Thread: How would you like your body to be disposed?

Read Jessica Mitfords (the american way of death) you will learn alot.

Is cremation the cheapest option?

Could you be simply buried on your property instead of in a cemetery (no coffin would seem even simpler). Burning seems like a waste of perfectly good organic material (the bones are inorganic and they get ground up probably just to make them more compact).

Take me up North to the woods and throw me under a tree....barring that, a Viking Funeral.

Originally Posted by gugi

Is cremation the cheapest option?

Could you be simply buried on your property instead of in a cemetery (no coffin would seem even simpler). Burning seems like a waste of perfectly good organic material (the bones are inorganic and they get ground up probably just to make them more compact).

Sure, why not,cremation takes 16 hrs in a gas fired oven,than whats left over, Bones teeth etc gets run thru a grinder,dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

I have had many different thoughts over the years on what I would like to have happen depending mainly on my age and circumstances at the time. I have come to the conclusion and what I hope happens is whatever makes my family left alive feel the best. Funerals are for the living not the dead. I will return to nature whether it is more immediate with cremation or if they embalm and stick me in a triple layer cement etc. box and it takes a thousand years.

Whatever makes my kids and wife happy. The cheaper the better.

Originally Posted by gugi

Is cremation the cheapest option?

Could you be simply buried on your property instead of in a cemetery (no coffin would seem even simpler). Burning seems like a waste of perfectly good organic material (the bones are inorganic and they get ground up probably just to make them more compact).

I believe that here in the US/at least in the state that I live in that it is against the law to be simply buried on your property. However I may be mistaken.

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Feed me to the bears :<0) At that point I am gone, might as well do some good.

There's movie about a guy who ended that way (along with his girlfriend) - the bear didn't fare too well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWycuaWJFCM

It's a really good movie, though (especially if you're partial the euro-sensibilities of the director like I am).

Originally Posted by 32t

I have had many different thoughts over the years on what I would like to have happen depending mainly on my age and circumstances at the time. I have come to the conclusion and what I hope happens is whatever makes my family left alive feel the best. Funerals are for the living not the dead. I will return to nature whether it is more immediate with cremation or if they embalm and stick me in a triple layer cement etc. box and it takes a thousand years.

If your put in a coffin,Than put is a conreate box,Anericobic bacteria will consuume you withiin 12mos.
your better off just buried in the dirt.

Cremation produces quite a bit of air pollution.

The "greenest" ways I have seen are the new "liquification" process or a cemetery in California that does "natural" burials. No embalming, no caskets, no vault, no headstones. It is on a mountainside and left to nature. If someone wants to visit your grave the admin office loans them a GPS and gives the coordinates for your grave.