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So which would you guys rather and why? Just something I wondered, what is the most preferred method. For me its cremation, don't like the idea of rotting in the ground.

I prefer not to think about things like that until I'm much, much older.

Sky burials interest me, as do more dramatic forms of cremation such as viking burials.

You should give your body to science. Do something useful and save your family the cost of disposing with your remains. Cremation/burial isn't cheap after all.

Cremation has a high carbon footprint and there just isn't the space in the ground for standard burials.

Definately cremation, for me its more of a, " This vast field of graves could be used for food production." or even better don't bother burning the body just put it ,in a sort of ceremonial way, out in a desert or mountain where vultures/other animals could eat it. There are cultures that do that. Or maybe just a burial at sea for anyone living on the coast.

And no im not being mean, I can understand why people want a grave for a family member, I just feel that the space could be used for something else.

Howard A Treesong wrote:You should give your body to science. Do something useful and save your family the cost of disposing with your remains. Cremation/burial isn't cheap after all.

Cremation has a high carbon footprint and there just isn't the space in the ground for standard burials.

At first I was going to say don't care because I'll be dead, but Howard A Treesong raises a good point giving it to science or to organ donators is a good idea.

I want to be turned into a diamond. I demand that my wife sell the house upon my death to pay for it!

I would like to be buried, but if I get burned to death, might as well go Cremation; hopefully they would give my family a discount.

I am already an organ donor, everything except skin and eyes. But once my organs have been donated I want to be 'put to rest'.

Cremation.

Worms can all make like trees and f*** off.

Cremation FTW. One less for the Zompocalypse.

If my hatred for someone ever grew to the point where I wanted to ruin someone's life, I would probably have my rotting, bloated carcass dumped on their porch. Nothing darkens your day like being investigated for possible involvement in someone's death.

Definitely not burial though, don't like the thought of being buried under six feet of earth.

Want my organs? Fine. Just keep me out of a box.

I clicked other, I dont know why yet.

Assuming I dont rise as undead, descend into the sea or whatever.

I don't particularly care...
I mean, my ideal choice of death is "Vaporised after piloting a super sonic jet into an ICBM whilst singing Danger! High Voltage"
Otherwise i'm an organ donor and whoever is left after i get dusted can do what they like.

Not sure, I don't like the fact of being burned to cinders, and I don't like worms having a party in my eye sockets, I don't want to be used as a test dumby for science even though it IS helpful. I might just go into the navy so it would make sense for a burial at sea...

Immortality. Probably by vampirism, because I can then say "Immortality and immorality."

To all of those people who are considering donating their bodies to science, just make sure you wash up and make clean specimens. Looking at human cadavers this year in anatomy and I don't want to see any syphilis like they had some years ago.

Definitely going to be an organ donor, but I want to be buried. Don't know why, but I just want to. Nothing too fancy, but I want my funeral to be a party and I want to do keg-stands.

Buried in a sea of bodies, face-down in mud slick with the blood of my enemies, with an axe in my hand and the eternal echo of a warcry upon my lips.

Or, failing that, buried in the ground, because I already have my burial song planned.

Well, everyone here seems to raise up some good points. Donating to science would be nice, especially because it helps human beings. Other than that, I would have to say Cremation. Just the though of being buried underground for eternity is just.....weird.

Avatar 720 wrote:Buried in a sea of bodies, face-down in mud slick with the blood of my enemies, with an axe in my hand and the eternal echo of a warcry upon my lips.

So, you plan to die mid-orgy?

dogma wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Buried in a sea of bodies, face-down in mud slick with the blood of my enemies, with an axe in my hand and the eternal echo of a warcry upon my lips.

So, you plan to die mid-orgy?

Afterwards I think, the 'eternal echo of a warcry upon my lips' gives it away.

I'll do it the Viking way, burned on a pyre with my family watching. Its been done for my Grandfather and every male member of my family going back centuries.

I plan to do it for my Father, and if I have children, them me. The Swedish blood runs deep in my family.

I want to be buried in a biodegradeable coffin so that my atoms can return to nature.

halonachos wrote:
Afterwards I think, the 'eternal echo of a warcry upon my lips' gives it away.

Pronounced "whorecry" of course.

I want to be buried standing up, but not embalmed. no sense taking up more space than i need, and i dont want to spend more than a year rotting. ESPECIALLY if the "return of the living dead" was right.

I'd like a natural burial. That is, no embalming, and no casket in a concrete vault. A simple pine box that will break down quickly would do just fine. Somewhere where my body can help fertilize the soil, on my family's property, if possible.

Entombed in a lavish sarcophagus in a grand crypt with all of my possessions.


Or, you know, stuck in the ground in a box. That's also fine.

Having to choose between the two seems like a raw deal.

I'm with Dogma, immortality even at the cost of immorality.

Yeah, or that... I'd rather be a lich, though, than a vampire. I mean, as a lich, you simply cannot be destroyed, unless they get your phylactery, which no lich worth his salt will ever allow to happen.

I'd like to be cooked into a stew and served at my wake. The remainder could be fed to any nearby scientists, so I could check off the 'donating my body to science' box also.

Cremation. I dont want my children to have to suffer the pain of shooting daddy in the head when the Zombie Apoc comes