[Cog]

Have you made any sort of plans for what happens to your body when you die? When my father died, I broke with family tradition and had him cremated. His ashes were scattered on the family farm. For me, the wife, and my daughter, we all have made our plans clear that we want to be cremated.

I have never seen the point of burying a metal coffin in the ground in a plot that will never get visited. Not to mention the very costly preparation by an embalmer, the flowers, the visitation, the hearse, etc. Especially at a time when the money from the estate could go to serve the survivors instead of the funeral director's bottom line.

What are your plans?

[C8]

I wish to be cremated and have my ashes scattered over a meadow to give new life.

But for 2 weeks prior to this I want my corpse to be displayed behind glass at the deli section of Krogers to see if anyone wants a taste. Currently my negotiations with the management there are not producing results but I am confident in the power of persistence.

[Newfie]

Not my decision. I'll be done with the body and what happens is none of my concern. I had my parents cremated (their choice) and interred in a family plot. Helps to have a headstone for future generation to look at and ponder their roots.

[ROCKMAN]

Yep: have my crermated remains mixed with a casing cement job on a Texas well. Got that from the actor Harry Morgan (Col Potter on MASH) in an old movie that he played the role of a tool pusher that had the same done. The really cool part would be having my wife mail an invoice to that operator covering my "consulting service" on that well. LOL.

It could eventually become a legend in the oil latch.

[careinke]

I'm torn between becoming fertilizer for a shade tree, or having my ashes thrown onto a church service of that group who protest military funerals. Both my sons have volunteered to take care of the second option.

Lately, I have started leaning towards the first option.

If I was rich, I would turn my body into gemstones (yes they can really do that), and add a whole new meaning to the "family Jewels."

[Plantagenet]

For me....want to be cremated.

I have never seen the point of burying a metal coffin in the ground in a plot that will never get visited. Not to mention the very costly preparation by an embalmer...

You'll be sorry when you get reincarnated in heaven only to discover that your physical body has been burned up

Everybody else is going to be eating heavenly food and having fantastic sex again in their reincarnated bodies and you'll just have to drift around like a disembodied wraith

Cheers!

[Shaved Monkey]

For my wife and I its what ever is easier and cheaper.
The one living needs the money more than the funeral industry.
I wouldnt mind compost or donation to science or dumped at sea to feed the crayfish,but if cremation is cheaper thats it.

[dinopello]

Yeah, the capsulor mundi pod burial is the way to go

[SeaGypsy]

Any tree which likes phosphate will devour rotting flesh happily. The more sensitive the tree, the more wrapping & lime on the corpse. In most instances burial between trees is preferable to directly under, as lateral roots are usually the main feeders, while tap roots go for water & stable footing.

[Plantagenet]

I once visited a commune. Each orchard tree had a upright standing length of 1' diameter cement pipe/culvert buried on end. 6' long and deep. Buried so the opening was flush to the ground. Had a cement cap as well. Folks would shit into the hole. And cover it with a bit of sawdust. Instant tree food And safe.

How exactly did this work?

Did you just squat on your haunches above the 1" pipe?

AND How did you aim well enough to hit the 1" diameter pipe every time? That's not a very big target and vision is restricted in that area.

[Newfie]

1-FOOT. ' vs "

[Cog]

We desperately need to adopt the metric system.

[Plantagenet]

Use a periscope....

Who wants to see that? I'd rather miss the pipe.

[sparky]

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You already use the metric system , since 1959 the inch is legally defined as 25.4 mm
it replaced the old definition "three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise"
any international agreement signed by the US use the International system of measure