How to make those dearly departed memories last

[packman]

Things you could do with the recently alive:

1. Mix their ashes into a vinyl record to play
2. Mix their ashes into a paste which you can have tattooed on you
3. Rather that cremation (waste of energy, not green) have them sludged
4. Mushroom them in a special suit

God, I hate Mondays - this is so fuckin' morbid

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/160506-death-funeral-burial-cremation-conservation/

[missingthebigdog]

1. Composting

There are apparently places that compost bodies. I think I would be fine with that- compost me and plant a tree; preferably a fruit or nut tree. Anybody wanting to feel closer to me could hang out in my shade, or feed themselves with my fruit. Probably more useful in death than I have been in life, lol.

[csziggy]

2. I'm hoping to be buried - with no embalming - on my farm

If anyone wants to keep track of where the body is, they can plant a tree in that spot. If state laws won't allow burial without pumping poison into the body and without a casket, then I will be cremated and my ashes can be buried on my farm, same deal, plant a tree.

I see no reason for any marker, ceremony or remembrance of where I am buried. I have no soul so ceremonies are useless - if my survivors want to throw a party, they can do whatever they feel like. I have no children and am likely to outlive my husband and the sister I care about so any "survivors" will not be relatives whose feeling I care to consider.

Morbid? Maybe, but I need to make plans since I will not allow money to be spent on things I detest, like fancy funerals, embalming or memorials.

[cloudbase]

3. I kind of like the mushroom suit,

but maybe I'll get one that grows catnip.