when an atheist dies?

[Moorish guy]

when an atheist dies what do they do with the body?

[knight of virtue and valor]

well they have to do SOMETHING with it...It decays you know. I have only gone to christian funerals so I dont know.

[Djûn]

They hold a funeral in whatever manner specified by the deceased?

[Poach]

Burial or cremation, since when did one have to be religious to have a funeral?

[Arch-hereticK]

Humanist services are quite common.
Or whatever traditional services because funerals are for the grieving party, not the deceased.

[CiviC]

Many atheists (maybe most) are actually baptised and nominally part of a religion, and when they die they benefit anyway of a religious service because the family wants to observe the funeral traditions. In fact many atheists are not so opposed to religion to specifically ask to not benefit from religious services - they see religious services more like a tradition.

[Fiyenyaa]

Secular funerals are more and more common.
As for what to do with the body - burn it. What's the big deal?

[Arch-hereticK]

I'm gonna donate my body to medical research.

[James Cook]

I'm gonna donate my body to medical research.

A noble thing if you ask me.
I prefere burning, and after that My wish is that the remains should be spread out some where
either on land or sea, more likely the ocean.
like the idea of flowting around the world oceans

[Arch-hereticK]

A noble thing if you ask me.

That you very much

I prefere burning, and after that My wish is that the remains should be spread out some where
either on land or sea, more likely the ocean.
like the idea of flowting around the world oceans

I like that idea, I too would like my useless remains to be burned, portioned out to my family who then can the dust in the wind or keep it in a vase.

[removeduser_487563287433]

when an atheist dies what do they do with the body?

Same thing that happens when a theist dies. You get a co-operative funeral, crush and incinerate the remains and desposit the ashes in a tiny plot, marked by a bronze plaque, in the district crematorium. It will remain there for perhaps a lifetime, and be removed.

[Monarchist]

I myself agree with Fiyenyaa, for probably the first time ever, on this issue. The body means nothing to me once it has been vacated. It is a derelict house which is no longer inhabited, and whose owner, now moved to the sunny coast, can not even mow the lawn anymore. The neighbours certainly don't want to provide upkeep for an abode that is no longer lived in. My own conscience tells me that the best place for dead bodies is outer space. There are literally uncounted trillions of miles extending nearly ad infinitum. Atheists can shove the bodies of their atheist friends into huge ice containers (so they don't rot and smell bad), then rocket off shuttle-loads of those containers at a time, releasing them somewhere past the Moon. Earth's cemeteries won't hold all the useless corpses forever, after all.

[Arch-hereticK]

Earth's cemeteries won't hold all the useless corpses forever, after all.

Lolwut.

[Monarchist]

Lolwut.

I don't understand the source of your confusion, my friend. The number can only move forward from seven billion as we progress in food and service technology. We simply don't have enough grave space for billions of human beings after a while. Even if the bodies decompose and are eventually dug up to be replaced with fresh meat, the gravestones will probably have to remain in place for families to respect. I say we just make a huge list of everyone who's died and update it every day, sending the bodies beyond Jupiter.

you have to admit, getting launched into the sun would be pretty bad *** (untill everyone else starts doing it)

Well, I'm sure that any corpseloads we send out into space would eventually be captured in the Sun's gravity before they hit the Kuiper Belt. Wouldn't it be hilarious if a corpseshuttle orbits in the Oort Cloud for hundreds of years, then somehow pulls itself back to Earth and happens to land on the first Global Government signing ceremony? That would be so nice...

[Arch-hereticK]

I don't understand the source of your confusion, my friend. The number can only move forward from seven billion as we progress in food and service technology. We simply don't have enough grave space for billions of human beings after a while. Even if the bodies decompose and are eventually dug up to be replaced with fresh meat, the gravestones will probably have to remain in place for families to respect. I say we just make a huge list of everyone who's died and update it every day, sending the bodies beyond Jupiter.

Are the only two options burial or send the bodies into outer space?

The new thing (anyway) is grave space is rented for 75 years. But even before that it is quite likely that the grave stone will become illegible, pointless and removed anyway.

Cremation is also becoming more popular.

Once I saw a viking funeral with a long-boat built by the deceased. That was pretty spectacular.

I admire the sentiment of your proposal, I'm just not convinced of its neccessity or feasibility.

[empr guy]

My own conscience tells me that the best place for dead bodies is outer space. .

you have to admit, getting launched into the sun would be pretty bad *** (untill everyone else starts doing it)

[Fiyenyaa]

I myself agree with Fiyenyaa, for probably the first time ever, on this issue.

Uh oh... what's the temperature of hell right now?

[Prodigal]

I myself agree with Fiyenyaa, for probably the first time ever, on this issue. The body means nothing to me once it has been vacated. It is a derelict house which is no longer inhabited, and whose owner, now moved to the sunny coast, can not even mow the lawn anymore. The neighbours certainly don't want to provide upkeep for an abode that is no longer lived in. My own conscience tells me that the best place for dead bodies is outer space. There are literally uncounted trillions of miles extending nearly ad infinitum. Atheists can shove the bodies of their atheist friends into huge ice containers (so they don't rot and smell bad), then rocket off shuttle-loads of those containers at a time, releasing them somewhere past the Moon. Earth's cemeteries won't hold all the useless corpses forever, after all.

Ah, but we must return to the earth, it is taken from the Bible.

[removeduser_487563287433]

Except that a chip of paint, travelling through space, can seriously damage artificial satellites and spaceships. Space junk is already increasingly a problem, bodies would just be dangerous.

[Arch-hereticK]

Except that a chip of paint, travelling through space, can seriously damage artificial satellites and spaceships. Space junk is already increasingly a problem, bodies would just be dangerous.

Not to mention the incredible cost of actually getting the bodies into space.