Burial or Cremation?

[SalixIncendium]

Which will you have done to your remains? Or are you leaving the decision to those left behind?

Is your (or their) choice religious, cultural, environmental, or financial?

If buried, will your remains be embalmed? If cremated, what will be done with your ashes?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Which will you have done to your remains? Or are you leaving the decision to those left behind?

Is your (or their) choice religious, cultural, environmental, or financial?

If buried, will your remains be embalmed? If cremated, what will be done with your ashes?

When i leave this human life, what happens to my physical body is not important
If those left behind has a view of what to do, that is ok to me.

 

[Salty Booger]

Cremation. I want my ashes spread over warm, tropical waters. `

 

[SalixIncendium]

Cremation. I want my ashes spread over warm, tropical waters. `

Any preference of which warm tropical waters?

 

[Martin]

Cremation. I want my ashes spread over warm, tropical waters. `

I'd rather like a Viking burial at sea, with fire arrows, but I think it would be against the local council byelaws.

 

[Salty Booger]

Any preference of which warm tropical waters?

The beaches of Hawaii would do nicely. My guess is that doing so would be less expensive than a traditional burial.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I'd rather like a Viking burial at sea, with fire arrows, but I think it would be against the local council byelaws.

What will you do instead?

 

[Vinayaka]

Which will you have done to your remains? Or are you leaving the decision to those left behind?

Is your (or their) choice religious, cultural, environmental, or financial?

If buried, will your remains be embalmed? If cremated, what will be done with your ashes?

Cremation within 24 hours unless an autopsy is required by law. No service. Dispersion in a river. All 4 of the above reasons.

(I would never leave the decision to family, as that's abdicating my responsibility. Funeral will be prepaid.)

 

[Secret Chief]

Ideally, a decent meal for some big cats, probably snow leopards. Failing that I'm fancying liquid cremation.

Environmental.
Ashes - up to partner, if she outlives me. Otherwise not fussed. I turned my mum's ashes into blue flowers - her favourite - with assistance from nature.

 

[pearl]

Cremation, ashes to the sea.

 

[Martin]

What will you do instead?

Cremation. Graveyards would be better used as allotments, IMO.

 

[Revoltingest]

Donation to local university.
Cheapest method there is.

 

[Audie]

Which will you have done to your remains? Or are you leaving the decision to those left behind?

Is your (or their) choice religious, cultural, environmental, or financial?

If buried, will your remains be embalmed? If cremated, what will be done with your ashes?

In Hong Kon g there is hardly room for urns!

I think burial at sea would make the
most sense.

 

[Martin]

Donation to local university.
Cheapest method there is.

What sort of research do they do?

 

[SalixIncendium]

In Hong Kon g there is hardly room for urns!

I think burial at sea would make the
most sense.

What is the cultural practice for disposal of remains there with the space constraints?

 

[Revoltingest]

What sort of research do they do?

Research?
I expect to be used in practical jokes.

 

[VoidCat]

Due to the fact that I worship a death deity and I believe in the acceptance of death embalming is not something I'd want. It is just a way of ignoring death trying to delay the inevitable decay of the body....I would like my organs donated to people who need them and body donated to science as to continue to help others after my death. After science is done with my body a home burial where my body can decay naturally is preferred so I can be one with nature and not help coroporations who have been preying on loves ones jacking up the costs. If that is not posdible then cremation is fine and I can care less what is done with my ashes

 

[SigurdReginson]

You know... I should devote more thought and effort to this topic. I don't want to leave my loved ones with a big bill because I didn't put in motion plans for what would happen to me after I die.

I don't really have a preference at all. Throw my dead body in a ditch for all I care. Family are the ones that will have to figure out what they'd prefer.

I would like to be a cadaver for med students to work on, or maybe a body for a body farm. Anything that might help future generations of scientists and doctors to learn their craft.

 

[Audie]

What is the cultural practice for disposal of remains there with the space constraints?

Hmm. Chinese funeral and burial practices
are quite a topic.

I took American boyfriend to meet my Mom,
and on the way back to NYC, we stopped in
Taiwan. Went to Sun Moon lake, Taroko
Gorge etc.

Anyway in Taipei there was a funeral
procession. Very noisy. He got interested,
so we observed the burning of ghost money
and such goings on.

THEN he waited to walk up a path among
the graves on ghost mountain. OK...

Well, I saw what was going to happen
when I saw a man crouched by the path
intent on what he was doing, but said nothing.

When we got there and my boyfriend saw
that the man had a sack and a pike of muddy
human bones that he was cleaning, well, that
was the end of the walk.

Anyway, HK there are niches for sale for urns,
but the govt is promoting " green" disposal
in designated parks, I forget what they call them.
Ot disposal at sea, a free service.

Tell you more than you wanted to hear?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Tell you more than you wanted to hear?

Not at all. Thanks for the response.