How would you like to be laid to rest?

Question

Do you have plans or ever thought about what you might want for your remains after you die? How would you like to be laid to rest?

EmbraceThePain · Accepted Answer

Personally, I never want to be cremated.

Why? Well, it’s purely selfish reasons. I know some might say “well, you’re dead so what do you care?”

I can say a lot to this but I won’t. I’ll simply say, I still care. I don’t want to be cremated.

I like the thought of being buried so that my family or friends have a spot in the world where I am if they want to visit. It’s a purely psychological thing and can offer people comfort in many ways.

If you’ve watched the gangster movie “The Irishman” Frank talks about cremation.
He says: “It’s final.”

At least if you’re buried, you’re still there.
Bones. Tombstone. Burial site.

It’s not as final.

I don’t really know why I care about this but I do so that’s that.

Fuentes · Accepted Answer

Cremation drop me in some lava

OldSchool_Metalhead · Accepted Answer

Id love to have a green burial. I came from the earth, therefore in the end im given back to it.

But if that can't be done there's the option of getting cremated and having your ashes put into a vinyl album. I dig that idea. I don't know what songs id want on it though lol

Snsl153 · Accepted Answer

I don't plan on dying. I'm here to stay.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

A green one, open air in the country. already sorted and agreed to format, including my tree which will be a Rowan. Great if @saoirses could do it.

ohshee · Answer

Will personally I would like to get laid first before I rest I'm going to be in the I Dream of Jeannie bottle I'm going to be cremated and I told my kids to take me to the Daytona 500 and as soon as the green flag goes I wanted to throw my ashes up in the air so I go all over everybody's hot dogs LOL no I just want to be cremated and my kids can do whatever they want with me. If they want to they can put me on top of a mountain someplace

Squaresquirrel · Answer

I voted C as cremated but use my ash to fertilize soil and plant a tree.
And just have a big party and play Metallica Hero of the Day.

I saw something cool in a tv series. The ashes were stuffed into fireworks and it looked awesome. A great way to be remembered.

Smoke-n-Growls · Answer

Cremated and turned into something like a mushroom log to support funghi.

Or buried in a mushroom or tree suit.

To the Earth I shall return, let her feed on my remains. It's the least I can do for this planet.

A coffin won't do anyone any good, but a tree can provide shade for someone at some point and capture carbon from the air. And mushrooms are excellent for soil health and also just fucking cool.

HighlyVolatile · Answer

I don't really mind as long as people are having fun at the funeral. I was thinking if they go through the hassle of embalming my body that they might at least attach wires to it and use my body as a marionette to put on a puppet show.

Charliefretz329 · Answer

Drag me down the back steps and plop me in a hole in the back yard. I’m no longer in my flesh vehicle and you better dispose of it quickly or it’ll stink like hell!!!

No ceremony needed for the body. I don’t place my half eaten hamburger in a $8000 coffin when I chuck it in the trash…

Have a beer, have a laugh, talk about how much you liked or disliked me. Throw a party and then go home and go back to enjoying your lives!!!

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

I would like my head to be severed at base of my neck and then shoved upside down into a standing wooden stake. I wish to donate all of my organs, but they would most likely be rejected. The remaining carcass is to be set on fire and beaten out by surviving family members. After I got a good char, one of my ex's could piss on my ashes!

Screenwriter · Answer

I don't want to be kept by anyone. Scatter me to the lake and Gulf of Mexico or some other large body of water nearby. If there's still dust left, seal it in a box and put it in the tomb where my mom and dad, dad's sister and their dad are buried.

However, I do like the idea of feeding the fishes and maybe feeding some veggies in a garden. I've talked to my 27 year old son about this. I know he'll oblige...

Tamera952 · Answer

Being BURIED has got to be the, THE MOST DISTURBING & CREEPY thing I can even imagine! Dressed up to rot in a box, in the ground, slowly but surely, wasting away… it gives me horror just to think about it!

DonkeyDan · Answer

I want to be burnt on an open fire. My friends can even toast marshmallows on me if they like 😂.  Probably never going to happen as they are not legal in the UK.

Mickbert · Answer

I want a Viking funeral where my body is on a raft and people shoot flaming arrows to light me on fire. I want people leaving saying, “now THAT was a funeral!”

LemonsAsks · Answer

i would like to fight a bear in knights armor on my way out. but if thats not possible, i would like to be thrown in a ditch or out into the ocean.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I'd prefer to just disappear in a cave or jungle. This planet is for those to live. I gave one ''advise' to those close to me: ''don't waste money''.

Apulu_Imback · Answer

I don't care how I'm laid! Coffin dance (Astronomia) should be played on my funeral and instead of crying (no one will though lol) people should tell jokes and my embarrassing moments so I can die peacefully!

NathanDavis · Answer

into a burner... for five nights and four days, just to be sure... lol

Miristheiss · Answer

I don't really care. I'm gone... it is of no concern to me.
My main thought is I don't want my family to have a bunch of funeral bills and such. Whatever is the cheapest.

