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

funny how things change .. my great grandparents parents and other relatives were all buried in there back yard , actual caskets and headstones but never the less , in there own backyard .. .. I like that idea but in todays time and all the documentation , building and stuff going on , that wont work where I live ..lol..

as far as me I would want to be burned in a wooden boat and cast down a trout stream , but since that's not allowed and hard to hide I guess I would settle for cremation and dumped in a trout stream in the mountains some place ..

I remember a tale from a friend who told me they had a member of there trap league who told his wife and best friend that he wanted to be cremated and loaded into shotgun shells and fired on the trap line with the rest of his remains dumped in the field with the busted clay targets !! I wasn't there to confirm but I guess the members did a big ceremony and followed through !

When my father had passed and his widow had picked the urn I proceeded to haggle with the guy at the funeral home for a better price. My cousins were horrified when they heard the story and my step mother had said shh a couple of times while I was beating the guy down on price, but it's just business. If anyone pays full price for my cremation I will haunt them. Around here caskets are not an issue because they are made locally by family and friends. They are very low cost to the family and some of the nicest caskets you will ever see.

I don't like the concrete vaults required for overpriced caskets and don't like cremation either. If I cannot find a means of natural burial I guess I would have to convert in order to be buried in a Jewish cemetery in the dirt.

My actual preference is composting, but my wife rather emphatically ruled it out.

I say harvest anything or everything still of use for transplants etc, then toast the rest and scatter the ashes to the 4 winds, no need for a rock or plaque anywhere for me.
My spirit lives on in my children and doesn't need anything to know where they will be.

Originally Posted by Substance

I say harvest anything or everything still of use for transplants etc, then toast the rest and scatter the ashes to the 4 winds, no need for a rock or plaque anywhere for me.
My spirit lives on in my children and doesn't need anything to know where they will be.

Yup - I've been an organ donor for years...take what's needed, I've always felt organ donation should be mandatory...so take what you need, then throw me under a tree, if that's not allowed, back to the Viking Funeral, but the most important question is - DO YOU TAKE THE RAZORS WITH YOU!!!

I don't give a crap what they do about me, but what about the razors?????