When you die…do you prefer cremation or a burial?
Also, to those of you who plan to stay unmarried and child free…are you leaving your assets to family or donating it to an organization of your choice?
I come from culture where we pretty much only bury people, but I want to be cremated AND for my ashes to be scattered for the following reasons:
1. I don't want to be "visited" by family because since childhood I was sad and afraid whenever my parents took me to cemeteries. I had nightmares around that time.
2. I also don't want to be visited, because I don't want to cause my family members such problems especially that they might live in a different country. I prefer it if they just think about me sometimes.
2.1. For the same reason I don't want anyone to keep my ashes like I've seen some people do on American films... I don't know if anyone actually does that because cremation is not part of my culture.
3. I don't want to imagine what will happen to my body, again due to the nightmares I had as a child. It just makes me very uneasy to have my body left behind. Also, after a while someone else might be buried on top of me, the site might be turned into something else etc. There's also the possibility (even if very small in our day and age) that I'd be buried alive.
4. I don't want to take up space of the living after I'm dead and cause them the kind of discomfort I still feel about cemeteries. It just feels like a waste.
5. I don't like cemeteries, I think I have some fear of them... if I'm passing by a cemetery with an open gate, I sometimes can't help but cross to the other side of the street. Even in death I don't want to be near them.
I actually don't have a fear of (fresh and non disfigured) dead bodies, but burial, coffins and cemeteries give me a lot of discomfort.
I always said cremation because eventually people stop visiting loved ones graves and it just begins to rot away. Just the other day it dawned on me that the last time I visited anyone’s loved one graves was in 2020, just before the Covid lockdowns.
i look at these huge cemeteries space that will never be used forever!
adding to that category is horrible waste of space! if society is stupid enough to continue, that destruction, i don't want my corpse contributing.
if more people did ashes, then the waste wouldn't spread.
in college i learnt about "reuse" graves!
that means bury, wait. after a year MOVE bones to a small container to reuse the grave for someone else! but our waste is horrible... each grave a crime of infinite time because they will never 'use" the land forever... and worse add constantly to this infinite-time waste! thousands more year after year.
Cremated. Burial is far too expensive. I was told that each individual letter on a tombstone costs money! The tombstone itself costs money. The place in which you’d be buried has to be paid for. The coffin your body is placed into has to be paid for. No way. Burn me
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s I found out about a process similar to cremation, but instead of fire they use water. That's what I want to be done to me when I die.
The thought of being buried bothers me, even though I know it's part of life.
Both. I want to be cremated and my ashes buried in a national cemetery. That provides a place where relatives can come to remember and reflect on me.
I keep going back and forth on that.
A casket looks better on the back of a fire engine than an urn does, both my parents were cremated, my mom figured that would finally end her cancer once and for all.
My funeral - the cheapest way possible.
I'll already be on my way to somewhere else.
Whatever I "own" - the ones who were close with me can pick it up. No re-registrations are required.
Certainly cremated , I dont want to be buried in a hole using up prime real estate , thats a simply horrendous thought , scattered and be free wherever in thought of others.
s Cremation. I’d rather have my ashes scattered or kept, than have my body rot in the ground with all the bugs.
I'm actually looking forward to being made into either a diamond or a tree - I haven't decided quite yet. I'm also considering having my body brought to a Parsi (Zoroastrian) Tower of Silence to let nature and the elements consume my body. All of this of course after organ donation. If you're not an organ donor please consider it!!
I'd rather be cremated and have my ashes scattered. Why take up space in a cemetery? Return my body to nature.
And toe a string around my finger connected to a bell on the surface.
Seriously though, mom had my step-dad cremated and he sits on her mantle. Problem is I didn't get closure at the wake as I was tending to mom andsince I live with dad, I'd have to go to her house to say goodbye and I know it wouldn't be private. If there's a grave, people get to process at their own pace
As much as I don't want to be maggot food, I don't want to be incinerated either. So I chose being buried.
Neither, my plan is to become the foundation for a tree
u There’s no way I would never ever want to be cremated.
Probably cremated, as both sisters were cremated.
Burn me and toss me in the trash can. I won't mind
Buried. Hopefully not until I'm dead. It just seems more ecologically friendly.
Each day I’m learning how expensive it is to be buried and maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to be cremated or turn into a plant something to be easier on my people funerals are expensive
honestly, i don't care xD at that point, i'm gonna be dead. so i'd prefer to le tthe people who have to deal with my corpse decide what they wanna do with it.
Lay me out on rocks by the sea, so birds can tear at my flesh.
I want archaelogists to dig up my body a thousand years from now!
Cremation. I want it done and over with.
