetary!

Me and Smunkee have the same fate for our bodies - donation to the University of Tennessee body farm.

get that German dude with the hat to do a show cutting me up :)

I really won't care, as I will be dead. My body has already been donated to science - whatever use they get from it will be its final fate, be it organ harvesting, or as a specimen for med students to practice on, or as a crash test dummy or who knows what.
I like the crash test dummy one.

I think it would be fun to have a kid pick up a snow globe, yell "It's a blizzard!", and have their parents tell them "ya know, that's your great grandpa."

I'll be able to scar youth even from beyond the grave.

Donated to science. I won't want the body any more, so I may give it to someone that'll have some use for it.

Not given to science. Otherwise, I don't know... I always wanted to be cremated, but apparently that releases toxins into the atmosphere or something. (At least, according to some article I read a while back.) So I guess I'm going for a burial? Honestly, it doesn't really matter, as I'll be dead, and beyond caring. ;) My family can do whatever makes them feel best.

I can't decide.

Burning to death is pretty much my worst nightmare, so I don't very much fancy being burned even after the fact.
On the other hand, maggot food isn't a very inspiring choice either.

Meh, I'll just have to keep on living.

I changed my mind. I wanna be stuffed and placed in the corner of my daughter's(and later) my grand-daughter's (and so on) bedromms. To scare the bejaysus out of any would be boyfriends.

Mwahahahaha

Inspired by Smunkee having a relative cremated and placed in a Jack Daniels bottle.

so you have just died. What do you want done with your body? Cremation? Burial? Donation to science?

Personally, I want to be cremated. Then, I want my ashes divided into two equal piles. I want the first half to be put into a firework. I want the second half put into a snowglobe.


I'll be in heaven. My Body will be on earth. I don't care what happens to it, 'cause I know it's going to be put back together when Christ comes back to the earth.

Heck, roast me up and serve me with a nice side of Alfredo.

I can't decide.

Burning to death is pretty much my worst nightmare, so I don't very much fancy being burned even after the fact.
On the other hand, maggot food isn't a very inspiring choice either.

Meh, I'll just have to keep on living.
I don't wanna burn. Neither in Life nor in Death - nor shall Fire be the cause of my death, please!
And why not wormfood? That way my molecules and atoms will spread around the whole globe. It's scientifically proven! I'll be part of everything around here.

Now that is cool!

I really don't care... I suppose I'd leave it up to my wife/family...

Meh, I'll just have to keep on living.
I plan on being immortal. So far, so good.

I'll be in heaven. My Body will be on earth. I don't care what happens to it, 'cause I know it's going to be put back together when Christ comes back to the earth.

Heck, roast me up and serve me with a nice side of Alfredo.
damnit, now I have a craving for italian.

Mine'll be used as evidence.

organ donor etc... I don't really care what happens to my body and that seems to be something useful...

Donated to science.


Why should the scientists get all the fun? Can I leave my body to philosophy?

I plan on being immortal. So far, so good.
Yeah, that one's the cincher.

Whatever helps make my family and friends happy.

I'll be buried in a proper Jewish burial.

Erm, do a Lenin I suppose, get embalmed and put on display in a glass coffin so future generations can ask the immortal question:-

'Who the fuck is that tosser? And why is he in a glass case?

Muslim burial, Jewish funeral, Irish wake.

The usual.

I don't wanna burn. Neither in Life nor in Death - nor shall Fire be the cause of my death, please!
And why not wormfood? That way my molecules and atoms will spread around the whole globe. It's scientifically proven! I'll be part of everything around here.

Now that is cool!

I'd be much in favor of my ashes being scattered somewhere nice, so I'm all for that last part. Thing is, I don't really want to become ashes in the first place. And I wouldn't even mind the worms so much, if it were really worms we're talking about. But maggots, nu-uh. Maggots are teh evil.

I want to be fitted with robotic parts run by a smartass, jokester AI and kept by my wife as a novelty.

Muslim burial, Jewish funeral, Irish wake.

The usual.

Howe xactly would that work? oO

I'd want to be cremated and have my ashes spread across the runway at my airport. Wilgrove Air Park (8A6).

i will be cremated.

the idea of this body being eaten by worms and maggots is too gross.

I'll be in heaven. My Body will be on earth. I don't care what happens to it, 'cause I know it's going to be put back together when Christ comes back to the earth.

Heck, roast me up and serve me with a nice side of Alfredo.
Dude that's just disgusting.

Human doesn't go with Alfredo, a nice sweet and sour sauce would be far more appropriate.

