How do want your remains disposed of?

[Liberal Veteran]

Poll question: How do want your remains disposed of?

In light of the Costco selling caskets thing, I was thinking I never saw a poll involving the final arrangements. So here we go.

[Eurobabe]

1. S.O. has strict instructions, no burials!!

Burn me, baby!

[ret5hd]

2. donate body to science...then cremation.

[mrboba1]

3. my parents have set the standard:

burn, baby burn!

[devlin radiset]

4. there's usually a dumpster behind KMart....eom

note...speaking of my own remains...not those of others

[Jo March]

7. Welcome to DU, devlin radiset!

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[devlin radiset]

8. much obliged...interesting place...eom

[iconoclastic cat]

19. Welcome to DU!

Yep, it's pretty interesting. Have fun!

[GOPisEvil]

5. Cremated, then loaded into an artillery shell.

Then fire me out of a Howitzer or something, I want to go out in TWO BLAZES of glory.

[soothsayer]

6. either want to die a spectacularly gory death (struck by meteor at very

old age---120 or so), or I want my ancient carcass dragged into the woods where the wolves can eat my bones. STILL planning to live another 80 years tho, so don't start dragging me away yet.

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Freeze me Head when I'm Dead, Fred

Freeze me Head when I'm Dead
In the cooler on a sherbet bed, Fred,
Freeze me Head when I'm Dead

All together now!

Tie me kangaroo down, Sport,
Tie me kangaroo down ...

--bkl
Props to Rolf Harris

[devlin radiset]

10. got plans for your patypus duck?

Bill?

[Dogmudgeon]

15. Yes, indeed

Don't let him go runnin' amuck, Bill --
(Bill's gonna keep me platypus duck.)

--bkl

[amber dog democrat]

11. Mumification

emblamed, and put in stone pyramid - with all my cool things i will need in the afterlife
so my ka won't go wandering about getting into trouble .

Actually i am participating in the willed body program for a medical school.
after that cremation I guess. I really don't care

[curse10]

12. Cremated, then turned into a reef!

:-)

[djeseru]

13. Burn & scatter.

Just wish those around me wouldn't be so negative towards it...it's what I want.

[smada]

14. I probably won't have a choice

With my luck I'll get done in by some jealous husband and be thrown off a cliff, sunk in a lake, or dumped in a trash bin. I wish I was going to be around to find out. The anticipation is wracking me.

[Wickerman]

16. torch me up

and scatter - don't waste any earth on me, even if its only 7 x 3.

[Ready4Change]

17. Other: Cremated, then shot into the sun.

Most of the elements we are composed of were forged in the sun, so to the sun I'd like to return.

Of course, eventually our sun will nova, and I'll get my wish then. What happens in between isn't all that essential to me.

[iconoclastic cat]

18. I want to be shot into space, too!

I'm serious.

Either that or be cremated, mixed into some good--er, harmless tobacco, right, that's it. "Dude," they'll say, "that IconCat was some good shit. I'll miss'm."

[brook]

20. Cremains...

are to be mingled with those of my dear Dobie, who passed away 10 years ago yesterday. Then we'll be packed in a rocket/firecracker and sent skyward during the cocktail party.

[yellowcanine]

21. I think I might make good seat covers. I have really leathery skin.

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[Carson]

22. As Stephen Wright would say...

...my goal is to live forever. So far so good.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Burned and My Ashes In The Sandtrap On 8th Hole

That's it. I hate that sandtrap. I spend way more time in it than any 4 handicap should! So, if i'm gonna spend that much time in it now, i might as well spend all the time until the sun goes nova.
The Professor

[TransitJohn]

24. Donate my body to science fiction. (nm)

No message

[slackmaster]

25. Cremated, remains fired from a 105 mm howitzer

Into the Pacific Ocean from the cliffs above Black's Beach in La Jolla, CA.

[TX-RAT]

26. Already a donor

If i lived closer they'd pickup and deliver for free.

[Mike Daniels]

27. Stuffed and mounted

I've talked to the wife about setting up the den as a shrine of slackerhood with me propped up on the couch - stereo headset on, beer in one hand, and a PS/X-box controller in the other.

So far, she's pretty adamantly dead set against this but I think I may turn her around eventually. :)

[TrogL]

28. Just reading a book on a disaster on Mount Everest

It talks about all the people killed over the years and how many of them are either dumped in the nearest crevasse or just left lying along the side of a trail.

Frankly, I think that would be kinda kewl, so just leave me in a ditch somewhere.

[The empressof all]

29. Christmas

I want to be creamated. Then, I would like the ash blown into Christmas Balls so the relatives can take me out at Christmas and hang me on the tree. It's my favorite holiday!

[hyphenate]

30. Cremation

Then my ashes scattered some way down the cliffs in Gloucester or Rockport. I love the Atlantic Ocean, and it would be nice to know I'll be spending eternity in its waters.

[bikebloke]

31. Ideally...

I read about some group that buries you in a cotton shroud or biodradable cardboard box. Then they plant a tree over your remains. Thus you provide nutrition for the tree. Sounds good.

Otherwise, burn it, then scatter the ashes in Sydney Harbor. Or better yet, scatter a third in Syndey Harbor, a third in Lochness and a third in the Potomac River. There's plenty of time to suss it out. I plan to live to 120. Just to spite my descendants.

[AngryAmish]

32. Defecated from a feral hog

Folks, we are just sacks of meat.

[Bunny]

33. I want to be cremated, with my ashes evenly distributed among my

loved ones. I'd like them placed in a stunning urn and prominently displayed in their homes. An eternal flame would be a nice touch!

[Guy_Montag]

34. Left naked in one of the dry valleys of Antarctica

perhaps clutching a plastic hedgehog pen-holder in my left hand & a "hello kitty" necklace. That'll confuse future archaeologists.

[VOX]

35. Organs to science, cremated, ashes placed into family niche...

I used to scoff at the idea of having my name on a plaque in some graveyard, but as I've gotten a bit more mature, it seems true that there can be a lot of comfort in knowing where your marker is going to be after you no longer walk this earth.

My mom and dad's ashes are interred, and my brother and my wife will eventually join me in the closest thing we'll ever have to a family plot. It sounds dreary and morbid, but the place is a paradise: quiet, peaceful, lots of old trees, birds everywhere.

Let me add that, as nice as this all is, I'm in absolutely no hurry to get there. I've got way too much to do yet.

[eyesroll]

36. Depends.

If I pre-decease either of my parents, burial. I do not think they could handle a cremation on top of losing a daughter. (They were raised Jewish, my mom still practices, and cremation isn't generally practiced by Jews.)

If I die after my parents, then I don't really care. Donate my organs, and then do what's economical. I don't want my next of kin spending thousands of dollars on a box that, as far as everyone can see, I'll only be using on one occasion.

[LiveWire]

37. Its kinda wierd but...

I know this company that will take your remains and press them into synthetic diamonds. When I die, all my friends are gunna get some cool necklaces/rings. And the best part is that its all me baby!

[Justpat]

38. Cremated and spread by the finish line at Belmont Park.

[Magrittes Pipe]

39. Stuffed and mounted in the "angry grizzly bear" posture.

I think I would make quite the conversation-starter, not to mention a grand hatrack.