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

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.

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.

Both my wife and I will be cremated and the ashes mixed together after the last one passes. Half of mine will be spread out on my families farm and the other half mixed with hers. Then they will be taken to our favorite mushroom woods and spread out

Originally Posted by Geezer

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

I am a donor also but the older I get the less chance that anything will be worth harvesting. Even my eyes are starting to wear out.

They can always use your bones,esp your femurs,They harvest them,de hydrate them, cut them into slabs to be used as spinal implants.
Used to work in the buis,I know all about this stuff.