When you die, how would you like your body to be disposed?

Shrink · #1 09-19-2005, 06:39 AM

Go on, make a decision!
I'm up for getting incinerated, myself, though I couldn't care less.
Whichever is the cheapest for those involved.

Dino · #2 09-19-2005, 06:52 AM

I've only got one thing to ask; why the hell would anyone our age want or need to think about this kind of thing?

Seriously, live life, stop being so obsessed with death.

But since that's offtopic, I'm gonna say buried in a spectacularly over-elaborate tomb.

Shrink · #3 09-19-2005, 06:56 AM

yeah, I'm totally obssessed with death and I really think about this topic

So, as I was saying, what do you guys want to be done with your corpse?

Dino · #4 09-19-2005, 06:58 AM

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yeah, I'm totally obssessed with death and I really think about this topic

So, as I was saying, what do you guys want to be done with your corpse?

Do you actually think there was really any need to repose the question when it's already written in the THREAD TITLE which EVERYONE will read before clicking the link?

Jesus Esus, for an intellectual you sure do some stupid things sometimes.

Shrink · #5 09-19-2005, 07:02 AM

Not at all. But you make the mistake in thinking I reposed the question because I thought that either a, people had forgotten it, or b, it wasn't already clear.
I did it for different reasons entirely.

soulstice · #6 09-19-2005, 08:56 AM

Cremation.

Rich · #7 09-19-2005, 08:59 AM

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how would you like your body to be disposed?

How would you like your thread to be disposed?

Cremation for me. Random topics FTW.

SeaRex · #8 09-19-2005, 09:01 AM

Stop being so rude, Dino. Shrink is only bringing up a topic for discussion.

Anyway, regular burial in a coffin doesn't really appeal to me. Cremation is kinda iffy as well, mainly because I wouldn't trust my offspring with my remains. I'd end up in a vacuum cleaner. XD

Being put to rest next to the people that I cared about in life in a private mausoleum is a little more... I don't know... sentimental. I think I would like that.

Hobo · #9 09-19-2005, 09:20 AM

I have several ideas for my corpse.

One - Thrown into a mosh pit thrashing about to metallica and having parts of me swept off the floor the next day.

Two - Shot out of a cannon into the sea.

Three - Thrown at a random person in the street

Four - Cremation with my ashes to be spread somewhere i really hate.

Dino · #10 09-19-2005, 09:26 AM

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Stop being so rude, Dino. Shrink is only bringing up a topic for discussion.

I know he is, and I wasn't being rude. I just have two issues;

One is that there has already been a topic about death in general recently, which is in my opinion a pretty "heavy" subject, and as such we could do with less of. But that aside, I have a genuine issue with young people sparing any amount of time thinking about death, since they should be busy enjoying life at that age, and not thinking about such things until they're really much older. I see that as merely offering my opinion and thoughts on the matter as an "aside".

The other is that Esus had already made it clear what the subject of this thread was, and I clearly said that I was being off topic when I was commenting about this thread, and so made a fair contribution to it at the bottom of my post - therefore there was no need for him to reiterate the subject, regardless of his "reasons" for doing so. I made that clear and pretty much asked him to stop being silly. When he responded a second time I gave up.

I see no harm in that. No harm done, no crime committed, so let's move on and have a friendly discussion.

Now, what do you all think of the idea of having your cremated remains scattered over your favourite/important/special place or some other area of natural beauty?

Shrink · #11 09-19-2005, 09:31 AM

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When he responded a second time I gave up.

T3h victory!

I wouldn't mind my body being cut up and given to living people who need particular organs, as long as they still work all right.
I think having my ashes being scattered somewhere important to me would be the absolute ideal. However, if I was to die tomorrow, I could think of nowhere I would want my ashes scattered - I simply assume places will become important as I grow older. Hopefully different places to where I've already been. I suppose I wouldn't mind if my ashes were just 'scattered' generally into the air. Let the people breathe them, let them slowly settle over a river/the ground/a tree/some animal.
I certainly wouldn't want my ashes placed in an urn on a mantlepiece. Urns look terrible.

Dino · #12 09-19-2005, 09:34 AM

What if it was a really (and I mean REALLY) funky looking urn?

How about a bong?

YES! That's it. I'm gunna be kept in a bong on someone's mantlepiece.

Hobo · #13 09-19-2005, 09:39 AM

This all reminds me, i attended a wedding a few weeks ago and my cousin aged 5 or 6 had found an urn. Having no clue what it was he proceeded to poke and throw the contents about oblivious to everyone except me. Who kept well away from the little bastard that afternoon...

Dipstikk · #14 09-19-2005, 09:48 AM

Who's gonna die? You? Heh, I'm... I'm gonna live forever! I-I am! Seriously!

*breaks down in tears*

Erm... I want to be made into an animatronic puppet and be put in that one art museum where the artist made sculptures out of corpses. I'd be the mascot.

(A place like that really does exist.)

Dino · #15 09-19-2005, 10:09 AM

Ah, dipstikk, you've just reminded me of a rather hilarious sketch from a rather hilarious tv series that rateher unhilariously ended not so long ago. Thankyou.

Mmm, and what/where is this corpse museum you speak of?

SeaRex · #16 09-19-2005, 10:29 AM

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Now, what do you all think of the idea of having your cremated remains scattered over your favourite/important/special place or some other area of natural beauty?

I would prefer that to sitting in an urn. There's the whole "becoming one with nature" spirituality thing, which is quite romantic, but part of me just thinks that the whole process is kinda silly, you know?

