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I haven't decided this yet... either cremated and have my ashes sent into space (possibly the sun... just to get the cremation done really well) or mummified or buried in such a way as to be likely to produce a fossil so "people" can dig me up in the distant future.

Also, the thread is mine! mwahahaha!

What do you want to be done with your body? I would love to go to a body farm.

I can't decide, so I think I want a variety.

I want my left arm cremated, my right arm buried, my right leg cryogenically frozen, my left leg mummified, my torso compressed into a diamond, my genitals stuffed and mounted( -perfect joke setup- ) and my head shot into space.

I'd like to have a somewhat traditional burial, although I would be OK with cremation. I'd like to donate any usable organs after dying, too. So I find the list to be a little hard to pick exactly what I'd like to do so I had to just pick the best one I guess lol.

What do you want to be done with your body? I would love to go to a body farm.
I'd have everyone who ever really gave a phuck about me to get on one side of a giant industrial fan, with goggles, fork & knife, and bibs, seated of course, while on the other side, the remains of my corpse after the good organs (however few) were harvested ends up being tossed into through the fan and splattered all over my friends. Which reminds me of WYTYG and the new friend network, for which she qualifies.

My drivers licence states "organ donor" and has for as long as I've had a licence :D

I'd ingest large quantities of gold before dying, then bequeath my corpse to whoever writes anti-anti-piracy software. Then I'd die of gold poisoning. :D

Viking Burial. Put me in a long ship and set it on fire, and push it out to see.

What do you want to be done with your body? I would love to go to a body farm.

If I die old I want to be dropped over a volcano with either explosives or various fireworks strapped to my body. I want either a parachute or or a giant proppeller that way I'd either spin around rapidly before literally going out with a bang or descending slowly. I'd also have it written explicitly that one of my grandchildren or relatives is to tape this epic event lest they be haunted by my spirit. :D

What do you want to be done with your body? I would love to go to a body farm.

I am? How inappropriate to discover this while reading NSG! And I had so many years ahead of me... *snif*

As for what to do with my body... I do not care. The only request I have to others is that they triple-quadruple check that I am indeed dead. After that, they can do as they please.

Ballotonia

That Viking Burial is tempting but I'll go with: Frozen for my brain, Harvested for donations for anything that someone might need and Cremation for the leftovers.

Have my body's carbon converted into a diamond... why not?

Have my body's carbon converted into a diamond... why not?

http://www.lifegem.com/

:)

I would leave it as it is, 'cause I'll rise again afterwards.

I want my funeral to be non-religious and carried out by a magician in top hat and tails with a glamorous assistant. As my coffin goes into the incinerator this starts playing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCClFi-dQFk

My field of research, if successful will allow me to have my mind live on freely via data. However, i am a bit sentimental, so even though im not favorable to my body, i would like its funeral to be something like this:

Thrown into a preservation chamber, which looks like a statue. within the body are various electronics and robotics, including an HDD that can store my data, so 1,000 years after my death, i can simply reanimate.
freak the f*** out of whatever town/city i happen to re spawn in.

I'd go for harvesting my organs for donation. After all, I'll be dead, so it's better if someone else gets some use out of them.

Although a Viking burial would be cool, but pretty damn excessive.

One of my housemates wants his body to be launched into the English Channel via a catapult when he dies.

Viking Burial. Put me in a long ship and set it on fire, and push it out to see.

This. I'd like a Viking burial on Lake Superior. Of course, whoever is conducting the funeral would have to do it in the middle of the night and flee immediately because I'm sure it's quite illegal.

Alternatively I'd like to be cremated and thrown off the Mackinack Bridge.

Cryonics.

I'd like to be reanimated as a vampire.

However, if that technology is not available, I will accept zombie.

Preserved and meticulously maintained in the town square, in a glass coffin, so that the locals can walk by and fondly remember what I'd done...whatever the hell that may be.

well harvested and then the left overs get cremated via the use of nuclear weapons and if you cant do that any other which way will do so long as there is no religion involved and people can have a big party afterwards and no black

You left out the "donated to science and used as the mold for generations of new Terminator models" option. I always wanted to be the face of the eradication of humankind, screw Schwarzenegger.

I can't be dead -- I'm still grading papers!

some sort of great archaeological hoax :p

Not cremation. Death by burning is just about my worst nightmare so I don't really see why I'd go for it after I'm dead, either.

Nothing really appeals. Worms are not really all that much better than fire.