What do I want to happen to my corpse, I don't care, probably organ harvest followed by burrial or burning. But if I am going to be raised at the end of days, I want a tomb stone, a big one.

Why should the scientists get all the fun? Can I leave my body to philosophy?

What'll they do with it?

Hmm, only being 23 I suppose I haven't thought about this all that much. I guess I'd prefer to be cremated and have my ashes spread over Lake Superior.

organ donation and burial if you will.

something in me likes the idea of resting in the same spot till i rot. (hm that was supposed to sound nicer than it did heh)

What'll they do with it?
Philosophise. Duh?

organ donation and burial if you will.

something in me likes the idea of resting in the same spot till i rot. (hm that was supposed to sound nicer than it did heh)
What if we won't?

Get someone else to do it I suppose.

science or a funeral pire, NOT cremated, old style funeal pice where they put you on a block of granit and then put lots of wood up and light it. I want it done on the top of a hill durring the new moon or the full moon.

Philosophise. Duh?

lol!
They can philosophise while the drunken mexican doctor auctions off my organs.

Launch my body into deep space

Launch my body into deep space

It'd be hilarious if your body fell back to earth.
Yum, barbeque

What if we won't?
hm ok, whats the chef's special today?
but i guess i could just rot where i fall. cos that would be comfy. *nods*

hm ok, whats the chef's special today?
but i guess i could just rot where i fall. cos that would be comfy. *nods*
Not for the person you land on. If you land on a person, that is.

I'm surprised no one's come up with anything really outlandish yet, like having their body chopped up by a naked granny using a samurai sword, then being fed to a pack of wolves specially bred for this one purpose. Maybe my expectations of people here are too high.

Not for the person you land on. If you land on a person, that is.

I'm surprised no one's come up with anything really outlandish yet, like having their body chopped up by a naked granny using a samurai sword, then being fed to a pack of wolves specially bred for this one purpose. Maybe my expectations of people here are too high.


I thought mine was pretty outlandish! I demand recognition sah! :p

Not for the person you land on. If you land on a person, that is.

I'm surprised no one's come up with anything really outlandish yet, like having their body chopped up by a naked granny using a samurai sword, then being fed to a pack of wolves specially bred for this one purpose. Maybe my expectations of people here are too high.

The wolves idea intrigues me. Where does one purchase wolves in order to breed a pack and train them to eat human corpses. And where is the nearest morgue?

I thought mine was pretty outlandish! I demand recognition sah! :p
I blanked it from my mind because of the poor grammar:
an smart-ass

But credit where it's due. Here, have half a cookie.

Not for the person you land on. If you land on a person, that is.

I'm surprised no one's come up with anything really outlandish yet, like having their body chopped up by a naked granny using a samurai sword, then being fed to a pack of wolves specially bred for this one purpose. Maybe my expectations of people here are too high.
i thought being burned was kind of special:)
iam not sure if its leagal though:( :mad:

I blanked it from my mind because of the poor grammar:


But credit where it's due. Here, have half a cookie.

oi! That was quite unwell put weren't it?

*devours cookie*

Tanx!

The wolves idea intrigues me. Where does one purchase wolves in order to breed a pack and train them to eat human corpses. And where is the nearest morgue?
You don't buy. If you buy, they're probably tame, and it'll be more difficult to train them and their offspring to eat human flesh. You must capture them yourself, bend them to your will, and feed them regularly with only young virgins. My worry would be where am I going to find a granny trained to use a samurai sword, who'll be willing to cut up my body while naked.

i thought being burned was kind of special:)
iam not sure if its leagal though:( :mad:
It's not really outlandish. Plus England saw a lot of that kind of thing a few years ago with the foot and mouth epidemic, burning cow carcasses and that sort of shit.

Don't really care too much, though I like the thought of a viking funeral with the boat being set to sea, and archers firing flaming arrows.

Yeah, that's what I'd like...

But since I'd be dead, I wouldn't care- so in actuality, whatever brings the most comfort to the people who I leave behind I suppose.

Though I've always loved the concept behind those viking funerals. ;)

You don't buy. If you buy, they're probably tame, and it'll be more difficult to train them and their offspring to eat human flesh. You must capture them yourself, bend them to your will, and feed them regularly with only young virgins. My worry would be where am I going to find a granny trained to use a samurai sword, who'll be willing to cut up my body while naked.

Interesting. Well I can easily get young virgins. After I go on eBay i'll run out into some woods with some meat and a big stick and hope for the best.

