What to do when you're dead

[Sweet Freedom]

An increasing number of people are choosing to do more with their bodies after they are gone in an effort to be more eco-friendly, help advance scientific knowledge, or do something awesome that couldn’t be achieved in life.

Here are some of the coolest science-friendly options available:

- See more at: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-do-when-youre-dead-science-edition#sthash.JkDy4fjm.dpuf

I'm all for the liquid nitrogen option.

[Scuba]

1. Thanks. My choice ....

Save the oceans:

Due to many factors including pollution and climate change, the world’s oceans are losing coral reefs at an alarming rate. Considering reefs are incredible sources of marine biodiversity, this is fairly problematic. Those who were an advocate for sea conservation in life, can physically help rebuild reefs in death.

Eternal Reefs combines a person’s ashes with concrete and is molded into a shape that mimics the natural growth pattern of a reef. Additional concrete is added and family members can add handprints, write messages, or embed keepsakes like a plaque or military medals. Family members can be involved with as much or as little of the process as they would like, from the initial casting to placing it in the water.

[hobbit709]

2. I plan to be cremated and my ashes scattered over a marijuana field.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. +1

I like that Idea!

I will also haunt Conservative Republicans in Washington.

[Sweet Freedom]

5. Hahaha

[elleng]

4. Pushing up daisies,

literally.

[Hula Popper]

6. Sicience project

I signed up to donate my body to the U of MN. They pick-up, fiddle with whatever they want and then cremate whats left. Every 6 months or so they bury a lot of ashes with a small plaque which lists people who donated.
I also asked my sons to throw a party at Parisi's in Chicago or a pizza party at Connie's in Naperville. I'll supply the music.....

[Sweet Freedom]

7. I actually wanted to donate my body to science,

but my mom completely freaked out when I told her, so for now, I want to be frozen and shaken.

[calimary]

11. Welcome to DU, Hula Popper!

Glad you're here!

I finally checked the box on my driver's license agreeing to be an organ donor.

Previously, I just had a problem with it. Just weirdness on my part, but I had a problem with the whole idea. Couldn't help but envision this circling of medical vultures overhead, waiting impatiently for me to go so they could harvest whatever they needed - what if they decided to move the clock ahead a little and "help" me along?

Well, screw it. I turned 60 on my last birthday, and realized, hell, maybe I no longer mind the idea of being "helped" along. I don't want to live to an advancing age! There's no blessing or merit in that, after having watched my parents deteriorate and be kept alive artificially by herculean efforts and drugs and a whole laundry list of meds to take every hour, or every other hour, round the clock, and running up a ferocious tab on an effort that was bound to be futile. NO "quality" of life whatsoever. By their last days, both of them, they were "alive" in only the most generous figurative sense. That was no living! My dad was literally a piece of meat by the end.

Besides, I have this weird paranoia about being buried alive. I figure being an organ donor would be the easiest way to avoid that fate. Let 'em take whatever they want. Pick me clean!

[RebelOne]

13. I am also an organ donor, plus the cost of the license is less

if you choose that option on your license. I could really care less what is done with my body when I die. Then I will be cremated. Since I am already 75 and in decent health for my age, when I die there probably won't be too much to be salvaged as all my organs will have aged beyond recovery.

[El Supremo]

8. Soylent Green!

[rug]

9. And then there's alkaline hydrolysis.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4828249

[840high]

10. Cremation.

[Jamaal510]

12. I want to

turn into a ghost and haunt some people when I die.

[ashling]

14. I won't know till I get there, but

at the rate things are going . . . I'll be able to let you know real soon.

[Kaleva]

15. Feed the starving Polar Bears with my body.

There'll be tidbits left over for the Arctic Fox and the poop I'll be turned into will help fertilize plants and thus help contribute to the circle of life.