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                Not trying to make anyone feel guilty or anything, but personally I think its messed up how people decide that they want their bodies locked up in a coffin underground for eternity. It seems so... selfish. Call me a tree-hugger, because I am, but it's extremely selfish. We take resources from the earth all our lives (as do all other organisms), but then when we die we want to keep even our body and lock it up from the world that so graciously gave life to us? We humans are selfish even in death. On a more positive note, humans also display the most altruism of any other species. But that doesn't make up for what we do.

                I couldn't stand the idea of having my body locked away in a box. I've had enough of boxes. We live in a box, we drive around in a box on wheels, we stare into a box for many hours each day, we go to sleep on top of a box, and when we die we are placed inside a box. But not me.

                For me, the choice seems obvious: Give my body freely back to the planet that enabled me to live. I would have my body thrown out into the middle of the ocean, give back my body to the place where life started. But I think that may not be possible legally, as my remains could well end up on the shore of some country, and that might not go so well. 

I wouldn't like the idea of cremation, because most of my body would simply be lost as heat, not really helping the environment when all the nutrients in my body are burned into ashes. I want to be picked at, gnawed on, chewed up, etc. Basically I want my body turned into animal tissue and poop. 

 

What about you? Feel free to share what you want to happen to your body when you die. I won't criticize you, unless you want me to. 

 

I would add a poll but it wouldn't let me, so whatevs



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It goes to the shadow realm.



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Natural burial. Stick me out in the woods. I can give back a tiny bit to the environment that I've taken way too much from. 

The amount of space taken up by cemeteries drives me nuts.

 

Edit: I was also told by a friend that he would ensure a pyramid being built for me, as long as I leave him the money for it. 

Two very conflicting ideas :P



It desintegrates, it goes back to being chaos,some worms and roaches also feed on it and such



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mysticwolf said:

I wouldn't like the idea of cremation, because most of my body would simply be lost as heat, not really helping the environment 

What a lovely morbid subject, however do you think the carbon in your body would not be wanted by the plants in the world. Heat and ash are not the only things produced.

 

That said, cremation for me but more because of my grandparents that have passed, they too were cremated.

That or if by the time I pass, technology has increased enough, fired into the sun.



Hmm, pie.

The Fury said:
mysticwolf said:

I wouldn't like the idea of cremation, because most of my body would simply be lost as heat, not really helping the environment 

What a lovely morbid subject, however do you think the carbon in your body would not be wanted by the plants in the world. Heat and ash are not the only things produced.

 

That said, cremation for me but more because of my grandparents that have passed, they too were cremated.

That or if by the time I pass, technology has increased enough, fired into the sun.


Fired in a container of some sorts, or just your body rag-dolling through space?

I like the sound of the latter. 



i wanna be cremated....... then put my ashes in an urn and display it in my currently-non-existing mansion with the rest of the dead clan member...



 

epyon396 said:

Fired in a container of some sorts, or just your body rag-dolling through space?

I like the sound of the latter. 

My thoughts were of the former at first but thinking, the latter does sound good.



Hmm, pie.

first choice: cannibalism. i'd like to be served to the guests that attend my funeral.
second choice: natural burial. return to the earth in a natural way.
third choice: cremation. not ideal, but probably the best option that is in fact,.. legal.

 

i fully agree with the OP.  an embalmed burial seems selfish and disgusting.  i don't want to be turned into a chemical soup to preserve my likeness like some sort of unnatural doll in a horror film.   gross.  then to take up land in this resource limited planet.  fuck that shit.   i'm not christian and i think it sucks that christian ideals have limited the options of how i can treated in death.