It's not really outlandish. Plus England saw a lot of that kind of thing a few years ago with the foot and mouth epidemic, burning cow carcasses and that sort of shit.
yah well iam not a cow, so it is special:)

I want them to take my body on a ship and go to some deep part of the Atlantic Ocean and throw my body (in a sheet made heavier with stones or such, or chains) in to the watery deep.

Either that or I want them to take a submarine and bury me on R'Lyeh ! ;-P

Interesting. Well I can easily get young virgins. After I go on eBay i'll run out into some woods with some meat and a big stick and hope for the best.


Kildare is a lot more interesting then I was lead to believe :p

Don't really care too much, though I like the thought of a viking funeral with the boat being set to sea, and archers firing flaming arrows.

Yeah, that's what I'd like...

But since I'd be dead, I wouldn't care- so in actuality, whatever brings the most comfort to the people who I leave behind I suppose.

Though I've always loved the concept behind those viking funerals. ;)
my mom has always said that for her funeral she wants us to put her on a raft in the middle of the ocean and then set it on fire, but she wants su to put some fireworks on there as well:p

I want them to take my body on a ship and go to some deep part of the Atlantic Ocean and throw my body (in a sheet made heavier with stones or such, or chains) in to the watery deep.

Either that or I want them to take a submarine and bury me on R'Lyeh ! ;-P


But think of everyone's minds you'd destroy that way... wait you're dead, you don't care... I'll be quiet now...

I changed my mind. I wanna be stuffed and placed in the corner of my daughter's(and later) my grand-daughter's (and so on) bedromms. To scare the bejaysus out of any would be boyfriends.

Mwahahahaha

That's probably the most sinister (and appealing) idea I've ever heard.

I'm an organ donor, so when I kick off, they're gonna carve me up for usable parts, and burn the rest. I'd rather make someone sneeze than make them puke.

although it would be really funny to have a headstone carved into a picture of me playing peekaboo, with the inscription, "Where's ****? Here I am!"

I'll probably just take the 1st one, lol

Don't really care too much, though I like the thought of a viking funeral with the boat being set to sea, and archers firing flaming arrows.

Damn, now that's the ticket, right there. And there's enough Scandinavians in Upper Michigan that I'm sure I could get them to give me a real Viking sendoff on Lake Superior.

But think of everyone's minds you'd destroy that way... wait you're dead, you don't care... I'll be quiet now...


Hey ! I'm a Discordian, destroying minds is something I'm wont to do.
;-P

The 'greyface' mind that is.

Hey ! I'm a Discordian, destroying minds is something I'm wont to do.
;-P

The 'greyface' mind that is.


Nice to met you! I'm a card carrying discordian pope!

Spectacles testicles wallet and watch.

Kildare is a lot more interesting then I was lead to believe :p

One word. eBay.

You've just died.

Damn.

That's going to ruin my appetite.

:mad:

Organ donation then cremation.

After stories from my roommate about the anatomy lab, no donation to science for me.

I honestly don't care, but I have instructed my children to have a military funeral for me. I earned it, I'm entitled to it, and I want it. :)

One word. eBay.


Awww, and I was just finished loading the nets into the van...

I hope my body is sold to a meat-packaging plant where I will be ground up and sold as hot dogs. Maybe one day it will be me that you are grilling at the barbeque:)

Ok, great, when am I reincarnted?

I would like to be set to the bottom of the deep off the coast of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles.

Nice to met you! I'm a card carrying discordian pope!


I do have a pope-card, yes. But I'm now an Episkopos.
(And I cary the title of S.N.R*.)




*-Salted Nuthead of the Realm.

Btw: Sumamba Buwhan, nice to meet you also.

I do have a pope-card, yes. But I'm now an Episkopos.
(And I cary the title of S.N.R*.)




*-Salted Nuthead of the Realm.


That's awesome!

*gives you the finger* :D

I'm going to live forever or die trying!

And we're running out of room for graves. We should all be cremated.

That's awesome!

*gives you the finger* :D

Ah nice ! If you ever happen to be in the area you should come and see my growing collection of fingers. ;)

Either cremated and furtively scattered, in my chosen place, by relatives (we did this for my granddad, since scattering ashes in a public gardens is frowned upon) or donate my corpse to science.

Ah nice ! If you ever happen to be in the area you should come and see my growing collection of fingers. ;)

Wow, I'd love to see that. I bet you have some giant fingers by now!

Don't care, I'm done with it. You think that I'm going to stick around and see my own funereal? Hell no! I've got a long list of people to haunt.