Scattering ashes over some place that was important to me seems nice but requires that dreaded fire again. Plus in my experience it's important to the ones left behind to have an actual spot where they can go and have the feeling you are there, like the traditional grave site.

I'd have everyone who ever really gave a phuck about me to get on one side of a giant industrial fan, with goggles, fork & knife, and bibs, seated of course, while on the other side, the remains of my corpse after the good organs (however few) were harvested ends up being tossed into through the fan and splattered all over my friends. Which reminds me of WYTYG and the new friend network, for which she qualifies.
Eurgh. I knew there was good reason not to friend you back. =P

I demand to be cloned upon point of death, before I'm full of rigor mortis etc.

So the world can have the Yootopia experience again. Because I'm benevolent like that :p

I fancy the viking burial, tough luck to all my possessions i'm going to hell with an axe and taking over heaven! rar.
well first i have to figure out how to get there, but hey that's just a
minor detail if i hack at everything enough eventually i'll find it.

I'm not dead yet!

I'm feeling better...

Either have my body cremated and the ash spread across the sky.

Or, if the technology exist, have me put into a Matrix so that I may live forever (even if it is in a computer simulation). :D

Viking burial sounds good, but as long as someone checks that I really am definitely 100% dead, then I'm not all that bothered.

My Mum decided the other day that when she dies she wants to donate her body to that Body Worlds exhibition.

Ideally, eaten.

Donate my organs, cremate me, put me in a garden somewhere. I can continue to help even after I'm dead, and it's cheap! :p

Either have my body cremated and the ash spread across the sky.

Or, if the technology exist, have me put into a Matrix so that I may live forever (even if it is in a computer simulation). :D
"What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to turn a human being into this. *Holds up a battery*" :D.

Creamated and put into a snow globe.

My body cremated, turned into a diamond, sold for thousands of pounds, then i'd leave it in my will that the money goes to Charity.

I've already told my kids (and I suspect I'll have to write this down, or someone will argue about it) that I want to be donated to the nearest medical school for the anatomy and physiology classes.

Harvested for donations. If there's anything left after that, then the eco-burial. Needed multiple choice.

The last thing I want is to have an expensive metal box hermetically sealed, with me in it after being pumped full of noxious chemicals.

I don't see the point of an eco burial. Why do you care about the enviroment, your dead, so whats the point?

I don't see the point of an eco burial. Why do you care about the enviroment, your dead, so whats the point?

Well, to be honest, a traditional Jewish funeral is eco...bodies aren't embalmed, and its a simple pine coffin

Fear not for I have just heroically revivified you all! :cool:

http://wiki.urbandead.com/images/3/32/Syringe.jpg

I can't decide, so I think I want a variety.

I want my left arm cremated, my right arm buried, my right leg cryogenically frozen, my left leg mummified, my torso compressed into a diamond, my genitals stuffed and mounted( -perfect joke setup- ) and my head shot into space.

For some reason that joke of yours really cracked me up ^^

As for me, cremation. I've always been fascinated with fire when it comes to games and RPGs, so I might as well get consumed by it in the literal sense when I die.

Keep my heart, keep my eyes. Preserve them and bury them with my collected ashes in a half decent memorial that aims to keep a living memory of me. I want it to be recorded what I did and what I aimed for and believed in, rather than "missed by whoever" or something vague and wishy washy.

Not cremation. Death by burning is just about my worst nightmare so I don't really see why I'd go for it after I'm dead, either.

Nothing really appeals. Worms are not really all that much better than fire.

Scattering ashes over some place that was important to me seems nice but requires that dreaded fire again. Plus in my experience it's important to the ones left behind to have an actual spot where they can go and have the feeling you are there, like the traditional grave site.How about being smushed into a pulp and fed to animals in a care shelter? o.9
You might be cooked up a little bit, but you wouldn't really experience death by burning so much as "simmering". I'd pick that second, anywho.


Eurgh. I knew there was good reason not to friend you back. I knew the egocheck still worked. :p

viking or conanesque (classical) burial of a funeral pyre and no organ donations at all.

I knew the egocheck still worked. :p
Dude, when will you finally believe me? No ego checks. This was literally the first thread I clicked on this morning. And the last one where I'd have expected to find my name in bold... A tad scary there for a second.

