What are you plans for what happens to your body after you die? Going with a traditional burial? Cremation? Do you have your cemetery plot already picked out?
Anyone opting for a Viking funeral?
Cremated, don’t care where they stick me.
posted by justincredibleWhat are you plans for what happens to your body after you die? Going with a traditional burial? Cremation? Do you have your cemetery plot already picked out?
Anyone opting for a Viking funeral?
I'm going to say cremated since the idea of being buried and cemeteries are dated and not sustainable.
I'm also getting cremated. Spread my ashes between my grandparents property (though, hopefully will be mine when I pass) and the Boundary Waters.
I really dislike viewing hours and funerals with open caskets. The sight of the dead body and the smells are ... not pleasant.
May donate body for science; the liver will be an interesting study.
posted by QuakerOatsMay donate body for science; the liver will be an interesting study.
I'd say that brain would be more interesting tbh.
Cremated just to preserve space on this earth. I dont believe in any kind of afterlife, so frankly couldnt care less what ultimately happens to me or where I am buried or spread. But, for the sake of humanity, I'll get cremated.
Cremated. No one I cared about is forgotten because there's not a physical place to go "see" them. The handful of people who care about me will remember (hopefully just the good parts).
posted by kizer permanenteI'm going to say cremated since the idea of being buried and cemeteries are dated and not susttainable.
This is how I feel, also.
posted by justincredibleI really dislike viewing hours and funerals with open caskets. The sight of the dead body and the smells are ... not pleasant.
Yes.
Cremated.
I want my ashes spread at a specific beach. I don't want to be in the ground where family feels obligated to go visit, and I don't want to be sitting on a mantle of one of my children. Spread my ashes at my happy place and then have a drink.
What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?
posted by brutus161What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?
Well I'd suggest finding alternatives in theology since land is finite and you cant bury people forever?
posted by brutus161What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?
Cremated. I hate old cemeteries with worn out headstones. They’re going to have to be dug up eventually anyhow. My skeleton can’t take that kind of abuse (history of neck and back problems).
If Johnny Depp’s career manages to survive - a big “if” - I may have him do for me what he did for Hunter Thompson. He fired that SOB’s ashes out of a powerful cannon. That’s be cool.
posted by brutus161What if our thoughts on the afterlife are just slightly off? What if your getting into heaven or hell didn't depend on your beliefs or how good you are? What if hell is just people that have been cremated and the fires of hell are the soul feeling the fires of the furnace?
Interesting. OTOH, what if cremation frees the soul from the body and the buried are stuck for eternity in a box?
posted by queencitybuckeyeInteresting. OTOH, what if cremation frees the soul from the body and the buried are stuck for eternity in a box?
Lol, buried people would be stuck there just hoping that building Frankenstein's Monsters gets back into vogue, so a grave robber will dig them up and give their soul a chance to ascend.
i want to be cremated with my ashes spread at Marquesas key where my friends and my family have made some of my greatest memories.
posted by Laley23Cremated just to preserve space on this earth. I dont believe in any kind of afterlife, so frankly couldnt care less what ultimately happens to me or where I am buried or spread. But, for the sake of humanity, I'll get cremated.
Buried but I’ll wear a mask
Cremated but I told my lady "make sure I'm friggin dead. If you burn me alive, you'll pay."
posted by BR1986FBCremated but I told my lady "make sure I'm friggin dead. If you burn me alive, you'll pay."
Would you rather be burned alive or buried alive?
I smell a spin-off thread .
- Mrs. Z and Iare traditional folks, so we'll go with burial in our church cemetery, which abuts our neighborhood. Both our mothers are buried there, and my dad will be one day, so we bought our own plots. It also overlooks our high school football field, where I've been PA announcing for the last quarter-century. Maybe I'll have her cremate my microphone hand and put a small urn up in the pressbox.
But, she has carte blanche to burn or preserve. I did suggest she rent a casket for the visitation, then bury me in a cardboard box. Don't spend too much on it, it'll all corrode eventually. Same advice to our sons if they end up handling it.
- As a Christian, I'm not concerned about how my physical body is disposed of after death, since the conscious part me (soul) will be in heaven, not on earth, and I won't know about it for a while. The Bible says God will eventually resurrect that body and give it back to me, so I'm trusting He can find the pieces and put them back together when the time comes.
- From a biblical standpoint, I haven't read any mandate for disposal of a body, other than to be respectful. Cremation or burial, doesn't really matter. My secular understanding of biblical times was that some Jewish tombs were "recycled", so that several people might end up being buried in one - they just wait for the body to decompose, push the residue off the burial stone into a small pit, and re-use the stone for the next one.
- Hearing "cremation" makes me think of the Family Matters episode when Carl accidentally dumped the contents of Aunt Clotilde's urn into a trash bag, thinking it was from the fireplace. He had to do some fancy stepping explaining that to Harriet.
- I appreciate visitations, been going to a lot of them lately, both for friends and classmates, but also their parents. Those of us who go joke it's the only time we get to have a class reunion, but I think it's important the survivors know their mates care about them.
- I can think of two funerals where the open casket shouldn't have been done - one was my first grandfather in WV. He was fine during the visitation, but they opened him up two days later at the church service and his face had turned yellow. The other was a co-worker killed in a whitewater rafting accident a decade ago - her face was beaten to a pulp by the rocks, but the family insisted on open-casket. I was dismayed. In life she was a beautiful lady, but the face in the casket looked like a grotesque, stuffed rag doll.
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Wait a sec - what smell???? Are we talking small-town funeral homes where they don't know to embalm? Wow. Honestly, I've never noticed anything, uh, odd in any parlor I've gone to - thank goodness!
posted by BR1986FBCremated but I told my lady "make sure I'm friggin dead. If you burn me alive, you'll pay."
As long as you hide her diamonds elsewhere, you should be okay.
There’s definitely a smell. It’s not necessarily “bad” but It’s distinct and I don’t like it.
posted by justincredibleWould you rather be burned alive or buried alive?
I smell a spin-off thread .
Is "neither" an option here?