It's hardly going to matter, but ideally I'd like to be cremated...either that or leave my body to science. I'm already on the Organ Donor Register, so hopefully something positive would come of my death (could be considered positive in some quarters anyway!).

As for a funeral, I don't give a toss; my only request there is that Don't Stop Me Now by Queen is played for a bit of a laugh. People think I'm taking the piss, but I'm deadly serious. No pun intended.

I can't die. Appearently being the unholy manifestation of the Aztecs that demands blood for vengeance gives you special benifeits :P . Well, I would most like to be buried, but my crazy idea would to have all of my organs given to needy childrenm stuffed with dirt and have vines and other such plants planted into me. Why? 1. It would look awesome 2. It would be eco-friendly 3. My body would be turned into energy for plants and trees (would be planted later) and that would make me the first known human to reach ascension into energy. Well, that last one may or may not be flawed, but it would infact be t3h 4w3s0m3z!!1!111!!one!eleven!!exclamation mark!!1

This topic is dead.

What'll they do with it?They'll think about it. :D


I think I'd donate my organs, then let my family do what they will. Seems to me incredibly selfish not to donate them...

I see dead people...

My organs will be harvested for others to use, the rest I'd like put on a big funeral pile and burned like the people used to do before Monotheism and all those silly things...

i'm not sure. I have a couple of ideas though.

1.I want them to whip up a big tank of molten acrylic fluid, and then submerge my body in it, then flash freeze it, preserving me forever in a blurry red mess of partial melting.

2. I'd like my head chopped off, shrunken using authentic meso-american headshrinking techniques, and then made part of a carnival museum of oddities.

3. I'd like them to write on my tombstone; "Here lies Ed. We shot him in the head so he won't come back as a zombie."

I either wanna be launched into space like in starship troopers, or buried with a big ol' monument on top of me, one with statues of me and things like that.:)

maybe being made into a giant marionette would be fun too.
Or having my ashes used to filter high quality liquor.

cremated and uhh thrown into the wind or something D: i have a huge fear of being buried alive

i'm not sure. I have a couple of ideas though.

1.I want them to whip up a big tank of molten acrylic fluid, and then submerge my body in it, then flash freeze it, preserving me forever in a blurry red mess of partial melting.

2. I'd like my head chopped off, shrunken using authentic meso-american headshrinking techniques, and then made part of a carnival museum of oddities.

3. I'd like them to write on my tombstone; "Here lies Ed. We shot him in the head so he won't come back as a zombie."

Wonder if your local funeral home provides those cinds of services

ooh! or loaded into a missle (after being cremated of course) with explosives and fired into a big statue of me! That would be freakin awsome!

;) ;) mmmm ... thrown into space.... flying to alpha centauri

I'd prefer NOT to be eaten, by either maggots or people, so I guess that rules out the alfredo sauce :P I'd probably do the whole cremation thing, as long as they made sure I was dead, probably after donating my organs to other people. I want to keep my face, I hate the idea of facial transplants. Wouldn't you think that'd be a bit creepy, having someone else wear your face?

burial... but instead of a tombstone, I would like to have a tree planted.


I want to be made into a belly button ring!

http://www.mycrystalcompanion.com/

I want to be cremated. Science can have all Big Brother's participant's bodies (dead or not).

I'd prefer NOT to be eaten, by either maggots or people, so I guess that rules out the alfredo sauce :P I'd probably do the whole cremation thing, as long as they made sure I was dead, probably after donating my organs to other people. I want to keep my face, I hate the idea of facial transplants. Wouldn't you think that'd be a bit creepy, having someone else wear your face?

Hmm, burial, but with a cell phone next to me in the coffin. Would hate not wake up and find my self as beeing rather screwed

burial... but instead of a tombstone, I would like to have a tree planted.


I want to be made into a belly button ring!

http://www.mycrystalcompanion.com/

I'm donating my organs and tissue with hopes that someone else can benefit from them. They have served me well :-)

aside from that, i'd rather have a party instead of a funeral. a celebration of memories and keep it fun. lots of balloons, food and maybe some apple bobbing contests.

Me and Smunkee have the same fate for our bodies - donation to the University of Tennessee body farm.
yep, I mean you got 2 choices burn or rot, at least if I am going to rot I can educate people at the same time. BTW didn't know if people know or not, but if you donate your body to science you can't donate any of your organs, if you donate to the body farm they don't need your organs, sometimes they can chop you up and just use your leg and stuff. You can save or help at least 12 people or something with organ donation, so keep it in mind, I mean you aren't really going to be using any of it anymore anyway.;)

Soylent Green

I'd like a mauseleum... or a stupa... no BOTH, and a mummified corpse. Spiffy all those things, and my servants THEY MUST DIE WITH ME !

