What are your plans for your remains after you shuffle off this mortal coil?

[arcadian]

After a brief yet pointless jig on the stage of life. :D

[XemaSab]

1. Green burial

I want a pine box.

Dump me in it and just stick me in a hole.

[mix]

2. a rocket ship into the sun

nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear arcadian!

Hey! It is NOT either brief nor pointless! Hmph!

But, I digress.

I plan to be cremated (after any usable organs are removed, of course) and my ashes poured into the Pacific Ocean.

I am opposed to getting moldy in a grave.

:hi:

[arcadian]

9. I thought I was quoting Shakespeare.

maybe not. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Ah, maybe you were!

My apologies!

:blush:

[elleng]

17. "shuffle[d] off this mortal coil" from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_coil

[CTyankee]

32. You might be referring also to this quote from Macbeth

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

[arcadian]

40. Aww man, that's a great passage.

Let's hope that's where I got that. :thumbsup:

[flvegan]

4. Harvest my organs, chum the rest and feed it to sharks at sea.

[AlCzervik]

5. cremation and then scattered into the pacific, you're welcome to my organs.

[Deja Q]

7. Isn't necrophilia frowned upon or something?

(forgive my jocular replies, but death is so boring - it stunts one's career path too.)

[arcadian]

11. again... A Rose for Emily

[Deja Q]

6. To be reincarnated as a tasty sugar-loaded breakfast drink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZeHHvIJ4Bk
(Gary Owens is the narrator?!?!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_P2QDXrwI
(Oh my... coffee soft porn!!!!!!!1)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Would it be too creepy

to be stuffed and mounted?









Yeah, I thought so.

[arcadian]

10. A Rose for Emily

[elleng]

13. Push up daisies

in cotton gown, untreated all wood 'casket,' near trees and flowers.

[elleng]

14. dupe

.

[Ptah]

15. Surprise me

[Aristus]

16. Organ donation, then cremation.

No funeral to mourn the fact that I died. Just a party to celebrate the fact that I lived... O8)

[yellowdogintexas]

24. same here.

told my daughter she could do whatever with the ashes..

keep them
have them made into a diamond
put them in a coral reef
scatter them near a cave somewhere
sink them with my mom and dad in the old cemetery at home.....

whatever

[csziggy]

18. A Tibetan sky burial would be my ideal but I think it would gross out the neighbors

So instead I want my husband to wrap me in a cotton sheet, take my body out into the woods and leave it for whatever creatures might want to snack on it.

But since I think the local authorities would frown on either method, I guess a cheap cremation and let my husband do whatever the heck he wants with the remains - probably he'd bury them under a tree.

I don't want any box or any reminder of where I am left for future generations. I'd probably feel differently if we had children but since we don't, no one after my dear husband is gone will care to know the exact site I was left.

[FloridaJudy]

45. That would be my choice as well

I'd like to think someone would appreciate me after death, even if it's just a vulture.

I've actually looked in to this. No one has been able to tell me if it's legal in Florida, and I suspect that some I asked were surreptitiously dialing the local asylum.

But since I doubt my loved ones can locate a family of Tibetan corpse-cutters near here, I'll settle for the "green" cemetery. They let you buy the coffins ahead of time, and they look really cool. "Nice bookshelf, Judy". "It's a coffin".

http://www.glendalenaturepreserve.org/

[old mark]

19. Cremation, ashes to be scattered somwhere suitable, don't much care where.

We have a cremation society ready to do the job - costs around $600 each.

I don't want to be a mummy in a box in the dirt, want as little to do with the corporate world as possible, even after I'm dead, so no funeral home, etc. I would just like everyone who wants to to have a little party.

mark

[LeftyMom]

20. Since I intend to be dead by then, I'm not much worried about it.

flvegan has instructions, which mostly consist of "do whatever the fuck you think is appropriate and if my family doesn't like that tell them to kiss my moldy ass."

[arcadian]

42. Pretty much my take on it.

Except that flvegan is not my executor.:P It's not like anything else is gonna hurt me and what ever happens, I'm not likely to get deader.

[Career Prole]

21. I want my ashes hauled!!!11

Back to New England, that is. Texas already has too much dust. :)

[Digit]

22. BBQ or Cremation

Depends on if anyone is hungry....

[emilyg]

23. Cremation.

[Bertha Venation]

25. cremation, ashes to the Pacific n/t

[lunatica]

26. If things keep going to hell on earth I'm volunteering to become soylent green

I think teh humans are edible too. That or become fertilizer and be mixed into the compost and give something back.

Or get cremated after donating organs.

