Do you want to be cremated or buried?

   I am leaning towards cremation because I don't even like visiting cemeteries (not because I fear death, I just have no interest in seeing a loved one's grave). Plus, what laws will be changed in a few hundred years when we are running out of room on this earth. Will I be dug up and thrown into a pile?  I really need to get my act together and get going on my will. 

 

What are your plans for your deceased body?

 

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Permalink Reply by booklover on August 20, 2011 at 8:07pm
My daughter (19) was just telling us about this the other day Mojo~ very interesting!  It is what she would choose she said.
Permalink Reply by mojo5501 on August 20, 2011 at 8:34pm
Small world!   I wonder if we'd be allowed to make reefs in Lake Michigan....or is this just an 'ocean' thing? Ha ... We'd just get barnacles and zebra mussels attached to us.  Those invasive species.  None of those pretty tropical species like the glossy brochures show.
Permalink Reply by Scott on August 21, 2011 at 12:32am
Donate it to science...I think it would make me feel a little bit warmer/fuzzier inside knowing that I'm helping somebody even after I'm dead.
Permalink Reply by Jeremy on August 21, 2011 at 4:36am

I want to be frozen; I'm not going down without a fight. Failing that, I plan on having my ashes spread over the haunted house at Disney World.

Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on August 21, 2011 at 6:11am
O.k, Walt. :)
Permalink Reply by Brian Wood on August 21, 2011 at 2:33pm
My cadaver will go to the local med school for dissection.  I understand the parts will be cremated eventually.  I'd rather be composted.
Permalink Reply by Jeremy Raines on August 21, 2011 at 11:35pm
I don't really care, but I do want some kind of marker. This is the only afterlife I get, so I'd like a way for people who never met me to at least know I existed. Maybe it's the genealogist in me talking.
Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on August 22, 2011 at 10:45pm
Jeremy: I would be happy being burried vertically instead of horizontally if they do that. The headstone would be small and it will save so much room this way.
Permalink Reply by mistercliff on August 22, 2011 at 1:30am
With my fascination with volcanoes I'll probably end up naturally cremated someday!
Permalink Reply by mojo5501 on August 22, 2011 at 8:42pm

That reminds me of part of a song lyric:

 

And I heard of that Japanese girl
Who jumped into the volcano
Was she trying to make it back?
Back into the womb of the world?

("Volcano" by Beck...great song if you've never heard it)

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on August 22, 2011 at 10:44pm
Mistercliff vs. the Volcano!
Permalink Reply by Brian Wood on August 22, 2011 at 12:06pm
My marker is to read:  "It's Better Than Being Born Again"

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