Burial or Cremation?

[SalixIncendium]

Stuffed and mounted. And invitations to remake Weekend at Bernie's

One remake, coming right up...

 

[Clara Tea]

I find it simply fascinating that you can type out 905 words and have not one of them address the questions in the OP.

All of the words directly addressed the question.

 

[SalixIncendium]

All of the words directly addressed the question.

Which ones answer the question as to what will become of your remains and why?

 

[Left Coast]

Likely cremation for me. Burial seems a waste of both money and space.

 

[Secret Chief]

Likely cremation for me. Burial seems a waste of both money and space.

Also not good if one is claustrophobic.

 

[Thief]

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?

and the event is pending.....soooooooo close now

and finances seem to be the pivot

but even a cremation can cost 10,000dollars

why?....I don't know

I have heard.....there is a push for cardboard caskets
that allow remains to seep back to mother earth

sooooooooo much cheaper than the hard box

 

[Thief]

Research?
I expect to be used in practical jokes.

well then......you're already dead
hehehehehe

 

[Revoltingest]

well then......you're already dead
hehehehehe

Not yet.
But the skids are well greased.

 

[soulsurvivor]

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?

I plan to be cremated - I am a Hindu and that is what Hinduism prescribes.

It is also better environmentally as well as financially - saves land and does not pollute the soil.

Per Hindu practice the ashes are supposed to be scattered in some body of water (like river or the sea). Hindus don't preserve any remains.

 

[metis]

My wife & I decided on cremation with our ashes placed in a cremation niche near her parents that we purchased about three decades ago.

 

[The Hammer]

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

Afaik there is no evidence of this practice ever having occured.

 

[The Hammer]

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?

This would be my preference for burial. Living tombstone, added benefit of haunting a forest.

Capsula Mundi - The biodegradable urn to become a tree after death

 

[Deeje]

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

Not good to leave those decisions to others particularly if it will cause conflict. I knew a family who fought bitterly over their family members' funeral, and then fought over their ashes.......make your decision well in advance. Put things in writing. Its a personal decision.

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

Funerals are ridiculously expensive and its hard for any company to break the hold that established funeral companies have on the industry. Recently we had a company pop up on Facebook called "Bare Cremations" which just picks up the body, cremates it and delivers back the ashes for the family to do with as they wish. I personally hate cemeteries because they are a depressing eyesore IMO......so much nicer to have ashes scattered in beautiful places as a remembrance of the person.....and its also better for the environment. I have no religious or cultural hangups about it.

If cremated, what will be done with your ashes?

My husband's ashes are scattered in a very serene and beautiful place chosen by him near one of his favorite surfing spots. I visit there often and we lay flowers on his anniversary. I would rather remember him there than in some ugly graveyard with a whole bunch of other dead people. I will join him there if my time comes. My family know my wishes.

 

[Deeje]

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.

Let your family know your wishes, and put it in writing.....it is up to you, not them to make such an emotional decision.

 

[Deeje]

I expect to be used in practical jokes.

Talking of practical jokes.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEXIEneoA20

 

[firedragon]

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?

Maybe organs donated, the rest buried to make who ever wants them to be happy.

 

[Vinidra]

I would like to donate everything that can be donated. Then, like most Hindus, I would like to be cremated. And I think it would be nice to have my ashes scattered out to sea.

 

[Suave]

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?

Everybody's earthly remains will ultimately become incinerated by the Sun as this expands into a red giant star within some few billion years.