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What Will Become of Your Remains?

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
I'm hoping future scientists could restore my mind with its memories fully intact or at least restore my mind's pleasant memories of this life. Otherwise, it'd be like my mind belonging to an entirely different person if I were resurrected without any recollections of this life. This would be rather meaningless for me to go through all this cryogenic process if this were to result in some different person coming into being rather than me being resurrected.
It would be some different person, one with your memories who thinks it's you. But it's not you, because you are dead. What it would be is a clone, a clone who could live while you still live. Except on that case the clone you would be forced to accept it is just a clone, despite it being like you to the point it thinks it's you.
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
If I have my way, cremation with the ashes scattered to the winds.
I guess it's possible that my many admirers will demand some sort of shrine to visit.*

* Please note, whilst my current admirer count could fairly be described as 'modest' you are asking me to project into the future, and it's pretty obvious this will change soonly. Also, when I'm famous, I plan on inventing the word 'soonly'.
 

crossfire

LHP Mercuræn Feminist Heretic ☿
Premium Member
Cremation. I want no trace of recoverable DNA to be left.


As for Salix's wardrobe: I'm an able seamstress, so I can sew up a few knock-offs (if my eyes don't start bleeding during the process) and gift them to a few choice fabulous individuals.
 

TagliatelliMonster

Veteran Member
What do you intend to do (or have others do) with your body when it has expired?

Why? Tradition? To do what's best for the earth? Because you are looking out for number one?

I don't care, actually.

Those I leave behind may decide this, because they are the ones that need to live with it.

If they prefer a burial, then burial.
If they prefer shooting my body into space, then space.
If they prefer cremating, then cremating.

It's not like I'll be aware of it or something....
 

JJ50

Well-Known Member
Mine will be burned up in the crem once any useful bits have been removed. The ashes can be dumped in the waste bin for all I care, I have no wish to have a funeral.
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
I'd like my body to be dropped via helicopter into the nearest active volcano - probably not having any serviceable parts by then to pass on or my body being that useful to medicine - which would be the preferred option. But, hey, if one is going to be cremated, why not do it in style! :smilingimp:
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
What do you intend to do (or have others do) with your body when it has expired?

Why? Tradition? To do what's best for the earth? Because you are looking out for number one?

BONUS QUESTION: If Salix's body expired, what would you do to preserve his trend-setting fashion? Could @Sunstone carry the proverbial torch?


After the good bits have been harvested i will be burned, without ceremony. I would like my ashes scattered* in the forest but unfortunately that is illegal here so we have invested in a nitch in the local cemetery wall overlooking the forest.

* Scattering is the quickest way to get your remains back to the nature they came from.

Interment takes a little longer.

Re your trend setting fashion, perhaps a huge bonfire, maybe to fuel your own funereal pyre. After all, only you can present them so well, it would be inhumane to bestow your unique fashion on the general public
 

Tumah

Veteran Member
They'll decompose in my burial shrouds, with the earth as my bed and cinder blocks for my sky.

But before that happens, I plan to have supper in Yellowstone on a particular day. I mean, you can't go wrong with A1, that's just a fact.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
What do you intend to do (or have others do) with your body when it has expired?

Why? Tradition? To do what's best for the earth? Because you are looking out for number one?

BONUS QUESTION: If Salix's body expired, what would you do to preserve his trend-setting fashion? Could @Sunstone carry the proverbial torch?
What happens to the body after I pass away is not something I use the time to think of, that will be up to the family to decide what happens when I am gone.
 

Howard Is

Lucky Mud
I’m on a pension, no insurance or funeral plan. I’ve wondered about this myself.
I did some research and it looks like my body gets taken to a processing plant in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
 

Altfish

Veteran Member
What do you intend to do (or have others do) with your body when it has expired?

Why? Tradition? To do what's best for the earth? Because you are looking out for number one?

BONUS QUESTION: If Salix's body expired, what would you do to preserve his trend-setting fashion? Could @Sunstone carry the proverbial torch?
Hopefully be buried, then the earth can consume my remains and I can give back a little to the earth that has sustained me for many years
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
I’m on a pension, no insurance or funeral plan. I’ve wondered about this myself.
I did some research and it looks like my body gets taken to a processing plant in the western suburbs of Melbourne.

Messrs. S. Todd and family, suppliers of fine meat products to the nobility since time immemorial. :hamburger:
 

JJ50

Well-Known Member
I think burials are a waste of land space, here in the UK there is certainly a problem, in that regard. A dead body is waste material and should be treated as such in my opinion. Any useful bits should be removed and the rest disposed of just like any other rubbish.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
What do you intend to do (or have others do) with your body when it has expired?

Why? Tradition? To do what's best for the earth? Because you are looking out for number one?

BONUS QUESTION: If Salix's body expired, what would you do to preserve his trend-setting fashion? Could @Sunstone carry the proverbial torch?
I will be buried with my wife, wearing my wedding ring, just as she was buried wearing hers. The rings are inscribed inside with our respective initials and the date of our marriage and I like the thought that one day our bones will be dug up and someone will examine the rings and maybe say a prayer for our souls.
 

Howard Is

Lucky Mud
I will be buried with my wife, wearing my wedding ring, just as she was buried wearing hers. The rings are inscribed inside with our respective initials and the date of our marriage and I like the thought that one day our bones will be dug up and someone will examine the rings and maybe say a prayer for our souls.

OK. How long should I wait ?
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
OK. How long should I wait ?
I think the title deeds on the plot are 40 years, but you'd need to liaise with the London Borough of Lambeth. They say they intend to leave the cemetery undisturbed for longer, but what with pressure of space for housing, who knows? With any luck when it is full up it will be retained as a park for a while, rather than built over - it's a nice spot for inner London, with mature trees and grass.
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Cremation, no service, scattered in a river, and the 31 day after community feast with money left for that.
 
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