
How would you like to be laid to rest?


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.
I can understand that.
Cremation drop me in some lava
Now that is quick and creative.
Really? That's been my idea for forever lol.. but it would make sense considering how I grew up I guess lol. I grew up around death if you can somehow understand in your own way, and formed very early opinions on death.
To me, earth is what being sand takes pour life, so we shoulda accept and treasure it. And some times even I have trouble appreciating it and accepting it. But there if life after us, in my opinion, and I don't want to conceal myself in a box and deprive the earth from any nutrition it might gain from my ashes.
My idea is that you're dust in the ground, and I've made it peace with the earth in returning it's favor. our "soot" helps fertilize the earth and the soil. I thought it was usual for people to think like that honestly lol.
Just want to clarify this wasn't taught to me, o just thought about it as a kid and didn't ask many questions about it. When I did it was pointed because I wanted to understand the way others saw it and and formed my own opinions.
@DataOrganizer27 yes true and yeah i have to many deaths around me and i really don't want any trace of me left on this earth at all incase we ever do return in the place our dust is dropped in i want to be completely erased from this place when the time comes
Fuentes, you do know that molecules of you will exist on earth forever... We are breathing bits of Julius Caesar to this day. Read that somewhere. Nothing created is ever completely destroyed.
@Screenwriter well then you can jump in lava and tell me if your still here
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
Very cool. Didn’t know of that option. 😎
I don't plan on dying. I'm here to stay.
Immortality. Nice choice.
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A green one, open air in the country.
already sorted and agreed to format, including my tree which will be a Rowan.
https://www.belsaywoodlandburials.com/gallery-testimonials/
Great if @SaoirseS could do it.
@ChrisMaster69 This is beautiful 🥺
@Harleigh90 I know, I had wet eyes choosing it.
Want the plot next to me?
@ChrisMaster69 Aww can imagine you did. Res the plot closest to you 🥰
I really like the idea of this too.
@dustybiker it’s really lovely part of the county. Also trees are important, needs to be one you can connect to
@SaoirseS it is gorgeous, been there a few times, the view are gorgeous and winters lovely.
Also the Rowan is important
http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Rowan.htm
By chance it also matches with Red Hair / Flame
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
Yuck! You’re so funny. 😂 Top of a mountain sounds really nice.
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.
Yes. That is a fun idea.
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.
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.
Traumatize all of your friends and family. lol
One final prank! I'm mainly hoping for laughs but maybe a little bit horrifying as well. :-D
That would tick both boxes. 🤪
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!!!
I’m also ok with being propped up against a tree in the middle of the forest! The critters will make short work of cleaning me up! It’s my favorite place to be alone in the woods
Would you want a tree planted over you like a couple others?
Nah, too much trouble
Your kids could hang a swing from it for your grandchildren.
And that’s a bit creepy
You kids go out back and have a swing on grandpas haunted corpse tree 🧟♂️
@charliefretz329 😁 Perspective.
Hey wait.. So the propping against a tree in the woods isn’t creepy? 🤔
Lmao nope! No one around to be startled
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!
Feel better getting that out? 😁
Ask me when I'm dead ;)
Okay. We can have a BBQ and chat.
Awesome! BYOB tho..
Of course.
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...
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!
I can’t disagree with that.
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.
Do they allow scattering of ashes in the UK still?
Oh goodie.
Lol! But bodies stink terribly when they burn. Nobody is gonna want that smell
On their marshmallows!!! Lol
@Charliefretz329 Excellent point.
Right! Lol 😂 🤢
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!”
Yes, those are emotional.
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.
The ocean sounds nicer than a ditch.
i grew up on lakes so i would agree. altho i do like the idea of animals eating my corpse for nutrition and the later being digested by bugs and fungi. possibly being born into a tree
Nice. Same could be said for fish in the ocean too. You have two solid ideas there.
oh tru tru them little sharkies
Yes, sir.
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''.
I like that too.
Undertaking is a nasty business. They will sell you a coffin with golden handles - where a carton box would do the same job.
I once worked shortly in a carpentry; boss asked us to add cut-offs from (plastic) window making into the lower stuffing/filling. So he could save some money on waste costs.
Some time in the future this will keep archaeologists speculating about our present burial rites :D
“Oh… this poor chap came from that decade. How unfortunate.” 😁
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!
into a burner... for five nights and four days, just to be sure... lol
Don’t give away important secrets. 🤫
" just because you know how to kill me... does not mean you're capable of doing it "
someone said that in some cool movie scene... but I am the worse to quote lines from movies lmao
Don’t worry. You’ve already told me how to bring you back.
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.
Exactly!!!
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.
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.
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.
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 ☺️
I want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown off the back of a ferry boat.
That sounds nice.
Aw. Why not? That sounds better than a lot of alternatives.
That I can understand. It would be sad regardless though. It’s better than sitting in a funeral home in my opinion Nature is comforting. The Ferry, very peaceful.
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
Truth.
Natural burial, let my remains return to the earth. Alternately, water cremation. I’ll let my survivors decide which.
I don't want this, but its going to happen to all of us

Mass Burial
Turn me into a diamond or feed me to the pigs, I have to be creative and a little eccentric
The diamond thing is cool. I’ve thought about that. They also have swirling, colored paper weights too.
Doesn't matter how.
Just as long as i left a legacy that helped others, especially troubled youths.
As long as the family I hate don't get involved I don't really care you can throw my corpse into a creek
I like to be buried at sea,
Ever seen ww2 footage where they just dump the dead over side of the ship
Yes. Having studied pirates, that was one of the kinder ways to go.
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.
That is a nice idea. What kind of tree? Anything specific? I’d want something that would last a while.
Nice choice… People might bull-dose the tree and erect a skyscraper though. What about a sequoia? But then they might hollow-out the trunk and let tourists drive over you, stopping to take pictures.
The future is a coin toss.
I want to be cremated and then mixed with soil so my me dust can grow a tree.
shoot me out into space like star trek creator gene roddenberry i guess lol
Cremate me, put my ashes in an urn and give it to my kids. They can do whatever they want with it.
Can I go for catapulted into a tree? I think that was an Eddy Izzard joke from a while back...
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.
Maybe they will update their policies.
Cremation. The thought of my body in a chest rotting and being devoured by worms makes my skin crawl.
I would like to be cryopreserved/frozen, when I die
Cremated and ashes spread on Lake Ontario, NY. But that is only after the scientific people get to study me.
I haven't really planned anything yet. It would be nice to have my ashes scattered up north where I was always the happiest.
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.
The same way Hunter S. Thompson was. Shoot me out of a cannon. That or feed my carcass to sharks
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.
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.
Cremated after anything useful has been taken out. I hate the thought of slowly decomposing and rotting away.
Either cremation or I'm also considering donating my skeleton to science.
Whichever is easiest and cheapest for my loved ones.
Yep !
Cremated but I don't know where to be laid to rest.
Eh, just burn me and spread me over the Mediterranean somewhere
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. 😂
This is done in Japan
Cremated and disposed. Get it out of the way and keep nothing to remind my loved ones for too long.
Cremated, but placed in a special container that will turn into a nice big tree.
I'd like to be cremated and sprinkled on strippers at the strip club. 🤣
So my family can take me with them if they move town or house
I just want to be cremated and made into something usefull
I want to be buried under a strip club like 2 chainz
Green burial.
There are a number of states that don’t allow this. It’s a shame.
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.
I don't care. Perhaps my child or my wife will.
I think about this all the time.
burned and sent in to space with my now dead dog.
Simple cremation, and scattered
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