Do you really care what happens to your body after you're dead?

[ohiosmith]

I sure as hell don't. As my uncle Tommy used to say "Stick a bone up my ass. The dog will bury me".

[MonkeyFunk]

1. not in the slightest

I don't understand why other people seem to care so much.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. I agree...

My mom freaked when I told her I wanted to be cremated and scattered on the wind. I just don't understand why. She'll probably be long dead by the time I kick it.
Duckie

[swag]

2. Whatever's easiest for the ones who are still around.

[RedStateShame]

3. Taxidermy, baby.

[MsKandice01]

19. LOL!

Any particular pose you prefer?

[billyskank]

4. Not really

I won't be bothered about it then, that's for sure.

[LeftyMom]

5. I'm pro-recycling. Take all the usable spare parts off before you junk the rest

Beyond that, I don't give a shit.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. When Kollyforniya started the 'donor' thing

on driver's licenses — or the first time I was aware of it, anyway (I was about 20) — on the form where it asks which organs you want to donate, I wrote something like, "Take anything you need, as long as I'm finished with it."

The DMV clerk laughed and said she'd never heard that one before.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Toss my ashes on the mulch heap.

I don't want to waste space, and I'd like to feel that my body is still of use after I've departed.

[Phillycat]

7. Hell no. I'm donating the whole thing to the medical school, after my

organs are harvested. What the hell do I need it for?

[Arugula Latte]

48. Me too. I can give a flying you-know-what.

The researchers can laugh at my body, which will hopefully be very old and presumably very saggy and wrinkly ... As long as it's useful for something, they may as well have it.

[Pool Hall Ace]

65. Med school for me, too.

:hi:

[azmouse]

8. Nope.

And I don't want an expensive funeral. The money should be used for the living.

[AlCzervik]

9. take what organs are good and cremate the rest.

[mentalsolstice]

11. Take what you can use and burn the rest

I don't want any viewings, visitation or a funeral. I just want my friends to get together, listen to good music, drink good wine and share good memories. I do want my ashes spread somewhere good, but mostly as a treat for the person doing the spreading.

[Omphaloskepsis]

12. I plan on dying alone with lots of cats.

What they do with all of the cat shit is not my problem.

[ohiosmith]

15. I'm sure the cats will dispose of your remains in the manner they deem the most appropriate.

[wildhorses]

13. i don't know why but, yeah i do care--

i used to not. but, lately when i think about it especially since i have started working in an ER and actually being around some dead bodies.

i don't want anybody touching my body.

i plan to walk out into the woods and lie down under this oak tree that i have found and i just want to let nature take its course from there. if its the buzzards then so be it.

of course i know that things don't always go according to plan so yes, i am an organ donor.

i am claustrophobic and don't want to be buried and here lately i am not comfortable with the thought of cremation.

[SPKrazy]

62. burial at sea?

it's a shell, a container at best, right? :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Nope.

Sadly, I can't make the joke I want to make, because it would get deleted.

[ohiosmith]

17. What the hell. Go for it.

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Disclaimer: This is a nasty joke. I forget who I stole it from, Bill Hicks maybe, or David Cross?

I'll be dead, what will I care? Shit, might as well put my body to some real use and donate it to a group of necrophiliacs or something.

[ohiosmith]

26. :

:rofl:

[Skittles]

31. aw that's just SICK

:thumbsup:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

58. LOL

:rofl:

[Omphaloskepsis]

23. Dude, I ran with cat shit..

Grow a pair.. I would bet I have said worse.

[MsKandice01]

16. Take whatever you can salvage and then burn the rest...

I don't want to be buried underground.

[SKKY]

18. Absolutely. Of course I care...

...which is why I hope there will still be some working parts that could help someone.

[Lady Effingbroke]

20. hell, I don't care what happens to my body while I'm alive.

[ohiosmith]

21. :

:rofl:

[kay1864]

24. Yes, but only because

I'd like a second chance after this life ends.

[bikebloke]

25. Bury with a tree planted on top.

The I'd continue the cycle by nurturing the tree.

I guess the soylent green route would be in the same vein.

[Little Wing]

27. Yes, it's served me well. Somone else might be able to use some parts, too

[Skittles]

29. well, I do not want to rot in the ground

cremation please

[ohiosmith]

30. Aren't you afraid that you'll make an ash of yourself?

[sasquatch]

32. "Stick a bone up my ass. The dog will bury me".

:rofl:

[maxsolomon]

33. native american method

put me up on a platform for the birds to eat. let the eagle soar!

[Lex]

34. Of course *I* wouldn't. I'd be dead. But my family would care.

nt

[NoGOPZone]

35. Nope. I don't care if I get fed to vultures. nt

[seemunkee]

36. I don't know anymore.

I used to not care but lately I'm not so sure. There is a cemetery where my parents are buried that I can trace my family back 6 generations by walking to the back of the cemetery. Even though its far away and I don't get there often I get some comfort out of knowing they are all there together. There's no plots available or else I would consider getting one. At this point I have no plans.

[dysfunctional press]

37. i'd like to be plasticized and cut into layered pieces as a part of BodyWorlds...

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/bodydonation/body_donation_program.html

[Nikia]

38. Maybe it is traditionist of me

But I do want to be buried so there is a place that people (my loved ones or descendents) can go to remember me after I die.

