I have always had a specific method of what i want to happen to my body after i pass to the next relm....
i want to be burnt atop a platform like the ancient greeks, on the edge of a cliff so as my remains burn the earth in all its wisdom will scatter my ashes across the earth and water, joining my spirit back to the earth....
i just wanted to hear what plans everyone has for their time of passing,
i don't really care what happens to this shell once i've gone from it. funerals and corpse disposal are more a way for the grieving and the guilty to deal with death, so whoever is left once i've moved on is free to do what they want with the body.
I have no plans. Its kinda of pointless for me anyways because I'll be dead.
I wanna be eaten..........jk jk I swear I am no I'm going to be creamated like the rest of my family my kids will have a mantel full of dead family members and pets....yes i creamate my pets.
I don't care, but I want my last words to be Now who will the world revolve around?
Even though I am in my mid 20's my family has talked about buying me a burial plot right next to theirs so I can be next to them. Plots are fairly cheap around here and the cemetery is right next to where I grew up so I actually like the idea. Thats my plans so far, but I hope to have many years ahead and things could easily change.
i want my body burned.. i dont want to be underground where bugs crawl in and out of my body.. ewe..lol
I want my body burned, the ashes to be placed in the mountaing by a poll of water comming from a waterfall.. somewhere that not many people go, a place that is quite.
I donate my body to science. I don't want a funeral.....
I've thought about it but never enough to come to any sort of plan. I suppose it really boils down to what my loved ones remaining are comfortable with .. because honestly I'm not gonna care!
probably the usual...3 day Tangi (funeral) at the Marae with my family around me...on the last morning the coffin will be closed...have a service...get taken to the family Urupa (family cemetery)...another service then put in the earth...
A year later everyone will come back to unveiling of the headstone...
That's a normal Maori funeral
when I die, I would like my brain and hart to be cremated and scattered to the wind. My body I would like to be buried in a forest with a acorn or a seed in my mouth, so that a tree may grow from my remains.
I'd prefer a simple graveside service within 24-48 hours of my death. A simple, wooden coffin would be fine. Surrounded by my nearest and dearest friends and family, then buried. No funeral palor, please!
Im strange I want to be Creamated then my ramines but into a pretty glass jar then into a Iron volt with a combination lock!
Yes Im odd I know my family always makes fun of me for this request...
I think I want to ride off into the sunset and never be seen again. Let everyone just wonder. Legends grow.
carsho, I loved your answer.
My old man always said. Put me in a cardboard box and throw me in the dumpster.
I'm thinking a family plot behind denny's would be nice.
hmmm,
well im thinking that i'd be enbalmed and proped up in the living room for all to see when they walk down the stairs,one hell of a wake up call eh?
Donating my body to science would be cool. Am already an organ donor so meh.
when i die it will be up to my family cause i really dont care what will happen to me cause i sure wont feel a thing.. also im glad they take your blood cause if im in the ground i sur wouldnt want to wake up and re-die i
I'm not sure what I would like done is possible. I want to be buried in a simple wooden casket without being embalmed or placed in a vault. I see no reason to preserve my body like that
first of all i want to be creamated and my ashes thrown to the wind over the river.....another thing is , i want no funeral...i want a celebration of my life.
i would love for my body to be put in a burrial boat and pushed in the sea and lit on fire until is sinks turning me into fish food once i sink to the bottom of the ocean but as with all things time changes and certian things are not acceptable in our culture be it ethical or health issues so i will go for being cremated and placed in a urn and put inside a crypt for safe keeping,the idea of being mummyfied has always interested me as well but that is an ancient practice which does not happen in the current days.
i want to be cremated and have my ashes sprinkled in the ocean so i can swim with the dolphins forever
I have already written up my wishes upon death.. I wish for anything that can be used to help another be taken from me. Then wish to be cremated and buried with a weeping willow as it is my favorite tree.. thus allowing me to grow still and be reborn for others to see. As I know my soul will be doing that already.
I technically won't and don't care what happens. I will be dead from age, sickness, or accident.
I told my wife that she can do what ever she wants. Burn me, bury me, feed me to vultures.
Dealing with the bodies of the dead is done please the living that remains behind.
Thedog - that is only too true - but I still want to be buried in the Adirondacks.
I'm hoping that my body may at least be used as fertilizer for the beauty of those mountains, so my descendants may cherish them as well.
I would like to be cremated but for different reasons. I don’t think it matters what happens to my body after I am dead. I believe that it is how I live that will determine whether or not I get into the spirit world. I want to be cremated so that people who care about me don’t have to feel bad if they can’t visit my grave. If my ashes are scattered into the wind someone could visit me anywhere that they are.
When I pass, whenever that may come, I want any organs that can be used to be harvested, in the hopes that someone else will have the chance at life.
I want my memorial service to be a celebration of life, and love. I want bright colors, flowers, food, music, and laughter.