Still, I feel a certain connection to many beautiful places in the Appalachian Mountains near my home. Even though I would much rather be entombed next to my life partner in a spiffy mausoleum deal, being scattered over the green mountains of Appalachia is also rather appealing.

Havoc · #17 09-19-2005, 11:13 AM

Hm... how would I dispose of my body? Well I guess they could feed it to some tigers. But since there would prolly be some people who wouldn't like that, and since it prolly won't be all that healthy for the tigers either, I guess I'l go with being cremated, then have a miltary ceremony at sea :P.

I was being serious about the tiger thing tho...

T-nex · #18 09-19-2005, 11:46 AM

I don't think Tigers like fast-food

Anyways... How I'd like to dispose my body.... Dunno...

Send it out in space, and let it be studied by aliens? Dunno, this subject doesn't really interest me...
Meh.... It'd be fun, becoming an organ-donor

Havoc · #19 09-19-2005, 12:04 PM

It'd be FUN? Whats fun about being an organ donor? You'l be dead! :P

***Wil*** · #20 09-19-2005, 12:40 PM

I don't want my body to be disposed of. There are hundreds of ways it could be put to good use. I'm gonna get me an organ donor card and donate whichever bits of me are left to medical science and/or a stew. I haven't spent a lifetime filling my body with nutrients just for it to be burnt into carbon emissions or buried to release nitrates into the hydrological cycle.

Havoc · #21 09-19-2005, 01:34 PM

Yea, i'l fill in one of those after I'm 18 as well. I don't have any use for my organs after I'm dead anyway <.<

AquaticAmbi · #22 09-19-2005, 02:30 PM

Hah, how funny, Luke, we were just talking about this subject one day this weekend while driving home.

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Even though I would much rather be entombed next to my life partner in a spiffy mausoleum deal, being scattered over the green mountains of Appalachia is also rather appealing.

Mmyep, I feel basically the same way. I'd like for my body's final resting place to be beside the one I spent my life with, but I don't like the thought of being buried in the ground for several reasons, so a mausoleum dealio would be great. But my next choice is being scattered into the sea. Maybe somewhere beautiful like the Great Barrier Reef, although my ashes are probably not healthy for the environment.

I'd also never want to be put in an earn to sit on someone's mantel or anything like that because of the exact thing Hobo witnessed.

Oh, one of the most unique things to do with the ashes I've seen is to make a painting with them by mixing them in with paint. That's pretty cool. But still, being cremated and scattered or put into a painting or anything of the like makes me feel lonely because I wouldn't be next to the one I loved. I don't care if you say I'll be dead and it won't matter!

used:) · #23 09-19-2005, 03:08 PM

I am tempted to donate my body to science, but I don't want my head to end up as some practice project for a second rate plastic surgeon to give me a nose job!

I would also like to be cremated and have my ashes spread out into the wind of the Andes. Or maybe used in a graden as fertilizer

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TheRaisin · #24 09-19-2005, 03:54 PM

I'd love for my body to be frozen solid in a huge coffin-shaped block of ice and shot out of an airlock into the infinity of the cosmos.

But realistically... I think the whole ashes thing would be the best way to go. Since we don't yet have the means to totally blast apart a body into its component atoms (to my knowledge), I guess ashes are the next best thing. I like the idea of my physical body contributing to the growth of myriad tiny living things and being disseminated over time throughout the world. I suppose I would have my ashes scattered over the Olympic rain forest or something.

The whole side-by-side his and her burial plots/crypts/whatever idea sounds nice, too. I doubt I'm destined for that, though.

BTW, I think this is a great topic.

a flock of seagulls · #25 09-19-2005, 04:33 PM

I'd be cremated and spread throughout Ireland, Germany, Norway, and Australia.

CheeseOfGlory · #26 09-19-2005, 06:10 PM

I would totally be cremated and then mixed with all sorts of drugs like DMT and cocaine, then put in a decorational bong-urn. Oh man that would rock. That or something like a big walk-in tomb with a bar, so everyone comes to hang out with my rotting corpse. I'd set aside some money in stocks and use the dividends to pay for the alcohol.

Aww right

a flock of seagulls · #27 09-19-2005, 07:32 PM

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I would totally be cremated and then mixed with all sorts of drugs like DMT and cocaine, then put in a decorational bong-urn. Oh man that would rock. That or something like a big walk-in tomb with a bar, so everyone comes to hang out with my rotting corpse. I'd set aside some money in stocks and use the dividends to pay for the alcohol.

Aww right

And right above the door you have a neon sign of your rotting corpse in a cowboy suit, waving his hand?
That would rock!

CheeseOfGlory · #28 09-19-2005, 08:04 PM

You bet it would, this is the best idea I've had. Ever.

Scrab-Meat · #29 09-19-2005, 10:13 PM

When I die I eather want to be turned into ashes and taken to Howaii and thrown into the ocean off of the highest mountain in Howaii at sunset. Or get shot into space to drift forever.

But I don't plan on dieing anytime soon of course.

Leto · #30 09-19-2005, 11:04 PM

I might star in a little corpse-on-corpse action, I see my death to be a quite promising career something something.

I've never really thought that much about my funeral/burying/cremation type things, as I don't plan on 'expiring' anytime soon. But perhaps my cremated ashes could be mixed into some kind of varnish to be put on my guitar, so no one would play it without being bothered by my ghostly appendage!

(I wouldn't want to feed myself to tigers, as they would expell me out of their rectum in a form of fecal matter shortly after consumption, and I somehow don't want that to be my fate...)