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What Will Become of Your Remains?

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
My body will be harvested for any organs that are still useful. The bio-hazardous waste will then be cremated by the institute that did the harvesting at no cost to my family.
Like that. The problem here in India is that only a rich person would get anything useful out of what remains of me. The agents and doctors will sell my body parts to the highest bidder.
Cremation, no service, scattered in a river, and the 31 day after community feast with money left for that.
That is the second option. Scattered in Yamuna. It is not fair to ask my son to go all the way to Haridwar just to dispose the ashes. Go to the Yamuna bridge and empty the sack there. Eventually, Yamuna itself will take them to Ganges and to Ganga Sagar in Bengal. Sure, being an atheist, would hate any religious ritual. As for the feast, whenever (fourth day?), it should be kebabs and liquor. Will leave money for that.
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.
You certainly could, but we don't need it. We are wrapped in two 6ft. pieces of white linen with no stitching. That is the regulation.
 
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viole

Ontological Naturalist
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?

I asked my kids to use the cheapest way to dispose ex-me, that is not illegal. Whatever that is.i won’t bother, for sure.

Ciao

- viole
 

robocop (actually)

Well-Known Member
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?
I will just be buried in LDS Temple garments,

but when I was Raelian this is interesting. They give their forehead bone to science to stand for that they will be subservient to their God (Aliens) in this life but also in the afterlife. They hope to be cloned. The only places in the world where it's legal I believe are Las Vegas and Canada.
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
BONUS QUESTION: If Salix's body expired, what would you do to preserve his trend-setting fashion?

I would "Incinerate your carcass in the tradition of Ovahdar the Obtuse and put it in a clean, dry place."

I'm opting for incineration of my carcass, i.e. cremation. Then have my ashes sent to India via DHL to scatter on one of the sacred rivers.
 

Windwalker

Veteran Member
Premium Member
It is my wish my body be filled with plactine and displayed as art.

platicine man.jpg
 
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Guitar's Cry

Disciple of Pan
Natural burial: no embalming in no casket or a simple pine box with a tree planted over me.

Or left in the woods for the critters to feed on, but this seems less legal unfortunately.
 

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Cremation, and ashes scattered in to the sea here. My Mother and Father both are dispersing out in the Estuary and so shall I be.

My wife would like to be eaten by a tiger (after death, that is!), wants to be part of a tiger, but how to achieve that ....... !
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Cremation, and ashes scattered in to the sea here. My Mother and Father both are dispersing out in the Estuary and so shall I be.

My wife would like to be eaten by a tiger (after death, that is!), wants to be part of a tiger, but how to achieve that ....... !
That will not likely happen. Red tape is in the way.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Cremation, and ashes scattered in to the sea here. My Mother and Father both are dispersing out in the Estuary and so shall I be.

My wife would like to be eaten by a tiger (after death, that is!), wants to be part of a tiger, but how to achieve that ....... !
Yeah, the "after death" part can be tricky. But if she snuck into the tiger pens at feeding time it might be so close that it does not make much of a difference.
 

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Yeah, the "after death" part can be tricky. But if she snuck into the tiger pens at feeding time it might be so close that it does not make much of a difference.

Howletts Zoo, well known for its Tigers, is 8 miles away. But I've just asked Mrs Badger if she would, in the event of 'last hours of last illness' like to go to the zoo to get close to the tigers. She laughed and told me that this way of skirting round the red-tape is definitely not in her funeral plan!
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known 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'm conflicted and have been for years. What are the pros and cons of burial and cremation?
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
I'm conflicted and have been for years. What are the pros and cons of burial and cremation?
Burial can be very expensive because one ties up a piece of land for quite some time. Even in a coffin your body eventually returns to nature. Cremation no muss no fuss, but a sizable carbon footprint.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
I would prefer to be cremated or have an environmentally friendly burial with no embalming and a cardboard box. The mushroom that Luke Perry was buried in to aid decomposition sounds cool with me, too. I'm leaning towards burial at the moment but that may change, who knows.
 
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