RoadKill Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Burial I guess, but honestly I'd rather be cryogenically frozen and preserved way into the future until they can cure death
Supergrunch Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Good thread, I had the conversation with my mum a few months ago, in a light hearted tone though. I'd like to be cremated tbh, burial takes up space and effort, cremating reduces me to a tiny pot of ashes. I'd like to be buried to 'give back to the earth', and I don't mind the idea of maggots and creepy crawlies eating at me(my mum does), but I just think cremation is much more space saving. Also, if I was scattered, I'd feel like I was more...freed like? I dunno if people get my point, but ashes flying in the wind, settling in the open air, whatever, as opposed to be boxed in under the ground?As for where I'd like to be scattered if I was, I'm not sure, near my parents maybe(hoping and assuming they both die before myself, in a most unselfish way). I can't think of anywhere else really, other than somewhere near this house, or the local park where I went as a kid, or my dad's allotment or...I dunno! Somewhere nice though, and somewhere free. But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Personally, I'm not terribly bothered... I think there are ecological arguments both ways - though creation adds to atmospheric carbon dioxide, burying takes up ground space. (it sounds odd I know, but I've heard this is a problem)
Emasher Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Hard choice. Burial... helps others and loved ones can visit the grave. But then again... once they all die... your grave sits among others... never being visited. Cremation... well... is... erm.... I'm thinking the same thing as you.
Kav Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 I want to be cremated, then my ashes should be mixed with milk and someone should drink me! Like on South Park when Cartman drank Kenny's ashes, thinking he had made chocolate milk!
jayseven Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 I shall be cremated, then my ashes spread (probably illegally) in this place called "the lagoon", which is where I spent 2 or 3 summers of awesomeness -- where I grew up... You guys seen how fucking expensive either option is? Considering it's kinda the law to have to do it one way or the other, it's a bit morbid that there's huge business in the deaths of others like this. Oh, and I want a park bench, and a plaque someplace, like on teh roof of my neighbour's house where I used to go sit when I was a kid, that nobody would see unless they went and did the same thing as me.
EEVILMURRAY Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 "When I die, I want to be buried face down, so whoever doesn't like me can kiss my ass." Cremation please.
rokhed00 Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 I'll be stuffed thanks. Be a fully working sex doll.
Oxigen_Waste Posted February 29, 2008 Author Posted February 29, 2008 I'll be stuffed thanks.Be a fully working sex doll. Unless you plan on dying soon... I don't think that's a very good idea. People over 60 don't appeal to me on a sexual level at all. Maybe I'll have to get there to get it, or something.
Ninty 182 Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 I'd go for a burial (with a simple wooden coffin i.e. without gold plates/handles etc.) purely for environmental reasons. I remember talking with my mates about our funerals (don't ask why), and we thought of an open coffin with some kind of mechanism to make us suddenly sit upright in the middle of the funeral, and for this to happen in conjunction with a tape recording of our voice saying something to the crowd - just to liven it up a bit.
rokhed00 Posted February 29, 2008 Posted February 29, 2008 Unless you plan on dying soon... I don't think that's a very good idea. People over 60 don't appeal to me on a sexual level at all. Maybe I'll have to get there to get it, or something. I'm never going to make it to 60, be lucky if I even see 50.
The fish Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 I remember talking with my mates about our funerals (don't ask why), and we thought of an open coffin with some kind of mechanism to make us suddenly sit upright in the middle of the funeral, and for this to happen in conjunction with a tape recording of our voice saying something to the crowd - just to liven it up a bit. I've requested Don't Stop Me Now be played, if only for the irony value.
Paj! Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 It was my grandmother's funeral today. She was buried. I'm over it.
Oxigen_Waste Posted March 1, 2008 Author Posted March 1, 2008 I was surprisingly ok with my grandpa's death. Go figure.
Coolness Bears Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 I don't think i would mind being buried or cremated.
Raining_again Posted March 1, 2008 Posted March 1, 2008 I'd rather be cremated. My grandfathers grave has been left to ruin because none of my family cared. My own father was the only one out of his brothers who could be bothered fixing it when it collapsed in. =( I'd like to be scattered in a nice place people could go if they wanted to remember me.
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