Cremation or Worm food?

[favre4ever]

I would like to know what your thoughts are on cremation or body burial? I am curious your reasons why you choose one or the other, or perhaps another option?:hmmm:

[Cluny the Scourge]

Personally I couldn't care less what happens to my corpse, except that any materials which can be made useful to the sickly living in transplantation should be removed. Beyond that the mortician could grind the remains down and feed it to his dogs for all I cared - or perhaps boil the fat down for soap and candle-tallow, and keep the skull as a trophy to drink toasts out of to his girlfriend.

Frankly, in my view, anyone who thinks differently is infected with weak-minded sentimentality and superstition.

[favre4ever]

Personally I couldn't care less what happens to my corpse,

Frankly, in my view, anyone who thinks differently is infected with weak-minded sentimentality and superstition.

Ok, thats your thought. You have a good point, sentimentality is for the weak. I guess i should stop singing christmas songs...
It is not superstition, you will die and you will have a corpse. Will you care about anything once you are gone? Your children, a spouse? maybe your blatent disregard for an honest question in an open forum?
probably not
For me, i hope my loved ones will honor my last request and bury my ashes somewhere serene.

[Cluny the Scourge]

It is not superstition, you will die and you will have a corpse.

Wrong. I will die and whoever has to clean up the mess will have a corpse. I, on the other hand, won't have anything, because I will be dead.

Will you care about anything once you are gone? Your children, a spouse?

No, I will not care about anything once I am gone. Because I will be GONE. Your confusion on this point seems pretty complete. All of my life I will care about my body, my children, my spouse, my dogs, my collection of pornographic magazines - and then I will cease to care. Because I will be dead.

maybe your blatent disregard for an honest question in an open forum?

For a disregard for your question that is so "blatant" I think I made my answer to that self-same question pretty clear.

For me, i hope my loved ones will honor my last request and bury my ashes somewhere serene.

Do you imagine that your disintegrated heap underneath the ground is going to enjoy that serenity?

What a waste of a perfectly good jar that could have been used to contain something worthwhile, like cookies.

[Nicholas H.C]

For me, Cremation

[MaximiIian]

Mum wants to be cremated, as do I (but in a different manner than simple cremation).
Mainly because burial these days are quite unnatural and you won't be any kind of fertilizer. At least at most cemeteries. There are some that let you be buried and decay naturally, without any kind of embalming fluids or that crap...but it's expensive compared to just getting your corpse immolated.

[Mithiras]

I like cookies ... Anyway ...

I'd want a moselem but thats really expensive ...

Instead, I'll build myself a one man Longboat, and fill it up with thatch, and when I'm old and dead I'll get my family to put me into the longboat with my armour and send me aflame

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

I'd want to be cremated, just so I could ask for my ashes to be spread in rediculous places to annoy my loved ones.

"Drop a handful in Merv, and following this please drop some in Rome.."
"Mommy, why was grandpa such a douche?"
"He thought it was funny, dear..."

[favre4ever]

Sucks to be you then Cluny. Your inability to look past your own life is sad. Maybe you should head to a more realistic thread.
Thanks for the idea though a cookie jar would be a sweet idea for my cremation jar. I'll just have to convince everyone i knew that there are no cookies in it.

[jman47]

id go for cyrogenic freezing, so my family members for generations to come can see what i looked like when i died.

I agree with Cluny on the fact that once you are dead what happens to your body is rather trivial, however i believe that what happens to your spirit is much more important..... but such discussions are for another thread.

[favre4ever]

Let me clarify then. I am asking what YOU prefer happen to your corpse, ie in a will or something. Not what will happen, but what you WISH would.

[MaximiIian]

Let me clarify then. I am asking what YOU prefer happen to your corpse, ie in a will or something. Not what will happen, but what you WISH would.

Either a funeral pyre with games in my honour, or a Viking funeral with the burned boat pushed into the Ohio River.

[gambit]

Cremation. I'd rather my family and friends think of good memories at a funeral rather than stare at my drained, decaying body as it's put into a hole.

I dont really care about the whole spreading of the ashes thing. Let them be spread where the wind takes them I suppose.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Put me in the ground. I think it's good for loved ones to have a place they can go and "be" with me.

[Thanatos]

Come on worms, it's time to party!

[Kamos]

Cremation it's cheaper and maybe I'll follow up on zznɟ ǝɥʇ and make my family have to do stupid things with the ashes.

[MaximiIian]

Maybe even put in the "Boot to the Head" thing as part of my will, modified for my family and friends...

[Archaalen]

Cremation. My body would only be wasting space otherwise.

[jman47]

LOL max that video is hilarious

[SirLoinalot]

I want to set atop a viking ship and set ablaze in the Mersey...that way, in the event of some sort of gamma radiation accident I'd come back as a sort of zombie-pirate-viking.

Either that or throw my cadaver over the back fence.

Loiny