[Shell Beau]

41. I think it helps grieving.

I know it does. I like to visit my brother's grave and talk to him. Though I know I can do that without being at the gravesite, it just seems to help and be more "real"! :shrug:

[Shell Beau]

39. I do! After I donate my organs (which I think we all should do, but that

is another subject), I want to be buried with my brother. Or my husband. When my brother died, my dad bought 5 plots beside him. So, if I die early, I want to be by him (just in case my husband remarries). But if my husband and I die of old age, I want to be buried by him.

[MrSlayer]

40. Well I would prefer not to be mutilated.

Or have my head caved in or something. Have to leave a good looking corpse and all.

[idgiehkt]

42. I confess that I do.

I would like to go to my grave unmolested, literally. I have a fear of being violated even in death by some redneck necrophiliac inbred funeral home owner's son or something. I don't want to be whatever it is'd they do when they take your organs out and I want to be cremated. I would prefer to die in an explosion so there is nothing left of me for people to mess with anyway.

[AlCzervik]

43. Wow!! if i could nominate a post this would be the one!

[idgiehkt]

52. It's not clear from this

whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, lol.

Just being honest. :)

[Forkboy]

44. I want my ashes mixed in with the rubber for a hockey puck

And I'm dead serious (pun probably intended).

[Starbucks Anarchist]

45. No, someone else will use it better than I did.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

46. I've already decided to be cremated

strictly for practical reasons- I can't donate my organs because the arthritis meds I'm on have screwed my system up for life. Also, there's just one space left in our family plot, and my sister and I have agreed to share it- cremation makes that arrangement sensible and practical.

I'll be elsewhere, so my remains don't really matter. I'll have no use for them.

[Chan790]

47. Only in so far as I don't want to be embalmed

as I think polluting dead people before we stick them in the ground so they can pollute the environment is asinine.

[Deja Q]

49. Sorry, I'm not into necrophilia... which is probably for the best.

I wouldn't want to know who'd be using me anyway... On the plus side, knowing who has used me, it'd be the same people all over again... :spray:

:yoiks:

[momophile]

50. I'd like to be a diamond

but no really just cremate me.

[Q3JR4]

51. Nope, not at all.

[NNadir]

53. Well I'd rather not be served at McDonald's but I will, in fact, have no opinion.

[liontamer]

54. kind of

I wouldn't want someone having sex with my corpse. nor would i want my body rotting in my house undiscovered.i know it shouldn't matter, but I don't like the idea of my corpse being somehow defiled.

[Generic Brad]

55. Have taxidermist set me into a real bad ass pose

That would be awesome.

[guitar man]

56. Hell no

Stick a bone in my ass and let the dogs drag me away. :)

Actually, I'm an organ donor, so if there's anything useable, take it and burn up the rest.

I just hope they don't screw up and give some poor soul my liver :wow:

I can hear 'em now, "shit doc, this one is worse than the one you took out: :rofl:

[pitohui]

57. well i would like to die as i lived

i don't like fuss and big "events" like weddings, etc, i have told my husband i don't want my money buried in the ground or on a big tacky funeral when the money could be spent on the living

the cheapest cremation and a cardboard box is fine with me, i won't be there

i'm not new orleans born even tho i've lived here for decades, the jazz funeral idea is fine for others, but it is not right for me or my background

[Pool Hall Ace]

66. Oh wow, I thought I was the only person on earth

who hated fussy events. :hi:

[otherlander]

59. I will become oil.

Because I am animal matter.
Trees will become coal.
Because they are plant matter.
Coal becomes diamonds.
So, in another era, the weeds I pulled from my garden will be set in gold and worn on a millionaire's finger, while I am pumped unceremoniously into her furnace.

It's something to think about.

[mitchum]

60. Naah, as long as it's only good looking necrophiliacs...

y'know

[Book Lover]

61. Yes - into the family crypt I shall go!

[eppur_se_muova]

63. First, donate any usable organs. What's left after that ...

can become cat food. What's left after that ...

can become organic compost. What's left after that ...

can become scrapple. Just like the others.

[youthere]

64. nope. I told my husband..

he could sit me in a chair on the front porch and let the crows have at me for all I give a shit.

[montanto]

67. yes, i don't want it taking up space in the ground.

[dropkickpa]

68. Not much

Sell off/donate the spare parts and chuck the rest, be it burn, bury, or stuff. I will be eternally pissed if my family were dumb enough to be suckered by the funeral hawkers, as I've expressly told them I would be.

I could be stuffed and made into a planter, that would be cool. Or I could be posed as a lawn jockey, or a waiter holding a tray for people to put their business cards on in the foyer (Snoop uses his to hold "the chronic" so people can partake upon entering). Shit, now I want to be stuffed!

[naturalselection]

69. I have already informed my family

that I want to be cremated. Then my ashes are to be taken to the origin of one of the major rivers in the U.S. (still to be decided) and dumped in. Being a biologist, my remains will become part of the food chain that will eventually (a long time) take me all over the world. That way, my son will know that every living animal and plant will have a little bit of me.

Cheesy, I know. :silly:

[av8rdave]

70. Nope. For once in my life (or death, as it were) my body will be someone else's problem!

[Taverner]

71. Well, after I'm brain dead, no...