After the festivities, I want my body to be burned on the water in a great boat, like the Vikings, so my ashes will be scattered along the wind and in the great sea.
^_^
i have already donated my body to a medical collage so i really don't know what they are going to do with me and seeing i will be dead i really do not care what they do
I like the way the Israelis do it --- within 24 hours, if not sooner, you're wrapped in a shroud and buried in the desert.
I'll probably be cremated, but I wouldn't mind going on tour with Body Works.
There are so many laws regulating the disposal of bodies in the U.S., but there is a move afoot for pastoral burials, along wooded paths. Very romantic. I like the acorn in one's mouth idea.
I also like the idea of a party. You're all invited.
I personally don't care, i'm dead. What am I going to do about it, get mad and yell?
I would like to have a viking funeral. They are very beautiful to me and I think it would be a good experience for my family and loved ones to learn from even in my parting. But I fear that viking funerals might be outlawed. I should check up on that...
i will be cremated and part of my ashes thrown in traveling water and the rest spread on a friends property that is very sacred to me.
i will be cremated and part of my ashes thrown in the air so that i can be everywhere
I think it'd be cool if my body was frozen or preserved in some way and then put on display somewhere. lol
well i would like to be launched into space and burn up coming back into earths atmosphere so i can be one with the whole planet...as well as all of earth elements
would love to be buried next to my ancestors, fear fire, but at this point and time who would really care, believe that if i was burnt they may estenguish the fire of my soul. so i guess that was stupid to say oh well
I always said i want to be vaporized. I dont want to see it coming and I dont want anything left of me when Its over. Now I guess I'd like to be toasted, nice and toated. Put in a gothic looking Urn and have it engraved with something like. "Forgot about Daylight Savings Time" or something witty, and then have all my family and freinds procreate the rumor. LOL
I would like to donate any body parts that can be used then to be creamated and my ashes to be placed next to my fathers in a nice urn.
death death i dont want to die cause my mommy always said i was put on this earth to give every one hell but thats not the case .. i want to live like an immortal and never die and watch all my friends and family die .. some one told me that would be boring but i think it would be exciting and i would go see the world and make all kinds of friendss and also if i was an immortal i would had been able to see the past .. wouldnt that be neet..?
Whatever the family chooses for me.
This body is temporary like the next one I'll have...
DNR
Harvest what you can.
Burn the rest.
>;]
Though I have thought about having a more scandinavian funeral in honor of the old ways. Having my remains torched on a raiding ship.
Maybe in honor of my Celtic ancestors my family will place my skull in the mantle of thier front door as a way for my spirit to watch over them.
donate my body to medical science: straining the lungs alone should provide wenough cannabaloids to amuse a few people.
seriously though, what does it matter?
we're meat, that's all, thinking meat.
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I know, feed me to starving cannibals: allthough I'd hardly make much of a meal.
either donated to science mummified or cremated and kept in a jar in my childrens house
Before I die......
I will want to have sex one last time, and then after the undertaker reattachs my arms (they had to be removed to release the poor girl who was trapped in my death grip), I want to buried in my crypt..... where upon the door it will say, "Here lays HAWK2K, he went out with a bang!"
:D
The cheapest way. Why let others get rich of my bod. Throw a party instead on me.
I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes scattered somewhere. I don't know where yet...I know I'll find it though. Somewhere peaceful. Somewhere where something meaningful has happened to me.
If I was to die today, I would want my ashes to be scattered over any large body of water.
This sounds crazy, but I mainly want to be cremated just in case any freak accident happens and I rise in the grave. and I can't get out. (claustrophobia)
Also, if raising the dead ever comes into fashion, I would rather not become a zombie.
i want to be creamated however u spell it and my ashes give to my daughters...
I used to want to be buried but lately I think cremation might be better.. I want some of my ashes spread over my daughters grave and the rest over various places I have enjoyed to visit.
I want to be cremated, and have my ashes scattered someplace that holds a special meaning to me.
Cremated for me also. Then a huge party with lots of booze and whatever. Must have a large bonfire also. This party will be for my friends to celebrate my life.
I have selected to be a donor upon my death, what can't be used I would like put in a cherry wood casket with rose pink linings and placed in a private mausoleum made of pink marble.
I have always wanted to be buried with my family..traditional right? NOPE..I want those still remaining to have a huge party with free booze and good music to celebrate the life I lived.
I want to give the gift of life to someone who needs it. I almost died and my stepson gave me a piece of his liver. I want to do the same. Then I want to be cremated and have my ashes put in paint so I can be art.
When I die I do not like the idea of being buried... Only because you don't have any idea what could happen to your body. Your body could be dug up later on by some sickos... One reason why people like to be buried is because it's something that your friends and family take comfort in. So they can visit your resting place and talk with you as if you were there. That would be the only reason I'd like to be buried.
