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

I'd like to be shot into outer space where I will be preserved forever. Probably with my luck some trigger happy Klingon will use me for target practice.

Just put me in a hole... Whatever is cheapest. Cause I'm gone anyway... Make sure my grandsons get my razors!!!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

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.

I buried a friend on his property. It would have been illegal except that his wife had been buried there years earlier making the property a legal burial site. The spot was in a small aspen grove making getting any machinery in impossible without destroying the setting, so we dug the grave by hand. Digging a grave by hand for a friend is quite cathartic. I recommend it if you ever get the chance.

I think if you donate your body to medical science there is zero cost. It may need to be set up before you die. A friend's mother had set that up for herself and when she died he was asked if an autopsy had been done. He was told that if it had that nixes the deal.

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).

Not legal in many places, and for good reason. Most people only have a small garden. If people started to bury their relatives there, there would soon be problems like bodies being dug up or resurfacing at inconvenient time, and of course possible pollution of the ground water.

I have written in my last will and testament that I 'd want to be cremated.
The ashes are to be disposed off without ceremony or location.

My reasoning is simple enough, when the lights are out there is no more.
End of and full stop so to speak, no see ya's on the "other" side.

I like the idea if you have a nice piece of land in a lovely location it would be nice to be put down somwhere you aprecciated while you were alive, after all I love my Dogs and even though it's painful and hurts badly when they pass I always look for a spot in the mountains and woods where we once walked and bury them there and whenever I walk past those spots I always raise my hand say a word or two to my old dogs. PS but sprinkling your loved ones ashes in such a place would also have the same significance, I haven't quite decided buried or cremation I'm not opposed to either practice.

Dump me in a common grave, and shovel some lime on me like Mozart at the end of Amadeus...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUt4DfGnyJQ

Originally Posted by bluesman7

I think if you donate your body to medical science there is zero cost. It may need to be set up before you die. A friend's mother had set that up for herself and when she died he was asked if an autopsy had been done. He was told that if it had that nixes the deal.

Good idea, but they may not take it after it arrives, especially for old farts' cadavers. There is no guarantee that the remains will be used and so the family may be stuck with a huge unexpected final expense. I set up my Cremation society to ask before picking up the remains.
My Drivers license shows organ donation if possible.
Your state or national laws may vary.
~Richard

While we have plots in Louisville we have decided to donate our bodies to a local med school.
If that does not work out then cremation. I want my ashes scattered in a field of her choice.