They could just bury me in the backyard if they wanted.

Kaytiee · Answer

I'd like to be cremated, maybe my ashes planted with a tree? or in jewelry, if it helps my family grieve, I know it did when my dad passed away. I wouldn't however like to be kept in an urn or scattered.

TrueConfection · Answer

I prefer to be buried, but I won't know anyway. My attitude is funerals are for the living, I'll be gone so they can do what they want.

Sour-rose · Answer

Ain't no one gettin' goods off of my body and not gonna be going down in a suit, I'll be so pissed and cause a ruckus as the funeral home who dare put me in a suit.

Tinana · Answer

In Nigeria we usually bury the dead now it depends on your age if you die really old well that’s a party. Celebrating your life. Literally I’d want that if I die really old ☺️

exitseven · Answer

I want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown off the back of a ferry boat.

driven159 · Answer

with population needing more land to live in how long it will be before you are dug up for a condo unit to be built on your plot

SaoirseS · Answer

Natural burial, let my remains return to the earth. Alternately, water cremation. I’ll let my survivors decide which.

humanearth · Answer

I don't want this, but its going to happen to all of us Mass Burial

jamesgoldman · Answer

Turn me into a diamond or feed me to the pigs, I have to be creative and a little eccentric

Msputiton · Answer

Doesn't matter how. Just as long as i left a legacy that helped others, especially troubled youths.

crossdressingrihno · Answer

As long as the family I hate don't get involved I don't really care you can throw my corpse into a creek

peedy · Answer

I like to be buried at sea,  Ever seen ww2 footage where they just dump the dead over side of the ship

OddBeMe · Answer

Buried without casket with a tree planted on top. Just in case the Hindus are correct. Of course I’d have two pennies over my eyes for the boatman.

DataOrganizer27 · Answer

I want to be cremated and then mixed with soil so my me dust can grow a tree.

Still-alive · Answer

shoot me out into space like star trek creator gene roddenberry i guess lol

AviatorTom · Answer

Cremate me, put my ashes in an urn and give it to my kids. They can do whatever they want with it.

erandal · Answer

Can I go for catapulted into a tree? I think that was an Eddy Izzard joke from a while back...

altdbob · Answer

DIE!  Die you say?  Here is the deal: Heaven doesn't want me and Hell is afraid I would take over so I don't see much dying in my future.

IveGotNoName · Answer

Cremation. The thought of my body in a chest rotting and being devoured by worms makes my skin crawl.

Doom880 · Answer

I would like to be cryopreserved/frozen, when I die

DaveToo · Answer

Cremated and ashes spread on Lake Ontario, NY. But that is only after the scientific people get to study me.

douride2 · Answer

I haven't really planned anything yet. It would be nice to have my ashes scattered up north where I was always the happiest.

Hellodownthere · Answer

Toss my carcass in the ocean and let the marine life take care of it. It's just a slab of meat after I die so it might as well be food for something.

Oigit · Answer

The same way Hunter S. Thompson was. Shoot me out of a cannon. That or feed my carcass to sharks

GrantArmstrong · Answer

Any parts of me that can be used to help others medically will save lives or improve quality of life. What's left after that goes to research and teaching.

Anonymous · Answer

I have no clue. They say areas of your brain are still alive for a while after death. But at the same time I don’t want no bugs eating my body slowly.

sirderpsalot123 · Answer

Cremated after anything useful has been taken out. I hate the thought of slowly decomposing and rotting away.

sheikalana · Answer

Either cremation or I'm also considering donating my skeleton to science.

Vendela · Answer

Whichever is easiest and cheapest for my loved ones.

Andres77 · Answer

Cremated but I don't know where to be laid to rest.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Eh, just burn me and spread me over the Mediterranean somewhere

Anonymous · Answer

I'd actually like to be encased in a bronze statue, nude and erect so people can stop by to say howdy and rub my knob for good luck. 😂

TallAnon · Answer

Cremated and disposed. Get it out of the way and keep nothing to remind my loved ones for too long.

Paul09 · Answer

Cremated, but placed in a special container that will turn into a nice big tree.

Anonymous · Answer

I'd like to be cremated and sprinkled on strippers at the strip club. 🤣

Kyra101221 · Answer

So my family can take me with them if they move town or house

zoemarie14140 · Answer

I just want to be cremated and made into something usefull

jamartheg · Answer

I want to be buried under a strip club like 2 chainz

Lliam · Answer

Green burial.

Anonymous · Answer

Make sure that my remains are completely burned to smithereens to ensure that my body never again rises to wreak havoc on this forsaken world. But my dark soul will still be around. You're all doomed.

slatyb · Answer

I don't care. Perhaps my child or my wife will.

StephanieGirl75 · Answer

I think about this all the time.

boobliker · Answer

burned and sent in to space with my now dead dog.

bolverk · Answer

Simple cremation, and scattered

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