[AwakeAtLast]

27. Burial with my ancestors

My Great-great grandparents, great-grandparents, and grandparents are all buried in the same place (um, small town :) ), so we will all follow suit.

[applegrove]

28. I always wanted to be cremated after my body is given to science. Then I wanted

to be spread throughout the woods at the cottage. But we are selling the cottage. At one point I wanted to be burried near my grandmother in Nova Scotia (a beautiful little cemetary) but I don't think there is space for me. Now I don't know.

[CTyankee]

31. I knew a dear man who willed his body to Yale Medical School. His wife had protested his decision

as she was a devout Catholic. He simply said to her "I always wanted to go to Yale. Here's my chance."

I loved that reply....

[applegrove]

33. My mother and grandfather were doctors. I figure I owe my body to science since

they had access to bodies during anatomy class. Not fair that it is always the poor and indigent who end up as cadavers.

[CTyankee]

34. Good point. I recently had a rather complicated hernia surgery that was attended

by some bright young resident surgeons who were excited to be able to watch my surgeon (the best in our area)operate on me. I can't tell you how pleased and happy I was that they could do that! I complimented my surgeon on letting them attend the surgery...

[Iggo]

29. Can't remember the comedian who said it...

...so I can't give him or her proper credit, but I always thought this was funny:

When I die I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread over my mother's house...so she'll have to clean up after me one last time.

:rofl:

[Pool Hall Ace]

30. Off to Duke University Medical School, let the students do

what they need to do.

Then my body will be cremated, ashes returned to . . . I don't know who yet. It was going to be to my husband, but my marriage is down the shitter.

I want them scattered somewhere peaceful and wooded, but I haven't picked an exact location yet.

[RebelOne]

35. Cremation, and then my ashes scattered from the air by a skydiver.n/t

[Heidi]

36. Cremation, followed by a progressive last call. (nt)

[SoxFan]

37. Soylent Green is SoxFan!

[lightningandsnow]

38. Organ donation (if not for transplants, for research), and then...

I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread where I went to camp for the last four summers. That place means a lot to me.

My family's Jewish, though, and Jews traditionally don't get cremated, so I'd have to outlive my parents. Which hopefully, will happen anyway.

[Dogmudgeon]

39. I don't care

As long as I don't leave a mess, I'm fine with it.

--d!

[LostInAnomie]

41. Viking Funeral

[BarenakedLady]

43. Let them take what can be used

and then burn the rest.

[Lethe]

44. i'm immortal

sorry folks. die well in your own fashion

[jobycom]

53. Your morals are not the issue...

[Lethe]

55. Yo mama fat

and her morals bad.

[jobycom]

56. Yo Mama Fat--isn't he that kung fu cellist?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

46. Become part of a coral reef

They can do that these days.

[Lil Missy]

47. I don't care.

[NaturalHigh]

48. If it were up to me...

I would be dragged out into a forest and left as a feast for the animals.

[rug]

49. I like these Trappist caskets.

The cross comes off too.

[FloridaJudy]

50. I expect that taxidermy's out.

Norman? Is that you?

[Withywindle]

51. It's not PC but I have to admit....

I LOVE old graveyards, barely kept up, overgrown and full of big mossy trees, with lichens all over the stones. I've spent so many happy time in places like that in my youth, that is truly where I want to be. With gothy history-buff teenagers 200 years from now getting high and having sex on my grave and taking rubbings of what's left of my tombstone.

That's my first choice. My 2nd choice is to have my ashes scattered in two places: Salvador de Bahia, Brazil and the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

My 3rd choice is to have my carcass taken to a good taxidermist, and be mounted in a conversational pose with a drink in one hand and cigarette in the other and passed off to all my friends until they all die, and then go to a historical museum to be posed in early 21st century costume for 23rd century kids to gawk at!

[jobycom]

52. I hope to die in some way that makes the question moot.

Like plummeting into a volcano, disappearing into an unmapped ice field, or falling off radar somewhere in the South Pacific.

Barring that, I hope that my neighbor's young wife finds some convenient way to get my 108 year old body from her bed and into some place less embarrassing for her. After that, I'm not overly concerned. Stuff it, put it on display in the Smithsonian, and let people gawk at my godliness, if anyone wants to.

[MilesColtrane]

54. I want to be blasted with liquid nitrogen then hit with a wrecking ball.

After that they can just sweep up the bits and flush them.

Anything but a burial. I'm claustrophobic. ;-)

[960]

57. Cremation. Ashes scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

And judging by this thread, the Pac Ocean is going to be very ashy!

[hobbit709]

58. Cremation, ashes scattered over marijuana field.