But I also don't like the idea of being cremated. At least not for me. If I were to be cremated I'd like my ashes to be scattered around the earth so I can be one with the earth...
I haven't exactly made a decision for that yet though, I'm still young... and hopefully have more life ahead of me...
I'm not quite sure what I want done... I know alot of friends of mine are actually wanting to donate their bodies to science.
Now, if the zombi did exist, then I would love to be burried in a shallow grave, that when the time does come for the dead to walk the earth, I would be amongst them.
In reality, I would love to have either a Northman funeral or a Native American funeral, ship on fire or bond fire. With the cd Triumph of Steel by Manowar playing in the background. I will most definitely have a masonic burial regardless which form I choose.
I have very strong family and cultural ties to the Southern States and I have been very active in the preservation of Southern heritage and its political identity. So I have planned a State Confederate Burial. Not as romantic as some that I have read but its my death right lol
I would like to have my ashes spread in a few different places. These places will change as I do. It is hard to know where those places will be quite yet.
I had a friend who took their friend's ashes and put them into paint and took the deceased friend old bike and painted it, so he'll always ride with him.
The troll ( my hubby) and I have discussed this and all I really care about is him ( assuming I go first) doing whatever would make things as easy and better in some way for him. I really have no care what happens to my body after my spirit is gone.
But it has pretty much been decided we will be in the same graveyard as my great grandparents since my grand mother bought us a family plot there for our wedding anniv gift a few years back.
I haven't got it all planned yet, but I know that I will. Every detail, because I don't want to leave that sort of thing to my family. When my gran passed my mother was a mess and it would've been hard for her to plan a funeral but my gran had everything already done with -- the funeral plot purchased, the casket picked out, even what she'd wear. I want to have all that done too because I don't want to put that sort of burden on my loved ones.
Since I will be dead, I am not too concerned about this body.
However, I will donate it to science so they can use it for the Body Works Art.
i want any organs that can be used to help somone else taken and the rest they can burn
i would like to be burn at the stake above a sea cliff with wild flowers and have my ashes seter away in the wind
Quite the interesting responses.. how I have enjoyed reading them.. thank you all for sharing.
I have pretty plain and simple plans... I just want to be buried.
I will be creamated and half of my ashes are to be scattered at the lake wit my son half in the ocean at Mustang Island
i really dont care.. ill be in a better place.. what ever is easiest for my family.
i would like to be burnt and my ashes mixed into concrete to make my headstone or a piece of artwork.
that is radd.
i want to be burned to ashes as well.
however i want my ashes to be scattered in my favorite places:
example.
Japan!
:D
Cremated and loaded into shotgun shells and have all my friends take me to the Skeet shooting range for one last round...
burned and ashes thrown down the drained so no one knows where i am
I'm a giver until the very end. I have already signed up as an organ donor and will let the med students have at my corpse if it helps. Both my grandparents have done it -- I always respected that.
I would also like to be burned out in the open on a mountain top somewhere. Just like the Amazon's!
I wanna be putten in worm proof coffin, out of wich the oxygene will be sucked out.
And I want a window on the coffin.
i planned myself a funeral when i was 14. i still want to go through with the funeral the way i planned it, but instead of being burried i want to be cremated and have my closest friends decide where to set me free. my personal ideas of how the after life is/works fall through with this. i believe in rencanation and that everything is part of the earth. id rather my body be able to be scattered around the world rather sit and rot
Creamated and my words are this "My body lays but still I roam"
A wake, a Church service, then burial. Hey, enjoy life while you stll have it kids!
I want to be creamated and depending on where i live at the time of death i want my ashes to be taken back to Scotland and let go by the sea near.
Wow alyria91, thats what I call planning in advance.
By the way wich I stated already, I forgot to say that I plan a grave stone as well, with big words written on it, like "LONG LIVE THIS BAD ASS MOFFO"
and I forgot to say, that I plan to be balsamed, so my dead face doesnt rott when you look at it trough the window,
and I plan to stick my eye lids open, so you can have a live natural experience of who I really was indeed.
and of course, it wouldnt be ok, so I of course definitly will wear a pink suit, made of bunny leather.
not forget a daisy in my pocket.
I am life insured,
and my parents paid for all that,
of course.
Upon my Death from this lIfe I wish to have my ashes scattered at a certain place. It holds the most loving memories to me .
LadyDarkRayne
That sounds like a singificant momentum indeed.
I my self thought of getting my self cremated, but than again I understood, that it is not a thing for me, I dont feel like dissapearing.
I wanna be burried while I am still "alive".
I want to be mummified then placed in a stone pyramid-shaped mausoleum in the grounds of my house.
Failing that...taxidermy!
Wow Maledicta, that is indeed a one exotic burial.
I gave it a thought my self as well, but on the other hand, that is not for me, I hate tight clothings.
I beleive tight bandages would make me uncomfortable in my afterlife experience.