Dude, when will you finally believe me? No ego checks.Casi nunca.
This was literally the first thread I clicked on this morning. And the last one where I'd have expected to find my name in bold... A tad scary there for a second.
M'kay. How about by Snu-snu?

i really want to get fossilized. i dont know how to go about doing that but thats the plan.

Casi nunca.
Meh, suit yourself then.

M'kay. How about by Snu-snu?
Now that would be entirely acceptable.

i wnat to be cremated and have the ashes buried in an ornate urn, after my bod was harvested for organs and maybe blood for transfusions.

Now that would be entirely acceptable.Yay!
I mean ... i kinda hoped i'd be included in some way ...?

Yay!
I mean ... i kinda hoped i'd be included in some way ...?

Sure. Lessee - clean up afterwards, maybe?

Sure. Lessee - clean up afterwards, maybe?
Remnants of you? Still better than nothing - even a fleeting much-rumoured link to some kind of pic of some sort. :)
Reminds me of a msg Ruffy left in our region, btw, about the mail system.

"What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to turn a human being into this. *Holds up a battery*" :D.

"Well gee, thanks for telling me Captain Obvious, my body is pretty much dead in the real world, why the Hell do you think I'm in here?" :p

I was thinking of being burned on a massive funeral pyre and then entombed in a pyramid for the ages.

I really don't get this cremation bullshit that everone seems to love so much.

"OH, DON'T WANT A BURIAL! I WANT CREMATION!"

My Grandpa was cremated... It's just... I don't know. We only scattered some of his ashes and the rest are in a vase that was made in India... I was pissed off that we didn't just scatter all of them.

You don't even need a coffin. I'd much rather be wrapped up in a blanket and then buried rather than being incinerated.

I wouldn't mind the Viking ritual, but I suspect it breaks all sorts of laws over here.

If I can't get 'em to just dump my corpse in the Alaskan wild, I'll go with the eco-burial.

I wouldn't mind the Viking ritual, but I suspect it breaks all sorts of laws over here.

If I can't get 'em to just dump my corpse in the Alaskan wild, I'll go with the eco-burial.

Vikings FTW.

Vikings FTW.

You'll get no argument from me. ;)

You'll get no argument from me. ;)

I meant the team since it since your from from the Land of the Greenbay Fudge Packers. Even Colbert agreed we got the 2008-2009 superbowl in his book.

i really want to get fossilized. i dont know how to go about doing that but thats the plan.

Apparently you've got a higher chance of winning the lottery than being naturally fossilised.

Apparently you've got a higher chance of winning the lottery than being naturally fossilised.

What if it's planned? Suppose you own a nice peatbog somewhere and you decide to sell 'fossil lots' to people where they can be wrapped up and sunk into the bog and hope to be found in a few million years.

...

It's MY idea! Stay away! *swats at you all with a stick* MINE!!!

*curls up around the idea and growls*

I won't be here, so I won't care.

Viking funeral is cool, though it'd be also badass if I'm eaten. Preferably served unknowingly to the people at the wake.

I'd like to be preserved a la Jeremy Bentham. Unlike Bentham, I'd make sure my auto-icon is displayed in a more prominent location. I would also encourage people to steal my mummified head, so that I could bring joy to drunken college students even after I go.

LOL, I totally hit the wrong option, but it's funny.

I don't really want to be preserved in the town square, though. I want every organ that can be donated to living recipients donated. They can even take my hair and make wigs out of it if they want.

Then, anything needed for science can be taken for that.

Whatever's left at the end should probably be cremated. Dunno what, if anything, I want done with the ashes.

Whatever's left at the end should probably be cremated. Dunno what, if anything, I want done with the ashes.
A final practical joke on your friends who smoke would be appropriate.

I want a traditional religious funeral, with one twist: my tomb will be a miniature missile silo, and my coffin will be a ballistic missile capable of reaching Jerusalem. This will be activated when the Messiah comes. While all the other dead roll underground towards Jerusalem, I will soar through the sky.

My organs will, of course, be donated.

I really don't get this cremation bullshit that everone seems to love so much.

"OH, DON'T WANT A BURIAL! I WANT CREMATION!"

My Grandpa was cremated... It's just... I don't know. We only scattered some of his ashes and the rest are in a vase that was made in India... I was pissed off that we didn't just scatter all of them.

You don't even need a coffin. I'd much rather be wrapped up in a blanket and then buried rather than being incinerated.

Various reasons, I guess. For me it's because I hate the idea of my my body decaying or being eaten by worms. Since that can't be avoided, turning my body into ash is preferable. Not my heart and eyes though, I don't like the idea of those being burnt.