I'm done.

Donated to science of course. Sometimes I wonder why the people I know don't want to do that...

My wife and I are going the creamation route. Probably put our ashes in one urn. Then put that one in a crypt or something.

Under ground tunnels leading to my saracophagus would be cool, too.

I'd like to be cremated, then have my ashes turned into a diamond.

I want my body thrown into a highway with a camera set up so all of my friends to watch the chaos that develops. If that doesn't happen or my body makes it out okay then I want it buried but I'm counting on my friends!:)

This seems like a good idea to me:

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=AgI5psyp9B6WeO28wsp1pgpXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2Mm9kb21jBGNvbG8DZQRsA1dTMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANCV lRDXzEx/SIG=11fkmrr1e/EXP=1136518094/**http%3a//ashesscattering.com/

I would personally love to be bronzed, or maybe encased in gold if I could afford it, although that might be a bit soft. Wouldn't that just be bad-ass?

I want them to just leave it at the middle of the street. Just leave it there.

Whatever helps make my family and friends happy.
Well, as long as you don't piss off your family and friends right before you die. If you do, it could be using your corpse as a piñata that makes them happy.

I would wish for my body to be cooked and dried (with salt) after I have been placed in the thinking man position. Then I would want a rented tux put on me and a giant miniature paper mansion (complete with paper furniture, electronics, appliances, staff…) built around me on the inside of a huge dirigible. In the mansion I am to be set up like a giant statue. Pictures are to be taken so as a 3rd virtual tour can be made. Then the blimp is to take off from Elizabethgrad, Russia (The Russian government must invade the Ukraine first and rename the city to the held name) and fly over a number of location in Poland and Germany. Then the dirigible is to fly to Argentina where it will commence in a search for long lost relatives. After that it will fly over the United States with stops in LA, CA and NY, NY as well as other locations. It then embark on a trip to the far east by heading west and after a few months of visiting the sights it is to be set on fire by a number of highly trained wild wolves. My corpse is to be taken from the remains and then eaten the by wolves. Then ever year at the time of my birthday the dirigible and all of its accompany work (Russia must invade the Ukraine and rename the city every time) is to be repeated but alternating between rabbits and monkeys instead of wolves. My corpse is to be replaced with bananas or carrots depending on weather there are rabbits and monkeys. The rabbits get bananas of course and the monkeys get carrots. On leap years and years then end in zero live caribou [wild North American reindeer] are to be the food for a number of hungry eels. Unless that is a year in which a (current or ex) US Vice-president gets married or divorced, in which case the eels would be force fed to caribou that would be eaten by a number of white lab rats in a stew. Wolves descended form the aforementioned wolves would eat the stew.

Frozen. Although It's more likely to get sealed inside cement and thrown into the river.

Howe xactly would that work? oO

Well ... Muslim burial is simple and straightforward, similar to a Jewish burial. Then I'm sure my kids and loved ones will sit shiv in the Jewish tradition. After that, break out the whiskey and tell stories about me and party until you can't see straight.

That's how it works.

Being a mortuary science major, this topic is interesting. My class was asked this by one of our professors during the first semester.

During the visitation, I'd like to be in a rental casket with my arms crossed over my chest and a silver dollar in my mouth. After the visitation, I'd like to be cremated and have my cremains inurned and placed in the cemetery where my family is all buried.

And for the record, it's not ashes. After cremation, what's left resembles broken sea shells. I know the term is used by quite a few, but it's properly cremated human remains or just cremains. Due to regulations, you can't just scatter them wherever you please as some are already aware of.

Those of you that plan on donating, I thank you in advance. I learned so much more from someone that donated their body than I did in my anatomy book. Reading about is one thing, but being able to see and touch what you are learning is something all together different. I may go that route myself.

Not given to science. Otherwise, I don't know... I always wanted to be cremated, but apparently that releases toxins into the atmosphere or something. (At least, according to some article I read a while back.) So I guess I'm going for a burial? Honestly, it doesn't really matter, as I'll be dead, and beyond caring. ;) My family can do whatever makes them feel best.

Toxins may be released, but that all depends on what the cremation container is. Plywood and other composite metals release toxins while cardboard does not.

I'd like to be cremated, then have my ashes turned into a diamond.

I've seen one of those diamonds. I think the whole process is just amazing.