When you die

[cbrunny]

When you die what do you want to happen to your body?

I think it'd be cool to be sent out in a torpedo into space kind of like they did to Spock in Star Trek. They did it to a few other people as well. Then you can float around and wait to become someone's anthropological specimen when humans have evolved into a new species.

 

[Ns1]

tibetan sky burial


(I would suggest not image googling that at work)

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Least costly option.... so I guess spreading ashes? I don't care to spend $10 grand on a stupid ass casket to hold a corpse as well as renting out a spot to lay it. Seems incredibly stupid IMO. I am just another human, of no real significance. Having relatives waste money on burying me just seems selfish and stupid.

 

[PottedMeat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rtu1Va-dnM

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd be fine with cremation but don't really care. Heck I would not really mind if my body was just used for medical research or something, is that something you can actually sign up for like organ donation?

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[BurnItDwn]

When I die, I hope some doctor wannabe can practice on my corpse to better learn their craft before they try it on real living person.

 

[cbrunny]

I'd be fine with cremation but don't really care. Heck I would not really mind if my body was just used for medical research or something, is that something you can actually sign up for like organ donation?

yep

 

[shortylickens]

Hopefully by the time I go it will be cheap to blast people to the Sun.

 

[Muse]

This

 

[Fenixgoon]

cremation or donating to science/education. no use for my body when i'm dead, and taking up space in the ground seems kind of pointless.

 

[CraKaJaX]

I would like to be buried in a bass drum.

 

[tynopik]

be like Lenin

 

[TwiceOver]

Whatever is absolutely the cheapest. Unfortunately it is illegal to burn me with someone else, so no 2 for 1 special.

 

[Zeze]

I don't give a crap. It's just my flesh. I cease to exist entirely.

But I understand life is not about yourself always. I guess it's for children, family & friends for their mourning.

Cremation would be nice. They can go visit that spot together. Turns out there's a very STRICT and thorough regulation against sprinkling ashes anywhere.

 

[cbrunny]

Yeah I read something about Pope buddy saying its bad to spread ashes. Then something about Irish Catholics staggered on to the streets to yell at Pope buddy because that's stupid.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Cremation would be nice. They can go visit that spot together. Turns out there's a very STRICT and thorough regulation against sprinkling ashes anywhere.

Wow that seems INCREDIBLY stupid. What is the logic and reasoning behind those rules? I mean, I'm sure it's not the healthiest to inhale ashes thrown on people... but sprinkling off a mountain, cliff, etc... or something?

It's an equivalency of dirt and ashes. Screw off trying to dictate where and what I should do with them.

 

[cbrunny]

Wow that seems INCREDIBLY stupid. What is the logic and reasoning behind those rules? I mean, I'm sure it's not the healthiest to inhale ashes thrown on people... but sprinkling off a mountain, cliff, etc... or something?

It's an equivalency of dirt and ashes. Screw off trying to dictate where and what I should do with them.

Ask the Pope. It is his thing.

 

[Zeze]

Wow that seems INCREDIBLY stupid. What is the logic and reasoning behind those rules? I mean, I'm sure it's not the healthiest to inhale ashes thrown on people... but sprinkling off a mountain, cliff, etc... or something?

It's an equivalency of dirt and ashes. Screw off trying to dictate where and what I should do with them.

I can kind of understand because you gotta worry about it on a macro basis.

Sure scattering from a top of a mountain may be harmless. But what if there's a popular spot (due to a vista / pop culture / movie / you name it) and tons end up wanting to scatter at that location? What if your private home was just a 20 yards away from it?

Also not all of human populations are 'technical' minded like us in ATOT. People don't want other people's dead bone dust freakin' blowing in their face / yard / home etc. All sorts of stigma and mystique associated with it come with it.

I don't want people scattering crap on a public beach. And ofc not on my private beach either.

It makes sense to have regulations.

 

[highland145]

I would like to be buried in a bass drum.

Roomy.

 

[zinfamous]

I want to be plasticized and sectioned as a display for that wacky Frenchmen's traveling exhibition.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

When I die, I hope some doctor wannabe can practice on my corpse to better learn their craft before they try it on real living person.

More likely a cosmetic surgeon will practice the impossible by trying--and failing--to make you handsome.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Shoot my ashes off via trebuchet.

 

[TheGardener]

I want a funeral like Ronald Reagan. And add one of those eternal flame memorials.

 

[zinfamous]

I want a funeral like Ronald Reagan.

The type where everyone ignores you because they actually liked a guy like Ray Charles way more and so went to/watched his funeral instead?