Various reasons, I guess. For me it's because I hate the idea of my my body decaying or being eaten by worms. Since that can't be avoided, turning my body into ash is preferable. Not my heart and eyes though, I don't like the idea of those being burnt.

This is probably going to sound awful to some people, but I prefer cremation over burial largely because I don't see why my body should take up so much space after I'm gone. Think of how much space we have dedicated to underground decaying dead bodies. Is that really for the people who died? What if a hospital could be built there? Or an orchard planted?

Eaten by sharks

I'm currently signed up so that my squishy bits are put inside alive people, but I'm thinking of donating my body to my University.

What if it's planned? Suppose you own a nice peatbog somewhere and you decide to sell 'fossil lots' to people where they can be wrapped up and sunk into the bog and hope to be found in a few million years.

...

It's MY idea! Stay away! *swats at you all with a stick* MINE!!!

*curls up around the idea and growls*

Nah, the conditions have to stay in an almost EXACT margin and stay constantly in those margins for millions of years.
It takes a lot of conditions to be fulfilled, you see, the bones don't actually turn into rock, the rocks are compressed into the bone at a similar rate as the bones are decaying, so that the rocks then take on the form, texture and molecular detail of the bone.

Interestingly peat bogs mummify you, you won't be a fossil, but, if your resting place lays undisturbed, you'd be in the same, dried up state for years.

New Ideas for Funeral:
-stuffed full of (controlled) fireworks and have a split second cremation
-dropped out of a spaceship with a jetpack and burn up in atmosphere
-strapped to a nuke/radioactive meteor and shot into a time machine which will take you either to Roswell in the 1940's, or Tunguska in 1908.

I want statues of myself all over the world, with a body part in each of them. In the intellectual capital of the world, I want my head placed within the statue.

In the military powers of the world, I want a limb in each of those statues.

My penis will be placed in the statue that will be in Texas.

i have always wanted a viking burial
that would be awesome
in addition, i will have different clauses in my will for different causes of death. for example, if i die in a hovercraft accident, everything will be left to my cat Emma.

I'm currently signed up so that my squishy bits are put inside alive people, but I'm thinking of donating my body to my University.

that's nice
actually, before i came up with the viking thing i was thinking of becoming a donor. maybe i could donate, and then have a viking burial.

Various reasons, I guess. For me it's because I hate the idea of my my body decaying or being eaten by worms. Since that can't be avoided, turning my body into ash is preferable. Not my heart and eyes though, I don't like the idea of those being burnt.

cremated bodies are HEAVY. my great grandfather died in italy, so we went there to have him cremated and for his funeral. we picked up his ashes in sienna. we were going to go back home to my great grandfather's place, but then we thaught "hey, we're in sienna". so we did sienna. he would have wanted us to have fun. we would have left him in the car, but then we thought "what if it gets stolen?" that would have really sucked. we couldn't leave him in there. so we carried him around. he was heavy.

Yay! There's a poll option for me.

I am unable to donate any of my organs due to a health issue so I choose to go to a body farm.

Various reasons, I guess. For me it's because I hate the idea of my my body decaying or being eaten by worms. Since that can't be avoided, turning my body into ash is preferable. Not my heart and eyes though, I don't like the idea of those being burnt.

So, what, we pry those out first?

I will have myself frozen. Future generations will revive me to find out why I had myself frozen.

cremated bodies are HEAVY. my great grandfather died in italy, so we went there to have him cremated and for his funeral. we picked up his ashes in sienna. we were going to go back home to my great grandfather's place, but then we thought "hey, we're in sienna". so we did sienna. he would have wanted us to have fun. we would have left him in the car, but then we thought "what if it gets stolen?" that would have really sucked. we couldn't leave him in there. so we carried him around. he was heavy.

I am not figuring on people carrying my body around though, except during the ceremony itself, obviously. the main thing is ashes don't get eaten so readily, and can be kept secure comparatively easily. Did you enjoy Sienna as would have been wanted, though? That's the main thing.


So, what, we pry those out first?

With a spoon, you fool!!! It won't hurt more, I'll be dead ;)
But actually, yes, though I was thinking more cut and less pry. Cleaner and more civilized, methinks.

If I can't get 'em to just dump my corpse in the Alaskan wild, I'll go with the eco-burial.I can hook ya up. :)